The Business of Healthcare Podcast

Arti Pullins, CEO of Pundit Consultantz, a healthcare innovation and creative services design consultancy, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser to discuss how the healthcare industry can use Agile iterative principles commonly found in software development to become more nimble so that they can more quickly improve their quality of patient care one step at a time.

Dr. Jonathan Teich, chief medical information officer at Boston-based InterSystems, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for a discussion about data related to the COVID-19 pandemic. They discuss how contact tracing and syndromic surveillance can help ameliorate the effects of the pandemic and ultimately help control it. They also discuss how streamlining the sharing of electronic health records will help improve industry efficiencies and health outcomes.

In this episode, host Dr. Bob Kaiser discusses brain health with Dr. Sandra Bond Chapman, founder and chief director of the Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas and co-founder of The BrainHealth Project. They discuss the center's signature program, the BrainHealth® Index, as well as the healthcare industry's imperative to transition from looking at the brain as a problem that needs fixing to looking at it as a solution that can help answer all other human problems.

Craig Antico, co-founder and COO of RIP Medical Debt, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for a discussion about medical debt — its root causes, what his nonprofit does to help people who are burdened with it and solutions for fixing the problems that cause it.

Links discussed in this episode:

• RIP Medical Debt's End-of-Year Report
• End Medical Debt Book

Host Dr. Bob Kaiser speaks with telemedicine pioneer Dr. Dan Carlin, founder and CEO of WorldClinic, for a discussion about how virtual healthcare delivery has evolved and what the future holds for it in the age of COVID-19 and smart technology.

Links Discussed in Episode:

• McKinsey Telehealth Report
• Dan Carlin "Profiles in Success" Biography

Vivian S. Lee, MD, PhD, MBA, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for a discussion about her new book, The Long Fix, out May 26. Lee, a magnetic resonance imaging radiologist, is president of Health Platforms at Verily Life Sciences, an Alphabet company. Discussion topics include moving the healthcare paradigm from paying for action, also known as fee-based care, to paying for results, also known as value-based care, and how the patient can play a role as co-producer.

Dr. Christopher Hutson, EMBA'20, a graduate of the Alliance for Physician Leadership's Healthcare Management Executive MBA program at the Naveen Jindal School of Management, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for a discussion about why he decided to return to school after successful careers as a military officer in the United States Army and a clinical anesthesiologist. They also discuss why transformation leadership skills for physicians are more important now than ever.

In this episode, Dr. Thomas Shanley, president and CEO of Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, speaks with host Dr. Bob Kaiser about taking the organization's helm in December 2019. Other topics include Lurie's vision and strategy going forward, its philanthropic efforts and how the hospital is able to maintain high standards across a wide range of pediatric specialties.

Daniel Karnuta, a senior lecturer in the Organizations, Strategy and International Management Area at the Naveen Jindal School of Management, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser and co-host Dr. Britt Berrett to discuss how hospitals and other healthcare organizations are adjusting to the negative impacts related to their revenue cycles during the shutdowns necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Pardeep Shori, MS'19, Dr. Pardeep Shori, a family medicine physician who serves as a medical director in post-acute care management at a post-acute care management company, and regional physician consultant for a national retail pharmacy chain, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for an in-depth look at how telemedicine is being used during the COVID-19 pandemic and what implications its current use may hold for the future.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• American Telemedicine Association
• Alliance for Connected Care
• Center of Telehealth and e-Health Law
• Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services