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CareTalk: Healthcare. Unfiltered. is a weekly podcast that provides an incisive, no B.S. view of the US healthcare industry. Join co-hosts John Driscoll (President U.S. Healthcare and EVP, Walgreens Boots Alliance) and David Williams (President, Health Business Group) as they debate the latest in…
Send us Fan MailMore than 80% of internists are already using AI tools in clinical practice, and adoption is accelerating faster than any healthcare technology in recent times. The question is no longer whether doctors will use AI, but whether it will actually give them more time to do what drew them to medicine in…
Send us Fan MailThere are half as many hospitals delivering babies in the U.S. today as there were in 1982. And the reason is simple: most hospitals lose money every time they do it.In this clip from our episode “The Maternal Health Crisis America Can’t Ignore”, host John Driscoll sits down with Dr. Neel Shah to…
Send us Fan MailA mother today is 50% more likely to die in childbirth than her own mother was (per @CDC) . The U.S. has half the hospitals delivering babies it had in 1982, and in some parts of the country, families drive farther to reach a delivery hospital than the average person in Kenya.Dr. Neel Shah, Chair of…
Send us Fan MailBefore a provider sees their first patient, they face a months-long gauntlet of credentialing, payer enrollment, and network approvals, all still driven by spreadsheets, faxes, and manual labor. Every day of delay is revenue left on the table.Rahul Shivkumar, Co-Founder & President, Assured joins host…
Send us Fan MailWhat happens when AI adoption in healthcare moves faster than regulation?In this clip from our episode “Is AI Helping or Hurting Healthcare Right Now?”, hosts David E. Williams and John Driscoll discuss the rapid adoption of AI tools by physicians and why healthcare may need stronger oversight to…
Send us Fan MailWe’re being flooded with headlines about what AI will and won’t do to healthcare: threatening jobs, creating new ways to manipulate reimbursement, and introducing new risks into an industry that already has plenty of them.So, what’s AI ACTUALLY doing to healthcare right now, and where is it…
Send us Fan MailIn clinical AI, saving money means nothing if the system is not safe enough to trust with a patient's life. So how do you actually prove it is?In this clip from our episode “Voice AI Is Expanding Access to Healthcare”, host John Driscoll and Munjal Shah, Co-Founder and CEO of Hippocratic AI, break down…
Send us Fan MailThere are not enough nurses, doctors, and hours in the day to reach every patient who needs attention. The healthcare system was designed around scarcity, and that assumption has shaped everything from how care is prioritized to which patients get left behind.Munjal Shah, Co-Founder and CEO of…
Send us Fan MailHow did the U.S. healthcare system shift toward a market-driven approach, and what impact is that still having today?In this clip from our episode “Corporate Concentration Is Breaking Healthcare”, hosts David E. Williams and John Driscoll speak with Dr. John E. McDonough about how market-based…
Send us Fan MailUS healthcare spending broke away from the rest of the developed world around 1982 and has never come back. Most people assume that was an accident. John McDonough argues it was a choice.Dr. John E. McDonough, Professor of Practice at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and author of…
Send us Fan MailAfter 40 years in healthcare, one founder says he has never seen a technology with a better chance of actually fixing the system. So what makes this moment different?In this clip from our episode “Will AI End The Payer And Provider Billing War?” , host John Driscoll and Hamid Tabatabaie, CEO of…
Send us Fan MailHealthcare administrative costs consume an estimated 15 to 20 percent of every dollar spent in the American healthcare system. A quarter of that is medical coding alone, a process that has remained largely manual, subjective, and error-prone for decades.Hamid Tabatabaie, Founder and CEO of CodaMetrix…
Send us Fan MailHis father was a cardiologist who retired because he could not type fast enough. That moment became the reason Abridge exists.In this clip from our episode “The Ambient AI Inside 300 Health Systems”, host John Driscoll and Dr. Shiv Rao, CEO of Abridge, break down the personal story behind why he left a…
Send us Fan MailDoctors now need an estimated 30 hours a day to complete every clerical task asked of them. They are compensated not for the care they deliver but for the care they document. That gap is where physician burnout lives, and where AI has the most to offer.Dr. Shiv Rao, Co-Founder and CEO of Abridge, joins…
Send us Fan MailAmerican healthcare still runs on fax machines, paper forms, and reimbursement models built for reactive sick care. Meanwhile, patients are connecting wearables to AI chatbots, ordering their own labs, and triaging themselves without ever seeing a physician.Dr. Daniel Kraft, Founder of Digital.Health…
Send us Fan MailMost health tech companies do not fail because their product does not work. They fail because they never defined what success looked like before the pilot ended and the budget conversation began.Dan Galles, Partner at Allumia Ventures, joins host David E. Williams to discuss what 16 exits over a decade…
Send us Fan MailA national standard for reproductive health data privacy is not coming. The political divide is too wide and the parties are too far apart.In this clip from our episode “State Health Data Laws Are a Patient Safety Problem”, host David E. Williams and Leigh Burchell, Vice President of Policy and Public…
Send us Fan MailA patient's right to control their own health data now depends almost entirely on which state they live in or happen to seek care in. The patchwork is growing, and the clinical and compliance consequences are catching up fast.Leigh Burchell, Vice President of Policy and Public Affairs at Altera Digital…
Send us Fan MailA year ago, if you went to a healthcare security conference, AI was still on the horizon. Interesting, a little speculative, maybe useful for writing better phishing emails. But not anymore. There are documented cases where an attacker handed an AI agent stolen credentials and the agent ran the entire…
Send us Fan MailA cancer diagnosis used to be enough to qualify as medically frail and exempt from Medicaid work requirements. A new federal rule says it no longer is, and nobody has defined what will be enough instead.In this clip from our episode “The Hidden Cost of Medicaid Work Requirements”, hosts David E…
Send us Fan MailMedicaid work requirements take effect in every expansion state by January 1, 2027. But half the states just sued to stop the rules that govern them. They’re challenging a new federal rule that narrows who counts as “medically frail” and adds paperwork for people trying to prove they’re exempt. We’ll…
Send us Fan MailMedicaid and Medicare used to pay first and chase fraud later. That model is changing fast, and the providers who haven't adapted are about to feel it.In this clip from our episode “AI and The Future Of Behavioral Health”, host John Driscoll and Alon Joffe, Co-Founder and CEO of Eleos Health, break…
Send us Fan MailMore than 160 million Americans live in areas with a shortage of mental health providers. The clinicians who do show up are spending hours on documentation, compliance, and eligibility work that has nothing to do with patient care.Alon Joffe, Co-Founder and CEO of Eleos Health, joins host John Driscoll…
Send us Fan MailA triplet birth in the United States costs roughly $577,000. A twin birth runs about $155,000. For a self-insured employer, that cost hits the bottom line directly.In this clip from our episode “Making Fertility Benefits An Employer Priority”, host David E. Williams and David Stern, CEO of Kindbody…
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