Creating a New Healthcare

What happens when a venture capitalist becomes the Chair-Elect of the Healthcare Financial Management Association? We start to talk about 10x changes. Our guest today, Marcus Whitney, brings his expertise from the VC world to bear in this conversation, asserting that hospitals must partner with what he calls “built…

What if we could reverse the symptoms of autism within the first year of diagnosis? How about prevent new cancer diagnoses from becoming metastatic? Or determine in infancy what medications a person can or cannot safely take? This is the promise of personalized medicine, and it could be the basis of preventive…

What’s the alternative to Medicare for all? According to today’s guest, Ken Terry, award-winning healthcare journalist, it’s his alternative model of basic care for all. Ken believes we have to liberate primary care, pulling it out from under the pressures of poor reimbursement, overburdened staff, and an inability to…

Dr. Marschall Runge is the author of the new book, “The Great Healthcare Disruption,” but he’s also someone who has studied primary care both in the US and across the world, and while he agrees it is currently failing, he offers some hope that it can get better. In this episode, we talk about Dr. Runge’s research for…

Back in 2011, Sean Duffy had a vision to change healthcare. So, he dropped out of Harvard Business School and Harvard Medical School to found this company, Omada Health, that brought healthcare to people instead of the other way around. Now valued at over $1 billion, Omada remains an innovative example of how to…

You can’t boil the ocean, and wow, does the state of primary care sometimes feel like an ocean. And if a behemoth like CVS Health can’t do it, it’s no surprise that the rest of us in healthcare feel at a complete loss for how to right this ship. But our guest today, Amy Compton-Phillips, Executive VP and Chief Medical…

Welcome to a new season of Creating a New Healthcare! This season, we’re diving into primary care. That’s right, primary care. Because right now, we are sucking at primary care, and the problem has reached critical mass. AND, we are sitting on the precipice of a revolution in primary care – the ability to provide…

We’re quick to blame genetics for our health and wellness issues, but the reality is that genetics only makes up 18% of our health destiny. That means the rest is up to us. Our guest today, Dr. Grant Zarzour, has seen that first hand in his own family. When his son was diagnosed with moderate autism, he and his wife…

With the recent explosion of GLP-1 drugs, the war on obesity seems to have taken a new and potent turn, but many are concerned about the recidivism, the side effects, and our reenergized obsession with being thin. Our guest today, Dr. Laure DeMattia, is a board certified family medicine physician and obesity…

How many grams of protein do you need to be healthy? What about fiber? Supplements? It feels like we’re changing our diets daily to adhere to constantly shifting recommendations and none of it is really working to optimize our health. Christopher Gardner, Professor of Medicine in Nutrition Science at Stanford…

As a society, and as an industrial complex, we’ve made health complicated…and expensive. But, epidemiology suggests that what we need to do to achieve and maintain personal health is really quite simple. Dr. Tom Frieden returns to the show to talk about the second half of his book, The Formula for Your Health. Through…

Do you have an Apple watch? Fitbit? Oura ring? Woop? Wearables have taken over in the past decade with claims that by constantly monitoring our heart rate, sleep, respiration, and activity, they can provide health data that can change your life. But is that really possible? Or even plausible? Marco Benitez, former…