Podcasts about health analytics

About 5.4 million Americans live with some form of paralysis. Sometimes that's just a temporary loss of mobility, but for the Americans whose paralysis is caused by a spinal cord injury, that loss of movement is often permanent, as there's no biological way to heal an injured spinal cord. There are efforts to see if technology might be able to help these individuals regain use of their limbs, and that's the focus of this episode of Stats+Stories with guest Dr. David Friedenberg. Dr. Friedenberg is a Principal Data Science and Neurotechnology and the Team Lead for Machine Learning/AI in the Health Analytics group at Battelle. He's the Principal Investigator on several neurotechnology efforts developing new AI-powered technologies to help improve the lives of people living with motor impairments due to neurological injuries like spinal cord injuries and stroke. An experienced data scientist with consulting experience across several disciplines he is passionate about developing AI/ML-driven solutions to challenging problems for the betterment of humanity.

In this episode of Business Ninjas, host Andrew Lippman speaks with Todd Schlesinger, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Azara Healthcare, a leader in population health and value-based care solutions. Todd shares how Azara empowers healthcare providers by transforming massive amounts of data into actionable insights, improving patient outcomes, and helping organizations navigate the complexities of value-based care.Join us as Todd discusses Azara's innovative approach to aggregating data, providing meaningful analytics, and supporting healthcare providers in delivering efficient, high-quality care. With clients spanning across 44 states, Azara continues to set the standard in healthcare IT.Don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more insightful conversations with industry leaders!Learn more about Azara Healthcare and their cutting-edge solutions at azarahealthcare.com.Want to be interviewed on our Business Ninjas podcast? Schedule time with us now, and we'll make it happen right away! Check out WriteForMe, more than just a Content Agency! See the Faces Behind The Voices on our YouTube Channel!

In this episode, we break down the broad and powerful world of health analytics, aiming to show how data can improve healthcare outcomes while managing costs. Health analytics goes beyond simple record-keeping to integrate data from claims, biometric screenings, wearable devices, and more. A great analogy in the episode compares it to having a “super-powered health detective” on your team, with predictive analytics that can even foresee risks like diabetes or cardiovascular issues before they manifest. This proactive approach allows employers and advisors to target wellness programs effectively, shifting from reactive treatment to prevention.Key takeaways include:Cost Containment: By analyzing claims, employers can identify overspending patterns and address them without compromising care.Predictive Analytics: Using risk data, employers can preemptively support at-risk employees with targeted health programs, gym memberships, and more.Machine Learning and AI: These tools enhance analysis by uncovering patterns in vast data, providing insights that guide better decision-making.Privacy and Data Security: As this field grows, robust measures and transparency are essential to build trust and protect sensitive health information.Future of Personalized Care: The goal is individualized health plans and preventive healthcare, helping people “stay healthy, not just get healthy.”Have feedback, questions, or suggestions for show ideas? Send them to us at podcast@springbuk.com. Please rate and review us on your favorite podcast platform, and share it with your friends and colleagues. We appreciate you and thank you for listening! Produced by David Pittman Theme music: "Overboard" by Stay Outside

A Note from James:"I do think that the most important use case for AI is in extending our lifespans. And I think if this isn't five or ten years in the future—this is right now. Things are happening in AI that are going to change healthcare overnight. Today, I'm continuing my discussion with Hamed Shahbazi, founder of Well Health. This is a publicly-traded company in Canada, and it's already impacting millions of lives by applying AI to healthcare.HealWell, one of Hamed's companies, has processed over 18 million patient records. With this data, their AI can analyze symptoms and assist with diagnosis and treatment options faster than ever. Imagine calling your doctor, and before you even see them, AI has already pieced together potential diagnoses and suggested next steps. This is how we extend lives—prevention is the best cure, after all.In this episode, Hamed and I talk about healthcare AI and how it's poised to save millions of lives. I'll be sharing updates on AI and healthcare companies doing interesting things in the next few months. So, listen in, subscribe, and let's keep the conversation going. Here's Hamed, talking about AI in healthcare."Episode Description:James is joined again by Hamed Shahbazi, founder of Well Health, for an in-depth look at AI's role in transforming healthcare. They discuss how AI can process vast amounts of medical data to assist doctors in diagnosing and treating patients quickly and accurately. Hamed shares his insights on how HealWell's AI copilots help healthcare providers manage data and improve patient care. This conversation reveals how AI is poised to revolutionize healthcare and extend lifespans in previously unimaginable ways.What You'll Learn:The role of AI in accelerating diagnosis and treatment, potentially saving millions of lives.How HealWell's AI copilots enhance productivity and enable healthcare providers to focus more on patient care.The ethical and regulatory challenges in using AI in healthcare, especially concerning patient data privacy.The potential future of digital twins in healthcare, allowing doctors to simulate treatments on virtual models of patients.Insights into how healthcare AI could personalize supplements and treatment plans based on individual health data.Timestamped Chapters:[01:30] – James introduces Hamed Shahbazi and the current impact of AI on healthcare.[03:25] – How AI can prevent illnesses by providing rapid diagnosis and treatment options.[05:51] – Discussing the resistance from healthcare professionals toward AI.[13:27] – The use of AI for scribing medical notes and its benefits for healthcare providers.[19:05] – Ensuring patient data privacy and the role of consent in AI data processing.[27:13] – The future of healthcare AI, digital twins, and personalized medicine.[37:14] – Challenges in eliminating bias from healthcare AI.[47:56] – Potential for AI to improve life expectancy by supporting preventive care.Additional Resources:Oura Ring Official WebsiteWell Health TechnologiesHamed Shahbazi | LinkedIn ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to “The James Altucher Show” wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn

Episode Description:In this episode, James sits down with Hamed Shahbazi, the CEO of WELL Health Technology, who has been pioneering advancements in healthcare through technology. Hamed shares how AI is not just a tool for the future but a current reality that is reshaping the healthcare industry. From predicting diseases to optimizing treatments, AI is making healthcare more personalized and proactive. Hamed's insights reveal how these technological advancements are poised to dramatically improve patient outcomes, streamline medical processes, and ultimately save lives.This episode isn't just about the potential of AI in healthcare—it's about the actual changes happening right now. Hamed discusses the importance of data in healthcare and how AI uses this data to make life-saving decisions that were previously unimaginable. If you're interested in the future of medicine, this episode offers a clear view of what's coming and what's already here.What You'll Learn:The Role of AI in Diagnosing Rare Diseases: Discover how AI is capable of identifying rare diseases that even experienced doctors might miss, using complex data analysis.AI's Impact on Personalized Healthcare: Learn how AI personalizes healthcare by analyzing individual patient data against millions of other records to offer tailored health advice and treatment plans.Efficiency in Healthcare with AI: Understand how AI is reducing the workload for physicians by automating data entry and patient monitoring, allowing them to focus more on patient care.Healthcare as a Service: Explore the concept of Healthcare as a Service (HaaS), where AI-driven platforms provide continuous health monitoring and proactive care suggestions.The Future of AI and Healthcare: Get insights into how AI is set to transform healthcare, not just in the long term but in the immediate future, making healthcare more accessible and efficient.Chapters:00:00 - Introduction and the Evolution of Healthcare03:10 - How the Oura Ring Tracks and Measures Stress08:05 - The Impact of Continuous Health Monitoring12:15 - AI's Role in Health Data Analysis and Prediction19:35 - The Future of AI in Personalized Healthcare26:00 - Real-Life Examples of AI Diagnosing Rare Diseases35:20 - Challenges and Benefits of AI in Medical Diagnosis42:40 - The Concept of Healthcare as a Service46:55 - Future Predictions and Parting ThoughtsAdditional Resources:Oura Ring Official WebsiteWell Health TechnologiesHamed Shahbazi | LinkedIn ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to “The James Altucher Show” wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn

Bethany Bengtson, recent Fordham Student in my Financing New Media Ventures class, joins me on the pod to go deep in tech and healthcare. We discuss: is Google the next Yahoo?  Normalizing women-led investment conversations deeply benefits all of us. And then we dive deep into Eli Lilly, GLP1s and how analytics, self-assessment and proper care teams can lead to our best health. Macallan and Oban 14 provide the sips, so enjoy this Health & Wealth edition of your favorite WH pod. 00:00 Intro 03:10 Ballet 07:00 Book: Mind Gym 08:17 On Boards 09:42 TMT Analyst Career 12:00 Eli Lilly + Google Focused Leadership 28:14 Ellevest + Women Focused Investment Tools 32:40 HENRYs, DINKs and DUNKs 34:40 Women Championing Other Women 41:50 Health Analytics, NY Presbyterian Earns High Praise The Art of Tracking Personal Health 50:22 https://www.keeganrosecapital.com/research 55:30 Auto-Injectors + GLP1s: How they Work So Well; Artificial Solution to an Artificial Problem 1:10:00 Japanese Diet + Vegan Discipline 1:12:00 WOTD Macallan 12 + 18; Oban 14: A Gift from my students 1:16:30 ‘Peati-ness' Taste in Scotch: How it Gets There https://migrainebuddy.com/ - The app discussed on the pod: migraine data tracking Hey Whiskey Hue Crew: Please Rate, Review, Subscribe and share with a friend –helps us get the word out.

In this light-hearted yet informative episode, Chrissy Krampert, Chief Strategy Officer at Jellyvision, shares the fascinating journey of Jellyvision, from its quirky beginnings in educational content and gaming to becoming a leader in healthcare benefits education with ALEX, their flagship product.She explains how ALEX leverages behavioral science and technology to simplify complex healthcare decisions for employees, turning confusion into clarity. Chrissy highlights how Jellyvision's tools help employees make smarter healthcare choices, ultimately saving employers significant costs. "We want to go to where there is furrowed brow and bring it to peace of mind," she says, encapsulating their mission.The discussion delves into the practical impacts of ALEX, from employees proposing to it during open enrollment to Jellyvision's strategic use of claims data to offer personalized healthcare advice. Chrissy emphasizes the importance of building trust and engaging employees with humor and simplicity. The episode also covers Jellyvision's future plans, including their partnership with Springbuk to enhance data-driven decision-making and the integration of AI for more precise recommendations. "We're able to establish that trust and guide an employee throughout the year to making better decisions," Chrissy notes, showcasing the influence of their innovative solution.Key Takeaways:Behavioral Science: ALEX uses behavioral science to engage employees, helping them understand and utilize their benefits effectively.Cost Savings: ALEX helps employers save on healthcare costs by guiding employees to choose and use the best-fit plans.Personalization: The integration of claims data and AI allows for tailored healthcare guidance, enhancing the employee experience.Engagement and Trust: Jellyvision builds trust through humor, simplicity, and personalized interactions, making healthcare decisions less daunting.Quotes:"We want to go to where there is furrowed brow and bring it to peace of mind." - Chrissy Krampert"People would rather do their taxes while cleaning their bathroom before they'd want to pick a benefits plan."Stay in Touch!Connect with Chrissy Krampert on LinkedInVisit JellyvisionLearn more about the Springbuk Activate Partner Marketplace and get other related resourcesGet the complete 2024 Employee Health Trends report and other related resourcesConnect with our co-hosts Nicole Belles and David Pittman Have feedback, questions, or suggestions for show ideas? Send them to us at podcast@springbuk.com. Please rate and review us on your favorite podcast platform, and share it with your friends and colleagues. We appreciate you and thank you for listening! Produced by David Pittman Theme music: "Overboard" by Stay Outside

Consumer health privacy protections can feel like a moving target as platforms and governments continue to adopt new restrictions. Most recently, Washington state passed the My Health My Data Act (MHMD). While not the first, and most surely not the last, legislation that limits how consumer health data can be shared and collected for ad targeting, MHMD represents the next step in this constantly evolving privacy environment. It's also a reminder that healthcare marketers need to work closely with their partners to ensure continued privacy compliance while limiting impact on reaching and engaging the ideal patient audiences. In this podcast, Kevin Elwell, Vice President of Health Analytics at Swoop will provide an overview of the current landscape and what marketers need to know, how analyze and select preferred vendors who help mitigate risk while maximizing outcomes, and how Swoop is proactively adapting to the new privacy reality to ensure client success. Check us out at: mmm-online.com Follow us: YouTube: @MMM-onlineTikTok: @MMMnewsInstagram: @MMMnewsonlineTwitter/X: @MMMnewsLinkedIn: MM+M To read more of the most timely, balanced and original reporting in medical marketing, subscribe here.

Thank you to the folks at Sustain (https://sustainoss.org/) for providing the hosting account for CHAOSSCast! In this collaboration between the CHAOSS Cast and Mechanical Ink podcasts, hosts Dawn Foster and Schalk Neethling are joined by guests Daniel Izquierdo and Sean Goggins to discuss open source community health metrics. The focus is on providing an overview of two projects under the CHAOSS (Community Health Analytics for Open Source Software) umbrella - GrimoireLab and Augur. These open source tools gather data from diverse sources and analyze it to provide insights into open-source community health. The episode brings together two fascinating open source projects - GrimoireLab and Augur - that aim to provide insights into the health of open-source software communities. By gathering data from various platforms and channels, and analyzing contributor activity, issues, pull requests, and conversations, these projects shine a light on the inner workings of open-source projects. You have Sean Goggins, a university researcher who co-created Augur to dissect community interactions at scale. Then you have Daniel Izquierdo whose startup Bitergia built GrimoireLab to offer open source analytics as a service. Both share insightful stories on the evolving landscape of inner source and metrics-driven community management. It's a great listen for anyone involved in running open-source projects or communities. Beyond project leads, the conversation also touches on why understanding community health is vital today for enterprise adopters to track their dependencies and influence. And as Dawn Foster from CHAOSS chips in, you get an important reminder to not get carried away chasing tools without clarity on what specific questions you want answered from the underlying data. Overall, a stimulating mix of history and future direction on using metrics to guide open-source communities toward greater sustainability. Guests - Daniel Izquierdo: Co-founder and CEO of Bitergia, co-founder of CHAOSS, President of InnerSource Commons - Sean Goggins: Professor of Computer Science at the University of Missouri, maintainer of Augur software package in CHAOSS Key Topics Discussed - Origins and goals of the CHAOSS project - Overview of GrimoireLab - Overview of Augur - Supporting analysis across diverse data sources - Focus areas and roadmaps - Getting involved in the projects Links Mentioned - CHAOSS (chaoss.community) - GrimoireLab (grimoirelab.github.io) - Augur (augurlabs.io) - Cauldron instance (cauldron.io) - Public Augur instance (metrics.chaoss.io) - OSS Compass (oss.compass.community) Special Guest: Schalk Neethling.

In this week's episode, Mary Spencer and Jacob Shah explore drug pricing and the dynamics within the pharmaceutical industry with Sreeram Ramagopalan, Principal and Market Access & Payer Evidence Lead within LCP's Health Analytics team.

As noted in https://theorg.com/org/kensci/org-chart/corinne-stroum , Corinne has over fifteen years of experience in the healthcare industry, with a focus on data analytics and population health. Listen as Corinne and Laura talking all thing HIT in An Eye 4 AI with Podcast Persona Annielytics (LI: @cpstroum @lauraerinedell) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/annielytics-podcast/message

Guest: Dr. Bruce Y Lee, Executive Director of PHICOR (Public Health Informatics, Computational, and Operations Research) [@PHICORteam]On LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/bruce-y-lee-68a6834/On Twitter | https://twitter.com/bruce_y_leeWebsite | https://www.bruceylee.com/On Forbes | https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/On Psychology Today | https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/bruce-y-lee-md-mba_____________________________Host: Marco Ciappelli, Co-Founder at ITSPmagazine [@ITSPmagazine] and Host of Redefining Society PodcastOn ITSPmagazine | https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/marco-ciappelli_____________________________This Episode's SponsorsBlackCloak

Guest: Dr. Bruce Y Lee, Executive Director of PHICOR (Public Health Informatics, Computational, and Operations Research) [@PHICORteam]On LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/bruce-y-lee-68a6834/On Twitter | https://twitter.com/bruce_y_leeWebsite | https://www.bruceylee.com/On Forbes | https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/On Psychology Today | https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/bruce-y-lee-md-mba_____________________________Host: Marco Ciappelli, Co-Founder at ITSPmagazine [@ITSPmagazine] and Host of Redefining Society PodcastOn ITSPmagazine | https://www.itspmagazine.com/itspmagazine-podcast-radio-hosts/marco-ciappelli_____________________________This Episode's SponsorsBlackCloak

In this engaging and informative podcast, hosts Mike Pattengale and Jennifer Jones chat with Alex Frommeyer, the co-founder and CEO of Beam Benefits. Alex shares his journey from being an engineer to founding Beam, a digitally native employee benefits company that's transforming dental insurance and more.Key takeaways:Digitally Native Benefits: Beam's success lies in being a native digital company, leveraging AI-powered underwriting and a wellness program to offer flexible and innovative benefits for small and medium-sized businesses. This digital approach differentiates Beam from traditional insurers and creates a memorable experience for employees.Dental Wellness Program: Beam's unique dental wellness program gamifies dental care, allowing users to accumulate points by brushing their teeth with the connected Beam toothbrush. These points can be redeemed for various products and gift cards, promoting better dental health while engaging users passively.The Future of Employee Benefits: Alex envisions a more integrated and comprehensive approach to employee benefits, where data-driven solutions unify various health-related coverages and experiences. He believes tech and entrepreneurial innovation will be the driving force behind this future.The next time you brush your teeth, remember that you can make dental health more fun and rewarding with Beam!Catch the full conversation.Connect with Alex Frommeyer on LinkedInVisit Beam Benefits' websiteConnect with our co-hosts Jennifer Jones and Mike Pattengale Subscribe so you don't miss an episode: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other popular podcast players. Have feedback, questions, or suggestions for show ideas? Send them to us at podcast@springbuk.com. Please rate and review us on your favorite podcast platform, and share it with your friends and colleagues. We appreciate you and thank you for listening! Produced by David Pittman Theme music: "Overboard" by Stay Outside

The financial stability of America's hospitals and health systems is at risk as the costs of caring continue to rise. According to a recent AHA report, the cost of drugs, supplies and labor has skyrocketed over the past few years, and that's been met with continued underpayments from government payers. In this podcast, the AHA's Bharath Krishnamurthy, director of Health Analytics and Policy, explores what this imbalance means for patient care with Dr. Anthony Coleman, President and Chief executive officer of Broadlawns Medical Center in Iowa. This podcast was recorded at the 2023 American Hospital Association's annual membership meeting in Washington, D.C.

If you look at almost any engagement survey that a company does, career development is almost always one of the lowest scores. Robyn Clark, the founder of WinningWise, an HR and talent management company, says that's largely because employers career development because they think it's only for the person – the employee – and not for them. That's completely and utterly wrong.Robyn explains that if employers are preparing a workforce for the future, they should be looking to develop people so they can take on ever-bigger projects and go into broader roles, some of which may not even be known yet. Robyn further says career development is probably the most important talent strategy today, one that offers a huge win for both the organization and the individual because the employer is building the bench that they want and they're meeting two significant needs for the employee: mastery and personal growth.Catch the full conversation.Connect with Robyn Clark on LinkedInWatch WinningWise's webinar “Understanding Individual Needs: How Employee Needs Have Shifted Since the Pandemic”Get the complete 2023 Employee Health Trends report and other related resourcesConnect with our co-hosts Jennifer Jones and Mike Pattengale Subscribe so you don't miss an episode: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other popular podcast players. Have feedback, questions, or suggestions for show ideas? Send them to us at podcast@springbuk.com. Please rate and review us on your favorite podcast platform, and share it with your friends and colleagues. We appreciate you and thank you for listening! Produced by David Pittman Theme music: "Overboard" by Stay Outside

In this episode, we discuss the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' proposed changes to the Medicare Advantage risk adjustment payment model, which will take effect in 2024 if finalized. We're joined by special guest Alex Oliphant, Director of Berkeley Research Group's Health Analytics practice, who has extensive experience in the workings of the Medicare Advantage payment model. Phil Legendy, Of Counsel in Ballard's New York office and a member of our Health Care Group, hosts the discussion.

A 2023 Business Group on Health survey showed that for the first time in history, cancer overtook musculoskeletal disease as the top cost driver for employers. Natalya Gertsik, vice president of Clear Cancer Solution Management at PHM, and a contributor to the 2023 Springbuk Employee Health Trends report, says this is a major issue from employers and their employees because of three main deficiencies in our healthcare system related to cancer care:limited accessinadequate communicationinefficiencyShe describes the respective underlying issues with Centers of Excellence and community-based oncologists, and then explains how PHM is applying an ”independence clinical excellence model” to address these deficiencies and challenges.Catch the full conversation.Connect with Natalya Gertsik on LinkedInGet the complete 2023 Employee Health Trends report and other related resourcesConnect with our co-hosts Jennifer Jones and Mike Pattengale Subscribe so you don't miss an episode: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other popular podcast players. Have feedback, questions, or suggestions for show ideas? Send them to us at podcast@springbuk.com. Please rate and review us on your favorite podcast platform, and share it with your friends and colleagues. We appreciate you and thank you for listening! Produced by David Pittman Theme music: "Overboard" by Stay Outside

Our March Health Views guest is Dr. Nilay Shah, Director, Health Analytics and Innovation from Delta Air Lines. During this dynamic discussion, Dr. Deb and Dr. Shah cover how his population health analytics work translates into the well-being space for Delta employees and customers during the pandemic and beyond.  

For the past few years, specialty drugs have played a large and growing role in the overall cost of employee healthcare. In this episode, Janet Young, M.D., lead clinical scientist and co-author of Springbuk's 2023 Employee Health Trends Report, describes the factors that are driving the biggest increases and get some tips on what employers can do to keep their costs under control. Catch the full conversation.Connect with Janet Young on LinkedInGet the complete 2023 Employee Health Trends report and other related resourcesConnect with our co-hosts Jennifer Jones and Mike Pattengale Subscribe so you don't miss an episode: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other popular podcast players. Have feedback, questions, or suggestions for show ideas? Send them to us at podcast@springbuk.com. Please rate and review us on your favorite podcast platform, and share it with your friends and colleagues. We appreciate you and thank you for listening! Produced by David Pittman Theme music: "Overboard" by Stay Outside

We are now into our fourth year of dealing with COVID. Since it burst into our consciousness in early 2020, we've seen massive changes in treatments and long-term effects, including the enigmatic, long COVID  and strains on mental health. To kick off season two of “Healthcare on the Rocks: Employee Benefits with a Twist,” we're going to start with a mini-series, exploring the major trends that are reshaping employee healthcare. This episode's featured guests are three of the analysts and authors of Springbuk's 2023 Employee Health Trends Report. Janet Young, M.D., lead clinical scientist; Chris Gagen, senior director of analytic and strategic consulting; and Jennifer Jones, MSM RD, enterprise employer practice leader.Catch the full conversation.Connect with Janet Young and Chris Gagen on LinkedInGet the complete 2023 Employee Health Trends report and other related resourcesConnect with our co-hosts Jennifer Jones and Mike Pattengale Subscribe so you don't miss an episode: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other popular podcast players. Have feedback, questions, or suggestions for show ideas? Send them to us at podcast@springbuk.com. Please rate and review us on your favorite podcast platform, and share it with your friends and colleagues. We appreciate you and thank you for listening! Produced by David Pittman Theme music: "Overboard" by Stay Outside

InterSystems Regional Director, Data Platforms, Andrew Aho, and Director, Customer Relations & Sales for New Zealand, Brian Biggs discuss the findings of a new study showing New Zealand healthcare providers continue to struggle with collecting, analysing and applying relevant data. Download the InterSystems report.

Bill Taranto is President of the Global Health Innovation Fund at Merck (https://www.merckghifund.com/taranto.html) and founding partner since inception in 2010. Merck Global Health Innovation Fund (Merck GHI) is a corporate venture capital group utilizing a healthcare ecosystem strategy, investing globally in platform companies with proven technologies or business models where Merck's expertise can accelerate revenue growth and enhance value creation to ultimately develop integrated healthcare solutions. Merck GHI has $500M under management per an evergreen model and invests broadly in the domain of digital health, and other segments, and has made over 60 investments in portfolio companies, and has over 20 exits. They invest across the segments of Therapy Planning, Care Management, Health Analytics & AI, eClinical Trials and enabling technologies. Bill has more than 30 years of health care experience including over 20 years of healthcare investing. In addition to his experience in venture investing, Bill has more than a decade of management operations experience. Bill is also the chairman of the Merck Innovative Ventures Board, a group that manages the identification and funding of portfolio businesses; and is also Chairman of the GHI Fund LLC Management Board. Prior to joining Merck, Bill spent 18 years at Johnson & Johnson in various venture capital, marketing, sales and business development roles. Before J&J, Bill spent eight years in investment banking. He has a Bachelor of Business Administration from St. Bonaventure University.The Fren ZoneThe Fren Zone brings you the brightest technical minds in crypto and Web3. Join our...Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Discovery MattersA collection of stories and insights on matters of discovery that advance life...Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Fit, Healthy & Happy Podcast Welcome to the Fit, Healthy and Happy Podcast hosted by Josh and Kyle from Colossus...Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

Imagine you've just received a life-changing diagnosis: maybe it's cancer, maybe it's ALS. Whatever it is, the last thing you would want to worry about is finding the best specialist or questioning if your prognosis is correct. That's where an Expert Medical Opinion solution can help. Josh Reimer, Director of Channel Partnerships at Included Health, joined us to review many of the challenges of our current healthcare system:Confusion: 50% of individuals struggle to understand their insuranceLow engagement: 33% of individuals avoid medical care altogetherLack of access: >16,000 physician offices closed due to COVIDHigh costs: 30% of healthcare spend is considered wasteHe then explained how an EMO solution can help break down those barriers to simplify the healthcare experience, delivering access to 4000  of the top clinical specialists and subspecialists nationwide.Listen to the full conversation.Connect with Josh Reimer on LinkedInVisit Included HealthConnect with our co-hosts Jennifer Jones and David Pittman Subscribe so you don't miss an episode: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other popular podcast playersHave feedback, questions, or suggestions for show ideas? Send them to us at podcast@springbuk.com.Please rate and review us on your favorite podcast platform, and share it with your friends and colleagues. We appreciate you and thank you for listening!Produced by David PittmanTheme music: "Overboard" by Stay Outside

"Pharmacists on the Front Line of The Opioid Epidemic," by Randall W. Knoebel, PharmD, BCOP, Pharmacy Director of Health Analytics and Drug Policy,  Department of Pharmacy, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, Illinois; Chris Herndon, PharmD, BCACP, FASHP, FCCP, Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Pharmacy, Edwardsville, Illinois; and David M. Dickerson, MD, Medical Director of Anesthesia Pain Management Services, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Chicago, Illinois. From ASRA Pain Medicine News, May 2022. See original article at www.asra.com/asra-news for figures and references. This material is copyrighted.         

“What we've seen in the last 10 to 15 years … is a juggernaut of costs from specialty medicines, usually wonderful medicines with great cures, but that come at a significant cost. … And whereas the split between medical and pharma used to be that we spent some of our time on utilization of pharmacy and prescriptions and generics and mail order versus retail, now specialty medicine is just blowing everything out of the water from a cost perspective.” With that, healthcare industry thought leader Dr. Ron Leopold launched into an engaging conversation about macro trends in employee benefits, covering the ever-evolving effects of COVID, the proliferation of point solutions, the major cost drivers for employers, and how those employers should be using data to contain their costs.“There's a whole lot that we can measure if we're smart and understand this requires both looking at the data and then really thinking through cause and effect,” said Dr. Leopold.Listen to the full conversation.Connect with Dr. Leopold on LinkedInVisit RonLeopold.comConnect with our co-hosts Jennifer Jones and Mike Pattengale Subscribe so you don't miss an episode: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other popular podcast playersHave feedback, questions, or suggestions for show ideas? Send them to us at podcast@springbuk.com.Please rate and review us on your favorite podcast platform, and share it with your friends and colleagues. We appreciate you and thank you for listening!Produced by David PittmanTheme music: "Overboard" by Stay Outside

The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 (CAA) was signed into law, including many provisions that impact employer-sponsored health plans. The CAA mandates a new set of requirements for pharmacy reporting, mental health parity compliance, consumer price transparency, balance-billing practices, and other requirements related to contracts between employers, their health plans, and broker/consultant partners.It's complex. Shannon Kukulka, an employee benefits attorney at Waller and former  in-house counsel for a Fortune 500 company, joined Nicole Belles, vice president of product at Springbuk, and regular host Jennifer Jones to share her legal knowledge and practical advice on how employers can navigate the murky waters of the CAA.Connect with Shannon on LinkedInVisit Waller's websiteRead Shannon's blog about the CAAConnect with our co-hosts Jennifer Jones and Nicole Belles Subscribe so you don't miss an episode: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other popular podcast playersHave feedback, questions, or suggestions for show ideas? Send them to us at podcast@springbuk.com.Please rate and review us on your favorite podcast platform, and share it with your friends and colleagues. We appreciate you and thank you for listening!Produced by David PittmanTheme music: "Overboard" by Stay Outside

Healthiest Employers is the trusted awards program that recognizes people-first organizations that are taking a more proactive approach to employee health. Since its inception in 2009, the Healthiest Employers corporate wellness program has attracted over 10,000 employers representing more than 60 million employees from all across the United States.Haley Elmore, Healthiest Employers program coordinator, joined Jennifer and Mike to share several of the attributes found in organizations that were named in the Healthiest 100 Workplaces in America. She also explain why companies choose to apply for the program and the value they take away from participating, even if they don't receive a regional or national award. HINT:  it's learning from the best of the best.Listen as Haley provides recommendations for both employers and their employees.Connect with Haley on LinkedInVisit Healthiest Employers websiteRead the Healthiest Employers blogGet a Benchmark Report with more than 40 pages of data, charts, and recommendationsConnect with our co-hosts Jennifer Jones and Mike Pattengale Subscribe so you don't miss an episode: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other popular podcast playersHave feedback, questions, or suggestions for show ideas? Send them to us at podcast@springbuk.com.Please rate and review us on your favorite podcast platform, and share it with your friends and colleagues. We appreciate you and thank you for listening!Produced by David PittmanTheme music: "Overboard" by Stay Outside

Specialty drugs are playing a significant role in the increasing healthcare costs in the commercial market. In this third episode of a mini-series based on the 2022 Employee Health Trends report, Janet Young, M.D., Lead Clinical Scientist at Springbuk and co-author of the report, talks about which specialty drugs are driving the most cost and alternatives that benefits leaders can explore.Discover why one condition has a relatively small percentage of people receiving a specialty drug, but that is still drive a large dollar value of spending, and hear which conditions our data scientists expect to drive growth of specialty drug use over the next couple of years.Get tips for how employers can reduce costs on specialty drugs without reducing efficacy, including looking at where the drugs are administered. And learn the steps employers can take now to increase adoption of lower-cost alternative drugs and to ensure they are able to reap cost savings as new biosimilars come into the market over the next two to three years.Listen as Janet provides recommendations for both employers and their employees.Connect with Janet on LinkedInGet the complete 2022 Employee Health Trends reportConnect with our co-hosts Jennifer Jones and Mike Pattengale Subscribe so you don't miss an episode: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other popular podcast playersHave feedback, questions, or suggestions for show ideas? Send them to us at podcast@springbuk.com.Please rate and review us on your favorite podcast platform, and share it with your friends and colleagues. We appreciate you and thank you for listening!Produced by David PittmanTheme music: "Overboard" by Stay Outside

Health insurance was established to protect us from catastrophic financial loss, but David Contorno, CEO and founder of E-Powered Benefits, says, “medical debt is the number one cause of bankruptcy in the U.S., with the huge majority of them having had health insurance?”David explains how the typical broker and carrier contracts are structured so that they benefit most when costs go up. His firm turns the usual system of incentives around so they're paid on how much they lower costs. Learn about his firm's approach to building benefit plans that are built specifically for a company's culture and workforce … and discover why insurance carriers don't like him much.Connect with David on LinkedInDavid's viral post about Health Expenditure vs. Life ExpectancyGet the e-book Social Determinants of Health: A Springbuk PerspectiveMarshall Allen's book, Never Pay the First Bill: And Other Ways to Fight the Health Care System and WinGet the complete 2022 Employee Health Trends reportConnect with our co-hosts Jennifer Jones and Mike Pattengale Subscribe so you don't miss an episode: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other popular podcast players.   Have feedback, questions, or suggestions for show ideas? Send them to us at podcast@springbuk.com.Please rate and review us on your favorite podcast platform, and share it with your friends and colleagues. We appreciate you and thank you for listening!Produced by David PittmanTheme music: "Overboard" by Stay Outside

In this second episode of a mini-series based on the 2022 Employee Health Trends report, we talk with co-author Janet Young, M.D., Lead Clinical Scientist at Springbuk, about the impacts COVID-19 has had on employee healthcare and employer benefit plans. Armed with data from more than 30,000 COVID patients, Janet and her fellow data analysts split the research into individuals who had COVID into hospitalized and non-hospitalized to get a better understanding of what was happening within each group.Their findings were stunning: during a six-month period after an initial COVID diagnosis, hospitalized patients cost about 70% more than the researchers expected. Even non-hospitalized patients saw an increase of about 25%.What's this mean for employee benefit plans? As the pandemic seems to be drawing to an end, employers need to be mindful that doesn't mean their healthcare costs will immediately drop. And besides the costs for acute care, the data show many people, unsurprisingly, have post-acute care mental health issues that may linger for an extended time. Listen as Janet provides recommendations for both employers and their employees. Connect with Janet on LinkedInGet the complete 2022 Employee Health Trends reportConnect with our co-hosts Jennifer Jones and Mike Pattengale Subscribe so you don't miss an episode: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other popular podcast players.   Have feedback, questions, or suggestions for show ideas? Send them to us at podcast@springbuk.com.Please rate and review us on your favorite podcast platform, and share it with your friends and colleagues. We appreciate you and thank you for listening!Produced by David PittmanTheme music: "Overboard" by Stay Outside

In the 2021 Employee Health Trends report, Springbuk discovered the rate of telemedicine services per 1000 plan members had increased 12-fold over the previous year's data, which was mostly prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Digging deeper into the data, Chris Gagen and the rest of the Springbuk analytics team found mental health accounted for more than 40 percent of those encounters.What has happened in the year since then? Have telemedicine visits overall increased, decreased, or remained relatively constant?What about telemental health services? Has the long two-year grind of the pandemic caused more people to seek care via the internet?Who is using the services most?What's causing the variance in telemedicine visits among demographic groups?Those are some of the topics that Chris, Springbuk's Senior Director of Analytic & Strategic Consulting, explains in this episode.Connect with Chris on LinkedInGet the complete 2022 Employee Health Trends reportConnect with our co-hosts Jennifer Jones and Mike Pattengale Subscribe so you don't miss an episode: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other popular podcast players.   Have feedback, questions, or suggestions for show ideas? Send them to us at podcast@springbuk.com.Please rate and review us on your favorite podcast platform, and share it with your friends and colleagues. We appreciate you and thank you for listening!Produced by David PittmanTheme music: "Overboard" by Stay Outside

Our interview guest is Brad Pope, VP of customer success at Kinsa Insights, who discusses ways in which retailers are using predictive health analytics to get a leg up in terms of staffing, inventory, and supply chain management. In news, we look at the fourth quarter that was for Walmart, but more importantly, dive into their forecast for 2022 and how inventory levels and inflation might impact customer flow according to leadership. Additionally, we look ahead to 2022 private label brand sales after the Private Label Manufacturers Association released their yearly report.

On today's episode of The PQI Podcast we welcome Krystal Preston, PharmD, BCPS and Randall Knoebel, PharmD, BCOP.Dr. Krystal Preston earned her Doctor of Pharmacy from Chicago State University and is Board Certified in Pharmacotherapy. She recently began a new career journey working as a Clinical Specialty Pharmacist-Oncology with Amita Health St. Joseph Hospital Chicago. She also works part time as a Clinical Pharmacist at the University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital. She has made it her life mission to end disparities in healthcare.Dr. Randall Knoebel obtained his Doctor of Pharmacy from Midwestern University, Chicago College of Pharmacy.  He worked as a clinical pharmacy specialist in Leukemia for several years before moving into pharmacy leadership positions, now working as Pharmacy Director of Health Analytics and Drug Policy. He also serves as the PGY1 pharmacy residency program director; and as the pharmacy director of Pain Stewardship at the University of Chicago a committee charged to lead efforts institutionally to improve the quality and safety of pain care. Today we discuss disparities in chronic pain management and Krystal's personal story in dealing with Sickle Cell disease. Randy's recent article can be found here: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/heq.2020.0062

Happy New Year and welcome back to Forever Young. With each new year comes new health and wellness goals. With this in mind, we are delighted to introduce Lanserhof at The Arts Club's Consultant Neurologist and Sleep Disorders Specialist, Dr Oliver Bernath. With serious long-term health implications associated with lack of sleep, the growing number of adults struggling is a worrying trend. Dr Bernath holds US Board certifications in neurology, neurophysiology and sleep medicine and is on the General Medical Council specialist register. He led the Northern California Sleep Disorders Centre at Kaiser Permanente in San Francisco and now sees patients at the NHS Sleep Clinic at Guy's Hospital, as well as at Lanserhof at The Arts Club. Dr Bernath is also a partner at PwC in strategy and healthcare and leads the Health Analytics group in Consulting. Listen to an insightful discussion with the sleep expert to better understand healthy sleep, key recommendations and the affects it has on energy levels and performance. https://www.lanserhof.com/en Welcome to Forever Young, the Lanserhof podcast. Every other Tuesday, join Mario Pederzolli in conversation with a variety of health experts and special guests as they explore what it means to live a balanced, healthy and happy life. If you have any questions regarding any of the topics discussed, then we would be delighted to hear from you. Please email podcast@lanserhof.com. Please note that this podcast presents various views and opinions and the content should not be taken as medical advice. We are all unique, therefore, please do consult your doctor or speak to one of our doctors directly for any specific medical guidance.

You might know Spencer Smith hosts a popular podcast around self-funded insurance. Or you may have seen his video series on stop-loss insurance, which has become standard curriculum for many people just starting in the industry. But did you know Spencer loves heavy metal, which many people find shocking? Or that he once dabbled in stand-up comedy, where he occasionally bombed on stage, “which is just brutal to your soul.” Listen to him describe how he used that feeling of “being vulnerable on stage in front of 200 people and totally sucking” to build his confidence. In this wide-ranging conversation, Spencer encourages those who are struggling with self-confidence to “learn how to be comfortable being uncomfortable.” And he explains how one question — Are you a runner or a chaser? — can help you reframe your challenges and turn them into a personal guide to success. Finally, he describes the important lesson he learned from coaching his daughter's youth soccer team: why you don't need a shirt that says “Coach.”Connect with Spencer on LinkedInListen to “Self-Funded with Spencer” podcastWatch Spencer's Stop-Loss Insurance videos on YouTubeLearn more about the Springbuk Health Intelligence platformConnect with our co-hosts Jennifer Jones and Mike Pattengale Have feedback, questions, or suggestions for show ideas? Send them to us at podcast@springbuk.com.Please rate and review us on your favorite podcast platform, and share it with your friends and colleagues. We appreciate you and thank you for listening!Produced by David PittmanTheme music: "Overboard" by Stay Outside

Take a big idea, surround yourself with phenomenal people, and execute on an idea. That's how Rod Reasen, CEO Springbuk, assessed the success he's witnessed in the five years since founding the health data analytics company.Rod believes benefits managers have a unique opportunity to take data from thousands of employers, use an analytics platform like Springbuk to apply rich health intelligence, and that will put them in position to move to true engagement between employers and individuals to improve health.In this episode, Rod talks about his biggest surprises in moving to a totally remote “work-from-anywhere” workforce and the challenges for an entrepreneurial CEO in transitioning from a startup to a scale-up. “One of the hardest but most rewarding” experiences is learning to pass decisions off to other leaders, then watching them learn and grow.From watching the healthcare industry for 20 years, Rod has observed an ebb and flow of vendors in the market. New vendors come in with a hyper-specialization, then over time as they become widely accepted, they branch out and become generalists. But one thing has remained constant. Listen to Rod explain what the constant is and why he's excited about the opportunity around it.Rod also explains the origin story of the name “Springbuk” and how happy he is with the choice over what it was initially called. Connect with Rod on LinkedInLearn more about the Springbuk Health Intelligence platformConnect with our co-hosts Jennifer Jones and Mike Pattengale Have feedback, questions, or suggestions for show ideas? Send them to us at podcast@springbuk.com.Please rate and review us on your favorite podcast platform, and share it with your friends and colleagues. We appreciate you and thank you for listening!Produced by David PittmanTheme music: "Overboard" by Stay Outside

In today's tight labor market, employers are struggling to identify the unique value proposition that they can offer to prospective employees as well as to retain current staff. For example, the importance of - and desire for - family benefits and mental health have risen dramatically over recent years.Another set of hot-button questions for HR leaders revolves around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). What access to care do our employees have? How can we ensure our employee population is supported? Are our policies truly supportive to all our employees, including LGBTQ and every race and ethnicity? Is our pay equity in line? Who do we want to be as a company, culturally? In this episode, Megan Nail, CCP, SHRM-SCP, CEBS, SPHR-CA, shares her experience handling these challenging issues as Vice President of the Total Rewards Practice at First Person Advisors, now a subsidiary of NFP, and State Director for HR Indiana Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).Megan advises clients on how to meet their organization's goals through total rewards and compensation strategy. She builds and designs market-competitive base and incentive pay structures throughout the organization, including prioritizing compensation as a key component of the employee value proposition.Connect with Megan on LinkedIn Listen to FirstPerson's podcast, “Human Resolve”Have feedback, questions, or suggestions for show ideas? Send them to us at podcast@springbuk.com.Please rate and review us on your favorite podcast platform, and share it with your friends and colleagues. We appreciate you and thank you for listening!Produced by David PittmanTheme music: "Overboard" by Stay Outside

In this episode, we talk with Jason Nordby, who is a senior account executive and partner at M3 Insurance, specializing in employee benefits and coordinating ongoing service for clients to ensure that their coverage meets their needs. Jason is also M3's director of employee benefits captive practice. In this role, he serves as a subject matter expert, strategist, and thought leader on health captives agency-wide.Jason explains how the healthcare system and the insurance world around it were “broken” as he started his career 27 years ago. He describes what benefits captives are and how they came into their own during the early days of Obamacare.He says the introduction of employee benefits captives was the biggest twist he's seen in his career. With this innovation, forward-thinking, data-driven employers could pool together with like-minded organizations to create stability for themselves as purchasers of healthcare insurance. Jason explains how captives allow organizations “to exit a dirty risk pool and enter into a cleaner pool” with other groups that are doing similar things to manage and mitigate risk. This affords employers the benefits of being self-funded while gaining access to more data so they can be more strategic. Lastly, we invite you to weigh in on the heated debate about who asked the better questions: Jennifer or Mike.Connect with Jason on LinkedInConnect on LinkedIn with our hosts, Jennifer Jones and Mike PattengaleHave feedback, questions, or suggestions for show ideas? Send them to us at podcast@springbuk.com.Please rate and review us on your favorite podcast platform, and share it with your friends and colleagues. We appreciate you and thank you for listening!Produced by David PittmanTheme music: "Overboard" by Stay Outside

In “Healthcare on the Rocks - Employee Benefits with a Twist,” we talk with employers, benefits advisors, technology innovators, and other experts in wellness, human resources, and healthcare.Our first guest is Scott McGohan, CEO of McGohan Brabender, one of the largest independent health insurance brokers in the Midwest with offices in Dayton, Columbus, Cincinnati, and Indianapolis. Scott works on vision casting, strategy alignment, and leadership deployment. His professional philosophy is that, as a business leader, it is always about the people. Products are delivered by people, and when people believe in themselves they will believe in you. Scott describes himself as “probably a Pollyanna, maybe a unicorn. Definitely an eternal optimist.” He describes the healthcare industry as “a gigantic, epic battleship, and to turn this thing is hard work,” but he believes that together, we can make a massive change in the evolution of the healthcare industry.Like most advisors, McGohan Brabender was great at looking at reports and seeing what had happened. But they were not content with this mostly retroactive approach. They saw how they could use data to look forward to better guide their clients.Hear Scott describe how people react when they learn he changed careers from his beginnings as a diamond salesman to settling down into a 30+ year career in insurance. And listen as he shares the values that drive him and, by extension, the culture of McGohan Brabender.Finally, discover why people run from Scott on Thursdays - but why others flock to his social media posts on those days.Connect with Scott on LinkedInConnect on LinkedIn with our hosts, Jennifer Jones and Mike PattengaleListen to McGohan Bradender's “Side Affects Podcast”Read “The Simple Truths of Service: Inspired by Johnny the Bagger” Have feedback, questions, or suggestions for show ideas? Send them to us at podcast@springbuk.com.Please rate and review us on your favorite podcast platform, and share it with your friends and colleagues. We appreciate you and thank you for listening!Produced by David PittmanTheme music: "Overboard" by Stay Outside

IBM Watson Health Recognizes Top-Performing U.S.Hospitals and Health SystemsEkta Punwani, Leader, IBM 100 Top Hospitals Program https://www.linkedin.com/in/ekta-punwani-b1bab87/  Ekta S. Punwani, MHAMs. Punwani is the Leader of the 100 Top Program at IBM Watson Health. She is a trusted advisor to client executives on performance improvement opportunities and strategies based on the 100 Top Program studies. Prior to joining IBM Watson Health, Ms. Punwani served as a Hospital and Health System executive leading organizational transformation, operations improvement, and change leadership within the health care continuum.  She has demonstrated building performance improvement and analytics capability within multiple healthcare organizations including Adventist Midwest Health, Advocate Health Care and Northwestern Medicine. She has served on the Board of Examiners for the National Baldrige Performance Excellence Program for four years and has received certification as an ICBB –International Certified Black Belt.  Ms. Punwani serves on the Health Analytics Advisory Board for Northwestern University in Chicago. She also developed and currently teaches the Health Analytics Leadership course in the Masters of Science in Health Analytics as an Adjunct Faculty.Ms. Punwani received both a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana and a Master's degree in Health Administration from Washington University in St. Louis.

IBM Watson Health Recognizes Top-Performing U.S.Hospitals and Health SystemsEkta Punwani, Leader, IBM 100 Top Hospitals Program https://www.linkedin.com/in/ekta-punwani-b1bab87/  Ekta S. Punwani, MHAMs. Punwani is the Leader of the 100 Top Program at IBM Watson Health. She is a trusted advisor to client executives on performance improvement opportunities and strategies based on the 100 Top Program studies. Prior to joining IBM Watson Health, Ms. Punwani served as a Hospital and Health System executive leading organizational transformation, operations improvement, and change leadership within the health care continuum.  She has demonstrated building performance improvement and analytics capability within multiple healthcare organizations including Adventist Midwest Health, Advocate Health Care and Northwestern Medicine. She has served on the Board of Examiners for the National Baldrige Performance Excellence Program for four years and has received certification as an ICBB –International Certified Black Belt.  Ms. Punwani serves on the Health Analytics Advisory Board for Northwestern University in Chicago. She also developed and currently teaches the Health Analytics Leadership course in the Masters of Science in Health Analytics as an Adjunct Faculty.Ms. Punwani received both a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana and a Master's degree in Health Administration from Washington University in St. Louis.

Trying to capture the value open source software generates can be a bit chaotic. The CHAOSS project may lend a helping hand. By now, the tension between commercial interests and open source projects is well known.  Trying to balance building a sustainable business and a community around open source software, in a cloud-first world is not the easiest thing in the world. In the latest episodes of a long-winding saga, two more commercial open source vendors, Elastic and Grafana, changed their licenses. Their rationale was clearly communicated as trying to protect the business they have built around the respective open source projects from cloud vendors that they feel compete unfairly with them, without contributing as much as they do. Interestingly, all parties involved refer to "the community" as being front and center in what they do. While obviously important, however, what constitutes an open source community, how it's faring, and what value it generates all seem rather vaguely defined. The people working on the CHAOSS project under the auspices of the Linux Foundation want to change that. We caught up with Georg J.P. Link, CHAOSS project co-founder, to find out more. Article published on ZDNet

Dr Jonathan-Pearson Stuttard is a public health physician and epidemiologist at Imperial College London. His research looks at non-communicable disease epidemiology, using big data to simulate health, economic and inequality outcomes which informs public health policy. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Chief Medical Officer's Annual Report in 2018. He is the Vice Chair of the Royal Society for Public Health and the Head of Health Analytics at Lane, Clark and Peacock. He has just co-authored a book called 'Whose Health is it Anyway?' looking at the impact of COVID 19 on public health. Victoria Ball: @widemindednessvictoriaball on Instagram and Facebook, @widemindedness on Twitter and www.victoria-ball.com Sign up here to make sure you never miss an episode and to find out how Widemindedness could change your life. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/widemindednessvictoriabal/message

Nesse podcast sobre Real-World Data (RWD) e o Mercado de Health Analytics, falamos com André Ballalai. Ele que é formado em Engenharia Química pela UFPR (Federal do Paraná), com especialização em economia e finanças no Insper, com longa experiência no setor, utilizando inteligencia artificial e machine learning desenvolve estratégias e análises na área da saúde em nível global. Atualmente, mora em New York e é Diretor no grupo de Global Pricing & Market Access da IQVIA, consultoria especializada no segmento. Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreballalai/. Artigo do André: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12029-020-00508-7.

Guest Dale Sanders, CTO of Health Catalyst, joins hosts Gary Austin and Ken Kleinberg to discuss the future of interoperability and health analytics and how healthcare can be positively impacted.  Gary begins the discussion with patient identification. He asks Dale why patients do not yet have a single healthcare identifier for their healthcare records. What is going to change this situation? Dale explains that the answer is a combination of a voluntary system for those in the commercial healthcare space combined with a mandatory system for those that are benefitting from Medicaid and Medicare. We need to commercialize the management of those patient identifiers, just like we've done with internet domains. Ken states that TEFCAis looking at an infrastructure for a nation-wide health information exchange with a lot of these interoperability initiatives. He thinks we could do the same with patient identifiers if we could agree upon a dozen or so fields to try to do a better job capturing core data that could aid with patient identification.Gary asks Dale why we can't have data normalized across the board. Why is this such a difficult process? Dale explains that it boils down to economics. He suspects we've normalized enough to enable reimbursements but that's it. If you think about it, does it matter to a single healthcare system to normalize to a national or international standard? Dale explains that it is probably not that valuable for individual institutions. They are normalizing to their own vocabulary, which works for them. If we're interested in analyzing data beyond the boundaries of healthcare systems – as we need nationally for public and population health – we need to incentivize or mandate broader normalization of vocabulary and go way beyond LOINC codes.  Gary asks Dale if he sees the CDC mandating some of this for public health purposes post-COVID. Dale strongly believes it is time to mandate normalization. Ken notes that lab mapping is strikingly ineffective. There are physicians ordering tests by names that they know, but they don't really know what tests they are actually asking for because what's behind the scenes isn't visible to them. There is no convention for how those things are named, which can be a problematic situation.Gary asks Dale why there is not a standardized vocabulary. Why can't the power of the computer be used to translate all of this in a normalized fashion? Is the power just not there? Dale points out that human language alone is a very difficult thing to make sense of, especially the English language. If you layer on the complexities of clinical vocabulary, then it gets even more complex to turn that into computable, discrete elements. We can progress toward passive dictation, but there will always be a need for humans to make edits.  The discussion moved on to cover combinatorial data. Gary asks “How do you look at pulling this data together and rationalizing it across the two massive domains (administrative and clinical data) that are really driving healthcare in this country?” Dale explains the Health Catalyst data model. He says what you would see are domain and vocabulary-oriented data models that sit in between late binding and enterprise data modeling. There is this middle ground of curated data that is a manageable thing to keep up with and execute.Gary asks Ken who he thinks is going to win by pulling all this payer and clinical data together. Is it the analytics companies, the EMR companies, big tech or who? Ken says there is this concept of a converged platform between payers and providers. Registries are an example of how pulling information together that a lot of people can use. The EHR vendors have taken a run at this, the analytics companies have taken a run at this. We've got the population health management vendors, some of which have been more on the business side of value based care, but there are also some that are on the tech side. It's frankly a huge opportunity. The payers don't have the same reliance on vendors that the provider side has. We have a very defined market of electronic health records vendors for providers, but how do you identify who the vendors are for payers? They are, in a way, a fortress to penetrate. I think Health Catalyst has a huge opportunity to sit in the middle and bring these two worlds together. Dale suggests that in the future, payers will need to become providers and providers need to become payers. The payers are moving toward the provider space at warp speed, the providers are moving into the payer space at a snail's pace. Providers need to be capable of working in the claims space, risk management and risk prediction space better than they are right now. The payers have to do the same working in the other direction in the clinical space. Are the recent CMS ONC regulations around FHIR APIs going to make a real difference for healthcare moving forward? Dale believes the regulations are going to be transformative. However, for FHIR to be successful, he thinks we're going to have to see more transformative changes in the EMR vendors. He'd like to see some aggressive re-architecting with the major software vendors to see if we can't move that along faster. Gary asks Ken to give a profile on consumer applications. Where are these things going? Ken thinks there are a couple of intersecting categories to consider. We have those apps that come under more FDA certification or approvals that are more medically oriented, and then others that will be more generally available that didn't have to go through all those approvals. There is another category of apps associated very specifically with, for example, EHR vendors, health systems or payers. Then, there are other apps that are more independent. The interesting competitive angle here is that those independent apps that can potentially tap into provider systems and payer systems can put a picture together that any one provider or payer organization can't equal. So it becomes more of a cross industry view and we're talking about a longitudinal view and it's usually longitudinal to the provider and the payer, but what it used to be was longitudinal to the patient. Whether those independent apps will succeed or not because they have a battle with the large players in their space. What CMS and ONC have delivered here is in fact that competitive environment far beyond the competition we saw in the past. Gary asks Dale if he sees Health Catalyst getting into the consumer applications space. Dale says the data operating system they build has three missions of data, including analytics, workflow application development and interoperability. They can build applications on top of that data operating system. We have a care management platform that we call a data first application so it looks like an analytics engine but it is really about the workflow of care management. We'll eventually put some patient-facing app on that as soon as the market calms down. That touchstone repository that I mentioned earlier is the national repository that I would eventually like to expose to the public so you, I and ken can query that national repository to other patients like me to see other patients like me where they are being treated, how they are being treated and eventually allow them to socially interact with other patients who are like them. We have to create social interactions between patients like all of us that's what will keep people coming back. Dale gives a primer about healthcare from a battlefield perspective. In the nuclear decision space, a lot of time is spent on subjective and objective data fusion as well as its reliability. The military has formalized decision making and the data required to support decision making. There's a concept known as intelligent preparation for the battlefield, which can be overlapped conceptually onto healthcare. We can build the digital battlefield of healthcare that would support population health, public health, ambulatory care, the framework applies.What is the biggest change we are going to see in healthcare next year? Dale says we will see a relaxation in some of the rules for FDA clinical trials. Additionally, he would like to see an increased emphasis on what we need to do to make quality measures more effective, less burdensome for clinicians. 

Nesse episódio sobre Analytics na saúde, conversamos com André Santos, ele que é formado em Farmácia-Bioquímica pela USP, Health Analytics e HEOR (Health Economics and outcomes research), fundador do CliqueSUS e idealizador da plataforma de conteúdo ATSaúde. LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/andremarquessantos CliqueSUS: https://cliquesus.com.br/

More About Ekta Punwani: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ekta-punwani-b1bab87/ Ekta S. Punwani, MHAMs. Punwani is the Leader of the 100 Top Program at IBM Watson Health. She is a trusted advisor to client executives on performance improvement opportunities and strategies based on the 100 Top Program studies. Prior to joining IBM Watson Health, Ms. Punwani served as a Hospital and Health System executive leading organizational transformation, operations improvement, and change leadership within the health care continuum. She has demonstrated building performance improvement and analytics capability within multiple healthcare organizations including Adventist Midwest Health, Advocate Health Care and Northwestern Medicine. She has served on the Board of Examiners for the National Baldrige Performance Excellence Program for four years and has received certification as an ICBB –International Certified Black Belt. Ms. Punwani serves on the Health Analytics Advisory Board for Northwestern University in Chicago. She also developed and currently teaches the Health Analytics Leadership course in the Masters of Science in Health Analytics as an Adjunct Faculty. Ms. Punwani received both a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Arts degree from University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana and a Master’s degree in Health Administration from Washington University in St. Louis.

Commentary by Dr. Valentin Fuster

My guest for this podcast is Adam Wealand, a data & analytics and health informatics expert.  His experience includes marketing, consumer insights, social psychology, health informatics, artificial intelligence, and data visualizations.  Adam has studied health informatics for over 15 years and shares many learnings through his analytic blogs, white papers, and his Tableau public site.   In this podcast, we discuss: Ways that we can access and explore our health analytics How health data and analytics has evolved in terms of access and types of information available Challenges that are evolving with emerging COVID-19 data and how it relates to racial disparities in health Easy steps to create and explore our personalized visualizations and be our own experts Today's Guest Adam Wealand, Data / Analytics & Health Informatics Expert LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wealand/ Tableau Public: https://public.tableau.com/profile/adam.wealand#!/ Mentioned in this podcast: https://www.gapminder.org/ 

Here in Episode #62, Jared starts our show with a quote from the Great Dr. Deming reminding us to come prepared with our data; Jared walks us through his impressive background as a software programmer, entrepreneur, and population Health analytics expert; And shares the BHAG that got him plugged in with serving the healthcare industry; Jared gives us the three top critical Concepts quality and Healthcare professionals should have on their radar as it connects with population Health Analytics; Jared shares his biggest professional success that is connected with taking calculated risks; Jared also shares his biggest moment of failure and connects it with finding the perfect career & Professional fit; Jared provides us with an exceptional overview of the power of prototyping and creating an MVP has ways to push our ideas forward; Jared highlights his greatest moment of customer service and success; Highlights and Jared highlights one of the biggest barriers for healthcare leaders today.

In this episode, we speak with BRG Director JoAnna Younts. JoAnna, working out of Washington, DC, is a member of BRG’s Health Analytics practice. We cover the regulatory landscape surrounding telemedicine and talk about state and federal statutes that have guided both commercial insurers and federal programs. She also shares her prediction and hopes for what the future of telemedicine will look like in the US.

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Att bygga en hälsosam organisation kan kännas som en övermäktig uppgift. Vi frågade Sandra Jönsson, vd hos vår partner Wellbefy, var man ska börja. - Eftersom hälsa är ett så stort och brett begrepp kan det ofta vara svårt att ta sig an det, säger Sandra Jönsson. Hon fortsätter: - Att ha ett fokus på att människorna är den viktigaste resursen och att de alltid kommer först, är en bra början. Nya företag är bäst på hälsa Sandra menar att det har skett en förändring, framförallt bland nystartade företag och inom techbranschen, där man ser värdet av att jobba med organisationen och hälsan. Hon jämför med hur utvecklingsteam jobbar agilt i så kallade sprintar, korta och väl definierade utvecklingssteg. I sådana miljöer är människor vana att testa sig fram och våga prova väldigt konkreta saker inom väldefinierade ramar. Efter det är det dags för utvärdering och beslut om vad teamet ska fortsätta med, sluta med och börja med. I traditionella företag, däremot, tycker Sandra ofta att det är mer trögrörligt. Empowerment skyddar mot utmattning Det svåra med hälsoarbete är också att det finns så mycket man skulle kunna göra. Sandra tycker att det är viktigt att skapa förutsättningar för en kreativ organisation genom att arbeta med det som kallas empowerment: att ge människor inflytande över sin egen situation. Det är dessutom något som skyddar oss mot utmattning. Ett konkret exempel på empowerment kan vara gränsöverskridande lärande där grupper och individer som inte jobbar ihop till vardags får lära sig nytt och dela erfarenheter tillsammans. Att våga testa nytt kräver en kultur som tillåter det och tillit till varandra. Att söka och stärka det friska Wellbefys eget verktyg för att ta tempen på organisationens hälsa, Health Analytics, bygger på KASAM (känsla av sammanhang). Det är en modell som söker och stärker det som håller oss friska - till skillnad från reaktivt arbete med att läka det som redan är sjukt. Med t ex KASAM som grund blir det lättare att börja jobba hälsofrämjande. Alla organisationer och grupper har styrkor och det är ofta bra att börja med att ringa in och lyfta fram dem. Health Analytics hjälper organisationer att hålla koll på en mängd nyckeltal som engagemang, ledarskap, medarbetarskap och personlig utveckling. Meningen är både att medarbetare ska kunna bli delaktiga i organisationshälsan med korta, återkommande mätningar, och att ledare ska få stöd för dialog kring sånt som feedback. Inled en dialog om hälsa - en enkel övning Men man måste inte alltid köpa in saker för att börja jobba med hälsan i en organisation. I många fall finns varken budget eller förståelse för frågan. Då kan det vara klokt att börja i det lilla och visa resten av organisationen vilket värde det ger. Sandras tips för dig som är ledare och vill börja göra något i liten skala är att helt enkelt bara starta en dialog om hälsan på jobbet. Bjud in till samtal där medarbetare själva får skatta hur de har det på jobbet enligt, till exempel med verktyget Menti. Det bygger på att alla skriver in sånt de själva tänker och tycker via sin telefon och sen visas det för alla - men anonymt. Här är ett förslag från Sandra på hur man kan lägga upp ett sånt samtal: Be deltagarna i gruppen göra en skattning av hur de mår på jobbet, kanske på en skala 1-10. Låt dem sedan skriva ner: Vad de tycker att de själva borde göra för att stärka det som är bra och förbättra det som inte är bra. Vad de skulle önska att kollegorna gjorde. Vad de skulle önska att organisationen gjorde. När dialogen är igång i en förtroendefull miljö har ni redan kommit långt!

Att få förtroende och frihet på jobbet mår vi bra av. Men det är inte alltid så lätt för ledarna att släppa kontrollen. Göran Nilsson är ekonomie doktor och universitetslektor vid Uppsala universitet. Han har studerat flera stora organisationer som tillämpat tillitsbaserad styrning och tillsammans med Lennart Francke har han gett ut boken Det agila företaget. Där jämför de företag med fiskstim och supertankers. De förra är flexibla och klarar sig bättre i dagens föränderliga klimat medan supertankers är för långsamma för att kunna anpassa sig och överleva. För att uppnå flexibilitet och snabbrörlighet krävs en mindre hierarkisk organisation där medarbetare tar större ansvar. Tillit eller kontroll Han beskriver tillitsstyrda organisationer som en motsats till granskningsstyrda. I verkligheten är det ett spektrum där många befinner sig någonstans mellan extremerna. Kontroll är ofta sprunget ur en rädsla för att saker och ting ska gå fel, en naturlig instinkt som ofta leder till kontraproduktiva resultat. Det blir lätt att man mäter det som går att mätas men inte det som faktiskt leder till produktivitet. Medarbetare gör det som ser bäst ut, inte det som är bäst. Vill människor ta ansvar? Om man som ledare är modig och ger tillit, kan man förutsätta att medarbetare långt ut i organisationen kan och vill ta ansvaret? Det kan man förstås inte veta säkert säger Göran Nilsson. Som doktorand på Handelshögskolan studerade han ett flertal svenska industriföretag. Där och då trodde många i ledningsgrupperna att medarbetarna inte ville ha ett sådant ansvar. Men det fanns undantag, som Atlas Copco Tools i Tierp. Där noterade cheferna att många medarbetare hade ganska kvalificerade aktiviteter med stort ansvar på fritiden. Deras slutsats blev att det var fel på organisationen som inte tog tillvara på medarbetarnas fulla kompetens. Det ledde till en förändring till mer tillitsbaserad styrning, något som gynnade både företaget och dem som jobbade där. Personligheter och kultur För att bygga en organisation där man vågar lita på medarbetare krävs det ledare som är intresserade av medarbetarna. Ledarskap är i många avseenden individuellt och därför spelar det stor roll vilken typ av personlighet man utser till chefer i en organisation, något som påverkar hela företagskulturen. Göran Nilsson citerar Handelsbankens förre vd Jan Wallander som beskrev decentralisering som ett gummiband man ständigt måste hålla i båda ändarna för att behålla det sträckt. Släpper man taget återgår tillståndet till det "normala": en hierarkisk organisation med större tyngdpunkt på kontroll. Naturkraften i organisationen är att centralisera och detaljplanera och det med goda skäl: att få kontroll över verksamheten. Men ofta leder det till alltså negativa konsekvenser. Förändra - och håll i förändringen Förändring gör ont, brukar man säga och nya arbetsätt väcker ofta visst initialt motstånd. På Atlas Copco Tools i Tierp var det en ny chef som lyckades genomföra positiva förändringar. När medarbetarna insåg att de hade mycket att vinna på den nya ordningen eftersom de fick större möjligheter och inflytande började processen få egen kraft. När väl förändringen är genomförd och har fått momentum gäller det att hålla det nya arbetssättet levande i vardagen genom hela kedjan. Det är värt att se upp för sånt som skickar motstridiga signaler, som till exempel belöningssystem som belönar kortsiktighet. Om den tillitsbaserade styrningen är personberoende är det lätt att den försvinner ut genom dörrarna om vissa individer slutar. Då blir det viktigt med genomtänkta överlämningar. Intern chefsrekrytering kan vara en lösning, som man till exempel gjort i Handelsbanken. Göran Nilsson nämner flera andra företag som lyckats med tillitsbaserad styrning. Företagsgruppen Virgin med kände Richard Branson är ett sådant exempel. Där har man låtit grundarens entreprenöriella syn genomsyra ledningen och de enskilda bolagen har stor egen frihet, något som har visat sig ge stora framgångar. Andra exempel på företag som lyckats med tillitsbaserad styrning är Semco och svenska Handelsbanken. Du kan läsa mer om dem i den här artikeln av Göran Nilsson i Svensk Företagsekonomisk tidskrift. Fyra fokusområden för tillitsbaserad styrning Sätt tydliga långsiktiga mål orienterade mot kunder och andra intressenter som medarbetare och samhälle. Planera för det långsiktigt viktiga och fastna inte i detaljer. Överdriven detaljplanering som aldrig stämmer får negativa effekter och stjäl fokus från det som är långsiktigt viktigt. Jobba med anpassningsförmågan och se organisationen som ett fiskstim istället för en supertanker. Var sparsmakad med granskning och kontroll. Sikta mot det högre syftet och se till att alla medarbetare ser och förstår det, då vill de flesta bidra. Medarbetare vill bli sedda men inte synade. Gynna människors inre motivation. För mycket fokus på yttre individuella prestationer som kortsiktiga bonusar kan sänka den inre motivationen. Bygg belöningsmodeller efter de beteenden du vill se, gärna sådana som bidrar till de långsiktiga målen. När det gäller tillit anser vår samarbetspartner Wellbefy att tre viktiga nycklar är: dialog transparens feedback De här nycklarna kan du få hjälp att fånga upp i din organisation med verktyget Health Analytics. Läs hela Wellbefys inlägg om tillit här. Vår samarbetspartner Firstbeat har uppmärksammat den studie som visar att svenskars kondition har blivit betydligt sämre. Många tycker att tanken på att behöva röra på sig mer är jobbig. Men man kan vända på det och istället fundera på hur man kan minska stillasittandet. I det här blogginlägget från Firstbeat hittar du tips som ökar motivationen till rörelse. Vi hoppas också att ni vill hjälpa oss skapa vårt 100:e avsnitt. Hur har vår podd påverkat dig? Något speciellt avsnitt eller någon gäst som gjort avtryck hos dig? Maila oss på annsofie@formstarkhalsa.se och berätta senast 4e mars klockan 20.00 så tar vi med det i vårt specialavsnitt! Tack på förhand till dig som lyssnar och stöttar oss hälsar Annie och Boel.

En skada tvingade henne att avbryta extremsportkarriären. Genom att hitta sin egen inre kompass kom Malin Rapp vidare i livet - och nu hjälper hon andra att göra samma sak. Det kallas självledarskap. I korta drag betyder självledarskap att känna sina värderingar och att kunna använda dem som kompass. I sitt arbetsliv såväl som sitt övriga liv. Eftersom verkligheten är såpass snabbrörlig och osäker idag blir det allt viktigare att själv kunna hitta sina drivkrafter och följa dem. Dina värderingar - inte företagets - skapar engagemanget Den som har koll på sina egna värderingar är mer engagerad på jobbet - medan företagets värderingar inte spelar lika stor roll för engagemanget. Däremot behöver våra värderingar stämma med företagets för långsiktig framgång. Allt börjar alltså med oss själva. Det berättar Malin Rapp som arbetar med de här frågorna på organisationen Selfleaders. Hon var tidigare professionell kitesurfare men en skada gjorde att hon tvingades avbryta tävlingskarriären i förtid. Man kan säga att hon fick en oväntad duvning  i självledarskap av livet självt. Hon valde att istället läsa kognitiv neurovetenskap och positiv psykologi för att kunna jobba med ett av sina största intressen: människors motivation. Allt självförverkligande blir en press I Sverige är vi väldigt sekulariserade och individualiserade. Det kan man se på den så kallade Kulturkartan från World Value Survey som visar att vi ligger i topp när man kombinerar parametrarna sekularisering och självförverkligande. Men det här gör oss inte nödvändigtvis så lyckliga. Enligt Malin Rapp klassificeras vår situation i Sverige som "kollektiv beslutsångest". Alla valmöjligheter kan kännas som en press att prestera och vara lycklig. Börja fråga om drivkrafter Ett första steg mot mer självledarskap på arbetsplatsen kan handla om en dialog om erfarenheter och upplevelser som format oss. Du som är chef, inled samtal med dina medarbetare där du tar reda på vad som driver och motiverar dem, inte bara inom ramen för deras nuvarande yrkesroll. Där har du nyckeln till engagemang och till att utveckla både företagets och individernas verkliga potential. Vi är alla människor som vill känna oss sedda och först då vill vi bidra. Vår samarbetspartner Wellbefy har också fokus på självledarskap och medarbetarskap och vilka  förutsättningar som krävs för att det ska fungera bra på arbetsplatsen. Genom deras verktyg Health Analytics tar de tempen på flera viktiga faktorer som behövs för en frisk och välmående arbetsplats. Läs mer om Wellbefy och Health Analytics här.

Är chefen vår viktigaste hälsofaktor på jobbet? Ja kanske är det du som ska intervjua chefen när du söker jobb. I en undersökning som Academic Work genomfört visar det sig att unga i karriären uppger att en bra chef och ett bra ledarskap är en avgörande faktor för vilken arbetsplats man väljer. I det här avsnittet pratar vi om att dina framtida chefer är en viktig faktor när du söker nytt jobb och även att det finns anledning att reflektera över det ledarskap du har just nu - inte minst för hälsan. Eller om du är chef, det ledarskap du är med om att forma. KASAM - en bra vägledning Ett sätt att se på relationen chef/medarbetare är att utgå från KASAM-modellen (som vi har ett helt avsnitt om här). Hur ska min chef stötta mig i  min vilja, mitt kunnande och så att jag klarar av det jag förväntas göra? Och vad av detta ska jag stå för själv? KASAM-modellen kan vara en bra vägledning att ha med sig om man vill intervjua sin chef, eller för alla som vill reflektera själva kring hur man har det på jobbet och i livet. Att intervjua chefen är inte att vara fräck eller överdrivet kravfylld. Du kan luta dig på forskningsstöd när du hävdar att din relation till chefen är avgörande både för dig själv och för organisationen du ska ingå i. I det här avsnittet välkomnar vi också en ny samarbetspartner, Wellbefy. De delar vår helhetssyn på hälsa och använder sig gärna av den KASAM-modell vi själva återkommer till gång på gång. Deras senaste blogginlägg handlar om medarbetarskap och självledarskap - ett bra verktyg om man till exempel vill reflektera kring att ge feedback till sin egen chef. Läs gärna mer om Wellbefy och deras verktyg Health Analytics här.

SyncThink develops revolutionary eye-tracking technology analytics, now in VR headsets, that give medical professionals objective metrics for visual attention and dynamic orientation. Based on 15 years of research and 12 granted patents, SyncThink’s first product, EYE-SYNC, is a 60-second, objective sideline assessment that uses eye tracking to evaluate for ocular motor impairments and vestibular balance dysfunction – the two most common and serious components of concussion. FDA-cleared for detecting eye-tracking impairment, EYE-SYNC is used by leading university athletic departments and medical clinics, from Stanford University to Massachusetts General Hospital, EYE-SYNC is transforming brain health assessment, recovery, and monitoring. Guest Info Laura Yecies is the CEO of SyncThink, as a Silicon Valley veteran, she has successfully led multiple startups and top brands. As CEO of SugarSync, she led the company for four years through an aggressive business and product growth phase growing from zero to $25M in revenue and signed several strategic partnerships leading to significant valuation increases. SugarSync was later acquired by J2Global. She joined the Catch.com team as acting CEO to help develop the company’s business model, where they expanded the product footprint and built strategic alliances, before successfully selling the company to Apple in 2013.   For the six years after leaving Informix, she was the Vice President of the Netscape browser division at AOL where she was responsible for the development of Netscape 7.0 and the launch of the Netscape browser in 23 languages. After leaving NetScape, she joined Yahoo where she served as the Global General Manager for the Yahoo Mail division. Following her time at Yahoo, Yecies was the VP of Marketing at Check Point Software where she served for three years.  Prior to the aforementioned, Yecies led marketing programs and Latin American sales at Informix Software Corp for six years. She’s been the recipient of many awards such as the 2011 Gold Medal and 2012 Silver Medal for Female Executive of the Year for the Stevie Award for Women in Business, the Inc. 500 — Top Female CEO of 2012, and was a previous U.S. Department of State TechWoman Mentor.          

Dr. Joshua Morgan joins our host Kristin Walker after meeting at the CiBHS Health Informatics conference. Both walking in to hear Dr. Darrin Hanna's presentation on Artificial Intelligence and how it is used effectively in Behavioral Health. They decided an interview on MHNR was not only important but imperative. Josh Morgan, PsyD is the National Director of Behavioral Health and Whole Person Care at SAS (www.sas.com). His mission is building hope and encouragement for people and this has been a priority through personal and professional experiences, including analytics and informatics, policy, therapy, education, and even the performing and creative arts. To find out more about him visit his LinkedIn profile here.https://twitter.com/DrJosh

Leveraging artificial and machine learning through a digital health analytics company

Jennifer Sclar, Co-Founder and CEO of Clear Health Analytics, knows what it's like to shop for health insurance. Trying to get a plan that will cover all healthcare needs at the right price is a painful process. the feeling. That's why she became a healthcare entrepreneur and founded a company dedicated to healthcare consumers trying to navigate the labyrinth that is health insurance. Clear Health Analytics works to combat the tendency to over-insure by providing healthcare technology that assists people in finding a plan that best meets their individual needs and budgets. It produces customized estimates of total costs and can tell people if certain doctors are in their network or if certain prescriptions will be covered.

This Week In HPC Episode 108 featuring Michael Feldman and Special Guest Chris Willard. IBM Makes Big Health Analytics Buy; Amazon Shores Up HPC Cloud.

Coverage at Health Datapalooza was a rich experience talking to thought leaders, entrepreneurs and healthdata wonks of all stripes including Health Data Consortium CEO Christopher Boone aka @DataHippie. My colleague and co-host reporting on the ground Douglas Goldstein @eFuturist catches up with Abhinav Gautam, MD, co-founder & Chief Medical Officer of Carevoyance. Produced by Gregg Masters @2healthguru for Health Innovation Media.

Listen NowHealth care analytics has typically referred to modeling insurer or payer risk or to predict patient utilization or to segment patient populations.  However, because of advances in personal or wearable medical devices, supporting software applications and the increasing use of electronic health records, individuals or patients now have the opportunity to gather their own health and medical data and information and use it to better manage their health status and/or medical needs.  This opportunity is what's become termed the democratization of health care or alternatively the emancipation of the patient.  During this 25 minute conversation Dr. Dwight McNeill provides an overview of his recently published work, "Using Person-Centered Health Analytics to Live Longer," i.e., he unpacks four domains he identifies ("knowing me," "protecting health," "minding illness," and "managing data") that can empower, enable and equip an individual to manage their health and medical needs.  Dwight also discusses barriers to the adoption to "person-centered" analytics  and near future potential of these tools.          Dr. Dwight McNeill is Lead Faculty for the International Institute for Analytics.  He is also President of WayPoint Health Analytics which provides consultation to organizations on health and healthcare analytics.  During his 30-year career, he has worked in corporate settings, most recently as global leader for business analytics and optimization for the healthcare industry for IBM and previously as director of healthcare information at GTE Corporation (Verizon).  Earlier, Dwight worked for the federal Department of Health and Human Services and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, for information companies, and in provider settings.  Dwight has published two related books on healthcare analytics in 2013: A Framework for Applying Analytics in Healthcare: What Can Be Learned from the Best Practices in Retail, Banking, Politics, and Sports; and, Analytics in Healthcare and the Life Sciences: Strategies, Implementation Methods, and Best Practices.   He has also published frequently in Health Affairs and other related journals. Dwight earned his PhD from Brandeis University in Health and Social Policy and his MPH degree from Yale University in Public Health and Epidemiology.  For more on "Using Person-Centered Health Analytics to Live Longer" see: http://www.amazon.com/Dwight-McNeill/e/B00DC26RXW.  This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.thehealthcarepolicypodcast.com

Coverage at Health Datapalooza was a rich experience talking to thought leaders, entrepreneurs and health data wonks of all stripes from Christopher Boone CEO aka @DataHippie to George Freeman MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Life Sciences, UK  Department of Health. My colleague and co-host reporting on the ground Nick Adkins @NickReelDX catches up with Ceci Connolly @ceciconnolly Managing Director of PWC Health Research Institute. Produced by Gregg Masters @2healthguru for Health Innovation Media.

Our coverage at Health Datapalooza was a rich experience talking to thought leaders, entrepreneurs and health data wonks of all stripes from Christopher Boone CEO aka @DataHippie to George Freeman MP. My colleague and co-host reporting on the ground Nick Adkins @NickReelDX catches up with Co-Founder & Executive Vice President, Hunch Analytics, Former U.S. CTO and Virginia Secretary of Technology, and author of  'Innovative State' Aneesh Chopra @AneeshChopra. Produced by Gregg Masters @2healthguru for Health Innovation Media.

On the Wednesday, July 31st, 2013 broadcast at 10AM Pacific/1PM Eastern our special guest is Dr. Dan Riskin.   Dan RIskin, MD is a Board certified surgeon and CEO of Health Fidelity, Inc.:   "a leading healthcare big data company. REVEAL, our breakthrough clinical NLP platform, built around the world's most accurate, reliable and studied NLP technology, enables real-time extraction, normalization, structuring and coding of unstructured information for a multitude of healthcare applications such as quality measurement and analytics, electronic health record, clinical decision support, medical transcription, and revenue cycle management. These applications rely upon the power of REVEAL to enable end users to make more accurate, timely and evidence-based clinical decisions, monitor and improve care quality, drive operational efficiency and accelerate healthcare transformation."    Dr. Riskin, Anand Shroff and Dr. Yan Chow conceived Health Fidelity in 2008. Having served in leadership roles in healthcare technology, health systems, clinical medicine and policy, the three professionals predicted an impending shift in healthcare data needs. Realizing that healthcare quality improvement and cost reduction depended on quality measures, clinical intervention and feedback loops, they focused on how to transform healthcare with data. Their vision: Use big data in healthcare, addressing the 80 percent of healthcare information that remains unstructured and unused, to propel healthcare quality improvement and cost reduction.   Join us for an informative chat!