Medcity Pivot Podcast
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MedCity Pivot Podcast: A conversation with Kevin Dedner, CEO of mental healthcare startup Hurdle
Hurdle wants to address mental healthcare for minority populations whose problems are not well-addressed by the prevalent healthcare infrastructures. Learn about cultural humility (not cultural competency) and how that can address the depression and anxiety felt by so many. My own recent loss helps me understand the important work that Kevin and others are undertaking.
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MedCity Pivot podcast: Using virtual-first care to improve the patient and clinician experience
The Covid-19 pandemic has propelled virtual healthcare into our daily lives, although the quality of that experience varies. But one emerging trend from the scaling of telehealth is virtual-first care, as Wheel CEO and founder Michelle Davey explained.
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Payer’s Place: Dawn Maroney
Dawn Maroney, President, Markets of Alignment Health and CEO of Alignment Health Plan, to discuss how they are using technology to provide better service and care to consumers.
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Amwell CEO on MedCity Pivot Podcast: Sometimes “we are punished” for biz models that have nothing to do with our approach
In a wide-ranging discussion, Amwell Chairman & CEO Ido Schoenberg expressed frustration at being lumped together with other telehealth companies that have very different approaches and business models. But he was also very optimistic about the category overall.
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Artificial Intelligence, Health Tech
MedCity Pivot podcast: Premier CEO believes more provider consolidation is necessary to achieve parity with payers
Mike Alkire talked about the importance of health systems achieving scale such that they are in a better position vis-a-vis payers who are typically much larger.
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Consumer / Employer, Health Tech
MedCity Pivot Podcast: A conversation with Buoy Health’s chief medical officer
In our conversation, Adrienne McFadden, who at one time was a practicing physician, speaks about the evolution of the company to more of a curated matchmaker connecting and guiding people to the best care available.
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MedCity Pivot Podcast: How Jonathan Bush wants to provide an operating system for a universal patient record
In this episode of the MedCity Pivot Podcast, Jonathan Bush talks about his latest venture – Zus Health – through which he wants to help digital health companies share data to create a universal patient off of which new products can be created to serve payers, providers and others with the ultimate goal of improving patient outcomes.
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MedCity Pivot Podcast: Discussing point-of-care ultrasound with the CMO of Butterfly Network
In this episode, I speak with John Martin, chief medical officer of Butterfly Network about how it is trying to transform the practice of medicine through a handheld ultrasound probe and data platform.
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MedCity Pivot: A conversation with the chief medical officer of AWS
A conversation with Taha Kass-Hout reveals how machine learning can be leveraged to really harness data to improve outcomes and ultimately put people on a path to precision health.
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Artificial Intelligence, Health Tech
MedCity Pivot Podcast: Why Julia Hu of Lark Health is betting on a 100% conversational AI platform
Lark Health is betting on a texting platform that if 100 percent driven by conversational AI to help patients manage their chronic conditions better.
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Applying Remote Patient Monitoring to Surgery Prep and Recovery, Oncology and Women’s Health
Join us to learn about the latest trends in remote monitoring and how to extend its benefits beyond chronic conditions to more patients – all while using fewer staff resources.
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BioPharma, Community, Health IT, Health Tech, Startups, SYN
MedCity Pivot Podcast: Our reporters unplugged
After more than a year’s worth of interviewing external experts, the Pivot podcast is turning its gaze inward to demystify — as much as possible — why we write the stories we write.
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MedCity Pivot Podcast: How a female biotech CEO is developing a novel therapy while committing to a diverse workforce
Sarah Boyce knows she is a rare breed – a female biotech CEO. In this episode, Boyce talks about the novel therapy she is trying to develop to tackle a rare genetic muscle condition, while also building a company that is committed to diversity and inclusion.
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MedCity Pivot Podcast: A conversation with Dr. Robert Pearl about how best to transform physician culture
In this episode, Dr. Pearl who led the Permanente Medical Group for almost two decades and is the author of a new book on physician culture, reveals how doctors may be unintentionally harming the healthcare system and how that culture needs to be transformed for the betterment of all involved.
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Artificial Intelligence, Legal
MedCity Pivot Podcast: The stakes are high for getting AI right in healthcare, says Duke Forge director
It’s important for clinicians to consider AI recommendations with a critical eye, the same as they would for any other test, said Dr. Erich Huang, Director of Duke Forge. In our latest podcast episode, he spells out the stakes for implementing algorithms in healthcare, which can potentially affect thousands of patients.
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In a MedCity Pivot podcast, a Bristol Myers Squibb scientist talks about the lessons of drug discovery and developing a new treatment for COVID-19
Ho Sung Cho, senior vice president of Biodiscovery Therapeutics at Bristol Myers Squibb, talks about lessons learned from drug discovery, recent success tied to Covid-19, and how the company is leveraging its expertise in protein degradation to develop novel therapies for blood cancers, solid tumors and other important therapeutic areas.