Guests: Freakonomics, MD host, UChicago-trained economist, and Harvard medical school physician Anupam B. Jena, MD, PhD, and Harvard physician, Mass General critical care doctor, and healthcare policy researcher Christopher Worsham, MD, MPH on their singular work of popular science, RANDOM ACTS OF MEDICINE (published by Random House), on sale July …

Ophir Ronen is a serial tech entrepreneur, having begun his career as a co-founder of Internap Network Services, one of the first commercial Internet backbones which IPO'd in 1999. He has started six companies and achieved three successful outcomes, the last of which was PagerDuty's acquisition of EEHQ. His current company, CalmWave, is using AI to…

Dan Pelino has worked for IBM for 36 years leading its global Healthcare and Life Sciences Business for 10 years. Most recently he wrote 'Trusted Healers'. The book takes the reader on a journey on the future of healthcare, and how it’s all in our grasp. He is the founder of Everyone Matters, Inc. a social impact enterprise dedicated to ensuring th…

More analysis and interviews on the healthcare industry coming up. If you've enjoyed these episodes on citizen journalism, you can find expert interviews on the future of journalism as the first episode on my new podcast, Different by Design (by Corina Paraschiv).

Alexis Miller has one of the rarest backgrounds I've met in the industry - in her past life, she worked for UPMC, a large healthcare insurance and healthcare provider, and in her new role, she works at Schell Games, an entertainment company. The crucial link? Gamification. Today, she takes us into the curious world of design, healthcare and motivat…

Amy is author, academic and professional - making her a wealth of knowledge when it comes to healthcare changes! Her work has taken her to various organizations and countries, including Mad*Pow (current work), CVS Health, Johnson & Johnson Health and Wellness Solutions and Big Communications. She also writes a delightful blog which is both informat…

How does innovation happen in a system with multiple payers - and the government as active stakeholder? Chief Strategist Jay Srini takes us behind the scenes with important debates regarding healthcare. This episode was recorded prior to COVID.Host: Corina Paraschivhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/corinamihaelaparaschiv/https://atdesignresearch.com/Gues…

What do these three topics have in common? In this episode, we invite you on an exploratory tour, as we dip our toes into healthcare innovation. Host: Corina Paraschiv https://www.linkedin.com/in/corinamihaelaparaschiv/ https://atdesignresearch.com/ Guest Bio: I am currently the Executive Director of the Center for Machine Learning and Health at CM…

In this episode, we explore how our healthcare system prepares itself for an ageing population, with guest Dr. Steven Albert. Host: Corina Paraschiv https://www.linkedin.com/in/corinamihaelaparaschiv/ https://atdesignresearch.com/ Guest Bio: Steven Albert is Chair of the Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences, University of Pittsbur…

SDOH have been front and center for America's healthcare for some time now, often highlighting the needs. But what are ways which can help us find the funds necessary to run the community programs that make a difference? In this episode, guest John Gorman, Founder and Chairman of Nightingale Partners, shows us a new financing model to tackle SDOH.H…

Dr. Bob Uslander talks about the human experience behind terminal diagnosis and how care is slowly evolving to make endings more humane and gentle.

In a recent JAMA Review, Dr. Davidson and his colleague Thomas McGinn, MD, MPH, raised this issue: while we know the social determinants of health have an impact on health, the field is still unclear on whose job it is to solve it. This week, a Jama Poll over twitter asked physicians (presumably) to cast their votes : "Medical school should produce…

From early intervention for first episode psychosis to the opioid abuse crisis, Elizabeth gives us a unique perspective on behavioral health - also called mental health. In this episode: resource allocation across multi-disciplinary teams, replicability of care models across other conditions, and the importance of first medical encounters. This is …

Health consumerism brings healthcare design outside of hospitals, and into the community. Special guest Peter Weeks, healthcare designer at Philips Design, shares his perspective on the Internet of Things, Data and what it means to design for human beings. Interesting links for further exploration: https://designinghealth.care/ https://medium.com/h…

Designing for clinicians and patients brings challenges that are surprisingly universal across healthcare designers and design researchers. Special guests : Bob Groeneveld, Tessa Dekkers and Patrizia D’Olivo, design researchers and PhD candidates at Delft University of Technology guide us through these common design challenges. Learn more about the…

Our third episode in the genomic medicine series explores the ethical and policy implications of big data and genomic research. Accompanied by special guest James Hugh, Executive Director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and associate provost of the University of Mass., Boston, we explore the ramifications of genomic research f…

Bio-Banking is the starting point of genomic research. As part of our three-part series, special guest Stella Somiari gives us a behind the scenes tour of genomic research.

How mature is genomic medicine? What are the factors for its adoption? Special guest Nick Jacobs, former hospital administrator and founder of two research institutes helps us navigate precision medicine.

Innovation from the entrepreneur and researcher’s point of view often lacks an important perspective : the problem-owner. Problem-owners, AI data access and data biases are our focus on today’s episode. Thrival Festival : https://thrivalfestival.com/Machine Learning - Fairness (Google Training) : https://goo.gl/ijT6UaAI Commons : https://www.aicomm…

Artificial Intelligence represents a potential $ 300 Billion in savings for Healthcare. The future of AI in HC and how it will affect insurers, policies and public health : this week, on HealthCare Focus.Show Notes: https://bit.ly/2CW9DM9Thrival Festival : https://thrivalfestival.com/

The 2018 edition of the Thrival Festival explored the interesting question of ethics in healthcare. Part of that discussion centers around the shift from paternalistic to participative, patient-centered care. It turns out these two dichotomies may best coexist. Show Notes: https://bit.ly/2R5hwSjThrival Festival: https://thrivalfestival.com/…

From physicians to pharma and governments, we take a deep dive into one of the most promising medical technologies.

The roots of discontent around the Affordable Care Act be traced back to 1942. We follow the story of President Roosevelt to better seize the debate on Obamacare.

Kaiser Permanente’s strategic investment in low-income housing and Grand Junction’s surprising success story in inclusive healthcare. Show Notes: https://bit.ly/2x2p3Kj.

Hotels have a 7% profit margin. The airline industry, 8%. And the assets, considerable in both cases. How does an industry with such constraints manage to rank first in McKinsey's Digital Quotient study? Meet the industry disruptors: Online Travel Agencies.Sources :McKinsey Quarterly : Three snapshots of digital transformation - bit.ly/2jaNePBWorld…