Episodes

Find the Smarter Healthcare Podcast online at www.smarthcpodcast.com or on Twitter @smarthcpodcast. Our episode 23 guest is Allison Gage, chief engagement officer at mPulse Mobile. Allison is here to talk to us about patient engagement and how technology can play a larger role in improving relationships between healthcare organizations and their patients or customers. Thank you to Dimensional Insight (www.dimins.com) for sponsoring this episode. If you like what you hear, please subscribe on yo...

Find the Smarter Healthcare Podcast online at www.smarthcpodcast.com or on Twitter @smarthcpodcast. Our episode 22 guest is Miruna Sasu, Chief Strategy Officer at COTA, a company that uses technology and advanced analytics to organize complex data for cancer care and research.In this episode, Miruna discusses how COTA is innovating in cancer care, her motivations for undertaking this work, and what she sees as the future of cancer research. Thank you to Dimensional Insight (www.dimins.com) for ...

Find the Smarter Healthcare Podcast online at www.smarthcpodcast.com or on Twitter @smarthcpodcast. Our Episode 21 guest is Daniel Dawes, a widely respected scholar, researcher, educator, and leader in the health equity, health reform and mental health movements. He is executive director of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, and a professor of health law, policy, and management. Daniel is also co-founder of the Health Equity Leadership an...

Find the Smarter Healthcare Podcast online at www.smarthcpodcast.com or on Twitter @smarthcpodcast. Our episode 20 guest is YiDing Yu, chief medical officer at Olive, a technology company that uses artificial intelligence to automate areas of healthcare. In this episode, YiDing talks to us about her history of entrepreneurism and how AI is making an impact in healthcare. Thank you to Dimensional Insight (www.dimins.com) for sponsoring this episode. If you like what you hear, please subscribe on...

Find the Smarter Healthcare Podcast online at www.smarthcpodcast.com or on Twitter @smarthcpodcast. Our episode 19 guest is Alistair Erskine, chief digital health officer at Mass General Brigham, a 14-hospital system in the Boston area. In this episode, we talk about how Mass General Brigham adopted new technologies to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, and what the health system’s priorities are in the next several years. Thank you to Dimensional Insight (www.dimins.com) for sponsoring this epi...

Find the Smarter Healthcare Podcast online at www.smarthcpodcast.com or on Twitter @smarthcpodcast. Our episode 18 guest is Naama Stauber Breckler, CEO and founder of Better Health. In this episode, Naama discusses her company, which is in the home-based care market, as well as her history of entrepreneurship and innovation in the healthcare industry. Thank you to Dimensional Insight (www.dimins.com) for sponsoring this episode. If you like what you hear, please subscribe on your favorite podca...

Find the Smarter Healthcare Podcast online at www.smarthcpodcast.com or on Twitter @smarthcpodcast. Our episode 17 guest is Abboud Chaballout, CEO and co-founder of Diagnoss. In this episode, Abboud talks about artificial intelligence and how it’s being used to improve medical coding and reduce physician burnout, as well as the future of the AI market in healthcare. Thank you to Dimensional Insight (www.dimins.com) for sponsoring this episode. If you like what you hear, please subscribe on your...

Find the Smarter Healthcare Podcast online at www.smarthcpodcast.com or on Twitter @smarthcpodcast. Our episode 16 guest is Richard Vincent, CEO and co-founder of FundamentalVR. In this episode, Richard talks about his company’s new virtual reality solution for surgery, which combines VR, haptics – which is the sense of touch and motion, deep data, AI, and multi-modal learning. He also discusses other applications of virtual reality and what changes are on the horizon for healthcare technology. ...

Find the Smarter Healthcare Podcast online at www.smarthcpodcast.com or on Twitter @smarthcpodcast. Our Episode 15 guest is Gina Nebesar, co-founder and chief product officer of Ovia Health. In this episode, Gina discusses employee well-being during the pandemic, particularly as it relates to parents. Gina talks about some of the trends Ovia is seeing on its platform and how she believes businesses can support employees. Thank you to Dimensional Insight (www.dimins.com) for sponsoring this epis...

Thank you for listening to the Smarter Healthcare Podcast! Find us online at www.smarthcpodcast.com or on Twitter @smarthcpodcast. Our Episode 14 guest is Sheetal Shah, chief operating officer at SymphonyRM, a healthcare AI startup that is helping health systems improve patient engagement. Sheetal talks about the value of data, how health systems can better leverage it in 2021, and the great results his organization helped Virtua Health achieve with technology. Thank you to Dimensional Insight ...

Thank you for listening to the Smarter Healthcare Podcast! Find us online at www.smarthcpodcast.com or on Twitter @smarthcpodcast. Our Episode 13 guest is Kevin Ross, CEO of Precision Driven Health, a New Zealand-based partnership between health IT companies, health providers, and universities, which uses data science research to optimize the health of each individual by combining and learning from all available data. In this episode, Kevin discusses some of the ethical considerations around mac...

Thank you for listening to the Smarter Healthcare Podcast! Find us online at www.smarthcpodcast.com or on Twitter @smarthcpodcast. Our Episode 12 guest is Dr. Lynae Brayboy, chief medical officer of Clue, a Berlin, Germany-based femtech company. In this episode, Lynae discusses the femtech industry and what she sees as the priorities for women’s healthcare in the next few years. Thank you to Dimensional Insight (www.dimins.com) for sponsoring this episode. If you like what you hear, please sub...

Thank you for listening to the Smarter Healthcare Podcast! Find us online at www.smarthcpodcast.com or on Twitter @smarthcpodcast. Our guest is Shelli Pavone, CEO and co-founder of a new startup called Inlightened. Inlightened is a web-based network platform that enables healthcare companies to connect with clinical experts to improve their product development. In this episode, Shelli discusses healthcare innovation and the need for diversity in the development process. Thank you to Dimensional...

Thank you for listening to the Smarter Healthcare Podcast! Find us online at www.smarthcpodcast.com or on Twitter @smarthcpodcast. Our topic today is the mental health impact of COVID-19 and how technology can play a role in helping patients. Our guest is Krithika Srivats, vice president of the health/clinical center of excellence at HGS Healthcare, a global business process management company. Krithika and I discussed how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected mental health, which populations are m...

Thank you for listening to the Smarter Healthcare Podcast! Find us online at www.smarthcpodcast.com or on Twitter @smarthcpodcast. In this episode, we hear from Tashfeen Ekram, co-founder and chief medical officer of Luma Health. Tashfeen discusses the shift to telehealth over the last several months, other key technology breakthroughs that will emerge due to the pandemic, and how healthcare providers can use technology to recover some of their lost revenue over the last several months. Thank ...

Thank you for listening to the Smarter Healthcare Podcast! Find us online at www.smarthcpodcast.com or on Twitter @smarthcpodcast. In this episode, we hear from Sandro Galea, Dean of the Boston University School of Public Health. He discusses social determinants of health in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and racism in healthcare. It’s important conversation that healthcare leaders need to be having right now. Thank you to Dimensional Insight (www.dimins.com) for sponsoring this episode....

Thank you for listening to the Smarter Healthcare Podcast! Find us online at www.smarthcpodcast.com or on Twitter @smarthcpodcast. In this episode, we hear from Laura McCrary, president and CEO of KONZA, which provides health interoperability exchanges to several states across the country. Laura is here to talk to us about the importance of interoperability and data sharing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Thank you to Dimensional Insight (www.dimins.com) for sponsoring this episode. If you like...

Thank you for listening to the Smarter Healthcare Podcast! Find us online at www.smarthcpodcast.com or on Twitter @smarthcpodcast. In this episode, we take a look at the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of a public health researcher. Our guest is Elizabeth Carlton, assistant professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the Colorado School of Public Health. Beth is part of a team of scientists working to understand the trajectory of COVID-19 in Colorado and the poten...

Thank you for listening to the Smarter Healthcare Podcast! Find us online at www.smarthcpodcast.com or on Twitter @smarthcpodcast. In this episode, Kathy Sucich talks to Mariann Yeager, CEO of the Sequoia Project about interoperability. The Sequoia Project is a non-profit solely focused on advancing secure, interoperable nationwide health data sharing in the U.S. Kathy and Mariann discussed the interoperability landscape today and the federal government’s final interoperability rule, which it j...

Thank you for listening to the Smarter Healthcare Podcast! Find us online at www.smarthcpodcast.com or on Twitter @smarthcpodcast. In Episode 4, Kathy Sucich talks to Dr. Ted Melnick of Yale School of Medicine about electronic health record (EHR) usability and physician burnout. Ted’s research has found that physicians give EHRs a grade of “F” on usability, and that poor grades are associated with high burnout rates. Thank you to Dimensional Insight (www.dimins.com) for sponsoring this episode...

Thank you for listening to the Smarter Healthcare Podcast! Find us online at www.smarthcpodcast.com or on Twitter @smarthcpodcast. In Episode 3, Kathy Sucich talks to Amy Boutwell, MD, MPP, about the topic of readmissions, which is when patients come back to the hospital within 30 days of a previous stay. As hospitals and health systems focus on the Quadruple Aim – improving patient care, lowering costs, and improving both the patient and physician experience – reducing readmissions is one area...

Thank you for listening to the Smarter Healthcare Podcast! Find us online at www.smarthcpodcast.com or on Twitter @smarthcpodcast. In Episode 2, our host Kathy Sucich returns to her alma mater to talk to Dr. Lisa Adams, associate dean of global health at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. Kathy and Lisa talk about Lisa’s interest in global health, her research in tuberculosis, the coronavirus, and how Lisa helps prepare students for overseas health opportunities. Thank you to Dimensional Insig...

Thank you for listening to the Smarter Healthcare Podcast! Find us online at www.smarthcpodcast.com or on Twitter @smarthcpodcast. In Episode 1, our host Kathy Sucich talks to Dr. Chris DeRienzo, author of the book “Tiny Medicine.” Chris talks about his journey as a neonatologist, how he believes empathy is still necessary in healthcare, and what he sees as the promise of new technologies. It’s a conversation you won’t want to miss! Thank you to Dimensional Insight (www.dimins.com) for sponsori...

In the Smarter Healthcare Podcast, we’ll meet some of the brightest minds helping to transform healthcare. We’ll bring you various perspectives on the state of healthcare in 2020… and beyond. We’ll talk with thought leaders throughout the healthcare industry – from leadership, to clinicians, to technologists, to academics – and find out what they and their institutions are doing to move the needle on patient care, clinician excellence, well-being, and outcomes. It’s an exciting time in healthcar...