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Creating a New Healthcare
by Zeev Neuwirth
A podcast series for healthcare leaders who are looking for fresh perpsectives, bold solutions and inspiration in their journey to advance value based care.
Episodes
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Ep 235 – Spending More for Less and Learning from Those Who are Doing it Better with Marschall Runge, CEO of Michigan Medicine
Dr. Marschall Runge is the author of the new book, “The Great Healthcare Disruption,” but he’s also someone who has studied primary care both in the US and across the world, and while he agrees it is currently failing, he offers some hope that it can get better. In this episode, we talk about Dr....
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Ep 234 – When Traditional Healthcare is Failing, Build Something Else with Sean Duffy, Co-Founder and CEO of Omada Health
Back in 2011, Sean Duffy had a vision to change healthcare. So, he dropped out of Harvard Business School and Harvard Medical School to found this company, Omada Health, that brought healthcare to people instead of the other way around. Now valued at over $1 billion, Omada remains an innovative...
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Ep 233 – The Tools People Need to Live Their Best Lives with Amy Compton-Phillips, Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, CVS Health®
You can’t boil the ocean, and wow, does the state of primary care sometimes feel like an ocean. And if a behemoth like CVS Health can’t do it, it’s no surprise that the rest of us in healthcare feel at a complete loss for how to right this ship. But our guest today, Amy Compton-Phillips…
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Ep 232 – Why Primary Care and Why Now?
Welcome to a new season of Creating a New Healthcare! This season, we’re diving into primary care. That’s right, primary care. Because right now, we are sucking at primary care, and the problem has reached critical mass. AND, we are sitting on the precipice of a revolution in primary care – the...
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(Living Well) How You Treat Your Body Matters with Dr. Grant Zarzour, Founder, Sperity Health
We’re quick to blame genetics for our health and wellness issues, but the reality is that genetics only makes up 18% of our health destiny. That means the rest is up to us. Our guest today, Dr. Grant Zarzour, has seen that first hand in his own family. When his son was diagnosed with moderate...
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(Living Well) Getting Rid of Hunger is Not the Goal with
With the recent explosion of GLP-1 drugs, the war on obesity seems to have taken a new and potent turn, but many are concerned about the recidivism, the side effects, and our reenergized obsession with being thin. Our guest today, Dr. Laure DeMattia, is a board certified family medicine physician...
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(Living Well) Legumes? Protein? Microbiome? What to Eat and Why with Dr. Christopher Gardner
How many grams of protein do you need to be healthy? What about fiber? Supplements? It feels like we’re changing our diets daily to adhere to constantly shifting recommendations and none of it is really working to optimize our health. Christopher Gardner, Professor of Medicine in Nutrition…
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(Living Well) The Formula for Your Health with Tom Frieden, President and CEO, Resolve to Save Lives
As a society, and as an industrial complex, we’ve made health complicated…and expensive. But, epidemiology suggests that what we need to do to achieve and maintain personal health is really quite simple. Dr. Tom Frieden returns to the show to talk about the second half of his book, The Formula…
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(Living Well) Wearables? What to Do with all that Data with Marco Benitez, Founder and CEO, ROOK
Do you have an Apple watch? Fitbit? Oura ring? Woop? Wearables have taken over in the past decade with claims that by constantly monitoring our heart rate, sleep, respiration, and activity, they can provide health data that can change your life. But is that really possible? Or even plausible?…
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(Living Well) Staying Healthy: The Real Deal
Last week, we talked about the six key drivers of personal health with Dr. Tom Frieden. But how does that factor into our conversation about the value (or not) of wearables and supplements? This week, Dr. Zeev Neuwirth and Producer, Jess Greenwood, are back to unpack that for you. We discuss the...
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Episode #231 Culture Starts with You with Brian Carlson, VP of Patient Experience, Vanderbilt Health
“Healthcare, in my opinion, is the ultimate team sport.” I love this quote from today’s guest. And it reminds me that patient experience is not just about the patient; it starts with every member of that patient’s care team. If they do not feel respected, trusted, and valued, it will absolutely...
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Episode #230 Creating Opportunities for Health Through Design with Abbie Clary, Executive Director, Health for All
Can design be a determinant of health? We often think about the quality of the clinical care patients receive in our hospitals, the outcome metrics that determine funding and quality and safety rankings, the readmission rates that tell us how well we’re helping people get healthy and stay that…
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Episode #229 PB-What? The Role of the Pharmacy Benefit Manager in American Healthcare Today with Shawn Gremminger, President and CEO, National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions
Let’s talk PBM’s. What even is a P-B-M? Pharmacy benefit managers have been around since the 1960’s, although back then, they were basically claims processors. Things changed in the 80’s and 90’s following the first iteration of ERISA when employers saw PBMs as potential cost containment...
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Episode #228 Lower Cost, Better Outcomes, Greater Efficiency: The Promise of Ambulatory Surgical Centers with Adnan Qureshi, Managing Director, Kaufman Hall
Ambulatory Surgical Centers (ASCs) have been around in concept for the past fifty years, but their recent explosion has caught the attention of healthcare systems and, frankly, patients. Why? Today’s guest, Adnan Qureshi, is a Managing Director with the Mergers and Acquisitions practice at…
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Episode #227 Waiting for Disease is No Longer Medicine with Julie Chen, Chief Medical Officer, Radence
We’ve been talking a lot about healthspan and longevity in our recent episodes, but how do we get there? What changes would it take in the way we practice medicine to move towards a system that helps maintain wellness instead of a system that diagnoses and manages disease? This is the fundamental...
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Episode #226 Medicine That Helps People Be Healthy with Daphne Bascom, Chief Operating Officer, The Vegan Gym
Dr. Daphne Bascom earned a DPhil/PhD in physiological sciences at the University of Oxford, a medical degree at the University of Pittsburgh, and completed fellowship training in microvascular and reconstructive surgery of the head and neck at Oregon Health Sciences University. She has more than...
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Episode #225 Extending the Health Span with Tzipi Strauss, Head of Sheba Longevity Center
In the last decade of a person’s life, we spend 7x what we spend on taking care of them in all the years that came before. SEVEN TIMES! That’s not only unbelievable, it’s unsustainable, particularly as our aging population grows and life span increases. So, if it’s not just about increasing life...
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Episode #224 Cognitive Decline is No Longer Inevitable with James Maskell and Dr. Kristine Burke
Without intervention, in 2050, everyone in the US population will either have Alzheimer’s disease or be caring for someone with Alzheimer’s disease. That’s the state of where we’re at with cognitive decline. Right now, if you reach the age of 85, your chances of developing cognitive decline are 1...
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Episode #223 Health Doesn’t Just Happen in the Hospital with Dr. Eve Cunningham, Chief Medical Officer, Cadence
“Health doesn’t just happen within the four walls of the hospital.” Or, at least, it shouldn’t have to. The work of our guest today, Dr. Eve Cunningham, and her team at Cadence, ensures that patients with chronic conditions can continue to live and thrive at home. Through remote patient…
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Living Well Series #6 How You Treat Your Body Matters with Dr. Grant Zarzour, Founder, Sperity Health
We’re quick to blame genetics for our health and wellness issues, but the reality is that genetics only makes up 18% of our health destiny. That means the rest is up to us. Our guest today, Dr. Grant Zarzour, has seen that first hand in his own family. When his son was diagnosed with moderate...
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Episode #222 Helping All Cancer Patients Access Hope with Dr. Yousuf Zafar, Chief Medical Officer, AccessHope
Forty percent of the time, oncology care is not being delivered in concordance with guidelines. FORTY PERCENT! As our guest today explains, that’s not because of bad doctors. It’s because oncology care changes rapidly and because almost eighty percent of patients are being seen by a community...
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Episode #221 Why More Doctors are Billing Their Patients Like it’s the 1920’s with
It’s rare that an article title alone makes me want to stop what I’m doing and read it, but that’s what happened when I saw the title of Jess Craig’s recent article, “Why More Doctors are Billing Their Patients Like it’s the 1920’s.” In this article, and subsequently, our conversation here on the...
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Living Well Series #5 Getting Rid of Hunger is Not the Goal
With the recent explosion of GLP-1 drugs, the war on obesity seems to have taken a new and potent turn, but many are concerned about the recidivism, the side effects, and our reenergized obsession with being thin. Our guest today, Dr. Laure DeMattia, is a board certified family medicine physician...
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Episode #220 Nutrition is Relevant to Everyone. Help with Nutrition Should be Too with Noah Kotlove, Co-Founder and CEO, Berry Street
“It doesn’t matter what is going on in your life, nutrition is relevant.” And, at least for most Americans, getting help with their nutrition is covered by their insurance. So, why isn’t working with a dietician a normal part of every American’s care plan? Our guest today is trying to address…
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Episode #219 A Lifestyle Prescription with Padmaja Patel
“As an internist, we are always focusing on risk factors. Instead, in lifestyle medicine, we are focusing on root causes.” We’ve heard this before – nutrition, exercise, sleep, stress, toxins, community – so it should be no surprise that these are also the six pillars upon which lifestyle…
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Episode #218 Who is Looking Out for Us?: The Plight of the Employer in American Healthcare Game with Shawn Gremminger, President and CEO. National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions
What if employers just stopped offering healthcare benefits to their employees? Could that happen? If the astronomical cost of healthcare keeps expanding, some employers will have no choice. That’s where our guest this week comes in. Shawn Gremminger is the President and CEO of the National...
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Episode #217 Pairing Data that Matters with a Plan that Works with Scott Conard, Co-Founder and Partner, Converging Health
Decreasing cost. It’s the Holy Grail. The thing we all know must happen in order for healthcare to become sustainable and usable for the majority of Americans. We know data analytics help. They help to identify those who are at the highest risk and who are the highest cost. But, what if we were...
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Episode #216 Primary Care: The Great Navigator with Dr. Marla McLaughlin, CMO, Castlight Health and Vera Whole Health
When employers look at all of the point solutions that are out there to add to their list of employee benefits, the top three should be… Primary care Primary care Primary care As a family medicine physician with an extensive background in advanced primary care, our guest today knows how true this...
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Episode #215 The Power of the And with Jeff Bak, CEO & President, Imagine360
“Let’s inspect what we expect.” What a powerful statement. If we expect cost transparency, let’s inspect what those costs have been to date. If we expect freedom of choice, let’s evaluate how that has worked for employees up to this point. And let’s expect an “and” approach instead of an “or”...
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Episode #214 One System, One Goal: Medicare for All with Troy Brennan, Adjunct Professor, Harvard Chan School of Public Health
Medicare for all. Not socialized medicine, just a single, government-run system that provides healthcare. Is it possible? Or even viable? Our guest this week on the Creating a New Healthcare podcast believes so. In fact, he sees it as the only way to ultimately address the affordability problem...
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Living Well Series #4 Staying Healthy: The Real Deal
Last week, we talked about the six key drivers of personal health with Dr. Tom Frieden. But how does that factor into our conversation about the value (or not) of wearables and supplements? This week, Dr. Zeev Neuwirth and Producer, Jess Greenwood, are back to unpack that for you. We discuss the...
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Living Well Series #3 The Formula for Your Health with Tom Frieden, President and CEO, Resolve to Save Lives
As a society, and as an industrial complex, we’ve made health complicated…and expensive. But, epidemiology suggests that what we need to do to achieve and maintain personal health is really quite simple. Dr. Tom Frieden returns to the show to talk about the second half of his book, The Formula…
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Episode #213 Are Wearables Worthless? And Supplements…Snakeoil?
It’s the start of a new year, and that means resolutions and recommitments to personal health and wellness. Undoubtedly, there were thousands of wearable devices purchased as presents over the holidays and many more in the post-holiday sale madness. Supplement commercials and social media ads are...
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Creating a New Healthcare: End of Year Message
As we close out the year, Dr. Zeev Neuwirth steps away from his usual interviews to share a heartfelt, personal message directly with you, our listeners.
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Episode #212 How Stories Change Our Opinion with Peter Murphy Lewis, Host, People Worth Caring About
Certified Nursing Assistants. They are the lifeblood of so much of what we do in healthcare, particularly in elder care, and yet they rarely share the limelight with the doctors, surgeons, and specialists. Our guest today, Peter Murphy Lewis, is a documentary film maker who started out just…
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Episode #211 Margin Over Mission: The Great American Healthcare Heist with Chris Deacon, Founder, VerSan Consulting
We know that healthcare is broken, but how, exactly? And why is it that nothing seems to be helping? Well, as Chris Deacon says in this honest, open interview, “Until the chassis of healthcare is rebuilt…what we put on top of it is always going to be fundamentally broken.” Chris Deacon is a legal...
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Episode #210 The Formula for Better Health with Tom Frieden, President and CEO, Resolve to Save Lives
See, Believe, Create. Could it be so simple? Our guest today believes so. Dr. Tom Frieden has spent his entire career working public health, and in his estimation, these three words hold the key to better health for our communities, our world, and ourselves. It’s, as he says, a formula. In our...
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Episode #209 Finding the Words for What People Really Want in Healthcare with Natalie Davis, Co-Founder and CEO, United States of Care
As an industry, we’ve been circling around the idea of value-based care for the past decade. But, did it ever occur to anyone to ask real people, the recipients of said care, what they thought or felt about that term? Turns out, they hate it. Through focus groups and a step-by-step methodology,...
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Living Well Series #2 Wearables? What to Do with all that Data with Marco Benitez, Founder and CEO, ROOK
Do you have an Apple watch? Fitbit? Oura ring? Woop? Wearables have taken over in the past decade with claims that by constantly monitoring our heart rate, sleep, respiration, and activity, they can provide health data that can change your life. But is that really possible? Or even plausible?…
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Episode #208 Your Phone is a Health Lab…Seriously with Jason Moore, Founder and CEO, Spren
The only device we’re with every day, all the time is our phones. And yet, we often travel to outpatient clinics, pay significant copays, and engage physicians once or twice a year to run tests on our bodies. What if we could do all of that with our phone? Jason Moore, Founder and CEO of Spren,...
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Episode #207 Boring is Beautiful in the Transformation of American Healthcare: A Conversation with Jess Greenwood, Producer, Creating a New Healthcare
It’s always interesting when your podcast producer comes to you and says she thinks the innovations we’re featuring are sort of boring. Not exactly what you want to hear, but smart leaders take feedback like that and ask the question “Why is that?” On today’s episode of Creating a New Healthcare…
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Episode #206 Getting Unbiased Advice Can Save Healthcare with Donovan Pyle, CEO, Health Compass Consulting
On average, employers are unnecessarily wasting $4,000 per employee per year on healthcare benefits and associated costs. For a mid-size company of 100 employees, that’s $400,000! EACH YEAR! Our guest today sat on the broker side of the business and saw the waste, fraud, and abuse at every level....
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Episode #205 The Mindful Edge: How Stillness, Compassion, and Gratitude can Transform Healthcare with Gary Jacobs, Author, The Zen Lobbyist
A Zen practice is not something we typically associate with a Washington insider and healthcare lobbyist. But, our guest today has not only made that his personal mission, but his new book, The Zen Lobbyist, makes the argument that mindfulness might be the way we truly transform healthcare.…
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Episode #204 Data + Analytics = Transparency with Brian Overstreet, Co-Founder, Arbital Health
Despite the almost universal agreement that the United States healthcare system needs to move to value-based care, forward progress on that movement has all but stalled. Why? A big driver…no surprise…are the contracts. Brian Overstreet, the Co-Founder of Arbital Health, has built an impressive...
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Living Well Series #1 Legumes? Protein? Microbiome? What to Eat and Why with Dr. Christopher Gardner
How many grams of protein do you need to be healthy? What about fiber? Supplements? It feels like we’re changing our diets daily to adhere to constantly shifting recommendations and none of it is really working to optimize our health. Christopher Gardner, Professor of Medicine in Nutrition…
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Episode #203 Data + Analytics = Transparency with Cammie Wolf Rice, CEO & Founder, CWC Alliance
Opioid overdose is the #1 killer of 18-45 year olds in America. The crisis is not over, and we are still prescribing these addictive substances for pain management at an alarming rate with little support or anything else in the arsenal to offer. Until now… Cammie Wolf Rice, the Founder and CEO of...
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Episode #202 Smarter Cancer Patients? AI Can Help with That with Steve Brown, Founder and CEO, CureWise
Guest: Steve Brown, Founder and CEO, CureWise Can ChatGPT cure cancer? If you listen to the news, you would think it’s close. But ChatGPT, just like any data repository, is just one source of information. What if patients could harness the power of many of the AI engines all at once to help them...
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Episode #201 Bringing the Power of AI to the Good Guys with Neal Shah, Co-Founder, Counterforce Health
Guest: Neal Shah, Co-Founder, Counterforce Health Have you ever had a medical claim denied for a procedure or service that should have been covered by your insurance? You are not alone. Yet, 99% of people choose not to appeal that denial because of the laborious, manual process required. After...
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Episode #200 When Lower Costs Mean Better Care with Deb Ault, RN, MBA, President & Founder, AIMM
Deborah Ault, known to most as “Nurse Deb”, has been a Registered Nurse for over 30 years. Before getting into Care Management, her bedside nursing experience included ER, ICU, Doctor’s Office, Home Health, and Telephone Triage. Now she is the President of Ault International Medical Management...
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Episode #199 The One Big Thing Keeping You from A Healthy Lifestyle with Meghan Garcia-Webb, MD, Host, “Weight Medicine with Dr. Meghan”
Obesity in America. Is there any other diagnosis as relevant, timely, or important when we think about the impact on our healthcare system? I doubt it. So, today we are talking with Dr. Meghan Garcia-Webb, who is triple board-certified in internal medicine, lifestyle medicine, and obesity…
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