The Heart of Healthcare Podcast

Keep up with healthcare news in under an hour with our monthly Digital Health Download! In this week’s episode, we cover the biggest headlines of October: 📝 Findings from Bessemer Venture Partners State of Health Tech 2024 Report 🤝 Take-aways from the 2024 HLTH Inc. Conference 📊 New “AI services as software” benchmarks 😵💫 How election season is causing stress and anxiety ⚖️ New data on cost savings for ACOs 💊 Walmart plans to deliver prescriptions in as little as 30 💻 Oracle replacing Cerner with a new AI health record Subscribe and listen where you listen to podcasts!

Doctors are not okay. Nearly half of physicians in the United States experienced burnout in 2023, leading to absenteeism, reduced productivity, turnover, and many leaving the profession altogether. In this week's The Heart of Healthcare Podcast, I discuss the clinician burnout and mental health crises with two expert guests: Dr. Jessi Gold, MD MS, the first chief wellness officer for the University of Tennessee System and author of "How Do You Feel? One Doctor's Search for Humanity in Medicine," and Dr. Aparna Atluru, MD, MBA, co-founder and chief medical officer of Marvin Behavioral Health, a company that provides specialized mental health care for healthcare workers. We cover: 😮💨 The definition and symptoms of burnout, and if we should add it to the DSM 👩⚕️ Gender disparities in physician mental health and suicide rates 💻 The impact of technology on clinician well-being ✍️ Personal experiences with burnout and mental health struggles in medicine 💡 Potential solutions and interventions, including specialized mental health care for healthcare workers Listen now and subscribe: - Spotify: https://lnkd.in/eFPWMSca - Apple: https://lnkd.in/e-UMumTR

Thank you Goodpods for this recognition! 🤗 Couldn't do it w/o my co-hosts Steve Kraus and Michael Esquivel. Subscribe to The Heart of Healthcare Podcast: https://lnkd.in/ezkpkhdi

Approximately one in five American children have a mental health condition, with many more at risk for developing one. In this week's The Heart of Healthcare Podcast episode, we talk about the youth mental health crisis with Naomi Allen, co-founder and CEO of Brightline. We cover: 📱 How technology has worsened the youth mental health crisis and how it can help solve it 👨👨👧👧 “Families are comorbid”: Family-centered care approaches in pediatric behavioral health 📍 The challenge of over-pathologizing vs. providing appropriate care 🗒️ Strategies for parents to manage children's technology use Apple: https://lnkd.in/ezkpkhdi Spotify: https://lnkd.in/en9EvaBX

"Plan conservatively and dream optimistically.” On the latest episode of The Heart of Healthcare Podcast, Bryan Roberts and Steve Kraus have a lively conversation about the healthcare innovation ecosystem, also talking about how Bryan made his first two investments (Illumina and athenahealth). Listen here: https://vnrk.co/3zTWwdv

Steve Kraus and I bantered (at best) on The Heart of Healthcare Podcast. My tendency towards existential angst would have titled our chat as "Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want" or "If you are explaining, you are losing" but it was a ton of fun. https://vnrk.co/3zTWwdv

Your monthly digital health download is here! Join Halle Tecco, MPH, MBA, Michael Esquivel, and Steve Kraus as they discuss this month’s news. Spotify: https://lnkd.in/eNficC44 Apple: https://lnkd.in/eDBbHwGY

We usually publish on Mondays but we just couldn’t wait to get this bonus episode out with Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan! As the youngest FTC chair to ever be appointed, during her tenure the FTC has pushed to ban non-compete agreements, filed lawsuits against healthcare companies engaging in anti-competitive practices, and strengthened the Health Breach Notification Rule (HBNR) to protect sensitive health data. Tune in now! Apple: https://lnkd.in/e3yv_t9h Spotify: https://lnkd.in/ey4-v4YV

We’ve never had a guest twice on the The Heart of Healthcare Podcast… until today! Dan Diamond is just so knowledgeable and we wanted to understand what the election means for healthcare. We cover: 🐘Trump's concept of a plan and if he would really repeal the ACA 🫏Harris abandoning Medicare-for-all 💃🏻How reproductive health remains a contentious voting topic 🏛️Medicaid redetermination leading to millions losing coverage ⚖️Bipartisian issues like Medicare Advantage, drug pricing, and mental health coverage Listen wherever you stream podcasts! Apple: https://lnkd.in/eGMH9ePB Spotify: https://lnkd.in/eduBs6tv

You can't go a day working in healthcare without thinking or talking about the impact that game changing GLP-1 drugs will have not only on our industry but our country and our world. A recent Goldman Sachs report estimated that they could lift U.S. GDP by 1.3%, equivalent to about $360 billion per year! In this week's The Heart of Healthcare Podcast, I speak with Evan Richardson whose company Form Health is one of the leading players in the space which is trying to make such an impact a reality. It is a must listen if you want to learn more this very important topic.