Lab and pathology services often average only 3% of hospital and health system costs. Big Surprise! The data they carry contributes to 70% of all EHR actionable information.

Enter the power of leveraging 'FAB LAB' data to drive down cost. Today, Steve interviews Dr. Eleanor Herriman. She's a healthcare disruptor and disciple of legendary strategist of Michael Porter. 

Steve and Dr. Herriman discuss:

• The untapped power of lab data
• Viewics and its unique ETL technology
• Where CIOs are missing it
• Why under-utilization is many time more costly and dangerous than overutilization
• New money and new growth in 2017

Today Steve talks with Brenda Schmidt, CEO of Solera Health. A chronic care prevention and management network that covers the lives of 30 million health plan members nationwide. 

In this episode:

• Why Solera is NOT the 'Usual Suspect' in chronic disease management
• The disruptive use of community players as part of coordinating care
• Strategies for engaging health plan members
• The power of its unique platform and matching technology
• Measuring and integrating more than 13 digital partners and thousands of wellness company members
• The future of chronic care prevention & management in the Trump Presidency

Two words – HUMANIZING HEALTHCARE. That’s the mission and passion of Jamey Edwards, CEO of Cloudbreak health.

A unique telehealth platform in more than 650 hospitals nationwide, with nearly 2 million encounters. The word is out…its growing fast…and he’s with us today on Red Hot Healthcare.

In this episode, Steve and Jamey discuss:

• From Wall Street financier to "I've got an uncle in healthcare"
• Becoming a transforming force in telehealth
• The value of unifying language, translation, data and security
• 30 seconds to activate a major cost reduction resource
• The rationale for Cloudbreak's amazing growth nationally
• And much more....

Health Data Management’s named her as one of “The Most Powerful Women in Healthcare IT”. Health 2.0 awarded her their prestigious “Ten Year Industry Leader” One of the most widely accomplished healthcare technology leaders today, Helen Figge personifies disruption, diversity, and the surging need for growth of female leadership in healthcare IT.

In this riveting episode, Steve and Helen discuss:

• A personal story of challenge, growth, and perserverence
• Disproportionality in female lhealthcare leadership stats
• What makes women different and unique as leaders
• The importance of education and learning what you "don't know"
• The best revenge is your own success

An absolutely incredible and insightful interview.

Known as the “Godfather” of the Patient Centered Medical Home. Dr. Paul Grundy is on the leading edge of A.I. and transformation in healthcare and life sciences.

He’s one of only 85 individuals selected to IBMs Senior leadership forum. His work and thoughts are   reported frequently in the New York Times, BusinessWeek, Forbes, the Economist, The New England Journal of Medicine, and at TED talks.

In this episode Steve speaks with Dr. Grundy about:

• His days with Shirley Temple to IBM
• "Godfatherly" sage discussion on the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH)
• IBM and Watson - how it came into health care
• A tech view on patient engagement
• Artificial Intelligence and transformation in life sciences

Brian Ahier is an award-winning digital evangelist and nationally known expert on health information technology. He received the 2016 Digital Health Evangelist award by Rock Health, Goldman Sachs, Square 1 Bank, and Fenwick & West. He has written numerous articles for a wide variety of industry leading publications including Healthcare IT News, Health Data Management, Executive Insights, and O’Reilly media.

Steve and Brian discuss:

• Data acquisition & sharing courtesy of Medicity/Aetna 
• EMR interoperability
• Patient engagement
• Trumpcare
• A.I. and Blockchain technology
• Replacing human workers with machines

Xerox Healthcare has been rebranded as Conduent. It is perhaps the quietest $2B healthcare company today – but that hasn’t stopped its acquisitions, innovation, and growth. This is NOT your father’s copying company anymore.

Today Steve meets with VP of Health Strategy Rohan Kulkarni. They discuss:

• The 2017 transition from Xerox Healthcare to Conduent
• Innovation and patient engagement solutions
• What Rohan brings to the company per engagement
• Medicaid management with population health
• Telehealth
• Balancing commodity-product and service market-share efforts with disruptive innovation

Chief Strategy Officer Joanne Burns is an executive powerhouse, who advances Cerner's strategic initiatives and direction. She carries major team leadership responsibility for a $4.5B company in 35 countries.

Today Joanne and Steve discuss:

• Shifting EHR and the company vision into the new era of healthcare
• EHR interoperability and the next-generation of patient record
• Cerner's focus on engagement by 'acting within'
• Strategic partnering with American Well & Telehealth
• Joanne goes after my 'wild hair' idea
• Cerner's strategy with President Trump 

Today we talk about the powerful reshaping, occurring in the pharmaceutical industry worldwide. Disruptive changes in business models, true innovation, as well as forecasting what’s on the horizon for the pharma industry.

And who better to do than our guest today. Voted one of Top 10 Innovators in Pharma by PharmaPhorum and one of the top 100 Most Inspiring People in Healthcare in 2011, 2013 and 2015 by the industry-leading PharmaVoice.

Mike Rea is the CEO of IDEA Pharma – and he’s worked in global pharma strategy for over 25 years. Regarded as an industry thought leader in innovation, Mike has helped lead the strategic direction of over 100 pharmaceutical brands, including the top two launches of 2015, and over half of the 50 fastest growing drugs in the 2010-15 window.

Discussion Includes:

• The changing pressures and ecosystem of pharma
• Proving the value of medicines, starting in Europe and now coming into the U.S.
• Designing the landscape into the drug value lifecycle
• Replacing human capital in drug development scalability
• Creating feedback loops for pharma value chain against other industry value chains
• Path-to-market design for drug assets
• “Innate Talents” of drugs
• The disconnect between drug companies and their end user feedback

David Goldhill is the President and CEO of the Game Show Network, its television and internet entertainment channels reaching nearly 80 million American households. However, I would argue that perhaps his greatest influence has been in sparking thought and clearly clarifying an understanding on the problems inherent from the design and function of the American healthcare system.

In 2013, his book Catastrophic Care: Why Everything We Think About Healthcare is Wrong won critical acclaim, leading to many speaking engagements, and praise from notables such as Malcolm Gladwell, numerous health policy think tanks, as well as articles in the New York Times and the Washington Post.

In this RED HOT interview, David discusses:

• Why the healthcare operates like no other American industry
• How complexity in our health system is detrimental to consumers
• How the average American worker making $25K/yr. will spend nearly $2 million of their own money on healthcare costs.
• The importance of leaving the comprehensive health insurance model
• Putting power back into the American healthcare consumer
• The accidental benefits of the Affordable Care Act