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