Health & Veritas Yale School of Management

Mitesh Rao, co-founder and CEO of OMNY Health, joins Howie and Harlan to discuss his entrepreneurial journey and how his company is creating a common layer of data connecting healthcare providers and researchers. Harlan reports on a study showing how many lives could be saved by improving quality of care; Howie reflects on the health consequences that have accompanied the legalization of cannabis. 
Links:
Quality and Lives Saved
“The business case for quality: estimating lives saved and harms avoided in a value-based purchasing model”
The CMS Innovation Center
NCQA: Hedis Measures
South Park: “Navigating the American Healthcare System”
Mitesh Rao
OMNY Health: Connect Data to Transform Lives
“OMNY Health announces $17 Million Raise to Lead the Next Generation of Real-World Data-Driven Decision-Making and Collaboration Across Healthcare”
Crunchbase: OMNY Health
“How Venture Capital Works”
UK Biobank: Enabling Scientific Discoveries that Improve Human Health
“The Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program: Four Decades of Training Physicians as Agents of Change”
HIPAA: Health Information Privacy
Yale Innovation Summit
Cannabis and Health
“Justice Department Submits Proposed Regulation to Reschedule Marijuana”
“Changes in self-reported cannabis use in the United States from 1979 to 2022”
Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome
“Cannabis and Psychosis: Recent Epidemiological Findings Continuing the ‘Causality Debate’”
“High-potency marijuana highlights the risk of cannabis-induced psychiatric disorders”
Marijuana Addiction Facts: Is Marijuana Addictive?

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A special episode recorded at the Yale Innovation Summit, which brings together entrepreneurs and investors in the arts, biotech, climate, health, and tech. Howie and Harlan are joined by Josh Geballe, managing director of Yale Ventures, which hosts the summit; Mary Ann Melnick, site head at Biolabs New Haven; and Lee Schwamm, chief digital health officer at Yale New Haven Health System. 
Links:
Watch the event on YouTube.
Yale Ventures: Yale Innovation Summit
State of Connecticut: “Governor Lamont Announces Creation of the Innovation Clusters Program To Support Growth in Cutting-Edge Industries”
Yale Ventures: Venture Lab
BioLabs New Haven
The Provost’s Committee on Conflict of Interest
“Novel BioLaunch program to train New Haven residents for careers in biotech”

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Howie and Harlan are joined by Chima Ndumele of the Yale School of Public Health to discuss his research on structural changes to Medicaid that could keep vulnerable populations healthier. Harlan reports on the remarkable abilities of Google's latest medicine-focused AI; Howie reflects on a study showing the impact of race-neutral measures of lung function. 
Links:
AI and Medicine
“Capabilities of Gemini Models in Medicine”
Medicaid
Medicaid.gov
“10 Things to Know About Medicaid”
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
“Long-Term Stability of Coverage Among Michigan Medicaid Beneficiaries: A Cohort Study”
“Unwinding And The Medicaid Undercount: Millions Enrolled In Medicaid During The Pandemic Thought They Were Uninsured”
Chima Ndumele: “Variation in Health Outcomes: The Role of Spending on Social Services, Public Health, and Health Care, 2000–09”
Chima Ndumele: “In Medicaid Managed Care Networks, Care Is Highly Concentrated Among A Small Percentage Of Physicians”
“N.C. developing plan to improve Medicaid participants’ job prospects”
“Yale School of Public Health Graduates Urged to Adopt a “Healthy Disregard for the Impossible”
Race and Lung Function
“Implications of Race Adjustment in Lung-Function Equations”
Harlan Krumholz: “Association of Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities with Outcomes among Patients Hospitalized with Acute Myocardial Infarction, Heart Failure, and Pneumonia. An Analysis of Within- and Between-Hospital Variation”
“Q&A: Harlan Krumholz on hospital readmissions”
Health & Veritas Live on May 30
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Howie and Harlan are joined by Ruth Katz, executive director of the Aspen Institute’s Health, Medicine & Society Program and a former Capitol Hill staffer, to discuss her work on the Affordable Care Act and other major healthcare laws. Harlan reflects on a study showing that using different analytical approaches to the same data can lead to a wide range of conclusions; Howie reports on a wave of dangerous infections caused by stem cell treatments at clinics in Mexico. 
Links:
Reproducible Research
“Grilling the data: application of specification curve analysis to red meat and all-cause mortality”
“Many Analysts, One Data Set: Making Transparent How Variations in Analytic Choices Affect Results”
Ruth Katz
“Reflecting on Past Accomplishments to Make History Moving Forward: The NIH Revitalization Act of 1993 and the New Office of Autoimmune Disease Research
“Thousands Believe Covid Vaccines Harmed Them. Is Anyone Listening?”
National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program
Health Resources and Services Administration: Vaccine Injury Table
“Brilliant Minds. Bold Approaches. Better Health. Aspen Ideas: Health Announces Programming Themes for 2024”
Medical Tourism and Stem Cell Treatments
“Stem cell injections in Mexico can be hazardous. Report identifies US victims”
CDC: Medical Tourism
Health & Veritas Live on May 30
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Howie and Harlan are joined by Greg Licholai, a Yale SOM lecturer and biotech entrepreneur, to discuss his career and his work at the contract research organization ICON, which performs clinical trials for pharmaceutical companies. Harlan reports on new research illustrating the dangerous consequences of asking patients to share the costs of life-saving drugs; Howie provides the good news and the bad news from the annual Medicare Trustees Report. 
Links:
Cost-Sharing and Mortality
“The Health Costs Of Cost-Sharing”
“The Boys of January”
Greg Licholai
ICON plc
Greg Licholai in Forbes
Boston Children's Hospital: Sickle Cell Disease
The State of the Medicare Trust Fund
Medicare: Coverage Gap
2024 Medicare Trustees Report
KFF: FAQs on Medicare Financing and Trust Fund Solvency
KFF: What to Know about Medicare Spending and Financing
Health & Veritas Live on May 30
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Howie and Harlan discuss health and healthcare headlines. From flatlining telehealth to Walmart closing retail clinics to months-long waits for healthcare appointments, they try to untangle the challenges in delivering healthcare. Also considered, H5N1 bird flu increasing the risks of drinking unpasteurized milk, promising research on open-source moderation of misinformation on social media.
Links:
Yale Repertory Theater | The Far Country
CDC | H5N1
“US bird flu outbreak spreads to chickens, cattle, raises concerns over human infections”
“Raw Milk Is Being Legalized in More States. Is It Safe?”
“Recipe for a Healthy Gut: Intake of Unpasteurised Milk Is Associated with Increased Lactobacillus Abundance in the Human Gut Microbiome“
“Long-time Teladoc leader departs as virtual care provider struggles with post-COVID tumble”
“Teladoc sinks $13.7B loss in 2022 tied to plummeting value of Livongo acquisition”
“Optum layoffs: naviHealth CEO out; Virtual care business shuttered”
Connecticut | Certificate of Needs
Characteristics of X (Formerly Twitter) Community Notes Addressing COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation
“Walmart is closing down its health centers. What’s that mean for Amazon, Walgreens and CVS?”
“Walgreens narrows profit outlook for 2024, takes $6B hit in Q2 from VillageMD investment”
“Why It Takes Forever to Get a Doctor’s Appointment”
Yale Innovation Summit 2024
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