HealthCare Focus Corina Paraschiv

Guests: Freakonomics, MD host, UChicago-trained economist, and Harvard medical school physician Anupam B. Jena, MD, PhD, and Harvard physician, Mass General critical care doctor, and healthcare policy researcher Christopher Worsham, MD, MPH on their singular work of popular science, RANDOM ACTS OF MEDICINE (published by Random House), on sale July 11, 2023, and available for pre-order on Amazon.



Book Summary



Why do kids born in the summer get diagnosed more often with ADHD and the flu? How are marathons harmful for your health, even when you’re not running? And what do surgeons and salesmen have in common?As a University of Chicago-trained economist, Harvard medical school professor and doctor, and host of the Freakonomics, MD podcast, Anupam B. Jena, MD, PhD is uniquely equipped to answer these questions. And as a critical care doctor at Massachusetts General who researches health care policy, Christopher Worsham, MD, MPH confronts their impact on the hospital’s sickest patients.

 

In RANDOM ACTS OF MEDICINE, Jena and Worsham show us how medicine really works—and its effect on all of us. In the spirit of Freakonomics, Cribsheet, and Noise, this singular work combines popular topics like behavioral science, health, and medicine through the lens of economic principles and big data insights to reveal the unexpected but predictable events that profoundly affect our health. Relying on ingeniously devised natural experiments—random events that unknowingly turn us into experimental subjects—Jena and Worsham do more than offer readers colorful stories. They help us see the way our health is shaped by forces invisible to the untrained eye. Is there ever a good time to have a heart attack? Do you choose the veteran doctor or the rookie? Do you really need the surgery your doctor recommends? These questions are rife with significance and their impact can be life changing. RANDOM ACTS OF MEDICINE will not only help readers gain a better understanding of how medicine is practiced or what motivates human behavior; it will empower them to see past the white coat and find out what really makes medicine work—and how it could work better.

Ophir Ronen is a serial tech entrepreneur, having begun his career as a co-founder of Internap Network Services, one of the first commercial Internet backbones which IPO'd in 1999. He has started six companies and achieved three successful outcomes, the last of which was PagerDuty's acquisition of EEHQ. 

His current company, CalmWave, is using AI to remediate clinical alarm fatigue in ICUs and build a first-to-market hospital operations orchestration platform to improve nurse retention and patient outcomes.

Ophir excels in guiding teams of creative people to successful outcomes regardless of his role, from engineer to CEO. He holds a number of patents spanning data science and IT Operations and thoroughly enjoys the challenges of bringing vision to reality.

Dan Pelino has worked for IBM for 36 years leading its global Healthcare and Life Sciences Business for 10 years. Most recently he wrote 'Trusted Healers'. The book takes the reader on a journey on the future of healthcare, and how it’s all in our grasp. He is the founder of Everyone Matters, Inc. a social impact enterprise dedicated to ensuring that everyone has equal access to citizen-based services, healthcare, and education. He is a regular contributor to the discussion on healthcare, citizen based services on CNN, Bloomberg, the BBC and other media outlets.

More analysis and interviews on the healthcare industry coming up. If you've enjoyed these episodes on citizen journalism, you can find expert interviews on the future of journalism as the first episode on my new podcast, Different by Design (by Corina Paraschiv).

Alexis Miller has one of the rarest backgrounds I've met in the industry - in her past life, she worked for UPMC, a large healthcare insurance and healthcare provider, and in her new role, she works at Schell Games, an entertainment company.  The crucial link?  Gamification.  Today, she takes us into the curious world of design, healthcare and motivation, helping us better understand how we can nudge patients towards better, healthier habits.

Amy is author, academic and professional - making her a wealth of knowledge when it comes to healthcare changes!  Her work has taken her to various organizations and countries, including Mad*Pow (current work), CVS Health, Johnson & Johnson Health and Wellness Solutions and Big Communications.  She also writes a delightful blog which is both informative and entertaining, and which we share with great enthusiasm with you!

Amy Bucher's Book, Engaged: Designing for Behavior Change :
https://www.amazon.com/Engaged-Designing-Behavior-Amy-Bucher-ebook/dp/B084WPQNRR

Amy Bucher's Blog Posts:  
https://www.amybucherphd.com/