The Business of Healthcare Podcast Center for Healthcare Leadership and Management

In this episode, guest Tina Burbine, vice president for care innovation & enterprise analytics at HealthLink Advisors and host of Let’s Talk Data! podcast, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for a discussion about the Hospital-at-Home healthcare delivery pathway which allows some patients to receive acute-level care in their homes rather than in a hospital.

In this special 100th episode of The Business of Healthcare Podcast, Dr. John McCracken joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser to discuss the most significant healthcare changes over the past quarter-century, including healthcare inflation and physician burnout, which McCracken calls moral injury. The root cause of these problems, McCracken says, is kludgeocracy, a government built and run on quick fixes.
Link to McCracken’s blog, Blog Rx; https://apl.utdallas.edu/blog-rx/

In this episode, Dr. Tim Church, chief medical officer of Wondr Health, a digital weight management program, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for a discussion about how to solve twin health epidemics related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, they discuss related metabolic and mental-health pandemics in which people are eating more, exercising and sleeping less because of worry and stress related to life’s uncertainties during these times.

In this episode, Dr. James (Jim) Walton, president and CEO of Genesis Physicians Group, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for a wide-ranging discussion about consolidation in the healthcare marketplace. Walton also offers his views about how value-based care is impacting population health. Walton is also a lecturer in the Naveen Jindal School of Management’s Healthcare Leadership and Management programs.

Dr. A.J. Aceirno, a practicing dentist and CEO of Decision One Dental Partners, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for an overview of the dental industry, how it differs today from previous decades and what improvements can be made to optimize both the patient experience and business success.

Jim Anderson, vice-president of product management and innovation at Stericycle, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for a look at the medical waste industry — its market dynamics, regulatory aspects, technology, supply-chain issues, education, safety, training and guidelines involved, the impact of the pandemic on the industry and more.