The Business of Healthcare Podcast Center for Healthcare Leadership and Management

In this episode, host Dr. Bob Kaiser and Lorna Borenstein, CEO/founder of Grokker, discuss how employers can get a return on their investment in healthcare benefits by providing their employees with wellness programs. They also discuss her book, It’s Personal: The Business Case for Caring.

In this episode, host Dr. Bob Kaiser chats with Dr. Andrew Le, founder and CEO of Buoy Health. Le explains why and how he and his team use machine learning to create a web-based tool that helps site visitors gain clinical insight into their symptoms and points them toward various treatment options.

This episode of The Business of Healthcare Podcast kicks off a series of discussions related to artificial intelligence, machine learning and data analytics. Host Dr. Bob Kaiser and Dr. Ashwin Prakash, chief data scientist at Post Acute Analytics, discuss the basic of AI, machine learning and data analytics and explain how these technologies can be used within a healthcare context to drive innovation, reduce costs and improve health outcomes

In this episode, host Dr. Bob Kaiser welcomes Dr. Dena Bravata, chief medical officer of Castlight Health, a health navigation platform, for a discussion about how data-driven comparison tools can reduce costs and improve outcomes for patients.

Dr. Esteban López, the market lead at Google Clouds Healthcare and Life Sciences for the Americas division, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for a discussion about how technology is disrupting the healthcare industry for the better. Lopez, a 2007 graduate of the Alliance for Physician Leadership Executive MBA program at the Naveen Jindal School of Management at The University of Texas at Dallas, also discussed how to solve healthcare disparities caused by systemic racism.

Dr. Bob Kaiser visits with Dr. Scott Shreeve, founder, CEO and board member of Crossover Health. Shreeve, an emergency medicine physician, explains how he found a way to scale his vision for a new primary-care model that utilizes technology — an approach often dubbed healthcare 2.0 — to improve access for patients and enhances their quality of life. The company Shreeve founded now counts Apple, Amazon, Comcast, Facebook LinkedIn and other large employers among his customers.