“EP166: How to Optimize Pharmacy Spend With Tim Thomas of Crystal Clear Rx”
by Stacey Richter

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Americans spend a lot on prescription drugs, more per capita than any other country by far. Pharmacy spending used to be about 5% of total medical spend, but today it can be as high as 25%. Today I speak with Tim Thomas from Crystal Clear Rx about what we can do to ensure that we’re […]

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“EP165: Reversing Rising Maternal Mortality, with Juan Pablo Segura”
by Stacey Richter

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Pregnancy-related deaths are a relatively rare event in the United States; around 16-26 deaths per 100k live births depending on what study you look at because apparently data is siloed by state. But here’s the worst part: The US is one of the few developed nations where maternal mortality is steadily rising — it has […]

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“AEE2: Jennifer E. Miller, PhD, Reports Back on the Good Pharma Scorecard 2017”
by Stacey Richter

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On episode 148, I spoke with Jennifer E. Miller, PhD about her work at Bioethics International and as the creator of the Good Pharma Scorecard. Definitely listen to that episode to get the background on the Good Pharma Scorecard, which ranks pharma companies by their trustworthiness across a range of criteria. On episode 148, we […]

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“EP164: The Missing Link to Realize the Potential of Technology, with Kyra Bobinet, MD MPH”
by Stacey Richter

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What do physician burnout and sub-par patient portal usage have in common? It’s forgetting about how the user will react to the technology. To get what we hope to get out of a technology, we have to consider how to fulfill positive engagement and behavior change and build that right into the use case and […]

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“INBW16: It’s Fragile, That’s My 2017 Roll-up of the Health Care Industry”
by Stacey Richter

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Here’s my roll-up of health care industry in 2017: It’s fragile. And its fragility is standing naked in the spotlight right now. How am I defining fragile? I’m defining it as the opposite of “antifragile” which was a term coined by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his book Antifragile which was recommended to me by Don […]

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