Apparently nobody knew this until February 2017, but healthcare is really complicated. Besides all the normal kinds of complications you might expect in medicine and the business of medicine, there’s also an immensity of terms and jargon people only use in their own silos or that mean different things depending on who you talk to. Luckily, here at Relentless […]

I had lunch with Richard Steinhart (episode 149) last week and he said something that sparked my cantankerous streak – we were taking about incrementalism, the idea that we should move forward in baby steps, little experiments, fail fast, adjust, proceed forward from there. And Richard said, incrementalism, pshaw. We should just start over again. […]

This is a great demonstration of a pretty key economic principle – if you have one dollar and you spend it on overly expensive healthcare, you do not have that dollar anymore to put toward more productive uses like paying teachers or funding education. Today I speak with Richard Steinhart, a former officer who endeavored […]

It seems that Pharma has a reputation for putting profits over patients. I know, you’re floored by this newsflash so let’s move on to the more interesting question – why does this matter? Why does it matter to the Pharma industry itself, which has been doing just fine thank you very much, and why does […]

An app can certainly help manage diabetes. But only in the exact circumstance that the patient already believes they need to use the app, and has the resources and wherewithal to do so. But for the multitude of other patients, an app by itself won’t work because patients who need it aren’t using it. And […]