Our healthcare system aggressively treats illness to try to make someone well. But after a certain point, “well” is not a possibility. So the pain of the “treatment” becomes worse than the disease. Dr Blaine Warkentine is the founder of two companies with a mission to level up end of life care. Vimty helps patients create video advance directives. CareGoals helps providers have end of life care conversations with their patients.

NYeC is in charge of the SHINY, the HIE in NY, & are always looking for new ways to help providers collaborate better. They also run the NY Digital Health accelerator pairing entrepreneurs with local providers, and they have worked hard to improve the interoperability of EHR systems.

My guest today, Paul Pochtar, has worked in the pharmaceutical industry for over 25 years. He’s seen the industry undergo a few C-changes during his tenure. Which has given Paul an opportunity to show off his skill at strategically navigating change. Today we discuss, from pharma’s PoV on consolidating providers and payers, new payment and delivery models & the growing importance of patient decision making. Paul gives advice on what it’s going to take for Pharma to go toe-to-toe with other powerful healthcare stakeholders moving forward.

Traditional investment practices involve one dimension of business: money. The giving of money in the hopes of getting back more money. But in healthcare, as Trevor Price from Oxeon Holdings says, You can do well and do good at the same time. Today I speak with Trevor about the three aspects of the business he founded to help growing business navigating the transformation of healthcare — recruiting and connecting people, investing, and a venture studio.

The realization is dawning, even for the most curmudgeonly amongst us, that access to complete patient data is a must-have to deliver high patient outcomes and avoid preventable never-event errors. And so the time of the HIE is upon us. This episode, Laura Adams from the RI Quality Institute tells us what we need to know now about Health Information Exchanges.