NODE.Health is the collaborative home for digital medicine transformation. It is led by health systems in partnership with payer, pharma, patient, startup, and industry partners. NODE stands for Network of Digital Evidence. Last month, I attended the NODE.Health Digital Medicine Conference in New York City and had the honor and pleasure of speaking with Jay […]

Today, I talk to Jonathan Singer, host of The Social Work Podcast as well as associate professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Social Work. I asked Jonathan to come on the podcast today because I’ve had this growing sense of disconnect between all the talk about social determinants of health, all the talk about how clinical care has a […]

Recent studies have come out suggesting that millennials are forgoing primary care and just going directly to specialists. I contend that the reason for this might be the state of primary care at this juncture. Time is a precious commodity. Why bother with an inconvenient doctor appointment that isn’t perceived to be worth the time […]

After having hosted this podcast for 4 years, I’ve had this growing folder of clips and occasionally outtakes that never make it on the show. Sometimes it’s really good content, but a little tangential to the main context of the episode. Or it could simply be that the question and answer are just too long—I […]

A HealthLeaders media report from November 2018 talked about private equity fleeing hospitals and looking to move those dollars, in some cases, into ambulatory investments. What can ambulatory practices do with those dollars? Well, it takes $2 million for a medium-sized physician-led accountable care organization (ACO) to buy the tech and infrastructure necessary to start […]