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Healthcare Costs, Pricing, and Consumerism w/ Steve Ambrose

Price transparency and healthcare consumerism are top of mind for many operators and observers of the healthcare industry. On the surface these topics sound great. Of course, we want to enable patients to be good consumers of healthcare. However, as we’ve seen so often on this show, aligning the obvious with the realities of the

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The Moral and Business Case for Oral Health Integration with Dr. Myechia Minter-Jordan

Poor oral health has a direct link to high risk of chronic diseases like diabetes and heart disease. It contributes to depression, poor maternal health outcomes, and death. Research shows that it increased the risk associated with COVID-19. Yet we treat oral health as being separate from “healthcare”. 65 million Americans lack dental coverage and

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Using AI to Make the Provider’s Job Easier with Abboud Chaballout

When it comes to billing codes there are many processes and solutions that focus on the backend. They support the coders and help ensure the codes are “bill ready”. However, as today’s guest points out, there are very few solutions that exist solely to help providers put those codes in the EHR accurately and efficiently

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What’s your Early Adopter Strategy? with Dr. Roxie Mooney

95% of innovations that are brought to market fail to reach an adequate level of customer adoption or financial ROI. It sounds scary, but it doesn’t have to be this way. Today we’re talking with healthcare commercialization strategist and digital health advisor Dr. Roxie Mooney, about the steps innovators can take to dramatically increase their

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What’s up with IBM Watson Health? A Discussion on the State of AI in Healthcare with Paddy Padmanabhan

IBM Watson Health came on the scene with swagger and promises. They were going to revolutionize healthcare! And now the unit may be for sale. We don’t yet know what’s really going on there, but the commentary surrounding this rumor provides some interesting points for discussion. What is the state of AI in healthcare? Is

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Using Data to Pick the Right Health Plan with Akash Magoon

Picking a health plan can be the biggest crapshoot of anyone’s year. It’s confusing and tedious to compare the plan benefits, the provider directories are unreliable, and even if you can figure it out, there’s no way to know how much you’ll pay for a given service from one plan to the next. So, we