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If you're looking for a Mighty Mouth, look no further. In an effort to recover from two decades in Hunter Thompson's "cheap plastic hallway" - network TV news, specifically - I hung out my shingle as a storyteller. No, you won't see me at the local children's library. I throw too many f-bombs to be invited there. I use my skill as a speaker, writer, producer and erstwhile standup comic to drive change in healthcare and healthcare tech. How good am I at talking? I talked my way out of police ...
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This week, I’ve got my conversation with e-Patient Dave deBronkart. Dave became e-Patient Dave back in 2007 when he got a really big surprise - a diagnosis of terminal kidney cancer. Definitely NOT the kind of surprise anyone wants. Spoiler alert - it wasn’t terminal, but it was certainly Stage 4, Grade 4, death sentence style cancer. It wasn’t ter…
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This week, it’s all Mighty Mouth, all the time. In other words, no guest, just yours truly.I’m asking you to settle in, grab a cup of coffee - or you might want a big ol’ slug of bourbon for this one? - and listen as I spin a tale of lies, damn lies, statistics, and treachery, with the main bad actor of the piece being that thing that over two bill…
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This week, you’ll hear from John Wilbanks, Chief Commons Officer at Sage Bionetworks. Yeah, that’s most definitely a Nerdus Maximus title, but John does very cool stuff around making data more accessible and usable by the research community AND he’s down with the idea of data as an economic resource for not just the big-money players, but also the …
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This episode has some slices from a debate I had with Niam Yaraghi about whether or not people should be cut in on the gold being mined from the data all of us create every day in the digital economy. That happens with all parts of our digital lives, from online shopping to getting medical care. Full show notes, including the video of the entire de…
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This week, we’ve got Danny van Leeuwen, Health Hats himself! We met up at the Patient Centered Clinical Decision Support Learning Network annual meeting (mouthful, but it’s healthcare, and healthcare loves long and complicated), where Danny spoke about the patient perspective on pain management, and life in general, for folks dealing with chronic c…
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Hear all about health economics from Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, my bestie who keeps me up to date on all the 411 about impact on the consumer - that’s you and me, folks! - of the health policy arguments and health coverage ideas that happen all day, every day, from sea to shining sea. And beyond. Jane keeps it real, and really understandable. Full show no…
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This week you’re gonna hear from Lisa Suennen, Venture Valkyrie herself - she shares her thoughts on blockchain in tech (whiz bang buzzword alert!), on price transparency, and how tech continues to transform the healthcare landscape … slowly.The combination of technology and humanity will indeed be the winner. That’s what I’m working toward, and wh…
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This week’s episode features slices from a recent conversation I had with Matthew Holt, who is, among many other things, the founder of The Health Care Blog, co-founder of the Health 2.0 universe of conferences, now leading SMACK.health, an advisory and consulting network in healthcare and health tech. If you want to know about what’s happening in …
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