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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 2013

Ken Sperling, National Exchange Strategy Leader, Aon/Hewitt

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Ken Sperling, National Exchange Strategy Leader at Aon/Hewitt. Mr. Sperling discusses the growing trend towards health insurance exchanges in the corporate benefits world, and the impact the Affordable Care Act is having on corporate health care costs and employee benefits.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 2013

David Chase CEO/Founder of Avado

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with David Chase, CEO and Founder of Avado, and former leader of Microsoft's Health business. He's created a Patient Portal and Relationship Management system, designed to give the patient a seat on the care team, that will help patients better-manage their chronic disease by fostering better communication between patients and providers.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 2013

Dr. William Newsome, Co-Chair of the BRAIN Intitiative

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Dr. William Newsome, Stanford University neurobiologist and co-chair of the President's BRAIN Initiative which is seeking to map the human brain. Similar to the Human Genome Project, the BRAIN Initiative will require significant collaboration from all varied fields within neuroscience to unravel the secrets of medical science's "final frontier" - the human brain.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2013

Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, Co-Chair of the Bipartisan Policy Center's CEO Council

This week Mark and Margaret speak with surgeon and entrepreneur Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong who is Co-Chair of the Bipartisan Policy Center's new CEO Council on Health and Innovation. Dr. Soon-Shiong discusses the Council's efforts to construct an information superhighway for healthcare that is poised to revolutionize care delivery, payment models, evidence-based treatments and outcomes in health care.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2013

Dr. Ashish Jha, Professor of Health Policy at the Harvard School of Public Health

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Dr. Ashish Jha, Professor of Health Policy at the Harvard School of Public Health and Special Advisor for Quality and Safety to the Department of Veterans Affairs. Dr. Jha talks about his research into health care systems that are improving quality while containing costs in this country, and the potential for the Affordable Care Act to help achieve these goals.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 2013

Secretary Dan Glickman, Sr. Fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with former USDA Secretary Dan Glickman, now a Senior Fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center. Mr. Glickman co-chairs the Nutrition and Physical Activity Initiative and discusses the Center's campaign to promote better use of the Farm Bill resources which subsidize farmers as well as those receiving food assistance to more positively impact health costs by targeting drivers of obesity.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 2013

Ron Pollack, Chairman of the Board of Enroll America

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Ron Pollack, Chairman of the Board of Enroll American and Founder and Executive Director of Families USA, whose mission is to assist all Americans seeking insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act. Mr. Pollack discusses Enroll America's mission to facilitate navigation of the online insurance exchanges as well as help those customers who will benefit from the Medicaid expansion.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 2013

Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, Chair of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, UPenn

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, Vice Provost for Global Initiatives and chair of medical ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Emanuel served as special advisor for health policy for the Obama Administration assisting in the formulation of the Affordable Care Act and discusses the law's potential impact on population health.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013

Dr. Harold P. Freeman, Founder and CEO of the Patient Navigator Institute

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Dr. Harold P. Freeman, Founder and CEO of the Patient Navigator Institute. Dr. Freeman discusses his pioneering work in the patient navigation movement, which seeks to reduce health disparities by using specially trained patient navigators to assist the underserved population in removing barriers to care.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 2013

Patrick Miller, Founder of the APCD Council

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Patrick Miller, MPH, founder of the All Payer Claims Database Council at the University of New Hampshire's Institute for Health Policy and Practice. Mr. Miller discusses the APCD Council's focus on improving the development and deployment of state-run claims databases which provide health information that can be used improve access to quality healthcare while reducing the costs.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 2013

Dr. Francis Collins, Director of NIH

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health about the broad scope of research underway at NIH as well as his previous work leading the team that mapped the human genome, for which he won the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 2013

Waco Hoover, CEO of the Institute for Health Technology Transformation

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Waco Hoover, co-founder and CEO of the Institute for Health Technology Transformation. They discuss the Institute's recent report, "Analytics: The Nervous System of IT Enabled Health Care" which explores the impact big data analytics is having on health care delivery, outcomes and costs.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 2013

Dr. Carolyn Clancy, director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Dr. Carolyn Clancy, Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality at the Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Clancy discusses AHRQ's recent report: Making Health Care Safer II - which offers evidence-based analysis of a number of patient safety practice recommendations intended to improve patient safety and reduce costly and deadly errors in health care.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 2013

Dr. Roni Zeiger, CEO of Smart Patients

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Dr. Roni Zeiger, CEO of Smart Patients, a clinical trials search engine and online community for cancer patients, their caregivers and clinicians to share information about best practices in cancer treatment.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2013

Dr. Kenneth Mandl, Director of the Intelligent Health Lab, Boston Children's Hospital

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Dr. Kenneth Mandle, Director of the Intelligent Health Lab at Boston Children's Hospital. Dr. Mandl is a pioneer in consumer information technologies and biosurveillance, creating platforms for sharing big health data as well as assisting the Department of Health and Human Services in developing an app store for health care innovators.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 2013

Chaquita Brooks-LaSure, Deputy Director of Insurance Oversight at HHS

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Deputy Director for Policy and Regulation at the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight at the Department of Health and Human Services. They discuss plans underway at HHS to facilitate access to the newly created health Insurance Exchanges, the online insurance marketplaces for Americans to purchase health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2013

Steven Brill, Author of "Bitter Pill: Why Health Care Costs Are Killing Us"

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with entrepreneur and investigative journalist Steven Brill, author of the recent TIME Magazine expose on health care pricing, "Bitter Pill: Why Health Care Costs Are Killing Us". Mr Brill, founder of the Yale Journalism Initiative as well as Court TV, explores the root causes of inflated health care prices Americans are forced to bear, how the Affordable Care Act will play a role, and what might be done to bring those costs down.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 2013

Dr. Andrew Morris-Singer, Founder and President of Primary Care Progress

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Dr. Andrew Morris-Singer, Founder and President of Primary Care Progress, a grassroots advocacy organization launched at Harvard to promote better training and support for the primary care workforce pipeline. Dr. Morris-Singer discusses how the organization has grown to over 25 chapters across the country - committed to improving the training and work environment for all primary care clinicians.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2013

Dr. Christopher Murray, Director of the Institute for Health Metrics Evaluation

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Dr. Chris Murray, Co-Founder of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. Dr. Murray discusses his ground-breaking report, The Global Burden of Disease 2010, a systematic, scientific effort to quantify the magnitude of global deaths and disability due to diseases, injuries and risk factors by age, sex and geography.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 2013

Dr. Rushika Fernandopulle, Founder and CEO of Iora Health

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Dr. Rushika Fernandopulle, Founder and CEO of Iora Health, a Cambridge-based startup that is seeking to transform primary care delivery. Dr. Fernandopulle speaks about his quest to reinvent all aspects of care delivery by adressing many of the ailments in the current health care system, including payment models, staffing, IT systems and culture.