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CareTalk: Healthcare. Unfiltered.
CareTalk: Healthcare. Unfiltered. is a weekly podcast that provides an incisive, no B.S. view of the US healthcare industry. Join co-hosts John Driscoll (President U.S. Healthcare and EVP, Walgreens Boots Alliance) and David Williams (President, Health Business Group) as they debate the latest in US healthcare news, business and policy. Visit us at www.CareTalkPodcast.com
Episodes
- CareTalk: Healthcare. Unfiltered.
How AI Agents Are Transforming Pharma
Send us Fan Mail Drug development has traditionally required billions of dollars, thousands of people, and over a decade of work. AI agents may be about to…
CareTalk: Healthcare. Unfiltered.Anthropic’s Big Bet on the Future of Biotech
Send us Fan Mail Anthropic just purchased a one-person biotech run by an AI agent that coordinates 11 outside labs. Is this the blueprint for the "one-person…
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Only 6% of High-Risk Patients Get Screened
Send us Fan Mail Only 6% of high-risk lung cancer patients get their annual screening. Nearly half of positive colon cancer tests never receive clinical…
CareTalk: Healthcare. Unfiltered.Reinventing Cancer Treatment Through Virtual Care w/ Othman Laraki, Co-Founder & CEO, Color
Send us Fan Mail Only 6% of high-risk lung cancer patients get their annual screening. Nearly half of positive colon cancer tests never receive clinical…
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Why 15 Minutes with a Patient Is Never Enough
Send us Fan Mail Healthcare debates endlessly about cost, reimbursement, and spending as a share of GDP. But according to one Harvard physician and economist…
CareTalk: Healthcare. Unfiltered.How AI Is Changing The Way Doctors Think w/ Dr. Bapu Jena, Harvard Medical School
Send us Fan Mail More than 80% of internists are already using AI tools in clinical practice, and adoption is accelerating faster than any healthcare…
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Why Hospital Maternity Wards Are Closing
Send us Fan Mail There are half as many hospitals delivering babies in the U.S. today as there were in 1982. And the reason is simple: most hospitals lose…
CareTalk: Healthcare. Unfiltered.The Maternal Health Crisis America Can’t Ignore w/ Dr. Neel Shah, Maven Clinic
Send us Fan Mail A mother today is 50% more likely to die in childbirth than her own mother was (per @CDC) . The U.S. has half the hospitals delivering babies…
CareTalk: Healthcare. Unfiltered.How AI Is Automating Provider Credentialing w/ Rahul Shivkumar, Co-Founder & President, Assured
Send us Fan Mail Before a provider sees their first patient, they face a months-long gauntlet of credentialing, payer enrollment, and network approvals, all…
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The Risk of Rushing AI Into Healthcare
Send us Fan Mail What happens when AI adoption in healthcare moves faster than regulation? In this clip from our episode “Is AI Helping or Hurting Healthcare…
CareTalk: Healthcare. Unfiltered.Is AI Helping or Hurting Healthcare Right Now?
Send us Fan Mail We’re being flooded with headlines about what AI will and won’t do to healthcare: threatening jobs, creating new ways to manipulate…
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Why Clinical AI Safety Has to Be Proven Not Assumed
Send us Fan Mail In clinical AI, saving money means nothing if the system is not safe enough to trust with a patient's life. So how do you actually prove it…
CareTalk: Healthcare. Unfiltered.Voice AI Is Expanding Access to Healthcare w/ Munjal Shah, Co-Founder & CEO, Hippocratic AI
Send us Fan Mail There are not enough nurses, doctors, and hours in the day to reach every patient who needs attention. The healthcare system was designed…
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The Rise of Market-Based Healthcare
Send us Fan Mail How did the U.S. healthcare system shift toward a market-driven approach, and what impact is that still having today? In this clip from our…
CareTalk: Healthcare. Unfiltered.Corporate Concentration Is Breaking Healthcare w/ Dr. John McDonough, Author, America's Wrong Turn
Send us Fan Mail US healthcare spending broke away from the rest of the developed world around 1982 and has never come back. Most people assume that was an…
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What 40 Years in Healthcare Taught This Founder About AI
Send us Fan Mail After 40 years in healthcare, one founder says he has never seen a technology with a better chance of actually fixing the system. So what…
CareTalk: Healthcare. Unfiltered.Will AI End The Payer And Provider Billing War? w/ Hamid Tabatabaie, CEO, CodaMetrix
Send us Fan Mail Healthcare administrative costs consume an estimated 15 to 20 percent of every dollar spent in the American healthcare system. A quarter of…
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How Clerical Work Burns Doctors Out
Send us Fan Mail His father was a cardiologist who retired because he could not type fast enough. That moment became the reason Abridge exists. In this clip…
CareTalk: Healthcare. Unfiltered.The Ambient AI Inside 300 Health Systems w/ Dr. Shiv Rao, CEO, Abridge
Send us Fan Mail Doctors now need an estimated 30 hours a day to complete every clerical task asked of them. They are compensated not for the care they deliver…
CareTalk: Healthcare. Unfiltered.How Consumers Are Defining Healthcare's Future w/ Dr. Daniel Kraft, Founder, NextMed Health
Send us Fan Mail American healthcare still runs on fax machines, paper forms, and reimbursement models built for reactive sick care. Meanwhile, patients are…
CareTalk: Healthcare. Unfiltered.Why Health Tech Startups Get Stuck in Pilotw/ Dan Galles, Partner, Allumia Ventures
Send us Fan Mail Most health tech companies do not fail because their product does not work. They fail because they never defined what success looked like…
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The Health Data Gap HIPAA Cannot Fill
Send us Fan Mail A national standard for reproductive health data privacy is not coming. The political divide is too wide and the parties are too far apart. In…
CareTalk: Healthcare. Unfiltered.State Health Data Laws Are a Patient Safety Problem w/ Leigh Burchell, Altera Digital Health
Send us Fan Mail A patient's right to control their own health data now depends almost entirely on which state they live in or happen to seek care in. The…
CareTalk: Healthcare. Unfiltered.Healthcare AI Has a Cybersecurity Problem
Send us Fan Mail A year ago, if you went to a healthcare security conference, AI was still on the horizon. Interesting, a little speculative, maybe useful for…
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A Cancer Diagnosis May Not Excuse You From Work
Send us Fan Mail A cancer diagnosis used to be enough to qualify as medically frail and exempt from Medicaid work requirements. A new federal rule says it no…
CareTalk: Healthcare. Unfiltered.The Hidden Cost of Medicaid Work Requirements
Send us Fan Mail Medicaid work requirements take effect in every expansion state by January 1, 2027. But half the states just sued to stop the rules that…
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Medicaid Is Now Auditing Before It Pays
Send us Fan Mail Medicaid and Medicare used to pay first and chase fraud later. That model is changing fast, and the providers who haven't adapted are about to…
CareTalk: Healthcare. Unfiltered.AI and The Future Of Behavioral Health w/ Alon Joffe, Co-Founder & CEO, Eleos Health
Send us Fan Mail More than 160 million Americans live in areas with a shortage of mental health providers. The clinicians who do show up are spending hours on…
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Why Self-Insured Employers Care About IVF Outcomes
Send us Fan Mail A triplet birth in the United States costs roughly $577,000. A twin birth runs about $155,000. For a self-insured employer, that cost hits the…
CareTalk: Healthcare. Unfiltered.Making Fertility Benefits An Employer Priority w/ David Stern, CEO, Kindbody
Send us Fan Mail Fertility benefits have gone from a Silicon Valley recruiting perk to a boardroom priority in under a decade. Employers are no longer just…
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Why AI Needs Clean Data Before It Can Help Healthcare
Send us Fan Mail What if the companies profiting most from healthcare's data problem are also the ones best positioned to explain why it needs to be solved? In…
CareTalk: Healthcare. Unfiltered.Health Data Is Broken And We're Paying For It w/ Michael Meucci, CEO, Arcadia
Send us Fan Mail American healthcare spends an estimated $110 per member per month just to administer itself, before a single service is ever delivered. Most…
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Why Minors Need Stronger AI Guardrails Than Adults
Send us Fan Mail When a teenager expresses suicidal thoughts to an AI chatbot, what happens next? In this clip from our episode “Who Sets the Rules for AI in…
CareTalk: Healthcare. Unfiltered.AUDIO ONLY: Who Sets the Rules for AI in Medicine? w/ Dr. John Whyte, CEO, American Medical Association
Send us Fan MailEighty-one percent of physicians are already using AI in practice, more than double the rate from just three years ago. The tools are moving…
CareTalk: Healthcare. Unfiltered.Who Sets the Rules for AI in Medicine? w/ Dr. John Whyte, CEO, American Medical Association
Send us Fan Mail Eighty-one percent of physicians are already using AI in practice, more than double the rate from just three years ago. The tools are moving…
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The Difference Between Surviving and Living With Cancer
Send us Fan Mail There are very few cures for cancers that have already spread. So what does a good outcome actually look like? In this clip from our episode…
CareTalk: Healthcare. Unfiltered.How Targeted Radiotherapy Is Changing Cancer Care w/ John Babich, President, CSO, Ratio Therapeutics
Send us Fan Mail For decades, cancer treatment has rested on three pillars: surgery, chemotherapy, and external beam radiation. A fourth is now taking shape…
CareTalk: Healthcare. Unfiltered.Preparing for the Pandemic We Haven't Seen Yet w/ Dr. Dan Barouch & Kris Brown, Vector Sciences
Send us Fan Mail The COVID-19 pandemic proved vaccine platforms can move at unprecedented speed. It also revealed how dangerously narrow the world's response…
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Mark Cuban on Why Patients Don’t Trust Their Medical Bills
Send us Fan Mail People trust their doctor. They do not trust the bill they get afterward. In this clip from our episode “Why Healthcare Prices Are Like Fight…
CareTalk: Healthcare. Unfiltered.Why Healthcare Prices Are Like Fight Club w/ Mark Cuban, Co-Founder, Cost Plus Drugs
Send us Fan Mail Nobody at the pharmacy counter knows the real price of their medication, and almost nobody in the system actually wants them to. Mark Cuban…
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GLP-1s May Reduce Cancer Progression
Send us Fan Mail GLP-1 drugs were designed for weight loss. Now they may be showing up in cancer research in a way nobody expected. In this clip from our…
CareTalk: Healthcare. Unfiltered.The Business & Science Behind the GLP-1 Boom
Send us Fan Mail GLP-1 drugs have produced some of the most consistent weight loss results medicine has ever seen. The business of actually getting them to…
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Why We Can Never Have Enough Doctors
Send us Fan Mail Six million healthcare workers are missing today. By 2030, that number reaches 10 million. No amount of training will ever close that gap. In…
CareTalk: Healthcare. Unfiltered.The Future of Medicine Is Already Here w/ Bertalan Mesko, The Medical Futurist Institute
Send us Fan Mail The World Health Organization projects a global shortage of 10 million healthcare workers by 2030. No training pipeline can close that gap…
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Why Insulin Never Reaches the Liver
Send us Fan Mail The liver is the only organ in the body that can release stored glucose to prevent low blood sugar. So why has injected insulin never been…
CareTalk: Healthcare. Unfiltered.Targeting the Root Causes of Metabolic Disease w/ Bob Geho, Founder & CEO, Diasome
Send us Fan Mail Every year, one in five adults with Type 1 diabetes experiences a dangerous drop in blood sugar that renders them unable to treat themselves…
CareTalk: Healthcare. Unfiltered.Can Healthcare Claims Be Adjudicated in Real-Time? w/ Don Peterson, Founder & CEO, PIM Health
Send us Fan Mail American hospitals now spend nearly $2 on administrative overhead for every dollar that touches direct patient care. Insurers earn billions in…
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How Digital Interventions Transform Mental Health
Send us Fan Mail What if the tools patients use between therapy sessions mattered more than the sessions themselves? In this clip from our episode “Fixing the…
CareTalk: Healthcare. Unfiltered.Fixing the Access Crisis In Mental Health w/ Mark Frank, Co-Founder & CEO, SonderMind
Send us Fan Mail More than 160 million Americans live in federally designated mental health provider shortage areas. Even those with insurance often spend…
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How Health Insurance Costs Hurt Small Businesses
Send us Fan Mail For most small businesses, health insurance is their second or third largest expense. And they usually find out what it's going to cost them…
CareTalk: Healthcare. Unfiltered.Why Health Insurance Needs Transparency w/ Ty Wang, Co-Founder & CEO, Angle Health
Send us Fan Mail Nearly half of all Americans get their health insurance through a small business. Most of those businesses have no idea why their premiums go…
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Why Hospitals Keep Defaulting to Medicare Logic
Send us Fan Mail For years, hospitals managing value-based contracts have been doing so with one hand tied behind their back, defaulting to Medicare logic…
CareTalk: Healthcare. Unfiltered.Why Value-Based Care Is Finally Hitting Its Tipping Point w/ David Snow, CEO, Cedar Gate Technologies, an IQVIA business
Send us Fan Mail For decades, value-based care has been healthcare's promised future. Most health systems have stayed in upside-only arrangements, and the data…
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Nicole Saphier vs. Casey Means For Surgeon General
Send us Fan Mail Is it easier to change the medical establishment from the inside or the outside? In this clip from our episode "MAHA Split Over New Surgeon…
CareTalk: Healthcare. Unfiltered.MAHA Split Over New Surgeon General
Send us Fan Mail The collapse of Dr. Casey Means’ nomination this week has sent shockwaves through the “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) movement. While the…
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Why Healthcare Costs Keep Climbing
Send us Fan Mail Is American healthcare collapsing? In this clip from our episode "How AI Could Save a Collapsing Healthcare System," host David E. Williams…
CareTalk: Healthcare. Unfiltered.How AI Could Save a Collapsing Healthcare System w/ Dr. Robert Pearl, Author, "ChatGPT, MD"
Send us Fan Mail American employers now spend over $25,000 a year to cover a single family, and chronic disease is driving the system toward collapse. Yet…
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Could This Be the First Parkinson's Disease Modifier?
Send us Fan Mail Is the era of just managing Parkinson's symptoms finally coming to an end? In this clip from our episode “How AI Is Helping The Fight Against…
CareTalk: Healthcare. Unfiltered.How AI Is Helping The Fight Against Parkinson’s w/ Gene Mack, CEO, Gain Therapeutics
Send us Fan Mail For decades, Parkinson's patients have been offered only symptom management. No drug has ever slowed the disease itself. A small clinical…
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What to Do After a Cancer Diagnosis
Send us Fan Mail If you or someone you love just received a cancer diagnosis, what are the first three things you need to know? In this clip from our episode…