Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for Insiders Podcast
1) Glimmers of Nonpartisan Progress: Decoding ACCESS, TEMPO and the Latest Government Healthcare Initiatives
After three decades working to deliver easy, fast and cost-effective patient experiences through technology, Ryan Howells is more optimistic about the future than he’s ever been before. At a time when...Show More
2) 340B Unpacked for the Holidays: Policy, Controversy, and Impact
Sitting at the intersection of healthcare policy, hospital finance, and patient access, the 340B drug discount program is a hot button issues in the pharmacy space. The program is critically important...Show More
3) The Big Beautiful Maze of Health Policy and Innovation
From being at the center of some of the most significant shifts in U.S. healthcare policy over the past two decades, Liz Fowler can offer valuable perspective in uncertain times. In her most recent go...Show More
4) Lessons from Public Sector Leadership: Former CMS Administrator and FDA Commissioner, Dr. Mark McClellan
Dr. Mark McClellan has served as a Member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Dr...Show More
5) Emerging Technologies (Part 3): Microsoft’s Chief Architect for Health on the Saga of Interoperability and AI
Dr. Josh Mandel says his first love was software. But on a whim, while studying computer science and software engineering at MIT, he took a course that opened his eyes to the world of medicine and gen...Show More
6) Emerging Technologies (Part 2): Past, Present & Future of Healthcare Interoperability with HTD Health's Brendan Keeler
Brendan Keeler’s path into healthcare interoperability has been anything but straightforward. After early stints implementing Epic in the U.S. and Europe, he helped hundreds of startups connect to pro...Show More
7) Emerging Technologies (Part 1): Inside Perspectives from Epic’s Seth Hain
Seth Hain has spent two decades at Epic, watching the electronic health record evolve from digital filing cabinet to care-delivery platform. Now he thinks the entire stack of software is being re-imag...Show More
8) How a Tech-Minded CEO Sees the Future: CareFirst’s Brian D. Pieninck on Medicare, Medicaid & the AI-Driven Inflection Point in Healthcare
Brian D. Pieninck didn’t take a conventional path to healthcare leadership. He started his career as an 18-year-old IT contractor and spent two decades working across the industry before becoming Pres...Show More
9) Medicaid Uncovered (Part 1): Decoding the System
Kody Kinsley has been called many things—operator, innovator, Medicaid “nerd”—but above all, he’s a fierce advocate for the health and well-being of the populations Medicaid serves. Now a senior advis...Show More
10) Where Medicare Stands—And Where It’s Headed with Aetna’s Dr. Ali Khan
Dr. Ali Khan has spent his career at the intersection of medicine, public policy, and value-based care. He’s also been at the forefront of some of the country's most innovative care delivery models—fr...Show More