Shift Forward Health

Angie Nelson, VP of Pharmacy at Hy-Vee, shares how retail, pharmacy and providers work together to shift from sick care to prevention, how grocery retailers see themselves as the front door of healthcare, and how they’re moving the needle with Food For Health initiatives. 

All that, plus the Flava of the Week about Withings launching its clinical care service. How can it benefit someone who owns a Body Scan or blood pres...

Adam Cherrington returns to point out examples where he’s seeing the voice of patients and consumers being included in healthcare and other trends he’s spotting in his recent advisory work. 

All that, plus a recap of the July Think Tank chat about the one-year anniversary of the CMS Health Tech Ecosystem. 

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Jared and Zain host their first Consumer Panel speaking about personal experiences with wearables. 

Thank you to panelists Ellen Brown, Founder, Healthcare Actually; Andy Beckman, Director, Garmin Health; Hailey Minter, Marketing Manager, Reperio Health; and James Yurkovich, Research Assistant Professor, Buck Institute for Research on Aging. 

All that, plus the Flava of the Week about the one-year anniversary of the ...

Halima Ahmadi-Montecalvo, VP Research and Evaluation at UniteUs, dives deep on the data connectivity that’s required for health systems that truly plan to move from sick care to prevention.

All that, plus we give a Shout Out to previous guest Dr. Erica Armstrong, who recently announced that HealthX Ventures has invested in her functional medicine company, Root.

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Carrie Foote breaks down the Rural Health Transformation Program in plain English and shares how rural health clinics should be thinking about partnerships with hospitals, tech vendors, and state agencies. 

All that, plus the Flava of the Week about Cityblock’s rumored acquisition of Homeward. How are the two primary care startups reportedly considering joining forces, and how can building within existing payment models ...

Chris McGhee, CEO & Co-Founder of Current Health, returns to share how the national dialogue about health at home programs, drug therapies, and empowered consumers has changed since he reacquired his company from Best Buy Health. 

All that, plus the Flava of the Week about the launch of the CMS ACCESS Model. Is CMS creating a framework for treating chronic conditions rather than just a short-term payment structure, an...

Mary Varghese Presti, Corporate VP of Microsoft Health and Life Sciences, discusses where consumer experience, nursing, and AI are colliding to create some interesting tailwinds for patients and clinicians. 

All that, plus the Flava of the Week about Reach3’s new consumer health survey. What does the survey say about the use of digital health and wellness tools, and how does it help us to look at the data through the con...

Dr. Sarah Matt discusses themes from her book The Borderless Healthcare Revolution, what consumer-centered health means from a surgeon’s point of view, and why we can’t burn down the system even when we see so many flaws. 

All that, plus a recap of the Rap Community's June Think Tank chat about the ongoing move to preventive health. Join the free community at https://healthcarerapcommunity.com to attend our mo...

Nathan Shatz, founder of SuperBiome, reveals the results of Jared's skin microbiome test live on the air, explains how germs are good, and shares how it motivated him when people told him he was too young to be a founder. 

All that, plus the Flava of the Week about whether GLP-1’s will be more disruptive than AI. Does it mean that we can sometimes get lost in the current ways that healthcare grows its profits and forget ...

Jared and Adam Cherrington started cooking up the idea for this episode while sitting in the back of a shuttle bus at Swaay.Health Live. The two discuss how to keep the voice of the patient a priority, where patient experience and consumer centricity overlap, and what they’re both seeing in these areas that give them hope … and frustration. 

All that, plus the Flava of the Week about whole-body scans. How do they ...

Dr. Payam Zamani, CEO and Founder of MY DR NOW, shares how you don’t need urgent care if you do primary care right, how outcomes improve when you make it easy for patients to be compliant, and whether he thinks patients using LLMs are good for business. 

All that, plus the Flava of the Week about the Nourishing Change conference. How did the conference’s attendee mix reflect the collaboration that needs to happen t...

Mike Roaldi, President of Cityblock Health, discusses the economics of care delivery while working to better engage consumers, what’s behind Cityblock’s recent growth, and how patients are using ChatGPT for their health. 

All that, plus the Flava of the Week about the new Samsung Health app features. How is Samsung positioning the upcoming Galaxy Watch as a proactive health partner, and how can we lead the charge t...

Kristy Roldan, VP of Growth at MDRG, joins Jared to talk about the newest ways that healthcare is happening outside of hospitals, why outlier thinking is important in consumer research, and how AI is and isn’t helping us better understand consumers’ health behavior.

All that, plus the Flava of the Week about Noom’s new at-home biomarker testing. How can this latest move from correction to detection impact the quic...

Shannon Werb, CEO of Array Behavioral Care, describes what the digital entry points for mental health look like today, the downsides of investing so heavily in digital access, and what it takes to make virtual mental health actually feel personalized and trustworthy for patients. 

All that, plus the Flava of the Week about Oura and Resmed’s new partnership. How are they creating a "wearables to care" strategy, and how ca...

Lynne Nowak, Chief Data and Analytics Officer, at Surescripts, shares highlights from their research on how clinicians feel about prior authorization, her point of view on responsible AI, and how it all ties back to better experiences for patients and clinicians. 

All that, plus the Flava of the Week about Whoop partnering with HealthEx to offer clinician access. How does this signal the move from performance wearable to healt...

Aasim Saeed, Founder of Amenities Health, joins Jared for real talk about building in the direct to consumer health space, why he doesn't consider the current U.S. healthcare system to be patient-centric at all, and his pivot to powering health system-based concierge and premium offerings. 

All that, plus the Flava of the Week about the new Google Health App and Fitbit Air. Do Google’s latest health products signal a bat...

Rom Cohen, Co-Founder of Hyro, talks about the state of patient communication, Hyro’s new research on the topic, and how an unsophisticated approach to AI means lots of patients don’t get treated. 

All that, plus the Flava of the Week about Walmart’s new Clinical Trial Centers. What is the goal of the new centers, and what happens when we continue to underestimate how retail reinvents itself? 

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