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
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 but for the care they document. That gap is where physician burnout lives, and where AI has the most to offer.
Dr. Shiv Rao, Co-Founder and CEO of Abridge, joins host John Driscoll to discuss how an ambient AI platform now deployed across more than 300 health systems i...
American healthcare still runs on fax machines, paper forms, and reimbursement models built for reactive sick care. Meanwhile, patients are connecting wearables to AI chatbots, ordering their own labs, and triaging themselves without ever seeing a physician.
Dr. Daniel Kraft, Founder of Digital.Health and NextMed Health, joins host John Driscoll to discuss why the consumer is pulling healthcare into the futur...
Most health tech companies do not fail because their product does not work. They fail because they never defined what success looked like before the pilot ended and the budget conversation began.
Dan Galles, Partner at Allumia Ventures, joins host David E. Williams to discuss what 16 exits over a decade investing from inside Providence Health System revealed about what it actually takes to go from pilot to en...
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 this clip from our episode “State Health Data Laws Are a Patient Safety Problem”, host David E. Williams and Leigh Burchell, Vice President of Policy and Public Affairs at Altera Digital Health, break down why a federal fix to the state health data patchwor...
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 patchwork is growing, and the clinical and compliance consequences are catching up fast.
Leigh Burchell, Vice President of Policy and Public Affairs at Altera Digital Health and Chair of the Electronic Health Record Association, joins host David E. Williams to discuss why s...
A year ago, if you went to a healthcare security conference, AI was still on the horizon. Interesting, a little speculative, maybe useful for writing better phishing emails. But not anymore. There are documented cases where an attacker handed an AI agent stolen credentials and the agent ran the entire attack by itself. It can include hundreds of steps, from breaking in, harvesting credentials, mapping the network, e...
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 longer is, and nobody has defined what will be enough instead.
In this clip from our episode “The Hidden Cost of Medicaid Work Requirements”, hosts David E. Williams and John Driscoll break down the last-minute rule change narrowing the definition of medical ...
Medicaid work requirements take effect in every expansion state by January 1, 2027. But half the states just sued to stop the rules that govern them. They’re challenging a new federal rule that narrows who counts as “medically frail” and adds paperwork for people trying to prove they’re exempt. We’ll discuss what the fight means for coverage, providers, and for the states preparing to i...
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 feel it.
In this clip from our episode “AI and The Future Of Behavioral Health”, host John Driscoll and Alon Joffe, Co-Founder and CEO of Eleos Health, break down why the shift to audit-first payment in Medicaid and Medicare is an existential threat for beh...
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 documentation, compliance, and eligibility work that has nothing to do with patient care.
Alon Joffe, Co-Founder and CEO of Eleos Health, joins host John Driscoll to discuss how AI is reducing administrative burden for behavioral health clinicians and why workflow effic...
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 bottom line directly.
In this clip from our episode “Making Fertility Benefits An Employer Priority”, host David E. Williams and David Stern, CEO of Kindbody, break down how Kindbody puts skin in the game with employers through contractual guarantees on mul...
Fertility benefits have gone from a Silicon Valley recruiting perk to a boardroom priority in under a decade. Employers are no longer just offering access. They are demanding measurable outcomes, transparent costs, and clinical accountability.
David Stern, CEO of Kindbody, joins host David E. Williams to discuss why the vertically integrated model of combining a fertility benefit manager with owned clinics is...
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 this clip from our episode “Health Data Is Broken And We're Paying For It”, host John Driscoll and Michael Meucci, CEO of Arcadia, break down why the free market has proven it cannot fix healthcare data fragmentation on its own, and what becomes possible wh...
American healthcare spends an estimated $110 per member per month just to administer itself, before a single service is ever delivered. Most of that cost exists because health data still cannot move freely between the systems that need it.
Michael Meucci, CEO of Arcadia, joins host John Driscoll to discuss why two decades of interoperability policy have failed to solve the data fragmentation problem facing he...
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 Medicine?”, hosts David E. Williams and John Driscoll and Dr. John Whyte, CEO of the American Medical Association, break down why minors need stronger protections from AI chatbots than adults do, and why the line between a wellness app and a medical device ma...
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 faster than the rules, and nobody has agreed on who gets to write them.
Dr. John Whyte, CEO of the American Medical Association, joins hosts David E. Williams and John Driscoll to discuss why the medical community needs to lead the conversation on AI guardrails rather th...
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 “How Targeted Radiotherapy Is Changing Cancer Care”, host David E. Williams and John Babich, Founder, President, and Chief Scientific Officer of Ratio Therapeutics, break down what extending life with quality really means in cancer care, and why giving someon...
For decades, cancer treatment has rested on three pillars: surgery, chemotherapy, and external beam radiation. A fourth is now taking shape, and it is drawing billions in investment from some of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world.
John Babich, Founder, President, and Chief Scientific Officer of Ratio Therapeutics, joins host David E. Williams to explain how targeted radiotherapeutics pair a tum...
The COVID-19 pandemic proved vaccine platforms can move at unprecedented speed. It also revealed how dangerously narrow the world's response really was, built almost entirely on a single technology.
Dr. Dan Barouch and Kris Brown, Co-Founders of Vector Sciences, join host David E. Williams to discuss why durable pandemic preparedness depends on having multiple vaccine platforms rather than just one, how their...
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 Club”, host John Driscoll and Mark Cuban, Co-Founder of Cost Plus Drugs, break down why pricing transparency, not just lower prices, was the real reason Cost Plus Drugs earned the trust of patients across the country.
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