This week, I’ve got my conversation with e-Patient Dave deBronkart. Dave became e-Patient Dave back in 2007 when he got a really big surprise - a diagnosis of terminal kidney cancer. Definitely NOT the kind of surprise anyone wants. Spoiler a

Facebook Is An A$$hole + Hazardous to Your Health?

Feb 3rd, 2019 18m 31s

This week, it’s all Mighty Mouth, all the time. In other words, no guest, just yours truly.I’m asking you to settle in, grab a cup of coffee - or you might want a big ol’ slug of bourbon for this one? - and listen as I spin a tale of lies, d

Healthcare Is HILARIOUS Gigi Peterkin: Perimenopause, or WTF doctors who don't listen?!?

Jan 15th, 2019 29m 46s

This week is all about women’s health.I think I just heard all the guys hit the mute button, but seriously guys, if you share a planet with female humans - WHICH YOU DO - you really should stick around. We’ve been listening to dick jokes from

Dec 13 2018 John Wilbanks - data commons still uncommon, but we're working on it!

Dec 14th, 2018 33m 50s

This week, you’ll hear from John Wilbanks, Chief Commons Officer at Sage Bionetworks. Yeah, that’s most definitely a Nerdus Maximus title, but John does very cool stuff around making data more accessible and usable by the research community AND

Healthcare Is HILARIOUS! Chronic Sex - intersectionality, humor, and ACEs, o my!

Dec 2nd, 2018 25m 53s

This week, you’ll hear my conversation with Kirsten Schultz, a sex educator, activist, writer, and professional troublemaker (my tribe!) who has a real grasp on all 360 degrees of the compass of the interlocking issues driving conversation abou

Healthcare Is HILARIOUS! F**k You Pay Me (for my) Data

Nov 18th, 2018 29m 1s

This episode has some slices from a debate I had with Niam Yaraghi about whether or not people should be cut in on the gold being mined from the data all of us create every day in the digital economy. That happens with all parts of our digital

HisH Heidi Gardner - It's the methodology, kids!

Oct 28th, 2018 19m 14s

Heidi Gardner is a clinical trials methodologist at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, working on making randomized controlled trials, called RCTs, more understandable, accessible, and, well, fun, for people to be involved in. Since RCTs

Danny van Leeuwen - Pathologically optimistic as an operating model!

Oct 21st, 2018 15m 5s

This week, we’ve got Danny van Leeuwen, Health Hats himself! We met up at the Patient Centered Clinical Decision Support Learning Network annual meeting (mouthful, but it’s healthcare, and healthcare loves long and complicated), where Danny spo

Jane Sarasohn-Kahn - Healthcare Econ Explain Like I'm Five

Oct 14th, 2018 21m 6s

Hear all about health economics from Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, my bestie who keeps me up to date on all the 411 about impact on the consumer - that’s you and me, folks! - of the health policy arguments and health coverage ideas that happen all day, e

Healthcare Is HILARIOUS at #CochraneForAll - Bagpipes, science, and crisis comms

Sep 24th, 2018 19m 4s

I was at the Cochrane Colloquium - I’m quoting directly from their website here, “the Colloquium is an annual event, bringing people together from around the world to discuss research into important global health questions and promote evidence-

The Advocate Is In! Meet Claire Sachs

Sep 16th, 2018 15m 13s

This week’s feature is a conversation with Claire Sachs, who has enough “lived experience” of being a patient for at least a dozen people - lucky her! I encourage you to read her story on her Patient Advocates Chronicle website for the full 411

Helen Figge, Health IT disruption ninja

Sep 9th, 2018 16m 2s

This week’s episode includes a conversation with Helen Figge, who’s a health IT and health tech ninja with deep experience in teaching and implementing innovation in healthcare, a longtime member of HIMSS, and a go-to voice on driving healthcar

Jeanne Pinder of Clear Health Costs - JOURNALISM FTW!

Sep 2nd, 2018 19m 20s

This week’s episode includes a conversation with Jeanne Pinder, the founder of Clear Health Costs, a data journalism project that’s aimed at finding out exactly what healthcare prices really are, in towns and cities across America. By partnerin

Healthcare Is HILARIOUS! Neel Shah - Maternal Mortality, Costs of Care, and more ...

Aug 26th, 2018 16m 22s

This week’s edition is the meat of a conversation I had with Neel Shah, an obstetrician and Harvard professor who’s also a warrior on behalf of maternal health, safe deliveries, and making US healthcare more focused on value versus “how much ca

Healthcare Is HILARIOUS! August 16 2018 Blackford Middleton

Aug 24th, 2018 13m 42s

This week you’re gonna hear from Blackford Middleton, brainiac health information dude with a long history of working to make healthcare data systems actually WORK. A never-ending task. Blackford is Chief Informatics and Innovation Officer at A

Healthcare Is HILARIOUS! August 9 2018 Venture Valkyrie Lisa Suennen

Aug 24th, 2018 17m 25s

This week you’re gonna hear from Lisa Suennen, Venture Valkyrie herself - she shares her thoughts on blockchain in tech (whiz bang buzzword alert!), on price transparency, and how tech continues to transform the healthcare landscape … slowly.

Healthcare Is HILARIOUS! August 2 2018 Matthew Holt

Aug 7th, 2018 15m 42s

This week’s episode features slices from a recent conversation I had with Matthew Holt, who is, among many other things, the founder of The Health Care Blog, co-founder of the Health 2.0 universe of conferences, now leading SMACK.health, an adv

Healthcare Is HILARIOUS! July 26 2018 edition - terminal optimist Linnea Olson

Jul 29th, 2018 18m 15s

Meet Linnea Olson, terminal optimist. She’s living with Stage IV lung cancer, and has quite a story to tell about surviving and thriving, even when the going gets tough. Like, say, when your health insurer terminates you. Linnea on Twitterht

Healthcare Is HILARIOUS! July 19 2018 Edition - Andrea Borondy Kitts

Jul 24th, 2018 15m 43s

One of my besties in the empowered patient advocacy game is Andrea Borondy Kitts. In this episode, we’ll hear how she engineered a second career as a patient advocate and healthcare researcher, and how she’s navigated her own Adventures in Heal

Healthcare Is HILARIOUS! July 9 2018 edition PJ Mierau

Jul 15th, 2018 16m 22s

When I was at Health Datapalooza in April, I met a guy who founded a patient co-op. He’s an IT guy and teacher. His name? PJ Mierau. linkedin.com/in/pj-mierau-5b83aa149. The co-op? Patient Critical. https://patientcritical.com/ We talked

Healthcare Is HILARIOUS! June 14 edition - Wendell Potter!

Jul 6th, 2018 18m 8s

This week, the feature is my conversation with Wendell Potter, who was in the belly of the health insurance beast at a pretty high level, as a senior communications guy at Cigna, and then had what he describes as a crisis of conscience that led

Healthcare Is HILARIOUS! June 28 2018 edition - ACADEMY HEALTH!

Jul 2nd, 2018 15m 13s

Academy Health Annual Research Meeting - O MY! I got the chance to attend the DC health policy and research think tank’s annual firehose of all things health services research - what works, what doesn’t, new ideas on how/what/when/where/why he

Healthcare Is HILARIOUS! June 21 2018 edition - ZAC JIWA!

Jun 24th, 2018 20m 15s

This week, you get the meat of my conversation with Zac Jiwa - a health tech maven who’s been in leadership posts in state and private sector health IT organizations. We talked about social determinants of health. We chewed on how to break the

Healthcare Is HILARIOUS! June 7 2018 edition - TED EYTAN!

Jun 10th, 2018 19m 16s

This week’s edition features a conversation I had with Ted Eytan, a family medicine doc who’s the Medical Director of the Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health in DC. https://international.kaiserpermanente.org/ted-eytan-md-ms-mph/ We tal

Healthcare Is HILARIOUS! May 31 2018 - Ruth Carlos!

May 31st, 2018 14m 50s

We’ve got a guest this week - radiologist super-star RUTH CARLOS! Ruth Carlos MD on Twitter https://twitter.com/ruthcarlosmd?lang=en Ruth Carlos MD profile page on University of Michigan site: http://ihpi.umich.edu/our-experts/rcarlos Who