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Will Consumers Care About Amazon-One Medical?

Jared, Zain, and regular contributor James Gardner dive deep on the Amazon-One Medical merger from the consumer’s point of view and what it could say about the future presence of retail brands … or lack thereof. If Amazon strives to be Earth’s Most Customer-Centric Company, what’s their play in an industry that’s still looking to…

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Healthcare Metaverse Trends

Brian Kalis dives into Accenture’s newest research about the Metaverse in healthcare. There’s a lot more going on in the Metaverse than you might realize, and Brian is here to guide us through some of the key business opportunities that are emerging right now, as well as what’s on the horizon in the next few…

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One Payvider to Rule Them All

Jeff Goldsmith, author of some of the most detailed research on the UnitedHealth/Optum conglomerate, is in the house with Jared and guest co-host James Gardner to discuss the payvider’s approach to coopetition, from their blueprint for building consumer-first services, to the players that they don’t consider to be competitors.  All that, plus the Flava of…

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It’s Time We Treat Medical Records Requests as a Critical Customer Service Issue with Grace Cordovano

There are many areas where customer service is lacking in healthcare, but few are more egregious than the medical records request process. It’s frustratingly slow, needlessly opaque, and contributes to patient safety issues and staff burnout. And…

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Take the Burden Off the Consumer

Beth Bierbower is in the house to explore the consumer-first aspects of payviders, from their dualistic business models to how they employ experience design. Beth goes deep on the opportunities for payviders to take the burden off of consumers and raise the bar for experience once and for all. All that, plus the Flava of…

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UnitedHealth Group’s Disruptive DNA

UnitedHealth Group is a Fortune 5 company — 5x the size of the largest health system — and competes with everyone, including themselves. Does that make them frenemies, and what does their market presence signal about their disruptive DNA? Jared and Zain dig in with James Gardner.  All that, plus the Flava of the Week…

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Seriously, What’s a Metaverse?

Johnny Rodriguez from Fresh Consulting is here to give us a guided tour of the Metaverse, or more appropriately, metaverses. Johnny is actively tracking more than 200 metaverse environments, and he walks us through what we should know now as well as what we should be paying attention to in the near future. Get ready…

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“The Olympics of Tech” – Collision Conference 2022

This episode of This Week in Health Tech focuses on one of the biggest tech conferences of North America, Collision Conference 2022. Collision attracts people from more than 125 countries and more than 35000 people. Vik shares the stories meeting the brightest minds in tech and innovative companies. Very different than the other healthcare tech…

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Specialty Care’s Place in the Value-Based Puzzle

Ian Koons is in the house to share some provocative thinking about new models of specialty care. We’ve talked a lot about innovative primary care models this season, and Ian will tell us how his company Karoo Health is using some of those same disruptive features building a next-gen value-based model for specialty care.  All…

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Meeting “Consumer-Grade” Expectations

By Drake Pusey, Founder & Principal Strategist at Volition Project In the early days of the internet, back when we called it the “World Wide Web”, user experience designers were hit with a grim reality: The users they were designing websites for spent 99% of their time on other websites. Designers realized that in this…

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