Consumer-First Health Group

032 – Legionella: A Manageable Risk for Health Systems | Dave Purkiss and Joseph Cotruvo | Legionella 2018

Today we’re talking about a widespread issue that’s extremely important to the business of healthcare, and probably not on your radar: Legionella. And more specifically Legionellosis, which is the most significant waterborne disease in the U.S….

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031 – Apple Health Records and Amazon/Berkshire/JP: Will they Matter?

There were two huge Digital Health stories in the past few weeks. Apple Health Records First we were introduced to . This new feature will allow consumers to download their health records from participating providers directly to their iPhone….

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030 – Why You Should Always Be Preparing to Sell Your Company | Dexter Braff | The Braff Group – Part 2

You’ve heard of “Always Be Closing”, right? Well today we’ll tell you why you should at least “Always Be Preparing” (to Close). Every entrepreneur can and should learn the ways of the M&A market and use that knowledge to inform the way they build…

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029 – JPM18, WinterTech, Startup Bundles & More

On this episode we recap the 36th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare conference (#JPM18), the Health 2.0 WinterTech event and talk about the “festival” that J.P. Morgan Week becomes in San Francisco. We cover the trends and topics coming out of the…

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028 – How to Analyze the Health IT Market | Dexter Braff | The Braff Group – Part 1

To be understood, seek first to understand. It applies in life, and it applies when you’re trying to gain traction with an innovative product, solution, or workflow in the Health IT market. Why? Because there are too many draws on your customers’…

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027 – Health Benefits as a Strategic Opportunity | Chris Skisak | HBCH

Read this Have you ever wondered why your employer buys your health insurance for you? They don’t get involved in car insurance, home owners, etc. Why healthcare? To understand that, you have to go all the way back to World War II. When the federal…

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QM02 – Digital Quality Measures 2.0 | Rick Moore | NCQA

On this episode, Rick Moore, CIO at NCQA, joins us for a discussion about what’s next for digital quality measurement. Rick likes to call this Digital Quality Measures 2.0 and you can see it coming to life in .  The program aims to take burden…

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024 – How to Listen Your Way to the Future of Healthcare | Dr. Chesley Richards | CDC

They say that civilization advances by extending the number of important things we can do without thinking about them. To me, that’s the promise of technology and it’s particularly true when it comes to artificial intelligence and machine learning….

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QM01 – Quality Measures: Past, Present and Future | John D’Amore – Diameter Health

On this episode, we talk with John D’Amore. John is Founder, President and Chief Strategy Officer at and has been working on Quality Measures in healthcare since the early 2000s. Yup, pre-EMR quality measures! John takes us on a fascinating journey…

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