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Healthy Conversations brings together leaders and innovators in health care to talk about the biggest issues facing patients and providers today. Every month, we explore new topics to help uncover the clinical insights and emerging technologies transforming health care in real time.
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Going Digital in Suicide Prevention from 2023-09-20T03:01
We’re re-releasing a special two-part episode about innovations in suicide prevention in recognition of Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. In this second episode, Dr. Seth Feuerstein, the CEO o...
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Dispelling Misconceptions About Suicide from 2023-09-13T03:01
In recognition of Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, today we’re re-releasing a special two-part episode with Dr. Seth Feuerstein, a psychiatrist and researcher who’s made the study and treatme...
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Can the Future of Healthy Aging Be at Home? from 2023-08-09T03:00
If you look around, you’ll probably notice that the U.S. population is getting older. In fact, one in five people will be retirement age by 2030. And the latest Health Trends Report, The Fut...
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The Evolution and Challenges of Primary Care from 2023-07-26T03:01
Primary care is the backbone of the health care system. So the question is, how do you keep the primary care system itself healthy? That’s the timely topic of this Healthy Conversations...
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Taking Clinical Innovation in Health Care to the Next Level from 2023-07-12T03:01
While the health care industry can be challenging, with complex regulations and long-established bureaucracies, an innovative company called Redesign Health is working to transform it from withi...
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Why Good Health Means Your Mental Health, Too from 2023-06-21T03:01
How are we doing right now in terms of mental health in the United States? According to Dr. Taft Parsons III, the Chief Psychiatric Officer at CVS Health, the situation is alarming: “Before COV...
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The Impact of Genomics is Closer Than You Think from 2023-06-07T03:01
Genomics may seem like a field of study with minimal impact on our daily lives. But not for much longer — and certainly not to Dr. Deepak Srivastava, a cardiologist and president of the Gladston...
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How Genomics Can Benefit Us All from 2023-05-24T03:01
It’s been more than 20 years since the human genome was first sequenced. And now, a new version that’s been updated with 47 men and women of diverse origins, including African Americans, East A...
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Fighting Mental Health Stigma from 2023-05-10T03:00
Are Americans underestimating their mental health struggles? A new study from CVS Health and Harris Poll found that nearly three in four Americans describe their mental health as “excellent” or ...
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Autism Advocate Temple Grandin on Neurodivergent Thinking from 2023-04-26T03:00
A recent CDC study reported that one in 36 children in the United States is diagnosed with autism. Today’s guest, Temple Grandin, is one of the country’s most renowned voices on autism with an i...
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Diversity in Clinical Trials Leads to Richer Data from 2023-04-12T03:00
In part two of our conversation on clinical trials, we hear from two people directly involved in the effort to expand access to clinical trials in underserved communities. “There are challenges ...
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Getting More — and Different — Patients into Clinical Trials from 2023-03-29T03:00
Today, in the first of a two-part episode on increasing diversity in clinical trials, we hear from Dr. Owen Garrick, Chief Medical Officer of Clinical Trial Services at CVS Health. The unit, lau...
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Spurring Innovation in Service of Health Equity from 2023-03-15T03:00
In part two of our conversation about the Clinical Entrepreneur Programme from England’s National Health Service, our host, Dr. Daniel Kraft, continues his discussion with Dr. Tony Young, the pr...
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How the NHS Evolved to Support Physician Entrepreneurs from 2023-02-28T03:00
Clinicians are problem solvers by nature but taking an idea for a new innovation from concept to commercial market is not a skill widely taught in medical school. In 2015, England’s National Hea...
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Speeding Up Care Delivery for GI Patients from 2023-02-16T03:00
One in four people in the U.S. has been diagnosed with a gastrointestinal (GI) condition, says the co-founder and CEO of Oshi Health, Sam Holliday. The patient journey to diagnosis is costly and...
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The Many Ways VR is Getting Real - er from 2023-01-25T03:01
In Part 2 of the Healthy Conversations discussion with Dr. Brennan Spiegel, professor of medicine and public health at Cedar Sinai Health System, gastroenterologist, and VR pioneer, lets us peak...
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A Clinic in a Headset? The Exciting New World of VR from 2023-01-06T13:25:18
In the first of a 2-part episode on Healthy Conversations, Dr. Brennan Spiegel, a professor of medicine and public health at Cedars-Sinai Health System, gastroenterologist, and VR pioneer, discu...
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Wearables: The Empowering Uses of Data from 2022-04-13T03:00
As Daniel Shaw, VP, Consumer Innovation Products at CVS Health tells us, "At the end of the day it's how you use this data. How are you looking at this data? In what ways are you interpreting it? A...
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Kidney Care Goes Digital, More Accessible from 2022-03-30T09:50:58
Yonatan Adiri is out to revolutionize kidney care – and he’s already doing it. The founder and CEO of Healthy.io explains to Daniel how he’s been able to drive 53% compliance in urine testing among...
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Kidney care is changing, disparities persist from 2022-03-23T03:00
According to Dr. Bruce Culleton, Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Kidney Care at CVS Health, 93% of Americans who have kidney disease don't know they have it. And he tells Daniel some of t...
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The incomparable Bob Wachter from 2022-03-09T03:00
Daniel sat down with Bob Wachter to talk about the power of Twitter in public health, the continued evolution of patient-centered digital transformation, the very necessary adjustments to clinical ...
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Women&our new genomics age from 2022-02-09T06:54:27
Dr. Joanne Armstrong, Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for women's health and genomics at CVS Health, talks with Daniel about the incredible impact genes can play in women’s lives, helping ...
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Clinical genetic testing: State law, cost, and myth-based biology from 2022-01-26T03:00
Daniel explores the exciting world of genetic health with Dr. Robert Nussbaum, Chief Medical Officer at Invitae. Dr. Nussbaum dispels myths about interpreting genetic data, draws important distinct...
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A New age of pharmacists from 2022-01-12T03:00
The past few years may have been challenging but they’ve also brought about transformation in the pharmacy setting. Daniel speaks with Dr. Dan Knecht, the chief clinical innovation officer at CVS C...
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2021: A year of transformation from 2021-12-22T03:00
While 2021 has been a rollercoaster year, Daniel was able to cover plenty of exciting and innovative topics. He sat down with experts in public health data (discovering the data supply chain), p...
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The First Wave from 2021-12-15T03:00
Daniel speaks with award-winning filmmaker Matthew Heineman, who had exclusive access in March 2020 to one of New York’s largest and hardest-hit medical centers for his powerful documentary, The Fi...
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Treating SCD before it hurts from 2021-10-20T03:00
Daniel sits down with Dr. Patrick Hines, the founder and CEO at Functional Fluidics and the leading Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) researcher at Wayne State University in Detroit, where he set up a tran...
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The institutional challenges of sickle cell from 2021-10-06T09:30:50
Some 100,000 individuals in America alone are dealing with sickle cell. Daniel speaks with Joel Helle, Vice President of Physician Services for CVS Health, about how to change the often one-size...
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Reimagining private practice from 2021-09-16T03:00
Dr. Nitin Gupta is the founder of Rivertowns Pediatrics, a very different type of private practice. Having practiced from Newark, NJ to Caribou, ME, he’s landed on a value-based, concierge model...
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The future of oncology from 2021-08-25T03:00
Daniel sits down with Dr. Kim Blackwell, former oncologist and Eli Lilly trialist who is now the Chief Medical Officer at Tempus, a technology company that has built the world's largest library ...
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Treating the whole patient at CTCA from 2021-08-11T03:00
Daniel sits down with Dr. Pat Basu, President & CEO of Cancer Treatment Centers of America, to discuss his unique point of view on the evolution of oncology care, precision medicine, the cha...
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Defining functional medicine at the Cleveland Clinic from 2021-07-14T03:00
Daniel sits down with Dr. Mark Hyman, Head of Strategy & Innovation at the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine – “a paradigm shift in our thinking about disease.” Dr. Hyman says,...
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The evolution of “physician culture” from 2021-06-30T03:00
Daniel sits down with Dr. Robert Pearl, former surgeon and CEO at Permanente Medical Group for 18 years, about the culture of medicine and his new book Uncaring: How the Culture of Medic...
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Venture capital meets primary care (or PC2VC) from 2021-06-11T03:00
Daniel is a physician who wears many hats: inventor, founder, investor, and startup advisor. This week he sat down with another physician, Dr. Vineeta Agarwala, who has taken her clinical expert...
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Vaccination Insights: Part II from 2021-05-19T03:00
Daniel sat down with Dr. Dylan George, a biosecurity and data expert from Gingko Bioworks. Dylan’s career spans academia and a number of roles in the federal government — advising the Obama admi...
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Women’s Health: Part II from 2021-05-06T03:00
May is Women’s Health month, and Daniel sat down with Dr. Joanne Armstrong, Chief Medical Officer for Women's Health & Genomics at CVS Health, for both a tactical and macro-level look at how...
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Women's Health: Part I from 2021-04-21T03:00
Daniel speaks with Dr. Laurie Zephyrin, VP of Health Systems Equity at the Commonwealth Fund. Laurie was a key player in transforming women’s health at the VA, having trained as an OB-GYN before...
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Vaccination Insights from 2021-04-07T06:50
Daniel speaks with Dr. Sree Chaguturu, Chief Medical Officer, CVS Caremark about vaccine hesitancy — citing original research around common objections and physician best practices — as well as c...
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At-home care from 2021-02-08T09:00
In this episode, we explore the latest thinking and newest innovations in at-home care for seniors. Guests include AgeWave founders,Doctors Ken and Maddy Dychtwald, our own Adam Pellegrini (SVP Ent...
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COVID-19 Reset from 2020-10-16T09:30
There might not be a specific moment when we can hit the reset button and start to tackle systemic healthcare challenges with a clean slate, but smaller resets are already underway. Join us as we e...
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COVID-19 Recovery from 2020-09-10T09:00
In the second episode of Healthy Conversations — an open discussion among healthcare professionals about innovation, what we're learning on the front lines of this pandemic, and how our industry...
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COVID-19 Response from 2020-08-10T08:00
In the first of three COVID-19-focused episodes, listen in on robust discussions with CVS Health leaders and Dr. Scott Gottlieb, formercommissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, as they...
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