Latest Healtheconomics Podcast Episodes
S4, E2: MD Anderson's Meng Li on Oral Oncology Spending
Redeeming Value - June 02, 2022 16:45 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsWe're always more interested in ASCO presentations that focus on spending and prices than we are about the next great breakthrough -- we're stay-in-your-line types -- so we were excited to see new research quantifying the impact of oral oncology medicines on overall spending and out-of-pocket sp...
S4, E1: 46Brooklyn's Antonio Ciaccia on Jan. 1 Price Hikes
Redeeming Value - January 25, 2022 20:23 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsWhile Jan. 1 means sleeping off a campagne-induced hangover for many, for drug-price wonks, it means an opportunity to look at price-change behavior in the pharmaceutical market, as January is traditionally the month where most list-priceadjustments happen. Antonio Ciaccia from 46Brooklyn and ...
S3 E5: Lou Garrison and the Possibility of a U.S. Health Technology Assessment
Redeeming Value - September 15, 2021 19:31 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsCalls for more involvement from the United States government in how medicines are priced have inevitably given rise to questions about the infrastructure required to adjudicate questions of value in medicine. One possibility would be the establishment of a health technology assessment body ...
S3 E4: Discern's Christine Juday on Value-Based Insurance Design
Redeeming Value - August 27, 2021 17:48 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsValue-based insurance design (VBID) uses incentives to increase health care quality and to promote cost efficient health care services and consumer choices. But like all approaches to health care cost containment, VBID isn’t one-size-fits-all. For VBID to be effective—that is, promote high-quali...
S3 E3: Brad Loncar on Whether Pricing Pressure is Coming in Oncology
Redeeming Value - July 14, 2021 17:41 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsLaunch prices in oncology have been rising -- a reflection, in part, of the growing clinical power of the medicines -- raising the question whether doctors, payers and others might try to push down prices of cancer medicines. Loncar Investment's Brad Loncar joins us to lend his perspective on th...
Healthcare's low Digitization Index
Gregory Schmidt, MD - May 24, 2021 15:17 - 5 minutesHealthcare remains one of the least digitized sectors of the economy. Article: https://www.gregoryschmidt.com/articles/healthcare-digitization-index
Healthcare productivity is the (second) worst
Gregory Schmidt, MD - May 21, 2021 18:57 - 2 minutesBetween 1990 and 2007 healthcare was the second worst sector of the USA economy in productivity improvement. In fact it had become less productive with time. Article: https:/www.gregoryschmidt.com/articles/healthcare-productivity-2014
Growth in healthcare spending outpaces growth in GDP
Gregory Schmidt, MD - May 17, 2021 15:13 - 6 minutesCountries spend more on healthcare each year than their economy grows. Can this continue forever? Article: www.gregoryschmidt.com/articles/growth-healthcare-vs-gdp #HealthEcon
CBC hides inflammatory article published on Nursing Day
Gregory Schmidt, MD - May 17, 2021 15:09 - 7 minutesCBC News published an article on Nursing Day that provoked public outcry. It turns out that the details of the original article were incorrect. CBC proceeded to rewrite the article (a new headline, byline, and content) but the new article was published overtop of their existing article.
Single-sentence summaries improve EHR data display
Gregory Schmidt, MD - May 04, 2021 19:38 - 9 minutesThe addition of single-sentence summaries can dramatically improve the information communicated when generating summaries of patient data. This example focuses on trying to display that two consultations occurred in the same day. Article: https://www.gregoryschmidt.com/articles/single-sent...
Risks of using medical story arcs
Gregory Schmidt, MD - May 04, 2021 03:02 - 11 minutesWhen we fit the patient's narrative into a typical medical story arc, we risk making diagnostic errors. Article: https://www.gregoryschmidt.com/articles/risks-of-using-medical-story-arcs
Product Packaging UX: hard to open cardboard boxes
Gregory Schmidt, MD - April 26, 2021 01:07 - 6 minutesSometimes it is not clear which side of the box should be opened. Article: https://www.gregoryschmidt.com/articles/le-creusets-box
5 Principles of Two-Factor Code Design
Gregory Schmidt, MD - April 25, 2021 04:49 - 5 minutesDo we even need letters in the code? Are number only codes preferred? Article: https://www.gregoryschmidt.com/articles/two-factor-design
The patient's narrative is never written down
Gregory Schmidt, MD - April 24, 2021 03:56 - 6 minutesSummarizing the patient's narrative into a medical note introduces error into the earliest steps of the diagnostic and record-keeping process. Article: https://www.gregoryschmidt.com/articles/the-patients-narrative-is-never-written-down
The patient's first-person narrative
Gregory Schmidt, MD - April 19, 2021 03:55 - 5 minutesThe original first-person patient narrative forms the foundation of clinical medicine, yet its original form rapidly becomes contaminated and evolve once the patient enters the medical system. Article: https://www.gregoryschmidt.com/articles/patient-first-person-narrative
Series introduction: narrative language in medicine
Gregory Schmidt, MD - April 19, 2021 03:54 - 2 minutesNarrative language is everywhere in medicine. How does this influence how we think & document patient information? Article: https://www.gregoryschmidt.com/articles/narrative-language-in-medicine-intro Custom fields
Back-in angle parking
Gregory Schmidt, MD - April 12, 2021 04:25 - 3 minutesBack-in angle parking combines the benefits of angle parking with those of bcak-in parking. Article: https://www.gregoryschmidt.com/articles/reverse-angle-parking
Why do Americans not back into parking spaces?
Gregory Schmidt, MD - April 01, 2021 04:03 - 8 minutesIn some countries most cars back-into parking spaces. In other countries, almost nobody does. Why is this? Article: https://www.gregoryschmidt.com/articles/why-do-americans-not-back-into-parking-spaces
Ways to avoid fatalities from car backovers
Gregory Schmidt, MD - March 28, 2021 19:25 - 7 minutesHelp reduce backover injuries and fatalities with these ideas. Full article: https://www.gregoryschmidt.com/articles/ways-to-avoid-fatalities-from-car-backovers
Deaths from cars backing-over people
Gregory Schmidt, MD - March 27, 2021 15:33 - 4 minutesEach week in the USA, an estimated 280 people are injured and 4-5 people die as a result of backover injuries. Most of them children. Article: https://www.gregoryschmidt.com/articles/backover-deaths
Costco's extra-wide parking stalls
Gregory Schmidt, MD - March 26, 2021 19:54 - 1 minuteCostco puts extra space between their parking stalls which ensures cars are always centered in the extra-wide parking stall. Full article: https://www.gregoryschmidt.com/articles/extra-wide-parking-stalls
S3 E2 Peter Pitts on His New Book, "The Value Equation"
Redeeming Value - March 12, 2021 13:28 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThe COVID-19 pandemic has served as a wake-up call for the healthcare ecosystem to recognize the urgencies of working together to achieve life-changing, economy-saving advancements. Leslie Isenegger interview Center for Medicine in the Public Interest President Peter Pitts about his new book, Th...
S3 E1: West Health's Sean Dickson Discusses Medicaid Rebate Caps
Redeeming Value - February 12, 2021 16:43 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsEarly legislative language from the House of Representatives on the newest COVID-19 stimulus bill includes a provision to remove the "rebate cap" in Medicaid. That has the potential to put drugmakers in a position where they are paying states every time certain medicines are prescribed. We inter...
Life Update: 2020
Gregory Schmidt, MD - January 09, 2021 06:59 - 1 minute2020 was quiet year for new posts on this website, but busy year for Gregory. Read at: www.gregoryschmidt.com/article/life-update-2020
S2 E6 W2O's Courtney Tyne with Instant Analysis on the Election Results (So Far)
Redeeming Value - November 04, 2020 14:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsWell, it's 2020, so it shouldn't be surprising that the United States awoke the morning after Election Day to uncounted ballots and unanswered questions. Fortunately, W2O Group Director Courtney Tyne joined the podcast to make sense of where things stand -- 12 hours after polls closed -- on drug...
S2 E5: AAM's Dan Leonard on What's Next for Generic Drugs and Biosimilars
Redeeming Value - November 03, 2020 05:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThe Association for Accessible Medicines' new president and CEO, Dan Leonard, goes behind the mic to talk about the pathway to his new gig, the promise of biosimilars, what the 2020 election means for the generic drug industry, and why COVID-19 has underscored the public health impact of generic...
S2 E4: Ted Slafsky on 340B, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going
Redeeming Value - October 29, 2020 20:27 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsBrian talks to Ted Slafsky, the founder and principal of Wexford Solutions and publisher and CEO of 340B Report. 340B -- the program under which certain health care entities that treat underserved populations can get reduced-price prescription drugs -- has become a flashpoint this year, with s...
S2 E3: Peter Kolchinsky on Where Drug-Pricing Policy Solutions Go Wrong
Redeeming Value - October 20, 2020 15:07 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsPeter Kolchinsky, RA Capital's founder and managing partner, joins to talk about why so many of the policy ideas floated around drug-pricing are wrongheaded. Industry is going to have to give "a pound of flesh," Kolchinsky argued, and he's explicit on the business practices biopharma must abando...
S2 E2: Jason Shafrin on Where -- and Why -- ICER Really Matters
Redeeming Value - September 29, 2020 15:06 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsPRECISIONheor Vice President Jason Shafrin pops in to talk about the Institute of Clinical and Economic Review and the broader question of where the group's influence is centered and the elements of ICER reports that stakeholders are paying attention to. For more from Jason, check of his work...
S2 E1 Jason Buxbaum, Medicines and Life Expectancy
Redeeming Value - September 16, 2020 17:30 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsBrian talks to Jason Buxbaum, who worked with Harvard's David Cutler and others to determine what interventions drove the 3.3-year increase in life expectancy between 1990 and 2015.
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