DMSG Healthcare Podcast: Recent Episodes
The Denver Medical Study Group
The DMSG Vision is to invite national healthcare leaders to talk about the challenges and opportunities that healthcare providers and consumers face. The DMSG meetings and interviews have resulted in the creation of the DMSG National Healthcare Think Tank.
Donna Lynne, CEO, Denver Health, shares how DHHA and its Community Partners make Denver a better place to live and work, not just for traditional medicine, but a whole variety of other services. The breadth of services Denver Health provides is to support residents of the City and County as well as sixty two of Colorado’s sixty four counties, other states and countries.
Eric Zacharias, MD, Chief Medical Officer, COPIC, talks about the opportunities and challenges of AI for healthcare. But cautions that it is not without significant professional liability concerns.
With the massive impact on so many healthcare organizations from the cyberattack on Change Healthcare on Feb. 21, 2024, maybe the bigger problem to discuss is around 3rd party risk and understanding how to properly evaluate vendors that store and access patient data.
The core message is every organization’s journey is unique. Good culture is not good enough when healthcare has a lot of change going on. There must be a strong culture that is people centered where people feel they’re in it together. Learn how culture not only eats your breakfast, but it also eats your entire future.
A review of the past three years of how transactions activity looked during the pandemic is shared by our Healthcare Strategist. She also looks at the new year with a strategy of caution while being excited as changes are taking place at a rapid pace.
What medical groups can do to overcome the static payments and higher costs will create great opportunities in the future for their practices. Learn how APPs and EHR technology, among other things, can help minimize the “squeeze”
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Ben Anderson, MBA, MHCDS, shares memories of his role as V.P., Rural Health and Hospitals at CHA and talks about building “Mayo Clinic in the rural plains” as he returns to the CEO role in rural Kansas. He shares about his excitement at being at Hutchinson Regional Healthcare System and the privilege to work alongside of the HRHS board, medical staff and all HRHS team members. He also shares his excitement for his family getting the benefit of a rural environment where they can be more active outdoors and finding ways to serve their community.
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Lt. Governor Diane Primavera and CIVHC CEO, Kristin Paulson, talk about where Telehealth technology is, where it is going and how it will continue to complement in person healthcare across the State of Colorado. It has provided a valuable healthcare resource during COVID and will continue to expand quality at home patient care through Telehealth technology across Colorado.
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Christine Lum Lung, MD, MBA, Chief Executive Officer of Origin Healthcare, explains how this concept of healthcare could revolutionize how healthcare can most effectively be provided in the home. The hybrid structure of Advanced Care at Home as provided by Origin’s team of healthcare providers has shown that patients have much better outcomes and at a lower cost.
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John Tynes, MD, CMO of Saint Joseph Hospital, Intermountain Health, talks about the opportunities and challenges he has as Chief Medical Officer. He shares the importance of a strong healthy culture a hospital needs in order to build a collaborative atmosphere across the various teams to provide good access to patient care.
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Claire Ernst, JD, Director of Government Affairs for MGMA shares what she and her staff do in Washington, D.C. on behalf of medical groups. She gives an update on what’s ...
Dr. Kent Hutson, MD, CPE, Director of Artificial Intelligence Clinical Operations for Radiology Partners has led their group starting six or seven years ago on using AI for real-time report analysis, NOT just images. However, the main challenge initially was educating radiologists. However, now with a high 80% compliance rate, the enhanced detection rate by using AI plus the radiologist, they can identify more abnormal studies much better.
Todd Welter, Chairman and CEO, Welter Healthcare Partners, talks about how his company focuses on payer relationships with providers and hospitals and how we as consumers can be more proactive.
Jeff Tieman, CEO of the Colorado Hospital Association talks about the challenges CHA’s members face. The big issue is the general growing hostility that patients have toward hospital staff. It’s ...
Chris Hadley is a guest on the DMSG Healthcare Podcast when Dana Jacoby, Founder & CEO of Vector Medical Group turns the tables and guest hosts an interview with Chris. ...
Dana Jacoby, Founder and CEO of Vector Medical Group talks about where the Kaiser-Geisinger merger is going, how AI is going to be largest disruption to physicians’ careers and what ...
Breanna Wong, Principal Manager, Product Strategy, Nuance, a Microsoft company, gives our listeners a better understanding of generative AI and its various algorithms, like ChatGPT and GPT-4, and how they ...
Dana Jacoby, CEO of Vector Medical Group, stopped long enough today to share what is going on now with new twists to healthcare mergers and acquisitions. The opportunities for how ...
Mental health is important for everyone since it’s likely that as some point in our lives, we will have some sort of mental health crisis. It’s important that we erase ...
Ben Ochs, CEO of Anchor Health Properties, shares how AHP has grown with the focus on healthcare and how they bring a refreshing perspective to healthcare real estate through creative strategies for health systems and medical groups.
Dr. Tommy Thomas, CEO of Opposite Strengths, shares how Healthcare Leaders can move from practical thinking to theoretical thinking through visualization as a very important part of being a successful organization and leading a successful organization.
Jonathan Wiik, Vice President, Health Insights with Fin Thrive shares his research findings about patients’ behavior coming out of COVID as they look for better healthcare clerically, financially and operationally. The Healthcare industry has the opportunity to make healthcare better rather than leaving it the way it was.
Dana Jacoby, CEO and Founder of Vector Medical Group walks us through the past few weeks of bank financing changes and a look back at 2021-2022 private equity investment strategies and how these P.E. companies are looking at their investment strategies now. There’s a new definition of due diligence requirements in current decision-making process.
Jamie Smith, President of Saint Joseph Hospital talks about how his organization dealt with the challenges during COVID and how these challenges and changes bring innovation and opportunities for healthcare with new types of care models and more interesting ways for patients to get the care they need.
Doug Jackson, CEO and Chief Story Telling Officer shares the culture of Project C.U.R.E.’s volunteers which is to connect passion with purpose that lines up with something that really matters. CEOs of for-profit corporations want to know how this organization gets 1000 volunteers lined up to go a certain direction without getting paid. Everyone gets paid, not necessarily in cash. These volunteers get paid by stories from Doug of what they’ve done serving other people, here and in 138 countries around the world.
Kevin Stansbury, CEO of Lincoln Community Hospital in Eastern Colorado talks about the issues his hospital and staff, both professional and administrative, deal with in providing care for its communities. The challenges include medical reimbursement, staffing shortages as well as lack of educational services to help residents become more informed about better personal hygiene.
Brian Wong, MD and Tommy Thomas, PhD share their knowledge and coaching skills to tell how healthcare leaders can be more effective as leaders of their organizations and what questions healthcare providers should ask their patients. Join me as we hear these two coaching experts help us understand the impact that culture and leadership has on creating a organizationally healthy healthcare system
Brian Wong, MD, CEO of the Bedside Trust shares how organizational behavior impacts the daily interactions with each other and with patients—from top to bottom throughout the organization. Roll them up together in aggregate and you begin to define the culture of your organization.
Dana Jacoby, founder of Vector Medical Group and Healthcare Strategist along with Gary Herschman, Healthcare Transaction Lawyer with Epstein, Becker and Green Law Firm give us a “bird’s eye” view of private equity investment activity we can anticipate in 2023.
Dr. Gerald Zarlengo shares the story of COPIC’s history and his role in the last four years as CEO to continue to promote the vision of COPIC—“improving medicine in the communities we serve”. He talks about COPIC’s focus on helping physicians and hospitals improve risk management and patient safety. As Dr. Zarlengo says, medicine is constantly changing which is one of the industry challenges and one that COPIC focuses on the strategy of “keeping a step ahead”.
Lotte Dyrbye, MD, MHPE, is the first to hold this newly created position as Senior Assoc. Dean of Faculty and Chief Well-being Officer for CU School of Medicine. She will oversee faculty development programs and lead initiatives that will reduce burnout among physicians, residents, and medical students.
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Alan Lembitz, MD, CMO leads COPIC’s dedicated Patient Safety and Risk Management training programs for medical students and residents of all specialties in teaching health systems here in Colorado and regionally.
Mike Fisher, Professor of Rueckert-Hartman College of Health Professions, Regis University, while on teaching project with Alaska Pacific University, learns a great deal about Alaska’s healthcare dynamics that he shares ...
Andrew Hajde, CMPE, Director of Content & Consulting, talks about how MGMA members’ benefits help them deal with the constantly evolving and changing dynamics of healthcare.
Sue Turney, MD, MS, FACP, FACPME, CEO of MCHS shares how the pandemic has “supercharged” existing Rural America’s healthcare elements. The strategy that MCHS uses to recover is to find ...
Donna Lynne, DrPH, talks about her experience at Columbia University Irving Medical Center during her time there. She also shares her vision as the new CEO of Denver Health as ...
Garrett Chism, Director of Metro State University Denver’s Graduate Program in Health Administration talks about their job as educators is to prepare students for jobs and skills that are needed ...
Chief Nurse Executive, Beth Beckman, at Yale New Haven Health System, tells nurses to shake off any feelings of despair and show how to move forward to solve problems. There ...
Scott Becker, lawyer, founder, and publisher, talks about his two careers and how they complement each other—one as a McGuireWoods healthcare lawyer and the other as Becker’s Healthcare publisher.
Assistant Dean of DNP Programs and Associate Professor, College of Nursing, Univ. of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center, Laura Rosenthal, talks about the emotional trauma issues that nurses have been dealing ...
Retired Health System CEO and Leadership Coach, Glenn Robinson, knows the weariness, fatigue and burnout that leaders have. He helps them rediscover how to position their health delivery systems for ...
Gary Salman, CEO of Black Talon Security, LLC, cyber security specialist, answers the question how do you know that your patient records are secure? Black Talon Security is an expert ...
University College’s Academic Director, Rachel Rogers, talks about their Healthcare Management Master’s Program and expanding course content due to massive changes in healthcare during COVID. Their current programs of Healthcare ...
Eide Bailey Healthcare Manager Debbie Hayes shares about Eide Bailey’s Healthcare Division and her role as President of Colorado Medical Group Management Association. Colorado’s CMGMA Chapter is one of the ...
Dispatch Health Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder Kevin Riddleberger talks about how healthcare transformation in care delivery in the home is changing. The result of that transformation is better and ...
Why is the employee retention rate so low in American healthcare systems? Healthcare leaders should focus on creating communication, collaboration, and collegiality. Dr. Tommy Thomas’ “Opposite Strengths” system provides a ...
Rulon Stacey, Director of Graduate Programs at University of Colorado–Denver talks about CEO leadership and his transition to Missionary work during three year leave of absence from UC Denver and ...
In this interview, John shares some of the history of COPIC and the creation/mission of COPIC’s Financial Service Group. He also speaks about his relationship as COPIC’s representative on the ...
Dana Jacoby, CEO, Vector Medical Group updates us on Healthcare M&As and shares her story about the Denver Medical Study Group in her roles as Keynote Speaker, Advisory Board member ...