Creating a New Healthcare

In this episode of Creating a New Healthcare, Dr. Zeev Neuwirth interviews Cathryn Gunther, a seasoned Pharma executive, who discusses her passion and award winning efforts to advance employee health at Merck; and shares a glimpse into Merck’s global population health initiatives.  We explore the overlap of employee health, community health & population health.; and discover the potential for employee health to serve as a channel for improving population health.  Cathryn leaves healthcare leaders with a wonderfully simple directive, “Make the healthy choice, the easy choice…”

In this episode of Creating a New Healthcare, Dr. Zeev Neuwirth interviews Tom Charland, CEO of Merchant Medicine and one of the leading experts in the On Demand/Urgent Care industry.  Tom reveals the customer oriented and data driven underpinnings that have led to the sky-rocketing growth of the Urgent Care sector.  He also explains how this business orientation can lead to consistently superior clinical care, as well as greater convenience and access, compared to offerings of lower acuity/lower complexity Urgent Care within the traditional Primary Care setting.  Tom views On-Demand care as complementary rather than competitive to traditional Primary Care, and describes how providers can and are integrating this into their practices and integrated delivery networks.

Introduction to a podcast series focused on sharing new perspectives in healthcare.