HealthBiz with David E. Williams

Drug pricing is the hottest topic in healthcare, and ICER founder Dr. Steve Pearson is the coolest person to discuss it with. In this episode of the HealthBiz podcast, Steve describes how ICER compiles and analyzes clinical evidence to estimate the fair value of treatments for COVID-19 and other serious illnesses. As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2GTYhbNnvDHriDp7Xo9s6Z Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caretalk-healthcare-unfiltered/id1532402352 YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@CareTalkPodcast CareTalk website https://www.caretalkpodcast.com/ Host David E. Williams is president of healthcare strategy consulting firm Health Business Group. Episodes through March 2025 were produced by Dafna Williams.

Jean Mixer is Chief Digital Transformation Officer at Boston Children's Hospital. She discusses digital health, the pandemic, and what she'd do if she had a time machine.As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2GTYhbNnvDHriDp7Xo9s6Z Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caretalk-healthcare-unfiltered/id1532402352 YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@CareTalkPodcast CareTalk website https://www.caretalkpodcast.com/ Host David E. Williams is president of healthcare strategy consulting firm Health Business Group. Episodes through March 2025 were produced by Dafna Williams.

Mike Totterman and Alex Zapesochny are childhood friends who've started two successful healthcare technology companies together. Listen to their latest plans to upend the LASIK and contact lens markets.Show notes:Mike’s LinkedIn profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/totterman/Alex’s LinkedIn profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/zapesochny/ iCardiac Technologies (now part of ERT) https://www.ert.com/icardiac/ Clerio Vision https://www.cleriovision.com/ The Hard Thing about Hard Things by Ben Horowitz https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-hard-thing-about-hard-things-ben-horowitz?variant=32122118471714 The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande http://atulgawande.com/book/the-checklist-manifesto/ Health Business Group https://healthbusinessgroup.com/ David’s LinkedIn profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/davideugenewilliams/ As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2GTYhbNnvDHriDp7Xo9s6Z Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caretalk-healthcare-unfiltered/id1532402352 YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@CareTalkPodcast CareTalk website https://www.caretalkpodcast.com/ Host David E. Williams is president of healthcare strategy consulting firm Health Business Group. Episodes through March 2025 were produced by Dafna Williams.

When Dave Terry started his career in healthcare three decades ago, he noticed something odd and disturbing. The fee-for-service model meant doctors were paid for quantity, not for quality or cost effectiveness. Since then he’s been working to do something about it: for the first twenty years at American Practice Management, then Partners Healthcare and Harborside Healthcare. He made progress, but also learned the limitations of acting against entrenched interests.For the last decade he’s gotten even more serious, co-founding Remedy Partners in the wake of the Affordable Care Act and then Archway Health, where he is CEO. Archway helps physicians jump into the meaningful risk-based payment models that are finally on offer from the Feds and private carriers.I compared Dave’s quest to the Thirty Years’ War, but reminded him that there was a Hundred Years’ War, too, so he better gird himself.Show notes:Dave’s LinkedIn profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-terry-19b370/Archway Health https://www.archwayhealth.com/ BPCI Advanced https://innovation.cms.gov/innovation-models/bpci-advancedNo Rules Rules by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/606529/no-rules-rules-by-reed-hastings-and-erin-meyer/ The Everything Store by Bard Stone https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/brad-stone/the-everything-store/9780316219266/ Health Business Group https://healthbusinessgroup.com/ David’s LinkedIn profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/davideugenewilliams/ As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2GTYhbNnvDHriDp7Xo9s6Z Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caretalk-healthcare-unfiltered/id1532402352 YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@CareTalkPodcast CareTalk website https://www.caretalkpodcast.com/ Host David E. Williams is president of healthcare strategy consulting firm Health Business Group. Episodes through March 2025 were produced by Dafna Williams.

The pharmaceutical industry is one of the last to be transformed by the digital revolution. But companies like Roche and Novartis have been experimenting for a long while, and the fruits are finally ripening. Medullan CEO Ahmed Albaiti is a digital health pioneer. In this episode of the HealthBiz podcast, he takes us on a trip down the memory lane of digital health, sharing pharma’s successes and failures. We discuss the shock brought on by COVID-19 and why software is often classified as a medical device. He also shares his vision for an integrated and harmonized future for pharma, payers, providers --and patients. Show notes:Ahmed’s LinkedIn profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahmed-albaiti-211944/ Medullan https://www.medullan.com/Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300122237/nudge Health Business Group https://healthbusinessgroup.com/ David’s LinkedIn profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/davideugenewilliams/ As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2GTYhbNnvDHriDp7Xo9s6Z Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caretalk-healthcare-unfiltered/id1532402352 YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@CareTalkPodcast CareTalk website https://www.caretalkpodcast.com/ Host David E. Williams is president of healthcare strategy consulting firm Health Business Group. Episodes through March 2025 were produced by Dafna Williams.

Like many healthcare entrepreneurs, Daniel Kivatinos was a tech guy whose bad personal experience with the healthcare system led him to try to make things better. The founding of DrChrono a decade ago coincided with the birth of the iPad and iPhone, and the company has been closely linked to Apple hardware ever since. In fact, Daniel is such a hardcore Apple guy that he recommends buying two Apple watches so you can wear one while the other is charging!In this edition of the HealthBiz podcast, Daniel charts the history of DrChrono and shares what’s coming next with the Apple Watch, artificial intelligence and more.Show notes:Daniel’s LinkedIn profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/kivatinos/ DrChrono https://www.drchrono.com/ 2014 interview with Daniel on the Health Business Blog https://healthbusinessgroup.com/2014/10/ipad-ehr-drchrono-gears-up-for-healthkit/ Nimblr AI Tool https://nimblr.ai/home The Innovator’s Dilemma, by Clayton Christensen https://claytonchristensen.com/books/the-innovators-dilemma/ Health Business Group https://healthbusinessgroup.com/ David’s LinkedIn profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/davideugenewilliams/ As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2GTYhbNnvDHriDp7Xo9s6Z Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caretalk-healthcare-unfiltered/id1532402352 YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@CareTalkPodcast CareTalk website https://www.caretalkpodcast.com/ Host David E. Williams is president of healthcare strategy consulting firm Health Business Group. Episodes through March 2025 were produced by Dafna Williams.

Wouldn’t it be great if remdesivir magically cured COVID-19? Too bad it doesn’t. So what should we be willing to pay for a drug that shortens hospital stays and might reduce mortality? In this episode of HealthBiz, physician and healthcare executive Surya Singh shares his take on drug pricing, ICER and the future of the pandemic. Check out the links.Surya’s LinkedIn profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/surya-singh-8540032/ Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) remdesivir pricing model https://icer-review.org/announcements/alternative_pricing_models_for_remdesivir/ Letter from State Attorneys General about remdesivir pricing https://patreasury.gov/pdf/newsroom/Gilead-Sciences-Letter_Redacted.pdf Boston Globe article comparing MA and RI school reopening plans https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/18/metro/how-rhode-island-brought-most-students-back-in-person-learning-massachusetts-did-not/ Remdesivir https://www.gilead.com/remdesivir Inspiration for “Remdesivir powers, activate!” https://youtu.be/FouDjI3GzEI David’s LinkedIn profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/davideugenewilliams/ Health Business Group https://healthbusinessgroup.com/ As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2GTYhbNnvDHriDp7Xo9s6Z Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caretalk-healthcare-unfiltered/id1532402352 YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@CareTalkPodcast CareTalk website https://www.caretalkpodcast.com/ Host David E. Williams is president of healthcare strategy consulting firm Health Business Group. Episodes through March 2025 were produced by Dafna Williams.

Shahir Kassam-Adams is one of the most knowledgeable and outspoken people in healthcare. In this episode, Shahir shares his initially unsettling but ultimately reassuring view that "data will eat public health." He opines on interoperability and explains how his company, Datavant has promoted data sharing on COVID-19, leading to a plethora of interesting and potentially useful projects, including one that models the tradeoffs for specific American cities to reopen.Check out the links:Shahir’s LinkedIn profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/skassamadams/David’s predictions about the pandemic https://healthbusinessgroup.com/2020/09/five-pandemic-predictions-five-months-later-was-i-right/ Datavant https://datavant.com/COVID-19 Research Database https://covid19researchdatabase.org/Reopen Mapping Project https://reopenmappingproject.com/ The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis https://wwnorton.com/books/The-Fifth-Risk/American Gods by Neil Gaiman https://www.neilgaiman.com/works/Books/American+Gods/ Seveneves by Neil Stephenson https://www.nealstephenson.com/seveneves.html As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2GTYhbNnvDHriDp7Xo9s6Z Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caretalk-healthcare-unfiltered/id1532402352 YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@CareTalkPodcast CareTalk website https://www.caretalkpodcast.com/ Host David E. Williams is president of healthcare strategy consulting firm Health Business Group. Episodes through March 2025 were produced by Dafna Williams.

In-depth interviews with leaders in healthcare business and policy. Hosted by David E. Williams, president of Health Business Group.Find David on LinkedIn, The Health Business Blog, and Twitter.As of March 2025 HealthBiz is part of CareTalk. Healthcare. Unfiltered and can be found at the following links: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2GTYhbNnvDHriDp7Xo9s6Z Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/caretalk-healthcare-unfiltered/id1532402352 YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@CareTalkPodcast CareTalk website https://www.caretalkpodcast.com/ Host David E. Williams is president of healthcare strategy consulting firm Health Business Group. Episodes through March 2025 were produced by Dafna Williams.