In this episode, host Dr. Bob Kaiser welcomes Aaron Bujnowski, FACHE, president of the North Texas Chapter of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE). They take a deep dive into the workings of ACHE, a 48,000-member organization dedicated to advancing leaders and the field of healthcare leadership excellence.

Kaiser is director of the MS/MBA in Healthcare Leadership and Management for Professionals at UT Dallas’ Naveen Jindal School of Management.

In this episode, host Dr. Bob Kaiser welcomes Mohamad Elwazer, founder and CEO of linedanceAI, to discuss artificial intelligence and how it can best be implemented in healthcare.

Nurse entrepreneur and change leader Rebecca Love joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser to discuss the challenges faced in the nursing profession and how to use innovation strategies to transform it. They also discuss the role of the Commission for Nurse Reimbursement, an organization Love started that works to address staffing shortages in the profession and change how Medicare reimburses health care systems to better reflect the work that nurses do.

Kaiser is director of the MS/MBA in Healthcare Leadership and Management for Professionals at UT Dallas’ Naveen Jindal School of Management.

Benjamin Fee, a health law attorney with Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman, P.C., joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for a discussion about hospital pricing transparency. Kaiser is director of the MS/MBA in Healthcare Leadership and Management for Professionals at UT Dallas’ Naveen Jindal School of Management.

Links discussed in this episode:

• https://apl.utdallas.edu/2021/09/30/the-ongoing-saga-of-hospital-price-transparency/
• https://turquoise.health/

Eric Bricker M.D., who appeared on  episode 49 of The Business of healthcare Podcast, returns to discuss with host Dr. Bob Kaiser various topics, including realigning healthcare incentives, integrated health plans, the concept of a klugeocracy — an assortment of ill-suited patches and quick fixes — whether healthcare is a business, and the creation of pockets of excellence in the industry. Bricker is the chief medical officer of AHealthcareZ.com, which offers 400+ educational videos related to healthcare finance. Kaiser is director of the MS/MBA in Healthcare Leadership and Management for Professionals at UT Dallas’ Naveen Jindal School of Management.

In this episode, Amit Khanna, senior vice president and general manager of Salesforce’s Health & Life Sciences division, and host Dr. Bob Kaiser delve into the fascinating transformation happening within the healthcare industry, driven by the integration of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems. The episode explores how CRM technology, originally designed for business-client interactions, is being leveraged to "consumerize" the healthcare system, ultimately benefiting both patients and healthcare providers.

In this episode, cybersecurity expert Joshua Spencer joins host Bob Kaiser for a look into the challenges and opportunities related to maintaining information security in the healthcare ecosystem. Spencer is founder and CIO of FortaTech Security after having served as CTO of UT Southwestern Medical Center for more than 12 years.

Amy McDonough, managing director and general manager of Fitbit Health Solutions at Google, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for a discussion about how wearable technologies are helping transform the “sick care” industry into a true healthcare industry.

Links:

• Published Research
• 3rd Party Studies
• Fitbit User Analysis
• AFib & the Fitbit Heart Study

In the episode, Dr. Amy King, executive director of West Coast University -Texas in Richardson, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for a discussion about the nurse’s critical place in the healthcare ecosystem.

Jonathan K. Henderson, business services division chair and corporate & transactional chair at Polsinelli, an AM Law 100 law firm, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for a look into sustainability as it relates to the healthcare industry. Their conversation focuses on Henderson’s white paper, “Health Care ‘Prime’: Patient-Centered Sustainable Health Care.”

In this episode, host Dr. Bob Kaiser speaks with Shiv Gaglani, co-founder and CEO of Osmosis.org. They discuss why Gaglani and his co-founder Ryan Haynes paused their medical-school studies to tackle the building of a modern healthcare education platform and how Osmosis grew it into a user base of more than 3 million students. The episode was recorded on Rare Diseases Day. They discuss the initiative that the company launched to raise awareness of rare diseases through its Year of the Zebra newsletter.