ChalkTalkJim: Breaking Down the Game - A Guide to the Future of Healthcare
Are you curious about how the healthcare industry is changing?
Look no further than ChalkTalkJim, the podcast that brings together experts from across the healthcare system to discuss their business models and share insights on everything from payer models to life sciences, med-tech, and health IT.
With Chalk Talk Jim, you'll learn about product and service innovation in healthcare and discover how to innovate and thrive in this complex industry. Don't be intimidated anymore – tune in to Chalk Talk Jim today and join the conversation on the future of healthcare.
Episodes
92 episodes
Why 95% of AI Projects Never Reach Production
Robert Vandervoort spent five years inside Cisco's largest accounts watching AI initiatives stall, and he names the reason: the process was broken before the technology arrived. He and Jim Jordan dig into missing documentation, departments that...
From Personal Recovery to Healthcare Innovation: A Conversation with Steve Anderson
After a degenerative condition temporarily placed him in a wheelchair, Steve Anderson’s experience with emerging treatments led him to build RENUE Medical Centre. He joins Jim Jordan to explore physical therapy, orthobiologics, patient and dono...
Surgery Last: Regenerative Medicine Abroad
Steve Anderson explains why Renue Medical Centre, his specialty hospital in Nuevo Vallarta, puts physical therapy and orthobiologics ahead of surgery. He contrasts that pathway with the surgery-first habit in the United States and Canada, then ...
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Can a Cancer Therapy Win Without a Patent?
Drug approval rewards a single patented product proven in large trials. Dr. Francisco Contreras of Oasis of Hope argues that this model leaves out personalized cell therapies and cheap natural compounds that no company will pay to t...
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Your Website's Search Box Is Losing You Patients
Health systems pay to bring patients to their website, then lose them at the search box. Chris Pace of SearchStax, who was the former Sr. Director of Marketing for Banner Health. He was a SearchStax customer who was so confide...
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Seven Years to Twelve Weeks: Ending the Diagnostic Odyssey
Most families with an undiagnosed genetic disease spend about seven years getting an answer. Josh Resnikoff, founder and CEO of Sunstone Health, compresses that to twelve weeks. He explains how his software reads health insurance claims the way...
We See What We Treat: Radiopharmaceutical's Explained
Dr. Munir Ghesani is the Chief Medical Officer of United Theranostics. This company brings together leaders in nuclear medicine, radiology, molecular imaging, radiopharmaceutical therapy, clinical trials, and medical informatics to expand acces...
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A Breast Cancer Vaccine Built to Prevent & Treat
Dr. Amit Kumar, Chairman and CEO of Anixa Biosciences, explains why the world still has no true prophylactic cancer vaccine, and why his team believes breast cancer is where that changes. He walks through the protein that makes the ...
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The First 90 Days Decide Whether You Last Five Years
Neill Marshall and Kurt Mosley of HealthSearch Partners have placed hospital and health system leaders for more than three decades. They explain why the first 90 days in a new executive role predict whether a CEO is still in the chair in year f...
The Health Insurance Channel Most People Never See
Most people get insurance through an employer or an exchange and never think about how carriers actually reach them. Mike Smith has spent 33 years in the channel, recruiting independent agents in all 50 states and getting paid only when someone...
Velocity Over Length of Stay
Most hospitals measure the wrong thing. D'Alessandro measures velocity - how fast patients move in and out- and shows how a simple admit-versus-discharge graph exposes exactly where flow gets blocked. A full ICU is rarely full of the sickest pa...
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Beyond Disease Care: Building Health, Not Just Treating It
Peter Kevorkian, President of Life Chiropractic College West, makes the case that American healthcare is really disease care, a system that waits for something to break before it acts. He explains the difference between prevention and true h...
Insure the Engine: Why Your Income Needs Coverage
Aaron Brooker, a physician disability insurance specialist at LeverageRx, makes the case that income is the vehicle driving everything else you own. He breaks down own-occupation and partial-disability coverage, the exclusions that ambush resid...
The On-the-Job MBA: A Surgeon Decodes Healthcare's Money
Dr. Erica Urquhart spent a decade running a private orthopedic practice before going to business school, and by the time she got there, she had already earned what she calls an on-the-job MBA. In this episode, she walks through how physicians a...
Why Your Eyes Are Drying Out in the Screen Age
Dr. Pam Theriot, an optometrist and dry eye specialist, explains how the modern screen habit is quietly damaging our eyes. She breaks down why blink rate collapses from 21 times a minute to just 7 when we stare at a display, how the oil glands ...
You Can Own a Patent and Still Get Sued
Patent attorney James Gourley walks through three IP concepts that trip up healthcare innovators: the first-to-file system that rewards speed over invention dates, the freedom-to-operate opinion that protects you from willful infringement damag...
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We Only Get Paid If Patients Get Well
Cooper Zelnick of Groups Recover Together explains how an outpatient model built around small-group community and value-based contracts is reshaping addiction care. He walks through the pivot from cash pay to insurance, the metrics that matter ...
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No AI Without Practical Intelligence: Fixing the Hospital First
Three-time founder Sam Yeruva of PyCube joins Jim to break down the unglamorous, mission-critical work of operational reliability in hospitals. Sam explains why he abandoned expensive GPS-style asset tracking for an E-Z Pass model built on pass...
Predicting Long-Term Care Before It Bankrupts Your Family
Lily Vittayarukskul, co-founder and CEO of Waterlily, joins Jim to discuss how personalized prediction can replace the panic that follows a long-term care event. After her family nearly went bankrupt caring for an aunt with terminal cancer, Lil...
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Turning Denied Claims Into Revenue With AI:
Turning Denied Claims Into Revenue With AI:Roughly one in ten healthcare claims gets denied, and most billing teams sit on a backlog that they never fully work through. Roshan Patel, founder and CEO of Arrow, shows...
Zero Correct Answers: When AI Meets Raw Claims Data
Healthcare organizations are racing to layer AI on top of their data, but what happens when that data was never designed for the questions being asked? Ryan Leurck, Chief Analytics Officer at Kythera Labs, spent years in aerospace e...
From Data Silos to Predictive Pharma
What does it take to move drug discovery from fragmented systems to a predictive, AI-enabled future? Philip Mounteney breaks down the industry's data problem, the promise of agentic AI, and how digital threads can connect discovery, development...
Embryos to ERs: LifeAire’s Clean Air Revolution
A career in IVF led Dr. Kathryn C. Worrilow to a surprising discovery: “clean” spaces can still fail when air chemistry shifts at parts-per-billion levels. She explains how that breakthrough led to a five-stage approach designed to remedi...
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Healthcare Reform Beyond Politics: A Practical Blueprint
Dr. Anaita Dua makes the case that healthcare can unite rather than divide if leaders focus on outcomes, data, and execution. She explains why people across ideologies can align on foundational fixes: transparency, accountability, prevention, a...
Human Touch in an AI Driven Healthcare World
This conversation dives into one of healthcare’s biggest tensions: efficiency through AI versus the human relationships patients expect. Tim explains where technology can improve workflows and where people remain essential, especial...
