CareTalk: Healthcare. Unfiltered.
CareTalk: Healthcare. Unfiltered. is a weekly podcast that provides an incisive, no B.S. view of the US healthcare industry. Join co-hosts John Driscoll (President U.S. Healthcare and EVP, Walgreens Boots Alliance) and David Williams (President, Health Business Group) as they debate the latest in US healthcare news, business and policy. Visit us at www.CareTalkPodcast.com
Episodes
349 episodes
Why Exercise Beats Longevity Hacks w/ Dr. Jordan Metzl, Author, The Athlete's Book of Home Remedies
The longevity boom is full of supplements, hacks, and expensive routines, but most of it ignores the simplest lever we already know works. If movement is the most studied “drug” for healthy aging, why are so many people still stuck on the sidel...
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Building Better GLP-1 Care at Scale w/ Dr. Myra Ahmad, CEO & Founder, Mochi Health
Demand for GLP-1 medications has exploded in recent years. What started as a diabetes treatment has quickly become one of the most talked-about forces in healthcare, reshaping how we think about obesity, metabolic disease, access, affordability...
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Clinicians Need AI Literacy Now
How deep into AI do clinicians really need to go? In this clip from our episode "Making Healthcare Massively Better", CareTalk host John Driscoll speaks with Halle Tecco about why becoming AI-literate is the only way to build real g...
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Making Healthcare Massively Better w/ Halle Tecco, Author of Massively Better Healthcare
Healthcare innovation has never had more hype or more pressure to deliver real results. With AI accelerating and digital health entering a more mature phase, what does “better” actually look like in practice? Halle Tecco, Author of ...
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GLP-1s Are Not Just for Weight Loss
Are GLP-1 drugs becoming a long-term foundation of healthcare? In this clip from our episode "What JPM Signals for Healthcare in 2026", CareTalk hosts David Williams and John Driscoll discuss why GLP-1s may be evolving beyond short-...
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What JPM Signals for Healthcare in 2026
AI, GLP-1s, federal policy, and China. Those themes dominated last week’s JP Morgan Health Care Conference in San Francisco. But what, if anything are the implications for the broader healthcare world in 2026?Hosts David Williams, Presi...
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Will AI Replace Healthcare Jobs?
Will AI actually replace jobs in healthcare, or change what people work on? In this clip from our episode Top Insights From JPM Conference 2026, CareTalk hosts David Williams and John Driscoll discuss why concerns about job loss cam...
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Top insights from JPM Conference 2026
Unsurprisingly, AI dominated the headlines at this year’s JPMorgan Healthcare Conference, but there were some other exciting developments that shouldn’t be overlooked.CareTalk hosts, David Williams, President of Health Business Group, a...
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How AI Can Unlock Personalized Cancer Care
What does truly personalized cancer care actually look like in the years ahead? In this clip from our episode “When AI Spots What Doctors Miss”, HealthBiz Podcast host David Williams speaks with Steve Brown, Founder and CEO of CureW...
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The Messy Reality of Healthcare Referrals w/ Trey Holterman, Co-Founder & CEO, Tennr
Referrals are meant to connect patients to the care they need, but in reality, they often become a source of delays, dropped handoffs, and administrative chaos. Between intake complexity, missing information, and outdated processes, too many pa...
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When AI Spots What Doctors Miss w/ Steve Brown, Founder & CEO, CureWise
Modern medicine generates more data than any one clinician or patient can reasonably process, and for people with rare or complex conditions, that gap can mean delayed diagnoses, missed options, and life-altering consequences. As precision medi...
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2026 Healthcare Trends and Predictions
2025 has been another whirlwind year for healthcare. Between the new Administration upending the apple care, the explosion of AI, and the continued march of GLP-1s, the landscape has shifted under our feet.Will things settle down in 202...
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Why 340B Matters More Than Ever w/ Scott Seidelmann, CEO, NuvemRx
Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) care for more than 30 million Americans, yet many people have never heard of them or understand how they stay afloat. A major piece of their financial survival is the 340B drug pricing pro...
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Detecting Lung Cancer Earlier With AI w/ Prashant Warier, Founder & CEO, Qure.ai
Lung cancer is often discovered too late, when treatments are expensive and survival rates are low. But what if routine chest x-rays could flag cancer early…long before symptoms appear? AI is transforming everyday imaging into a pow...
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Why Health Insurance Is So Confusing
Health insurance in the United States is incredibly complex, filled with deductibles, co-pays, co-insurance, narrow networks and more. Why is our system such a maze? Is it the unintended product of decades of patchwork policies, or is the compl...
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How AI Agents Cure Healthcare's Admin Burdens w/ Chetan Reddy, Founder & CEO, Confido Health
Phone lines are jammed. Staff are overwhelmed. Patients wait, hang up, or fall through the cracks entirely. Meanwhile, the pressure to improve access keeps climbing.In this Executive Feature, Chetan Reddy, Founder and CEO of Confido Hea...
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Modernizing Healthcare Data Security w/ Aimee Cardwell
If you don’t know where the patient’s data is at every moment, you really can’t protect it yet. That’s the reality many healthcare organizations are facing. Regulations can help but legacy siloed systems keep patients exposed.In this ep...
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Can Agentic AI Fix Healthcare?
AI assistants like transcription co-pilots and chat-bots are yesterday’s news. Now, we’re entering the new era of agentic AI. The new tools are powerful but a little unsettling. AI giving advice is one thing, but are we ready for AI to take act...
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Turning Clinical Data Chaos into Clarity w/ John Laursen, SVP of Communications, IMO Health
Healthcare is drowning in messy, inconsistent data, and IMO Health is helping clean it up so organizations can turn information into real clinical insight.In this CareTalk Executive Feature episode, host David E. Williams speaks with Jo...
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The Blueprint for Rural Health Success w/ Albert L. Wright Jr., President & CEO, WVU Medicine
What if rural hospitals could thrive instead of just survive?In this episode of CareTalk Executive Features, WVU Medicine President & CEO Albert L. Wright, Jr. joins host David Williams to share how the health system is redefining r...
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The Truth About Tylenol and Autism w/ Dr. Zeke Emanuel
Vaccines save lives, misinformation spreads fast, and ice cream, believe it or not, might actually be good for you.In this episode of CareTalk, Dr. Zeke Emanuel joins John Driscoll to discuss vaccine myths, public health confusion, and ...
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Can $50B Save Rural Healthcare?
Will the $50 billion rural transformation fund save rural hospitals or hasten their demise? In this episode of CareTalk, hosts David E. Williams and John Driscoll debate whether CMS’s plan to reshape rural healthcare can actually ...
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Fixing Healthcare’s Front Door w/ Dr. Ashish Mandavia, Founder & CEO, Sohar Health
The digital front door to healthcare is jammed, and it’s costing patients, providers, and payers alike.In this episode of CareTalk Executive Features, host David Williams talks with Dr. Ashish Mandavia, CEO and cofounder of Sohar Health...
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Healing Through Human Connection w/ Darin Buxbaum, CEO, Wider Circle
Medicaid covers nearly 90 million Americans, but coverage doesn’t always equal health.What if the real driver of outcomes isn’t the doctor’s office or an app, but the communityitself?In this episode of CareTalk Executive Feature...
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