HealthBiz with David E. Williams
As of March 2025, HealthBiz has moved to CareTalk: Healthecare Unfiltered and can be accessed on:
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/
The HealthBiz podcast features in-depth interviews on healthcare business, technology and policy with entrepreneurs and CEOs. Host David E. Williams is president of healthcare strategy consulting boutique, Health Business Group https://healthbusinessgroup.com/ a board member and investor in private healthcare companies, and author of the Health Business Blog. His strategic and humorous approach to healthcare provides a refreshing break from the usual BS. Connect with David on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/davideugenewilliams
HealthBiz with David E. Williams
Data will eat public health: Shahir Kassam-Adams
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.
