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 (The …
36:12532 views · 2d ago · 36:12
Guest: Othman Laraki
Only 6% of high-risk lung cancer patients get their annual screening. Nearly half of positive colon cancer tests never receive clinical follow-up. The cancer care system isn’t just expensive, it’s leaving patients behind at every step.
20:356.1K views · 1w ago · 20:35
Guest: Dr. Bapu Jena
More than 80% of internists are already using AI tools in clinical practice, and adoption is accelerating faster than any healthcare technology in recent times. The question is no longer whether doctors will use AI, but whether it will actually give them more time to do what drew them to medicine in the first place.
25:365.9K views · 2w ago · 25:36
Guest: Dr. Neel Shah
A mother today is 50% more likely to die in childbirth than her own mother was (per @CDC) . The U.S. has half the hospitals delivering babies it had in 1982, and in some parts of the country, families drive farther to reach a delivery hospital than the average person in Kenya.
32:525.9K views · 2w ago · 32:52
Guest: Rahul Shivkumar
Before a provider sees their first patient, they face a months-long gauntlet of credentialing, payer enrollment, and network approvals, all still driven by spreadsheets, faxes, and manual labor. Every day of delay is revenue left on the table.
24:535.6K views · 3w ago · 24:53
We’re being flooded with headlines about what AI will and won’t do to healthcare: threatening jobs, creating new ways to manipulate reimbursement, and introducing new risks into an industry that already has plenty of them.
27:065.8K views · 1mo ago · 27:06
Guest: Munjal Shah
There are not enough nurses, doctors, and hours in the day to reach every patient who needs attention. The healthcare system was designed around scarcity, and that assumption has shaped everything from how care is prioritized to which patients get left behind.
33:38275 views · 1mo ago · 33:38
Guest: Dr. John McDonough
US healthcare spending broke away from the rest of the developed world around 1982 and has never come back. Most people assume that was an accident. John McDonough argues it was a choice. Dr. John E. McDonough, Professor of Practice at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and author of America's Wrong Turn, joins hosts David E.
34:295.8K views · 1mo ago · 34:29
Guest: Hamid Tabatabaie
Healthcare administrative costs consume an estimated 15 to 20 percent of every dollar spent in the American healthcare system. A quarter of that is medical coding alone, a process that has remained largely manual, subjective, and error-prone for decades.
34:065.4K views · 1mo ago · 34:06
Guest: Dr. Shiv Rao
Doctors now need an estimated 30 hours a day to complete every clerical task asked of them. They are compensated not for the care they deliver but for the care they document. That gap is where physician burnout lives, and where AI has the most to offer.
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