This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Jeff Williams, Chief Operating Officer of Apple. Mr. Williams is in charge of the tech giant’s entire distribution chain and is overseeing Apple’s foray into health care with the development of the Apple Watch, Apple HealthKit and ResearchKit, which are aimed at simplifying health and medical research by leveraging participation from Apple’s 700 million users around the globe.
This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Christine Cassel, President and CEO of the National Quality Forum a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to improving health and health care through developing better health quality measures and data-sharing.Dr. Cassel will be leaving her post to lead the new Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine, which is based on Kaiser’s integrated, high-quality model of care.
This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Kevin Robert Frost, CEO of amfAR, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting research on a cure for HIV/AIDS. Mr. Frost discusses the organization’s 30 year quest to confront the AIDS epidemic, as well as their support for promising research that has paved the way for the treatments and protocols currently in use today which are helping contain HIV/AIDS in the US and around the globe.
Yesterday, I had the privilege of representing Santa at the CHC Holiday Party in Middletown. It was one of many holiday parties CHC has been holding at its sites across Connecticut, and my third time representing Santa in Middletown. Perhaps, however, I should use the older name, St. Nicholas. For me, Santa has always been problematic. Santa has always been the guy at the suburban shopping mall that privileged parents bring their kids to during a shopping spree. For those…
Event in Middletown to honor the homeless who passed away in 2015; Service to feature speeches from community leaders and homeless individuals In recognition of National Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day on December 17, CHC’s Wherever You Are Healthcare for the Homeless program and St. Vincent de Paul Middletown will host a memorial service and candlelight vigil at Church of the Holy Trinity in Middletown, in memory of the areas’ homeless residents who passed away in 2015 and to bring awareness to…
This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Robert Wachter, Associate Chair of the Department of Medicine at U.C. San Francisco. He is considered the founder of the “hospitalist” movement and is author of The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age which examines the challenges being experienced in the rapid transition to digital medicine.