ChalkTalkJim: Breaking Down the Game - A Guide to the Future of Healthcare

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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.

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October 1, 2026Episode 8929 min

Can a Cancer Therapy Win Without a Patent?

Send us Fan Mail 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 test. We discuss why the FDA standard exists and asks whether government-funded studies should fill the gap to fund the evidence for products without a patent. A frank conversation about cancer, drugs, and alternative therapies. LinkedIn Company Website See More ChalkTalkJim Episodes

September 29, 2026Episode 8830 min

Your Website's Search Box Is Losing You Patients

Send us Fan Mail 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 confident in the product, he joined SearchStax. Chris explains why owned search is the most ignored part of digital access. He shares how a chest pain search once returned a blog post, how a moved MyChart login drove up calls to one call center, and what search data reveals about unmet demand. LinkedIn Company Website See More ChalkTalkJim Episodes

September 14, 2026Episode 8721 min

Seven Years to Twelve Weeks: Ending the Diagnostic Odyssey

Send us Fan Mail 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 a clinician reads a chart, surfaces children before anyone has diagnosed them, and hands a complete packet back to the family's own pediatrician. He also tells you why his second son is the reason. LinkedIn Website See More ChalkTalkJim Episodes

September 14, 2026Episode 8618 min

We See What We Treat: Radiopharmaceutical's Explained

Send us Fan Mail 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 access to advanced cancer care in community practice. Dr. Munir Ghesani reduces an entire field to two sentences: we see what we treat, and we treat what we see. He explains how a molecule homes to a prostate cancer cell, carries a radioisotope inside it, and then reports its own position back to a scanner. Chemotherapy cannot do that. He also traces the idea to 1940 and names the two things that finally made it work. LinkedIn United Theranostics See More ChalkTalkJim Episodes

September 3, 2026Episode 8526 min

A Breast Cancer Vaccine Built to Prevent & Treat

Send us Fan Mail 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 approach possible, the phase one safety and immune-response data from 35 women, the higher bar a vaccine for healthy people must clear, and the capital problem facing biotech as investors chase AI. LinkedIn Company Website See More ChalkTalkJim Episodes

August 26, 2026Episode 8427 min

The First 90 Days Decide Whether You Last Five Years

Send us Fan Mail 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 five, why boards push for change too fast, and why trust must be built before anything changes. Practical tactics drawn from 30 interviews with sitting health system leaders. Website LinkedIn: Kurt Mosley Neill Marshall See More ChalkTalkJim Episodes

August 20, 2026Episode 8332 min

The Health Insurance Channel Most People Never See

Send us Fan Mail 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 enrolls. He explains how the wholesale model works, why it costs the consumer nothing, and what a person can do that a comparison website cannot. LinkedIn See More ChalkTalkJim Episodes

August 13, 2026Episode 8242 min

Velocity Over Length of Stay

Send us Fan Mail 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 patients. It is often one missing tele bed backing up a surgeon. He makes the case for changing the goal from cost to flow. LinkedIn Website See More ChalkTalkJim Episodes

August 6, 2026Episode 8137 min

Beyond Disease Care: Building Health, Not Just Treating It

Send us Fan Mail 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 health optimization, why the nervous system sits at the center of how the body adapts, and how chiropractic can keep people well from the day they are born to the day they die. LinkedIn Website See More ChalkTalkJim Episodes

June 15, 2026Episode 8022 min

Insure the Engine: Why Your Income Needs Coverage

Send us Fan Mail 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 residents, and the riders that quietly determine a policy's worth. A practical guide to protecting the one asset most professionals overlook until it is too late. LinkedIn See More ChalkTalkJim Episodes