Highway to Health
Healthcare innovation conversations for executives and technology buyers.
Highway to Health is hosted by David Kemp, a B2B content specialist focused on healthcare innovation, and features healthcare executives and technology vendors discussing revenue cycle management, care delivery models, and emerging health tech. The show runs as both a podcast and a live event series, bringing clinicians, administrators, and solution providers into the same conversation. It serves healthcare buyers and vendors evaluating technology for a rapidly changing market.
Healthcare's Systemic Crisis Demands Structural Reform, Not Heroics
Highway to Health argues that rising costs, workforce collapse, and care delays require systemic redesign around value, access, and provider support. The channel grounds this thesis in hard workforce projections, cost benchmarks, and documented outcomes from innovators.
Highway to Health argues that U.S. healthcare cannot be fixed through individual resilience or incremental policy tweaks; instead, systemic pressure on costs, staffing, and patient access demands structural reform. The channel documents this thesis through concrete workforce shortages (203,000 RN positions needed annually through 2031, yet supply lags), national spending projections (5.8% annual growth versus 4.3% GDP growth), and measurable outcomes from companies redesigning revenue cycles, care access, and caregiver models.
Drawn from Rethinking the Standard of Care: How Noninvasi… and 2 more →
“Healthcare's share of the economy will climb to more than 20% by 2033 if current trends continue.”
Episode 4: The Open Road to Reform
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Who and what shows up
Access Healthcare
Revenue cycle technology company
CEO Shaji Ravi cited 250 billion dollars in annual revenue cycle waste; company deployed agentic AI for claims processing with 50% people cost reduction.
Ceresti Health
Caregiver engagement platform
Demonstrated caregiver-first model achieving roughly 6,000 dollars per patient annual savings through reduced avoidable hospitalizations.
OverbookMD
Specialist access and appointment platform
Uses proprietary Overbook Quality Index to deliver 48-hour specialist appointments while maintaining high-caliber provider networks.
Personify Health
AI-powered care navigation and engagement platform
Operates across 20 million covered lives in 190 countries and 23 languages, using AI to address personalization, fraud detection, and health literacy gaps.
Omnicell
Healthcare automation and medication management company
Co-designs automation with frontline clinicians; 2024 time-motion study shows clinical pharmacists spend over 80% time on clinical activities, with under 20% on administrative tasks—automation target for autonomous pharmacy vision.
Questions this channel answers
Why is physician burnout so hard to fix with traditional wellness programs?
Burnout is driven by systemic pressures—administrative burden, reduced autonomy, staffing shortages—not individual resilience gaps. Structural solutions like decision-making authority and workload redesign are required.
Fixing the Physician Experience: Why Advocacy Is Healthc… →How can healthcare systems modernize technology without disrupting cash flow?
Deploy modular, zero-disruption AI wrapped around existing EHRs with near-zero IT lift. Access Healthcare's model yields roughly 50% people cost reduction in early phases while maintaining operational continuity.
Transformation Without Disruption: How Access Healthcare… →What role do caregivers play when patients cannot self-manage care?
In dementia and complex cases, caregivers act as de facto care coordinators, catching early warning signs and improving provider communication. Educated, supported caregivers reduce avoidable hospitalizations by roughly 6,000 dollars per patient annually.
Caregiver Engagement Is the Missing Link in Dementia Car… →How can healthcare improve specialist access without adding staff?
Platforms like OverbookMD fill cancellation and no-show gaps to deliver specialist appointments within 48 hours using quality-weighted provider networks, addressing the 31-day average wait time in major U.S. cities.
The Uber of Healthcare: How OverbookMD is Using Data and… →What does sustainable healthcare reform require from employers and payers?
C-suite engagement treating healthcare as core business strategy, transparent reimbursement, provider-employer collaboration, and consumer-driven health plans prioritizing value and accountability over volume.
The Open Road to Reform: Why Healthcare Needs Disruption… →Best place to start
The Open Road to Reform: Why Healthcare Needs Disruption, Innovation, and the Return of Real CompetitionEstablishes the channel's core thesis: healthcare spending outpaces GDP growth, requiring systemic reform beyond incremental fixes.
Fixing the Physician Experience: Why Advocacy Is Healthcare’s Next FrontierDemonstrates how systemic pressures, not individual factors, drive burnout and why structural solutions matter more than wellness programs.Industry context
Healthcare organizations are shifting focus from volume-based metrics to value-based care measurement, while addressing systemic workforce shortages and burnout that require structural, multi-stakeholder solutions rather than individual coping strategies.
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