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 reform demands systemic change, not individual heroism.
Highway to Health argues that sustainable healthcare requires structural fixes to workforce, reimbursement, and care delivery. The channel grounds this in staffing projections, cost data, and provider testimony.
Highway to Health contends that healthcare's core crises—staffing collapse, burnout, rising costs, and access delays—are systemic problems requiring structural solutions, not individual resilience or incremental tweaks. The channel supports this by pairing hard workforce and spending projections with concrete examples from health systems, vendors, and payers who are redesigning revenue cycles, pharmacy workflows, caregiver engagement models, and payment structures to align incentives around outcomes rather than volume.
Drawn from Fixing the Physician Experience: Why Advocacy … and 6 more →
“Burnout and moral injury are deeply emotional issues requiring a cultural shift away from healthcare's martyrdom mindset.”
Dr. Megan Carter, Episode 17
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What the channel argues
Who and what shows up
Access Healthcare
Revenue cycle technology vendor
CEO Shaji Ravi cites more than $250 billion wasted annually in healthcare revenue cycle, positioning agentic AI as a solution to fix documentation and coding upstream.
Omnicell
Healthcare automation company
Co-designs automation solutions alongside frontline workers and promotes Autonomous Pharmacy vision to free over 200,000 pharmacists for patient care by automating routine tasks.
Ceresti Health
Caregiver engagement platform
Demonstrated caregiver-first model showing roughly $6,000 annual savings per patient through reduced avoidable hospitalizations in dementia care.
OverbookMD
Specialist appointment access platform
Uses proprietary Overbook Quality Index to fill cancellation gaps and deliver specialist appointments within 48 hours, addressing 31-day average wait times.
Personify Health
AI-powered health plan navigation and engagement
Uses AI to power smarter navigation and patient engagement across 20 million covered lives, addressing 75% of Americans' desire for personalized healthcare experience.
Questions this channel answers
Why do healthcare workers keep leaving despite recruitment efforts?
Burnout stems from systemic administrative burden and loss of autonomy, not individual resilience gaps. Over 610,000 nurses are projected to leave by 2027, driven by workplace culture and workload, not pay alone.
Fixing the Physician Experience: Why Advocacy Is Healthc… →How can health systems modernize without disrupting cash flow?
Deploy modular, zero-disruption AI tools that wrap around existing EHRs and require near-zero IT lift, delivering roughly 50% people cost reduction in early phases while maintaining daily operations.
Transformation Without Disruption: How Access Healthcare… →Why do patients wait so long for specialist access?
Patients in major U.S. cities wait average 31 days to see a specialist, up 19% since 2022. Technology platforms like OverbookMD fill cancellation gaps to deliver appointments within 48 hours without sacrificing quality.
The Uber of Healthcare: How OverbookMD is Using Data and… →How should healthcare address rising costs and readmissions?
Shift from patient self-reporting to caregiver engagement, which acts as a de facto care coordinator, catching early warning signs and reducing avoidable hospitalizations by roughly $6,000 per patient annually in dementia care.
Caregiver Engagement Is the Missing Link in Dementia Car… →What does sustainable healthcare reform require?
Transparent reimbursement, provider-employer collaboration, consumer-driven health plans that prioritize value and accountability, and competitive market dynamics that hold all parties to measured outcomes rather than 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 CompetitionFrames the channel's core thesis: healthcare spending outpaces GDP growth, requiring structural reform and employer-provider collaboration, not incremental fixes.
Transformation Without Disruption: How Access Healthcare Is Rewiring the Revenue Cycle with Agentic AIConcrete example of how AI automation cuts operating costs 50% and fixes $250B annual waste without rip-and-replace, demonstrating the channel's structural-change argument.Industry context
Healthcare workforce shortages, driven by aging populations and retirements, are prompting organizations to automate routine tasks to extend clinical team capacity and redirect skilled workers to higher-value care delivery.
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