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 needs structural reform, not heroic resilience
Highway to Health argues that U.S. healthcare's cost crisis and access gaps require systemic change, not individual coping. The channel grounds that argument in workforce data, payer-provider economics, and clinical case studies.
Highway to Health argues that U.S. healthcare's cost and access crisis cannot be solved by asking clinicians, caregivers, or administrators to work harder or endure more burnout. Instead, the channel insists that sustainable reform requires structural changes: value-based reimbursement, employer engagement in healthcare strategy, caregiver-centered care models, automation to free clinicians for patient work, and transparency in both costs and outcomes. Every episode tests this thesis against real data, named companies, and measurable results.
Drawn from Rethinking the Standard of Care: How Noninvasi… and 4 more →
“Physician burnout is driven more by systemic pressures like administrative burden and reduced autonomy than by individual resilience alone.”
Episode 2: Fixing the Physician Experience
By the numbers
What the channel argues
Who and what shows up
Access Healthcare
Revenue cycle solutions company
CEO Shaji Ravi cited $250 billion in annual healthcare revenue cycle waste and demonstrated agentic AI with self-learning streams as practical alternative to rip-and-replace systems.
Ceresti Health
Caregiver-centered dementia care provider
Demonstrated measurable outcomes: roughly $6,000 per patient annual savings through caregiver education and engagement reducing avoidable hospitalizations.
OverbookMD
Specialist appointment access platform
Uses proprietary Overbook Quality Index to deliver specialist appointments within 48 hours by filling cancellation and no-show gaps without sacrificing provider quality.
Personify Health
AI-powered health plan engagement platform
Operates across 20 million covered lives in 190 countries, 23 languages, addressing personalization gap: 75% of Americans want personalized healthcare but receive one-size-fits-all plans.
Omnicell
Healthcare automation and pharmacy technology company
Co-designs automation with frontline workers; MedTrack OR uses RFID to eliminate medication inventory blind spots; Autonomous Pharmacy vision frees pharmacists from administrative tasks for patient care.
Questions this channel answers
Why do clinicians keep leaving healthcare if they care about patients?
Burnout results from systemic pressures, administrative burden, and reduced autonomy, not lack of individual resilience or commitment. The field's martyrdom mindset masks the need for cultural and operational change.
Fixing the Physician Experience: Why Advocacy Is Healthc… →How can hospitals modernize revenue cycle without derailing cash flow?
Deploy agentic AI modularly around existing EHRs with zero disruption to current workflows. Self-learning knowledge streams automate repetitive tasks and can yield roughly 50% people cost reduction in early phases while human teams maintain governance.
Transformation Without Disruption: How Access Healthcare… →Why is healthcare access still slow when technology and capacity exist?
Scheduling inefficiency and no-show cancellations create gaps that telemedicine and data-driven matching can fill. OverbookMD fills cancellation slots to deliver specialist appointments within 48 hours without sacrificing care quality.
The Uber of Healthcare: How OverbookMD is Using Data and… →Can dementia patients engage with healthcare independently?
No. Cognitive impairment prevents self-reporting and navigation. Educated, supported caregivers act as de facto care coordinators, catching early warning signs and improving communication with clinicians, reducing avoidable hospitalizations.
Caregiver Engagement Is the Missing Link in Dementia Car… →What does employers treating healthcare as core business strategy accomplish?
It aligns payers, providers, and employees around outcomes and transparency, enabling employer-insurer collaborations to reduce costs and improve healthcare access and affordability for employees.
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 costs and access gaps demand structural reform, employer engagement, and competition, not incremental fixes.
Caregiver Engagement Is the Missing Link in Dementia Care: Why Empowering Families Drives Better Outcomes and Lower CostsConcrete case study with named company, measurable outcomes, and clear problem-solution arc showing how structural change delivers both cost and care improvements.Latest media
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