In a June survey from reputation management company rater8, 55% of adults said they had walked away from at least one physician because of something they read online. When one of those reviews is fake or false, Michael Pelagalli, J.D., says HIPAA leaves physicians with very little they can say in a public reply, and federal regulators have fined practices that said too much.Medical Economics Associate Editor Austin Littrell sat down with Pelagalli, a partner at Minc Law, a Cleveland firm that works

D2 Solutions' survey, "Patient Access Barriers 2026," found that 21% of patients delayed starting a prescribed medication because of confusion or access problems, and 47% said a lack of transparency left them anxious and uncertain. Dean Erhardt says the prior authorization rejections behind many of those delays are largely administrative rather than clinical, and they often come back with no reason given.Medical Economics Senior Editor Richard Payerchin sat down with Erhardt, president and CEO of

Your podcast may be more than a collection of episodes. It could be a valuable library of intellectual property—and AI is changing what happens to that content once it enters the public world. Guest hosted by Ella Maiuri, this episode features Kary Oberbrunner and Katie Rubino as they explore an important question: Is AI stealing your podcast?Kary and Katie explain what can happen to podcast content after an episode is published, including how AI models may scrape, process, and reproduce publicly

SimpliSafe was built for renters. Renters didn't buy it. Homeowners did. Jason has told that story for years, because it's a perfect lesson in how founders get their customer wrong. But he never asked the obvious follow-up: once you finally find the right customer, then what? Now, 20 years in, SimpliSafe founder Chad Laurans and CEO Hilary Schneider reveal what comes after product-market fit, and why customers asking for "more cameras" didn't actually want more cameras.This episode of Problem

In our work around the country, we rarely see DMOs that target first year college students as potential semi-permanent 4-year visitors. In this episode of DMOU, Knox County OH CVB Executive Director Olivia Toth shares how her DMO has developed not one but two separate Visitors Guides designed specifically for the region’s two colleges. We’ll also discuss how the DMO is doubling down on trail development as a destination magnet and how they’ve supported regional trail promotion and development. Join

Your franchise is growing. Is your marketing keeping up—or just getting more complicated?More locations shouldn’t mean more marketing chaos. In this episode of Business Stories with Ryan Arcoraci, Reshift Media Co-Founder Kirk Allen joins me to explore how Franify brings corporate teams and franchise owners together to tackle one of franchising’s toughest challenges: turning a national brand strategy into marketing that connects with local customers. We dig into what Franify can actually do for

Nearly two decades into the push toward value-based care, Dan D'Orazio says the industry isn't much further along than it was when the effort began. He says value-based programs are still pegged to fee-for-service, and the fee-for-service revenue hospitals collect routinely outweighs the penalties meant to move them off it.Medical Economics Managing Editor Todd Shryock sat down with D'Orazio, CEO of Sage Growth Partners, a Baltimore-based health care strategy and marketing firm.D'Orazio explains

Send us Fan Mail Mike is the creator of Profit First, which is used by hundreds of thousands of companies across the globe to drive profit. He is the creator of Clockwork, a powerful method to make any business run on automatic. And his latest, arguably most impactful discovery, is Fix This Next. In Fix This Next, Mike details the strategy businesses can use to determine what to do, in what order, to ensure healthy, fast, permanent growth (and avoid debilitating distractions). Today, Mike le...

Addressing the gap between aging generation assets and the changing demands of today’s energy, regulatory, and operational environmentEnabling flexible, stable, and reliable power plant operations under dynamic conditions - the role of final control systemsMoving from reactive maintenance to proactive asset management while maximising workforce efficiencyDanny Buckland, Host,Business Reporter https://www.linkedin.com/in/danny-buckland-8252a16/ Eugene Eagle, Senior Technical Leader, EPRI http...

Everybody is using AI. But few people are asking the question that could determine whether their next big idea is actually theirs: Who owns the intellectual property?If AI helps you write a book, design a product, develop software, create a brand, or invent something new, are you still the author or inventor? Does the AI platform have rights? Could your employer, client, or collaborator claim ownership?In this timely conversation, Dr. Kary Oberbrunner and intellectual property attorney Katherine

Jon Taffer, host of the hit TV show "Bar Rescue", has sat on both sides of the franchising table. He's been a franchisee, including one franchise you'd never guess. Now, as founder of Taffer's Tavern, he runs his own franchise system. And even with 40-plus years in business, he's shopping for his next franchise right now. That perspective means he knows exactly what to ask before buying in. The question he says matters most is one most would-be franchisees never think to ask.Timestamps:00:00 Jon

Public comments on Medicare's proposed 2027 physician fee schedule closed Sept. 14 with a provision on the table that would pay 50% for one of two services when a patient gets an office visit and a procedure on the same day. Anders Gilberg, senior vice president of government affairs at the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), joins Physicians Practice Managing Editor Keith Reynolds to explain what that would look like in the exam room, why budget neutrality rules keep pitting specialties

Bringing Inventive Ideas to FruitionWith Lisa Ascolese “The Inventress”In this episode…In this episode of the We Are Women Podcast, I speak with Lisa Ascolese, known globally as “The Inventress,” about transforming ideas from a simple thought into a tangible product in the marketplace. Lisa shares her journey from inventing as a nine-year-old to becoming a multi-patent holder, QVC success story, bestselling author, and founder of Inventing A to Z.Episode OverviewLisa Ascolese is living proof that

In a national survey of more than 1,200 practicing physicians, 47% said they often or always lacked the time to give patients optimal care, and 27% said they had already left a job because of moral distress. Rebecca Schoon, Ph.D., one of the authors of the Physicians for a National Health Program report behind those numbers, says the patients her team heard from in Oregon could see what was happening to their doctors and did not blame them for it.Medical Economics Senior Editor Richard Payerchin

What happens when everything you’ve built suddenly disappears? Chef Guy Vaknin shares the remarkable story behind his rise from a 280-square-foot restaurant with just $1,000 to building a thriving vegan restaurant brand. From Shark Tank and Beyond Sushi to the devastating impact of COVID, Guy reveals how adversity forced him to rethink everything—and ultimately became one of the greatest turning points of his entrepreneurial journey. Discover the power of creativity, resilience, reinvention, and

Send us Fan Mail Humans have two basic desires: to stand out and to fit in. Companies respond by creating groups that tend to the extreme—where everyone fits in and no one stands out, or where everyone stands out and no one fits in. How do we find that happy medium where workers can demonstrate their individuality while also feeling they belong? The answer, according to Stefanie Johnson, is to Inclusify. In this essential handbook, she explains what it means to Inclusify and how it can be use...

Raj Mehra had it all: a personal reason to build, a hot new technology, a sector ripe for disruption. Then he put his product in front of real users and watched them fail to use it. So he did the hard thing. He listened. What he learned wasn't just a fix. It was a completely different company. This is the story of Sage Healthcare, and it's also the story of what it takes to break up with your own idea.0:00 – Intro: the "forbidden love" of founders and their original ideas1:36 – Meet Raj Mehra, CEO

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Matt is joined by Herminia Ibarra who is an organizational behavior professor at London Business School. She is also the author of Act Like A Leader, Think Like A Leader. Ibarra turns the usual “think first and then act” philosophy on its head by arguing that doing these three things will help you learn through action and will increase what she calls your outsight—the valuable external perspective you gain from direct experiences and experimentation. As oppo...

When a leader firmly says "we value our people" and uses AI to enable them, it creates a drastically different outcome than demanding teams "use AI at all costs."If your business operations are messy, AI won't fix them—it will just scale your internal chaos faster than ever before. In this episode of distilled, distillery founder Steve Wheen sits down with Day Nova founder Travis Tallent to discuss the reality of the current AI gold rush. Travis breaks down the architecture of a "Company Brain,"