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TDP 157: Virtua Health's Dr. Tarun Kapoor: Why ‘Top of License’ Is ‘Top of Burnout’, What Healthcare Can Learn from Netflix About Digital Transformation, and Adapting to the Quadruple Storm in Healthcare

December 19, 2024
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On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and marketing colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Dr. Tarun Kapoor, Chief Digital Transformation Officer at Virtua Health, about "Why ‘Top of License’ Is ‘Top of Burnout’, What Healthcare Can Learn from Netflix About Digital Transformation, Adapting to the Quadruple Storm in Healthcare, and more..." Click the play button to listen or read the show notes below.

Audio:

Guest(s):

  • Dr. Tarun Kapoor, Chief Digital Transformation Officer at Virtua Health
  • Dr. Joshua Liu (@joshuapliu), Co-founder & CEO at SeamlessMD

Episode 157 - Show Notes:

[00:00:07] Episode preview

[00:03:40] Choosing Medicine: "you can do anything you want, just make sure you’re really good at it."

[00:06:08] From Hospitalist to Transformation Officer

[00:10:48] Stretch Assignments as Career Catalysts

[00:14:35] The Doubling of Medical Knowledge and Its Implications

[00:20:28] Creating an Honest Feedback Culture

[00:26:35] Digital Transformation: Iterative vs. Transformative Innovation

[00:30:09] Rethinking Access in Healthcare

[00:37:26] Top of License vs. Top of Burnout

[00:39:57] Retraining, Not Replacing, Healthcare Roles

Fast 5 Lightning Round:

  1. Favorite Book or Book You’ve Gifted the Most:
    Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett.
  2. Person Dead or Alive You’d Love to Meet:
    The Katama Buddha and Jiddu Krishnamurti.
  3. Super strength, super speed, or mind reading:
    Not mind reading!
  4. Something in Healthcare You Believe in That Others Might Find Insane:
    The rapid doubling of medical knowledge.
  5. Last Film/TV Show:
    The Penguin

TDP 157: Virtua Health's Dr. Tarun Kapoor: Why ‘Top of License’ Is ‘Top of Burnout’, What Healthcare Can Learn from Netflix About Digital Transformation, and Adapting to the Quadruple Storm in Healthcare

Posted by:
seamless
on
December 19, 2024

Subscribe on: RSS | SPOTIFY | APPLE PODCAST | GOOGLE | BREAKER | ANCHOR

On this episode of The Digital Patient, Dr. Joshua Liu, Co-founder & CEO of SeamlessMD, and marketing colleague, Alan Sardana, chat with Dr. Tarun Kapoor, Chief Digital Transformation Officer at Virtua Health, about "Why ‘Top of License’ Is ‘Top of Burnout’, What Healthcare Can Learn from Netflix About Digital Transformation, Adapting to the Quadruple Storm in Healthcare, and more..." Click the play button to listen or read the show notes below.

Audio:

Guest(s):

  • Dr. Tarun Kapoor, Chief Digital Transformation Officer at Virtua Health
  • Dr. Joshua Liu (@joshuapliu), Co-founder & CEO at SeamlessMD

Episode 157 - Show Notes:

[00:00:07] Episode preview

[00:03:40] Choosing Medicine: "you can do anything you want, just make sure you’re really good at it."

[00:06:08] From Hospitalist to Transformation Officer

[00:10:48] Stretch Assignments as Career Catalysts

[00:14:35] The Doubling of Medical Knowledge and Its Implications

[00:20:28] Creating an Honest Feedback Culture

[00:26:35] Digital Transformation: Iterative vs. Transformative Innovation

[00:30:09] Rethinking Access in Healthcare

[00:37:26] Top of License vs. Top of Burnout

[00:39:57] Retraining, Not Replacing, Healthcare Roles

Fast 5 Lightning Round:

  1. Favorite Book or Book You’ve Gifted the Most:
    Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett.
  2. Person Dead or Alive You’d Love to Meet:
    The Katama Buddha and Jiddu Krishnamurti.
  3. Super strength, super speed, or mind reading:
    Not mind reading!
  4. Something in Healthcare You Believe in That Others Might Find Insane:
    The rapid doubling of medical knowledge.
  5. Last Film/TV Show:
    The Penguin

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