Innovation, Health Equity, and the Future of Healthcare with Jason Taylor of Panda Health 4-28-25
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Who is Jason Taylor and what is his background?
Thanks, Scott. And I appreciate the opportunity to speak to you today. So I am Jason Taylor. I am originally a Canadian, which has some relevance into this as we talk about health care, because I come from a place where health care is delivered phenomenally differently than it is here in the U.S., I grew up in Toronto. I spent a long time part of my career with IBM, always in the tech sector. And about 13 years ago, in one of my global roles, I was actually living in Europe, I met a girl. And because of the girl, I ended up moving to Los Angeles and going through a career change. We're married now, so that all worked out fine. But I got an opportunity to start reevaluating where I wanted to spend my time. And I became fascinated with U.S.
health care and all of the challenges and opportunities that sat within it to try and make a difference, to try and make things a little bit better through the use of technology or workflow or various other things. So I've spent about the past decade primarily in the health care provider segment. working with health systems and hospitals on things ranging from patient engagement to revenue workflows to just generally how we can use tech to improve lives for both the clinicians delivering care and the patients that we all serve.
Thank you. And take a moment. Now, for people that don't know Jason, one of the all-time good and competent people, really good person. Let me ask this question. One of my fellow friends, one of my best, best colleagues, a guy who will remain nameless, named David Pivnik. is a Canadian and a very difficult individual. And I say that jokingly. He's actually funny as can be and as good a person as I come. Are all Canadians that nice, or is it a wide mix of Canadians like it is of all people?
We actually work really, really hard as Canadians to try to maintain that facade that we are all very nice and we apologize a lot. But I think inside, a lot of us have that more American core that we want the opportunity to get out and be aggressive and be a little less nice. But we don't get to explore it at home. We end up apologizing more often than not.
You know what they call that here in the States, and you've been in the States for a long time. They call that Midwest nice, where somebody can be very nice, but they might not be that nice deeply underneath, or they might be. It's really a whole mix out there, actually. So talk about, as you've worked in the provider space, you've worked in the technology space, talk a little bit about what trends you're watching in healthcare technology and healthcare providers today. How challenging a situation is on the provider side, the technology side? What are some of the things you're watching?
So I think this year, that's a more relevant discussion than anything, Scott. We've had with the new administration coming in in Washington, we've had some new policy initiatives that have been, I'll say, partially introduced. I think that's creating a lot of tension in the system for health care providers. So we could be fans of what the Trump administration is doing or we could be opposed to it. What matters right now is there's a lot of uncertainty. And this comes at a pivotal time in investment in tech for a lot of healthcare systems. So as you know, because you spent a lot of time in this, there's roughly 400 health systems in the country. There's another 400 or so standalone hospitals that act independently.
And then there's 1,200 kind of critical access safety net systems that are mostly rural but spread out across the country. So this is a fairly small community. But even within that community, we spend a lot of time talking about the big 30 or 40 systems, the Mayo Clinics, the Cleveland Clinics, Johns Hopkins, kind of big name firms that deliver health care.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Who is Jason Taylor and what is his background?
0:30–5:36
2
What trends are impacting healthcare technology today?
5:36–6:13
3
How do policy changes affect healthcare providers?
6:13–12:12
4
What challenges do smaller health systems face?
12:12
5
How are innovative health tech firms navigating uncertainty?
11:12–12:56
6
What role does community play in healthcare innovation?
12:56
7
Why is investing in relationships crucial for healthcare leaders?
11:12–13:22
8
What do smaller healthcare systems need for success?
13:22–16:16
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