MEET THE HOSTS
OF CARETALK
John Driscoll
Chairman | UConn Healthcare
John Driscoll serves as the Chairman of UConn Heathcare, which is a branch of the University of Connecticut that oversees clinical care, advanced biomedical research, and academic education in medicine.
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He previously served as Executive Vice President and President, U.S. Healthcare for Walgreens Boots Alliance, where he oversaw assets including VillageMD, Shields Health Solutions and Carecentrix, Walgreens acquisitions team, PBM contracting as well as Walgreens organic health care initiatives across the enterprise.
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Driscoll joined WBA in October 2022, when WBA acquired ownership of CareCentrix, where he served as Chief Executive Officer since 2013. Prior to CareCentrix, Driscoll served as President at Castlight Health, a healthcare technology company. Previously, he served as Group President for new markets at Medco. He also founded and chaired the Surescripts ePrescribing Network, building the first cross-industry collaborative with competing Retail, PBM, and Health Plans cooperating to revolutionize e-prescribing.
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Earlier in his career, Driscoll was a member of the executive team at Oxford Health Plans, serving as Corporate Vice President for government programs. In addition, he was selected by the White House for its Entrepreneurs in Residence program in 2011 to advise the FDA on new paths for innovation.
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He has a B.A. and M.B.A. from Harvard University and holds an MPhil from Cambridge University in England. Driscoll served as a Captain in the U.S. Army Reserve. He was the founding Chair of the Truman National Security Project. He chairs the Waystar Corporation as well as serves on the Boards of Directors of the Alliance for Hunger and Johns Hopkins Medicine.
David E. Williams
President | Health Business Group
David Williams is a healthcare business consultant, board member and blogger. He is President of Health Business Group, which he co-founded in 2003 after more than a decade with the Boston Consulting Group and LEK. As an independent board member, David helps build value for companies including iCardiac Technologies (cardiac safety), Clerio Vision (medical lasers), Vericred (data utility for health insurance), and Home Care Delivered (medical supplies). For a decade he chaired the board of the Hearts & Noses Hospital Clown Troupe, which provides professionally trained volunteer clowns at the bedside.
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David has been a reviewer and chairman for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, helping implement HITECH and Obamacare. He is frequently quoted on healthcare topics by NPR, Business Week, Al Jazeera, US News, The Boston Globe, and others. He has written and podcasted for his Health Business Blog since 2005. David holds a BA in Economics from Wesleyan University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.