HLTH Conference Part 1: National Coordinator for Health IT, Fitbit, BlueJeans by Verizon, Braingrade
Release Date: 10/25/2021
Paige Brogan- CalAIM Principal, Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan, on CalAIM
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Health plan and CalAIM expert Paige Brogan joins the show to share how the opportunity to make a big impact inspired her to join BSC Promise Health Plan. Paige gives some insight into the early days of CalAIM and while she is enthiusiastic about CalAIM, she shares why other medical leaders may be more in a sit and wait approach before celebrating the initiative.
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Children's Behavioral Health Visionary Alex Briscoe, Principal of California Children's Trust
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Alex Briscoe has gone from school counselor in Oakland to one of California most respected visionary's for kids' behavioral health. Alex joins co-hosts April Stewart and Gavin Ward to share how California Children's Trust is reshaping how we think about children's mental health and why a diagnosis is not required for our kids to get the support they need.
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California DHCS Chief Quality Officer Palav Babaria & 2023 Population Health Management Launch
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Palav joins host Gavin Ward to discuss the new Popation Health Management efforts that DHCS is launching in 2023 in California. Before getting into the details, Palav reveals her competiveness in board games and where her passion for serving the safety net was inspired.
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Partnership HealthPlan of California's Rebecca Boyd Anderson and Population Health
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Rebecca shares how her journey to become a nurse and experience with worker's compensation set a foundation that allowed her to build a population health department at Partnership Health Plan of California.
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CalOptima CEO Michael Hunn, a Former Priest, Discusses Medi-Cal and CalAIM
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Michael joins the show ande breaks down new opportunities for care and support that are available through California's new CalAIM initiative. CalOptima is the largest insurer in Orange County, caring for over 25% of the Orange County population, which may be a surprise vs. what the general public may think of when it comes to the OC demographics.
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L.A. Care's Cynthia Carmona Shares How CalAIM Commmunity Supports Benefit Medi-Cal Members
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L.A. Care's Senior Director of Safety Net Initiatives' background in policy and community service helped prepare her to serve beneficiaries for California's largest managed Medi-Cal provider. Cynthia breaks down how the new CalAIM community supports are helping equip L.A Care to better serve its 2+ million membership.
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New SCAN Health Plan Initiatives: CalAIM and PACE (myPlace Health)
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SCAN's Sr. VP of Healthcare Services Eve Gelb joins SCAN backed myPlace Health Founder and CEO Robbie Pottharst in a 2-part episode that explores how SCAN is leveraging innovative models of care (ie CalAIM, PACE) that bring together both health and social services that historically were either unavailable and/or unable to be managed well with traditional models of care.
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Inland Empire Health Plan's (IEHP's) Dr. Takashi Wada and an Overview of CalAIM
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Dr. Wada shares how both his parents and UCLA were inspirtation in his choice to become a public servant, but not until after a stint as a bartender in London. Dr. Wada gives an overview of IEHP and how CalAIM is bringing enhanced care management and community supports to managed medi-cal beneficiaries across the Inand Empire and throughout California.
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Society for Social Work Leadership in Health Care's Chris McLaughlin
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Social workers, whether we know it or not, are in our lives direclty or indirectly on a daily basis, caring for us, our loves ones, and our community. Chris joins the show to share how the Society for Social Work Leadership in Health Care brings together up and coming social work leaders alongside veterans to advocate, collaborate, and cultivate an envionrment that ultimately benefits all served by social workers in healthcare. Chris also shares about their upcoming annual conference in October in Nashville, TN.
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Providence St. John's Health Center Director of Case Management Debbie Pacheco
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Case Management leaders help ensure hospitals are running smoothly and efficiently, while at the same time leading a team that equips patients for success once they discharge from a hospital, or what Providence may call a "ministry." Debbie joins the show and will touch on her journey and how she leads a team serving patient populations of all types in Santa Monica, CA.
info_outlineWith over 7,000 leaders from around the world coming together in Boston, I had the privilege of sitting down with leaders from a variety of impactful organizations. Part 1 includes:
• Micky Tripathi- US Dept of Health and Human Services' National Coordinator for Health IT
• Amy McDonough-Fitbit's Managing Director and General Manager
• Krish Ramakrishnan-Co-Founder of BlueJeans by Verizon
• Peter Schlecht-Founder of Braingrade