Deploying Community Health Workers as a Front-line COVID-19 Solution (with a 2X ROI)
Release Date: 06/03/2020
ChatGPT: Where (and Where Not) to Apply it in Healthcare
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On this episode, we talk with Matt Hollingsworth, CEO of , about ChatGPT. If you've been reading the headlines, and maybe even experimenting with Chat GPT yourself, but don't quite grasp what's going on, then this episode is for you. Mat gives a not-too-technical, high-level explanation of what's going on under the hood so that you have proper context for the discussion. Then, Matt outlines the potential benefits, and potential harms, of applying ChatGPT in healthcare. Finally, Matt shares his experience launching Carta Healthcare, including how he convinced VCs that software plus...
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Medicaid Transformation: Past, Present, and Future with Alan Weil of Health Affairs
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Medicaid Transformation. 1115 waivers. Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) programs. Expansion. Contraction. We’ve been at this for a long time. Why isn’t Medicaid transformed already? Well… it turns out that this is really difficult work. First off, there are complex political and ideological issues. Even if we all agree that we want the best healthcare for every American – a conceptually easy outcome to rally behind – we don’t all agree on what that looks like, how to get there, or how to pay for it. Second, it takes a long time for policy levers to play out in the...
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Should Patients Be Charged for Messages to their Doctors?
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Cleveland Clinic recently announced that they would begin . This flies in the face of everything the industry is talking about when it comes to patient engagement and value-based care. At the same time, it is quite unreasonable to think that a doctor should be available for questions at any time, for free. How can we protect the clinicians' time AND provide the patients with the care and attention they need? And why are we moving away from value-based care? Craig Joseph, MD, Chief Medical Officer of Nordic Consulting Partners, and Matt Lambert, MD, Chief Medical Officer for Curation...
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Take it All With a Grain of Salt
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Don and Shahid discuss NCQA's Health Innovation Summit (November 2022) and FHIR Dev Days (June 2022). They explore these events as examples of how to interpret what you hear at conferences, in industry media, and even on podcasts like this. The discussion covers a lot of ground including: What is NCQA? What is HEDIS? What does it mean to move from Electronic Clinical Quality measures (ECQM) to Digital Quality Measures (DQM)? Can FHIR really do all that!? Specified, but not implemented (this is important) Why is it hard to innovate and sell innovations in the quality measure space? How...
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The State of Blockchain and Web3 in Healthcare with Ray Dogum
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On this episode, we talk with Ray Dogum, MS, MBA about the state of blockchain and web3 technology in healthcare. Ray is the producer and host of the where he discusses blockchain developments in healthcare with industry experts. There was quite a hype cycle around blockchain in healthcare that has died, but there is still real development being done and plenty of opportunity to create value in the future. We’ll break down the pockets of success that are happening today and talk about where things could be headed in the future. For complete show notes and links visit:
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Can I Buy You Lunch (and tell you about my product)?
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Some people tell doctors that anything more than a cup of coffee is a conflict of interest. What about executives? Is it ok to take them out to lunch? What about a trip to the Super Bowl? Is there a line? Where is it? On this episode, Don and Shahid discuss a recent LinkedIn discussion where a healthcare executive called shenanigans on himself and his colleagues for accepting gifts. The gift is a symptom... not the underlying issue. Tune in to find out what the issue is and how to fix it. Plus, learn why Don hates RFPs and how we can do those better too.
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The Business Case for Being Patient-First with Brian Sanderson
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There's no business case for doing the right thing in healthcare. Fortunately, being patient-first is the right thing to do and can be good for business too. Today we talk with , national healthcare management leader at and author of the new book, The Patient-First Revolution. In it, Brian provides a blueprint for hospitals to skyrocket net revenue by boosting patient experience (#HCBiz listeners can grab a free copy of the book ). Brian explains it's important to think about more than short-term financials. Yes... you need to operate efficiently and run a sound business… those are...
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Building an Innovation Lifecycle Ontology
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It's easy to experiment with new tech and produce products that look and sound innovative. It's much harder to tie your innovation efforts to strategic objectives with measurable outcomes and then scale the solution across your organization. The former leads to "death by pilot". The latter makes a difference in people's lives. We need a more disciplined approach to innovation if we want to make a difference. In this episode (Ep. 201) we introduce the concept of the Healthcare Delivery Organization Innovation Lifecycle Ontology or HDO-ILO. That's a fancy way of saying that we are attempting to...
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Episode 200!!! What's Next for the show?
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On this episode, Don Lee and Shahid Shah celebrate 200 episodes of The #HCBiz Show! We discuss what we've done over the past 6 years and tell you where we're headed next. In a nutshell, we're going to work to codify what we've learned about innovation in healthcare over the past 200 episodes and in our decades of deploying digital health solutions. We're steering the effort, but we need your help. There will be plenty of ways to get involved. Thanks for learning with us over the past 200 episodes. Here's to 200 more! Oh... and we're on YouTube now too if you prefer the visuals: ...
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Putting Ambient Intelligence into the Clinical Workflow at Scale with Peter Durlach
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There’s no shortage of development when it comes to AI and ML in healthcare. The technology is already powerful and continues to advance. The challenge, as always, is getting things into the clinical workflow. And doing so at scale. Nuance has a plan to help innovators and health delivery organizations find alignment and get the right tools integrated into the clinical workflow quickly. Nuance started with ambient intelligence in the sensory realm. In computing, refers to electronic environments that are sensitive and responsive to the presence of people. Today, Nuance’s Dragon...
info_outlineWe’ve talked a lot about the importance of addressing social determinants of health (SDOH) in healthcare, and why it may be the most critical factor when it comes to lowering costs and improving outcomes… especially for vulnerable communities. For me, there is zero doubt that this is what needs to happen. However, we’ve seen very few programs that have been successful, sustainable, and scalable. That’s a big problem, and when this happens, you risk losing the attention of key decision-makers that we need to drive these new approaches forward.
If we know the interventions work, but we haven’t been able to find financial alignment within the system… then perhaps we’re doing it wrong.
Today we’re talking with someone who’s made it work. Jill Feldstein is Chief Operating Officer at the Penn Center for Community Health Workers at Penn Medicine.
They help healthcare organizations across the country start or improve Community Health Worker (CHW) programs using the Center’s evidence-based IMPaCT model.
And they’re returning $2 for every $1 spent.
I first heard about the Penn Center for Community Health Workers at the recent NCQA Quality Talks event. Executive Director, Shreya Kangovi, pitched the idea of using federal funds to hire Community Health Workers as part of our COVID-19 response. It would help patients get the care they need. It would keep us safer as we re-open the economy. AND it would create new jobs! It’s effective. It’s efficient. I love this idea.
So today we’re going to learn about Community Health Workers, how health systems and payers can use the Penn Centers IMPaCT model to drive a 2:1 ROI, and why right now, in the face of the COVID epidemic, may be the best time to do it.
After you listen, I encourage you to consider signing The Penn Center for Community Health Workers letters to CMS and Congress. The letters outline the benefits of community health workers and explain how they can make a huge difference as we battle our way out of the COVID-19 crisis.
Learn more at: https://chw.upenn.edu/
Full show notes: https://thehcbiz.com/community-health-workers-to-combat-covid-19/