Aug 29, 2024

In this Summer Short Episode, host Stacey Richter discusses the hidden costs and inefficiencies of value-based care with Elizabeth Mitchell, President and CEO of the Purchaser Business Group on Health (PBGH). They uncover how value-based care, often touted as the ideal system, can be manipulated by middlemen to extract...

Aug 22, 2024

In this encore episode, Stacey Richter’s conversation is with Will Shrank, MD. Dr. Shrank led the evaluation group at CMMI (Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation), spent time in the private sector at CVS Health and UPMC as chief medical officer of the health plan in Pittsburgh, and then as chief medical...

Aug 15, 2024

In this encore episode, host Stacey Richter speaks with Dr. Amy Scanlan, Chief Medical Officer of the Clinically Integrated Network, a joint venture between Intermountain Health and UC Health in Colorado. They discuss the complexities of transitioning to value-based care, including the need for infrastructure,...

Aug 8, 2024

When a company wants to change clinician behavior or close a care gap and comes in asking for an “EHR strategy” — or, more often, an “Epic strategy” — as step one, that’s a red flag. In this healthcare podcast, Ashleigh Gunter, president of Translucent Healthcare Consulting and a 30-year veteran of...

Aug 1, 2024

Spencer Dorn, MD, MPH, MHA — a gastroenterologist, academic practice leader, and clinical informaticist at UNC — joins Stacey Richter to talk about EHRs (electronic health records) without really talking about EHRs. The real subject is Kranzberg’s First Law of Technology: technology is never good, bad, or neutral...