Jun 24, 2021
In Episode 327, Stacey Richter talks with Naomi Fried, PhD, founder and CEO of PharmStars, about why the gap between Pharma and digital health start-ups is so hard to close — and what each side needs to understand about the other to actually make partnerships work.
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✅ What the pharma–start-up...
Jun 17, 2021
In Episode 326, Stacey Richter talks with Rishi Wadhera, MD, MPP, cardiologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, about his retrospective analysis of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) — and how Goodhart’s Law explains why so many value-based care and quality metrics backfire.
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Jun 10, 2021
In Episode 325, Stacey Richter talks with Mai Pham, MD, MPH, former chief innovation officer at CMS and co-author of Penn’s “Future of Value-Based Payment” white paper, about three premises of value-based care she disagrees with — plus the massive, under-addressed gap in care for people with intellectual...
Jun 3, 2021
In Episode 324, Stacey Richter talks with Nicole Bradberry, CEO of the Florida Association of ACOs, and Kelly Conroy, director at Pinnacle Healthcare Consulting, about whether ACOs actually improve quality and reduce costs — and what separates the high performers from the unimpressive national average.
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