I had a vision for this inbetweenisode. I wanted to highlight the wisdom of our amazing guests this year. I really wanted to find some theme that might be a key to our health care transformation. To achieve maximum suspense, here’s the very short story of how I got from “Is there a common thread of wisdom throughout all the RHV episodes this year?” to “Why, yes, there is … and it’s a good one!”

So, let’s start our journey of discovery with this. Here’s a fact: If you talk to patients, they will often tell you that they receive poor care or their needs are not met—when they fall between different providers, or their payer and their provider and their PBM (pharmacy benefit manager) are singing off of different sheets of music.

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When not hosting the show, Stacey is co-president of Aventria Health Group, a marketing agency and consultancy. Aventria specializes in helping pharmaceutical, employer, pharmacy, and health system clients improve patient outcomes by creating and leveraging collaborations with other health care organizations. For more than 20 years, Stacey has innovated better-coordinated health solutions benefiting all stakeholders and, most of all, the patient.

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Our host, Stacey Richter, discusses #collaboration as the common thread to transforming #healthcare in this week’s #healthcarepodcast. #podcast #digitalhealth