What is Providence Digital Innovation Group? Sara Vaezy, Digital Strategy Officer with Providence Digital Innovation Group and Aaron Martin, EVP and Chief Digital Officer for Providence are here to talk about DIG and what they do to streamline the evolve the digital presence of the health system.

Bethany Vick, Senior Digital Strategy Manager at Providence Digital Innovation Group talks health literacy, education, and engagement with Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick, Founder and CEO of Grapevine Health.

We recently sat down with Dr. Ora Gordon, a self-proclaimed preventionist, to learn about Providence investments in genetics and genomics. From the role biomarkers play in creating targeted treatments for individuals to the launch of a study called Geno4ME to sequence the genetic makeup of 5,000 adults in 2021, Dr. Gordon offers an informed glimpse into the future of personalized medicine.

Technology has improved many aspects of health care, perhaps none more than robotic surgery.  Rather than open chests with a long recovery time, today’s patients experience less tissue trauma, less pain, and shorter hospital stays, helping patients recover quickly. Dr. Alexi Matousek from Providence Spokane Heart Institute discusses advancements that have helped countless patients get back to normal activity faster.

In celebration of Earth Week, Beth Schenk, Executive Director of the Providence Environmental Stewardship team, speaks with a panel of experts on the Providence commitment to the community, not just in our own backyards, but across the globe, to be environmental leaders and stewards and the journey to become carbon negative by 2030. 

Mary Renouf speaks with Dr. Per Danielsson about the Hospital at Home program and the advantages it will create for the consumer and the caregiver in the healthcare field. 

A panel of experts from Providence discusses the idea of going from Healthcare 1.0, a hospital-centric mentality, and expanding into Healthcare 2.0, which is looking at different factors that affect the overall health of the broader communities, like housing, food availability and wellness, and how they are intertwined, can allow us to make improvements and develop programs that lead towards a healthier environment and community at large. 

Healthcare largely contributes to pollution, Providence has made a commitment to become carbon negative by the 2030 to combat environmental pollution. Today Beth Schenk and Dr. Brian Chesebro discuss steps healthcare systems can take to reduce the carbon footprint.

In today's episode, we discuss Providence Supportive Housing and how housing is fundamental to health. Learn about how housing instability is prevalent throughout the West Coast and Providence's goal of creating and developing workforce housing, or the "missing middle", that would be available to households with median-level incomes that can't afford luxury home prices, but are making an income that prices them out of low-income housing, so good and affordable housing is available to all income levels. 

Host Carrie Schonwald of Providence speaks with a panel of guests about a bi-directional partnership to make global health impact through service that honors the leadership, expertise, and goals of communities around the world and works to break down the systemic health and resource inequities that are the global legacy of colonialism. You will hear about a partnership that included Seed Global Health, the University of Malawi College of Medicine, and the Swedish Family Medicine residency program with the primary goals of strengthening access to care and increasing the quality of health services. This partnership has been training and educating Malawi family medicine specialists as they develop the first family medicine training program in Malawi.