On the Wednesday, June 3rd 2015 broadcast at 9AM PT/12PM ET our special guest is Jennifer Drago, Executive Vice President, Population Health for Sun Health.

Complete bio for Jennifer here:

'As executive vice president of population health, Drago has played a pivotal role in developing and launching several groundbreaking population health-style programs, including the Sun Health Center for Health & Wellbeing, Care Transitions, Community Education and Memory Care Navigator.

Several of these programs have received national recognition for quality and innovation.

Drago has worked in health care for more than 20 years, including stints as an associate administrator for Boswell Memorial Hospital and Del E. Webb Memorial Hospital. She also held the position of vice president of planning services for the former Sun Health hospital system.'

More about Sun Health: 

Sun Health is 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in Arizona that is committed to building health programs that enhance the lives of everyone it serves – residents, patients, donors and volunteers. A leading-edge example is Sun Health’s population-based approach to chronic disease management.

Join Fred Goldstein @fsgoldstein and me @2healthguru for a deeper dive into one long term and post acute care (including assisted living and memory care) health eco-system's grasp on and future plans for population health and their innovative CMS Community-based Care Transitions Program (CCTP).

This session was pre-recorded on May 24th 2015, DO NOT CALL IN!

On the first in our month end wrap-up of important news items in the population health and the broader quest for the triple aim we consider several newsworthy items including the Evolent IPO, the risks and benefits of quantifying oneself, the porous nature of many HealthIT systems given the seamingly daily announcments of data breaches, the potential dark side of the re-selling of sensitive personal information and more.

For the write up see: 'PopHealth Week: The Monthly Wrap with Fred, Doug and Gregg'.

Our next live broadcast is the first week in June 2015 with Jennifer Drago, Executive Vice President of Population Health at Sun Health.

Enjoy.

On the inaugral re-launch of our show to 'PopHealth Week' see: 'From This Week in Accountable Care to PopHealth Week' and 'Some Thoughts on Population Health, its Definition(s) and the Providers Role', David Nash, MD, MBA the founding and current Dean of the Jefferson School of Population Health joins co-hosts Fred Goldstein (@fsgoldstein), CEO, Accountable Health LLC and Gregg Masters, MPH (@2healthguru), Founder & CEO of Health Innovation Media. 

Join us Wednesday May 20th, 2015 at 12 Noon Eastern/9AM Pacific as we learn more about population health and population medicine from one of the country's most distinguished voices on this subject.

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On a special edition of 'This Week in Accountable Care' we'll chat with Farzad Mostashari, MD, CEO and Founder of Aledade about the recent announcement of Privia Health and the simultaneous release of results in the Pioneer [ACO] program by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation.

For some commentary on the significance of the Privia Health announcement, see: 'IPA 2.0 the Preferred ACO Chassis?' and for the CMS release see: 'Pioneer ACOs improve quality, have mixed results on slowing spending, CMS says.'

On the Wednesday May 28th 2014 broadcast at 12 Noon Pacific/3PM Eastern time my special guest is John Lynch publisher of the blog 'Our Healthcare Sucks'. John Lynch was founder and CEO of Medical Diagnostics, inc. - twice named to Business Week's "Best Small Companies" in America. He's since founded MedSmart Members to publish consumer health education publications. More about John here.

We'll talk about the ACA, accountable care and the status of health reform.

Join us!

On the Wednesday, April 30th 2014 broadcast at 12 Noon Pacific/3PM Eastern my special guest is Margalit Gur-Arie (follow her on twitter via @margalitgurarie). Margalit is a kindred sprit, twitter colleague and one who's work I have followed via the blog circuit (she publishes On Healthcare Technology), several white papers and of course on twitter.

'Margalit Gur-Arie is a founder of BizMed, a company devoted to supporting practicing physicians through software and services that simplify the business of medicine. Margalit has served in executive and consulting roles at various Health IT companies and her mission is to support and strengthen independent private practice, particularly in rural and underserved areas.

Margalit blogs and writes in support of primary care. She is an Israeli born aeronautical engineer turned tech wiz, who helped build early portals and EMRs. Residing in rural Missouri, she watches as health becomes increasingly industrialized without improved results, and she inherently understands the needs of independent practices.'

 

Join us for a fun and exporatory chat on the state of health reform, accountable care, the future of independent practice and the buiness of medicine!

On the Wednesday, April 23rd 2014 at 11AM Pacific/2PM Eastern my special guest is Nicole Bradberry, President/COO of Orange Health Solutions/MZI Healthcare and CEO of the Florida Association of ACOs.

Nicole an innovator in the accountable care space, is making an encore appearance on the show with some rather timely and interesting news following the recent acquisition of MZI Healthcare. We'll hear more about the investment enabling the transaction and the market significance of fueling the combination.

More about Nicole:

'Nicole Bradberry brings an innovative vision and a deep knowledge of healthcare, technology and business solutions. Previously, she was a founding Executive and Chief Information Officer for Rise Health, where she led the design and implementation of a full primary care transformation suite of products which included proprietary technology and transformational business solutions. In this role, she led her team to win the prestigious U.S. Department of Health and Human Services health data award for IT innovation.

Prior to Rise, Nicole spent 16 years leading operations and information technology programs for UnitedHealth Group and Cigna HealthCare. While there, she served as business lead for the technology transformation of the country’s largest dental and vision services company, led the national deployment of healthcare quality and affordability programs, and was responsible for the successful integration of many major health plans.'

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On the Wednesday, February 5th, 2014 episode at 12 Noon Pacific/3PM Eastern time we kick off our 2014 coverage with an ACO Roundtable with three industry veterans who will dig into the headlines and discuss the meaning of the data.

For a context piece on the episode, see: 'More than Half of ACOs "Save Money' Only 1/4 Bonus Providers' on ACO Watch.  

Following a rather robust conversation on twitter centered around the recently published 'start up costs for ACOs' published by the National Association of ACOs (NAACOs), we decided it was a good time to dig beyond the headlines and try to make sense of the growth and dispersion of ACOs both nationally and regionally.

On the broadcast is Fred Goldstein, Jim Hansen and David Crais.

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On the Wednesday, November 13th 2013 broadcast at 12 Noon/3PM Eastern time my special guest is the witty, insightful, internationally known author, consultant, and healthcare futurist and Ian Morrison.

Ian specializes in long-term forecasting and planning with particular emphasis on the changing business environment inside the health care ecosysem. Fresh from a talk at the 4th Annual ACO Congress we'll get some of Ian's insights on the state of accountable care consciousness inside an otherwise legacy healthcare economy. More about Ian:

'He combines research and consulting skills with an incisive Scottish wit to help public and private organizations plan their longer-term future.

Ian has written, lectured, and consulted on a wide variety of forecasting, strategy, and health care topics for government, industry, and a variety of nonprofit organizations in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Ian is the author of Leading Change in Health Care: Building a Viable System for Today and Tomorrow (AHA Press/Health Forum, 2011), and Healthcare in the New Millennium: Vision, Values and Leadership (Jossey-Bass, 2002). His previous book: The Second Curve – Managing The Velocity of Change (Ballantine, 1996) was a New York Times Business Bestseller and Businessweek Bestseller. Ian has co-authored several books and chapters, including Future Tense: The Business Realities of the Next Ten Years (William Morrow, 1994) and Looking Ahead at American Health Care (McGraw-Hill, 1988).

He holds an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in urban studies from the University of British Columbia; an M.A. in geography from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and a graduate degree in urban planning from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.'

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On the Wednesday, November 6th 2013 broadcast at 12 Noon Pacific/3PM Eastern my special guests are Jaan Sidorov, MD and Vince Kuraitis JD, MBA. We'll dive into the topic of 'clinically integrated networks' (CINs). For background on Jaan click here and Vince click here.

These are encore appearances for both Jaan and Vince on this week in accountable care. Our earlier exchanges can be accessed here and here. Follow Vince on Twitter via @vincekuraitis and Jaan via @DisMgtCareBlog

Considering all the discussion, exploration if not exploitation of the ACO or accountable care model - afterall once you've seen on ACO, you seen one ACO - and the heavy anchoring of accountable care in coordinated or seamless care coordination context,we thought we'd do a deeper dive into the definition of clinically integrated networks. Our chat today will cover:

As the market evolves, what are the best routes to population health: ACOs? Clinically Integrated Networks? or Medicare Advantage? We'll also dive into whether:

A population health clinical model is emerging as a consensus end game; andWhile the financial and delivery system model(s) to get us there are still unclear and up for grabs.

Join us for an informative chat.