Raise the Line

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Medscape - First Five Years:
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/504736

Medscape - 25th Anniversary:
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/930939

Trial of the Chicago 7:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVb6EdKDBfU

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Risk management is a critically important part of providing healthcare and, you might be surprised to learn, goes far beyond dealing with medical errors.  In fact, modern risk management encompasses most aspects of healthcare operations, including HR and finances.  When Marlene Icenhower, who has degrees in nursing and law, first got into risk management decades ago, it was largely reactive in nature. “It had to do with the process that occurred after a medical mishap, and it was pretty much confined to just the clinical arena and the legal mop-up that took place after that event.” Over the past several decades, however, it's evolved into a function that's more proactive. “The idea now is to look for trends, issues, or lapses and then implement measures to fix them before they result in injury to a patient.” Icenhower is a senior risk specialist at Coverys, one of the largest medical malpractice insurance companies in the country, and spends a good deal of her time answering questions and brainstorming with providers around the country about everything from telehealth regulations to what should be done when a patient leaves against medical advice.  In this conversation with host Shiv Gaglani, Icenhower talks about finding the “why” behind education, how COVID is changing healthcare, and what she wishes medical and nursing schools would spend more time teaching. 

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After a negative experience at a chaotic pharmacy while battling a sinus infection, Eric Kinariwala identified the need for an easier way to get prescription medications. That was the spark for creating Capsule, a New York based digital pharmacy startup that has expanded to Chicago, Boston, and Minneapolis. “We built the entire experience around the idea that if your mom was a pharmacist and you were the only customer in the world, what would that experience look like?” Capsule is considered a leading disruptor in the pharmacy industry by offering fast delivery and having pharmacists on call 24/7 to help customers among other benefits, but Kinariwala thinks the reasons for the company’s success goes beyond that.  “What we've learned is that it's really not about the speed of the delivery.  It's about all of the other things around the experience that the technology platform enables that makes it really, really frictionless and easy to do something that has historically been really complicated.”  Check out this episode of Raise the Line to learn how the patient-pharmacy relationship is changing, how Capsule is meeting the needs of physicians, health systems, payers and other stakeholders, and how COVID has fueled the company’s growth. 

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“While the switch to distance learning was traumatic at first, I think we're going to end up in a much better place when it's all said and done,” says Scott Shaw, president and CEO of Lincoln Tech which has always taken a hands-on learning approach. That’s because the blended in-person and online learning model emerging from COVID gives the school’s adult students more flexibility to manage their jobs and childcare now that they don’t always have to be on campus to take classes.  Lincoln Tech started 75 years ago to educate WWII veterans in auto mechanics and HVAC.  Now, it has 22 campuses and nearly two dozen programs, including nine in the health professions. In fact, they produce 50% of the LPNs in New Jersey and are hoping to start offering an RN program in the Garden State as well, which has one of the biggest shortages of nurses in the country. In this episode with host Shiv Gaglani, Shaw also discusses the increased interest in health professions due to the pandemic, student debt, and the key traits today’s employers are looking for in their staff.

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If you are thinking about applying to medical school, or are already in the process, this episode of Raise the Line is a must-listen. Host Shiv Gaglani is joined by Dr. Sahil Mehta, widely regarded as one of the top experts in the country on medical school admissions. As the founder of MedSchoolCoach, he’s guided thousands of successful medical school applicants. It’s a business that started with the simple realization that most people are not good at selling themselves.  Helping some friends improve their applications led to a “basement” business that has grown over the years to become a major player in the field. Listen in as Mehta shares his insights on what you can do to increase your appeal to medical schools and the importance of being certain it is the profession you want to pursue. 

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