UNLEASHED: Redesigning Health Care

Nadia Laack, MD, a radiation oncologist at the Mayo Clinic, is co-leading a major technology-driven process improvement effort in cancer care. She shares her team’s goals, approach, and successes to date, including substantial reductions in delays for patients and system improvements that save clinician time.

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Lindsey Leininger, a health economist at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, takes a more incremental approach to changing healthcare than Don Berwick. To her, the most powerful vector for innovation in health care delivery is startup organizations contracting directly with payers to reduce hospitalizations and emergency room visits. 

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Don Berwick, co-founder of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, joins us to explore: Who should be on hospital boards? What metrics should their pay be tied to? We also touch on universal health insurance, value-based payments, and the need to expand resources to primary care. 

Find more information, including additional resources and an excellent transcript, at www.unleashedpodcast.org/#e27

When there is an adverse event in a hospital, what does the ideal response look like? What values must guide the effort? Chi-Cheng Huang, who has spent more than two decades improving hospital care, responds to Episode 25. He’s a practicing physician and faculty member at the Wake Forest School of Medicine.

Find more information, including additional resources and an excellent transcript, at www.unleashedpodcast.org/#e26

What does a culture of safety in a hospital look like from the perspective of clinicians? How about from the perspective of patients? And how will that change with AI? Peter Lachman, an internationally recognized expert on hospital quality and safety and former CEO of the International Society for Quality in Healthcare (ISQua), shares his perspective.

Find more information, including additional resources and an excellent transcript, at www.unleashedpodcast.org/#e25.

What’s important in modern day hospital quality improvement? Michael Calderwood, Chief Quality Officer at Dartmouth Health, emphasizes better coordination of care, better teamwork, and better conversations with patients and communities.

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Don Berwick, co-founder of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, joins us to explore: What is the current state of hospital quality and safety in the United States? Are hospital boards of directors making it a priority? What impact might AI have? 

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How do mental health providers add value in a primary care setting? What does it take to make the model sustainable? Kate DeGeorge, a family medicine doctor at the University of Virginia, responds to Episode 21. 

Find more information, including additional resources and an excellent transcript, at www.unleashedpodcast.org/#e22

Patients discuss mental health with their primary care physicians all of the time. Staggeringly few, however, go on to receive care from mental health professionals. How much might that change if mental health professionals worked side by side with primary care physicians? It’s already happening in several locations around the country, especially in academic medical centers. Christina Moore, a psychologist, shares her experiences leading the effort in pediatrics at Dartmouth Health.

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In the previous episode, we discussed care for children with medical complexity from a clinician’s point of view. Now, we hear from Annie Hoen, an epidemiologist and health systems researcher at Dartmouth. She’s also a mother of a child with medical complexity. 

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