We all want the same thing: a health care system that has the best outcomes for the patient. But across the country, multiple health care providers and payers all have different ideas and expectations about what that means, and the sheer amount of patient variables makes it hard to actually achieve that goal. It’s a challenge - so how do stakeholders create usable information to actually help patients get well? Join us as Susan Dentzer discusses with Optum and Frost & Sullivan experts.

The behind-the-scenes, administrative business of health care is an enormously complex -- and enormously expensive -- part of our health care system. Why do these processes form such a large portion of the cost of our system? How can we make this part of the system simpler, more cost-effective, and frictionless for providers, health plans, and the everyday public?

Where do you live? Do you have access to transportation? Are you lonely? These are all examples of “determinants of health.” Identifying and addressing these factors are crucial to whole person care and better health outcomes. But making sense out of the data and getting that information to the right folks at the right time is the challenging part.

What makes our health system in the U.S. so complex to navigate, standardize, pay for — and fix? "Until It's Fixed" episode one takes listeners on a journey to all corners of the system to better understand what’s working, what’s broken, and how stakeholders are working to bring needed change and navigate forward.

Introducing "Until It's Fixed". A podcast about innovation in health care. Join us for this 10-part series hosted by acclaimed author of 'Health Care Without Walls: A Roadmap for Reinventing U.S. Health Care', Susan Dentzer. Coming fall 2020.