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Inside Angle
Conversations at the heart of moving health care forward, from Solventum Health Information Systems.
Episodes
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Never pay the first bill: Investigating the high cost of health care
Why are health care costs so much higher in the U.S. compared with other countries? In his new book "Never Pay the First Bill: And Other Ways to Fight the…
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Standardized care or clinical flexibility? Finding the right balance
Care guidelines and protocols are designed to address discreet aspects of health, not necessarily the complexities of the human condition. When Dr. Elvin Geng…
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A return to relationship-oriented health care
At its core, health care is fundamentally about relationships. Yet, over the last several decades, care delivery has evolved into a transactional model…
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When primary care fires on all cylinders
Our nation's health care delivery system falls short when it comes to disease prevention and health promotion. Can we embrace the idea of health "holism" --…
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Reducing inequities in health care delivery
How do we provide physicians with the right resources to meet the needs of the people they serve? What will it take to ensure the best possible care when…
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Financing U.S. health care to invest in the future
Among the many lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, one thing is clear: Whether it's gaps in our public health system or obstacles to adoption of…
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Seeing value from the patient's perspective
What might a better value-based payment model look like and what tools do we need in order to create that model? Dr. Gordon Moore discusses a vision for the…
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Giving small physician practices a larger voice
How can small physician practices be supported in their work? In what ways can practices grow their voice to get the attention of payers and ultimately realize…
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Empowering primary care with better access to trusted data
Better patient outcomes depend on high quality primary care, but primary care providers often don't get the data they need to fully understand the unique needs…
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Helping patients navigate their unique health journeys
Founded in 1963 as a health and beauty store, CVS has evolved over its 50-year history, but always maintained a focus on making health care local and…
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Frailty Index: Predicting length of stay and complications
Health care procedures can be risky for certain cohorts of patients. How can we identify these patients are and weigh the benefits and risks of performing…
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A COVID-19 silver lining? Overcoming roadblocks to innovation
One silver lining of these COVID-19 times? The willingness to be inventive, try new approaches and invest resources in improving care outcomes. In this…
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Super utilizers: A breakthrough approach to care management
Nationwide, emergency departments struggle with super utilizers, those patients who come into the ED as often as once a day. How can hospitals reduce…
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The role of health plans in addressing social determinants of health
What problems can be solved when health plans collaborate with each other rather than compete? In this episode, we explore Project Link, a new forum that…
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Telemedicine during the pandemic: Finding the right approach
Telemedicine has been around for a long time, but many health care organizations made the first moves into telehealth with the COVID-19 public health…
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Health care pricing: Why it's time to consider big changes
In his New York Times best-selling book "The Price We Pay," Dr. Marty Makary discusses the worsening crisis of high health care costs and the impact on quality…
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Making things simple in user experience isn't always simple
Electronic health records give providers an enormous amount of information, but finding relevant patient information can be like finding a needle in a…
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Bringing successful whole person care to high needs/high cost patients
The COVID-19 pandemic has put extraordinary stress on state Medicaid budgets. Enrollment is increasing, along with direct and indirect costs, at a time of…
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Telemedicine: Improving outcomes in the time of COVID-19
During this time of COVID-19, we've seen a striking increase in the use of telemedicine services. The Inside Angle podcast revisits an episode featuring…
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Patient care from home: Achieving optimal outcomes
There are thousands of wellness apps, devices, wearables and telehealth tools that can be used for chronic disease management and patient health monitoring at…
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Serving the safety net community
Immigrant communities and underserved populations experience disparities in care due to high poverty, limited access, cultural or linguistic differences, and…
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Clinical documentation: Easing the burden on physicians
As a palliative care physician, Dr. Beth Wolf experienced the complexity of communication. As she helped patients and families navigate issues related to pain…
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Prevention vs. treatment: Investing in the health of communities
When public health initiatives account for 90 percent of improvements in population health, what is the role of the care delivery system in addressing…
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Medicaid: The backbone of U.S. health care
As the largest health insurance program in the country, providing the majority of mental health care and long-term services and support, Medicaid is an…
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Can AI help solve the challenge of physician burnout?
How can artificial intelligence help physicians who are overloaded with quality measures and administrative tasks that pull them away from patient care? Can AI…
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Searching for better outcomes and lower costs: The challenges facing state Medicaid directors
State Medicaid agencies are under enormous pressure to reduce costs while maintaining quality of care for Medicaid beneficiaries. In this podcast episode, Dr…
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Biking 3,255 miles to talk health care
What is your opinion of U.S. health care? That's the question Dr. Paul Gordon asked of average Americans he met while biking coast to coast on a three-month…
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Lowering readmission rates by breaking down silos
In 2016, BayCare Health System took on its high readmission rates by launching seven different programs to lower readmissions. The problem? The programs were…
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Measuring what matters in health care
In part one of his podcast episode, Dr. John Wasson, Professor Emeritus at Dartmouth Medical School, suggests U.S. health care could learn a few lessons on…
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Sorting through a sea of data: AI in health care
Providers are increasingly overwhelmed by administrative work that takes them away from patient care. How can clinicians leverage AI solutions to optimize and…
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Confronting the opioid crisis
In this episode, Dr. Eugene Christian of Bon Secours Mercy Health System describes a new approach to solving the opioid addiction crisis. By reforming opioid…
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Lessons from organized crime for improving health care
When Dr. John Wasson was in medical school, he worked at an east coast resort that hosted well-known members of organized crime families. Reflecting back on…
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Social determinants of health: The whole person model of care
What challenges do high-needs patients face when seeking care? This was the question Dr. Melissa Clarke encountered as she and her colleagues worked towards a…
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Searching for the holy grail of mental health care
Imagine going to your primary care clinic and along with a blood test, they also took a "sample" of your language. The brain is too complicated for typical lab…
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Good intentions and unintended consequences: A look at healthcare policy
In attempting to improve healthcare delivery, policy makers have tried a top-down approach to effect change. In this episode, Harold D. Miller, President and…
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In search of innovation: The role of the CMIO
Dr. John "Rick" LeMoine's job is unique among chief medical information officers (CMIOs). He has no direct reports at CMIO for Sharp HealthCare, the largest…
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Analyzing human language for social good
Can the use of language on social media reveal information about a patient's mental health? Can human language, with all its ambiguities and complexities, be…
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Physician payment and performance measurement: Is it fair?
How much time does it actually take for primary care physicians and specialists to deliver care, and should time be considered when determining payment? When…
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Finding a common language: Documentation and quality improvement
Atrium Health's Dr. Geoffrey Rose and Heather Joyner describe their work with clinicians to find a common language for documentation in the medical record. The…
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Payer-provider collaboration: What's in it for consumers?
Imagine having to pay for a car piece by piece, shopping for a steering wheel, brake system and transmission all as separate purchases. Not a great idea…
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Analyzing unstructured data to unmask cognitive impairment
What if clinicians could use technology to find indicators of cognitive impairment hidden in the medical record? Dr. Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi of UW-Madison…
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Social determinants: Changing our view of the patient
In the mid-1980s, Dr. David Buck developed clinics for the indigent population of Houston, Texas where he learned first-hand that his patients needed social…
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Getting credit for great work: Helping physicians improve documentation
If quality outcomes for length of stay, readmissions and other measures are higher than industry norms, is it a question of poor clinical care? When Dr. Gene…
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Why patient engagement matters
At age 31, when Dr. Alan Glaseroff learned he had Type 1 diabetes, he began collaborating with his diabetes patients on new ways of self-managing the…
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Making the move from volume to value
Are we at a tipping point in making the move from volume to value? Does your organization have the right mindset to be successful? Mark Sonneborn of the…
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Data analytics: Extracting the signal from the noise
By 2020, medical knowledge will double every 73 days. Can machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) help clinicians drowning in information? Dr…
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Physician Burnout: How Can We Improve the Work of Care?
When a physician's work day includes two hours of EHR and desk work for every one hour of direct face time with patients, the work of care can seem…
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Caring for the Caregivers
When it comes to the health of the healthcare workforce, how can we help caregivers care for themselves? Population health leaders with the SEIU 775 Benefits…
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On the Frontlines of Collaborative Care
When a patient's chronic conditions are compounded by depression, it's a recipe for adverse outcomes and high healthcare costs. Dr. Paul Ciechanowski, a…
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So Many Measures
How do we develop quality measures that help improve care outcomes without creating more work for physicians? Dr. Michael Barr of the National Committee for…