Episode S01 E10: Leveraging Community-Based Partnerships to Address Senior SDOH

Bruce Chernoff, MD, the president and chief executive officer of the SCAN Foundation, discusses the social determinants of health barriers that America’s seniors face. He also addresses the challenges that the healthcare industry experiences in trying to solve them and how partnerships with community-based organizations can be a key to the solution.

Episode S01 E09: EHR Usability Fixes to Address Physician Burnout, Engagement

Gary Price, MD, president of The Physicians Foundation, talks about how EHR usability affects physician burnout, physician suicide, and patient engagement. He calls for a mindset realignment that prioritizes patient satisfaction and endorses EHR usage in which the EHR tools and regulations serve the patient-physician relationship instead of burdening it.

Episode S01 E08: How Cartoons Help One Doctor Advocate for Patients in Primary Care

Anita Ravi, MD, co-founder of the PurpLE Health Foundation, exhorts healthcare organizations to provide care that is trauma-informed and social determinants of health aware. Drawing from her own encounters treating patients who have experienced abuse, she discusses practical ways to reshape healthcare systems’ approach to mental healthcare screenings and describes how cartooning has helped breach communication barriers.

Episode S01 E07: Implementing Advanced Primary Care Models in a Fee-for-Service World

Ryan Schmid, MBA, CEO and president of Vera Whole Health, outlines his organization’s advanced primary care model and discusses how this differs from traditional primary care. Vera Whole Health's model emphasizes the need for a transition from fee-for-service to value-based reimbursement in order to promote more holistic, patient-centered care.