Episode S01 E06: Using Telehealth to Address the Nation’s Mental Health Crisis

Healthcare Strategies talks to Amy Lerman, a member of the Health Care and Life Sciences team at Epstein Becker Green, about the challenges and benefits of launching a telemental health service. With the growing need for mental health care bumping up against barriers to access and a shortage of specialists, hospitals and health systems are turning to telehealth to put patients in front of providers when and where they’re needed. Lerman talks about best practices for launching such a platform as well as strategies for delivering quality virtual care.

Episode S01 E05: Top Health IT Security Trends of 2019 and Industry Needs for 2020

Saif Abed, MD, Clinical Cyber Defense Systems CEO shares insights on cybersecurity trends of 2019, one of the most disruptive years in terms of cyberattacks and big breaches. Abed also dives into ways providers can begin tackling some of healthcare’s greatest privacy and security challenges, including constricted resources and an ever-increasing list of endpoints, while looking into what the healthcare sector can expect in the new year.

Episode S01 E04: Giving a Legal Voice to Patient Experience in Behavioral Health

As an attorney at Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman, Christian Puff explains to Healthcare Strategies the legal and technical barriers preventing truly value-based behavioral healthcare reform. As a behavioral health patient, Puff shares how payers and providers need to combine medical with behavioral healthcare.

Episode S01E03: Using Population Health Management to Target Rural Care Disparities

The Director of the Office of Preventive Health and Health Equity at the Mississippi Department of Health, Victor Sutton, PhD, MPPA, discusses challenges to overcoming rural care disparities. Through their work with community partners, Sutton and his team are developing evidence-based population health management programs that are sustainable and scalable to improve patient outcomes.