Healthcare Strategies
A podcast for healthcare professionals seeking solutions to today's and tomorrow's top challenges. Hosted by the editors of Xtelligent Healthcare Media, this podcast series focuses on real-world use cases that are leading to tangible improvements in care quality, outcomes, and cost.
Guests from leading provider, payer, government, and other organizations share their approaches to transforming healthcare in a meaningful and lasting way.
Featured
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| S03 E01 | Episode S03 E01: Improving Health Equity for Black Mothers by Lowering Preeclampsia Risk The lack of health equity in the current healthcare system is starkly evident in maternal care. Black patients who are pregnant are at higher risk than their White counterparts for a preventable disease called preeclampsia. Joanne Armstrong, MD, executive medical director and chief medical officer for women’s health and genomics at CVS Health, explains how provider and payer organizations can improve patient education to combat care disparities in maternal care. |
9/6/21 |
| S02 E47 | Episode S02 E47: Addressing Health Equity In Light of COVID-19: Policy, Data, Culture As the nation emerges from the coronavirus pandemic, healthcare professionals can ensure that health equity is central to their strategies going forward. Sara Heath, managing editor at Xtelligent Healthcare Media, reviews how to define health equity, how the pandemic impacted the industrywide discussion around this topic, and how steps that organizations can take toward improving health equity. |
7/26/21 |
| S02 E46 | Episode S02 E46: Empowering Nurse Practitioners to Negotiate with Payers, Take on Risk Nurse practitioners are trained not to take risks in care delivery, but when it comes to starting their own practices they have to accept financial risk and prove their value. Lorraine Bock, co-founder of National Nurse Practitioner Entrepreneur Network (NNPEN), shares her experience starting her own practice as a nurse practitioner, the value that nurse practitioners add to the healthcare system, and how nurse practitioners can engage in value-based contracting. |
7/19/21 |
| S02 E45 | Episode S02 E45: Using the Power of Community-Based Paramedicine for Value-Based Care, SDOH Community-based paramedics have a unique role in the local healthcare system. By going into individuals’ homes to provide healthcare support, they can gain insight into potential social determinants of health barriers that other healthcare providers may never see. Ken Peach, executive director of the Health Council of East Central Florida, shares how his organization is using community-based paramedicine to improve value-based care in Florida. |
7/12/21 |
