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.
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| S02 E28 | Episode S02 E28: Assessing the State of Value-Based Care in 2020, Expectations for 2021 Throughout 2020, speculations abounded as to the impact that the coronavirus pandemic would have on the progress of value-based care. Emily Sokol, director of research at Xtelligent Healthcare Media, reveals the trends that emerged through the most recent Value-Based Care Assessment. |
3/15/21 |
| S02 E27 | Episode S02 E27: Eliminating Racial Healthcare Disparities in the Payer Industry With their member data and member engagement capabilities, payers are uniquely positioned to reduce healthcare disparities. Kedar Mate, president and chief executive officer at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), and Mark Friedberg, senior vice president of performance measurement and improvement at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA), describe areas in which the payer industry has historically failed to eliminate racial care disparities and they explain steps that payers can take to eliminate disparities in their communities and companies. |
3/8/21 |
| S02 E26 | Episode S02 E26: Establishing Quality Measures to Assess Telehealth Quality of Care As telehealth continues to expand, healthcare professionals must confront a repercussive question: how should healthcare organizations conduct quality measurement in telehealth? Sheri Winsper, senior vice president of quality measurement at the National Quality Forum (NQF), explains why quality measurement for telehealth is critical to patient-centered care and shares elements that healthcare organizations should consider in telehealth quality measurement. |
3/1/21 |
| S02 E25 | Episode S02 E25: Addressing Pediatric Impact of Housing As A Social Determinant of Health It is well known that housing is a social determinant of health factor, but the implications of poor housing for children's health have gone under-explored until recently. Kelly Kelleher, MD, vice president of Community Health at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and senior author of a recent study on the subject, explains the pediatric implications and shares how hospitals and health systems can take action to support communities with poor housing. |
2/22/21 |
