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Cracking Down on Opioid Abuse: The Pros and Cons of...

Healthcare Policy ·

2015/12/21

Host: Jennifer Caudle, DO States are cracking down on physicians and pharmacies in an attempt to curb a nationwide epidemic of opioid abuse. While some measures are improving the situation in hard-hit areas such as Florida, opponents say that the new laws are also keeping needed medications out of the hands of patients. How are states responding to this dual-issue, and do the ends of diminishing drug overdoses justify the means of restricting drug access to those who need them? Host

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Understanding Value-Based Care: Dr. Neel Shah,...

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2015/12/14

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Neel Shah, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Harvard Medical School and Founder of Costs of Care, a global NGO dedicated to helping delivery systems provide better care at lower costs. He's also the co-author of Understanding Value Based Care, which seeks to promote cost awareness in the medical profession.

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Fostering Innovation in American vs. British Health...

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2015/11/23

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Harpreet Sood, Sr. Fellow to the CEO of the National Health Service of England. Dr. Sood addresses the strengths of the health systems of both the UK and the US, and discusses innovations in care delivery and public health initiatives that are poised to transform the quality of care in both countries.

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Extending the Hippocratic Oath to Climate Change...

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2015/11/16

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Gary Cohen, 2015 MacArthur Fellow and Founder and President of Health Care Without Harm. His work is focused on motivating the health care industry to “do no harm” by reducing the use of toxic materials and fossil fuels to positively impact climate change.

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Updates from the Society for Participatory Medicine

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2015/11/09

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Dr. Daniel Z. Sands, Founder of the Society For Participatory Medicine which seeks to advance the patient/provider experience through better health IT. Dr. Sands is one of the early developers of secure e-mail systems and patient portals for clinicians as well as patients, and advocates for transformation of the health care system through better integration of health IT.

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The Benefits and Drawbacks of Medicare Open Enrollment

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2015/10/26

This week, Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Raymond Hurd, Regional Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on the Medicare Open Enrollment period. He discusses the expanded number of plans available to seniors, and also warns of the threat of fraud and scams targeting the Medicare population.

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Health Policy Updates from the Kaiser Family Foundation

Healthcare Policy ·

2015/10/19

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Mollyann Brodie, Sr. Vice President of Executive Operations and Executive Director of Public Opinion Research at the Kaiser Family Foundation, where she oversees the non-profit's public polling efforts. Dr. Brodie conducts the Foundation's monthly tracking poll which charts the mood of the nation on a variety of health policies and provides unbiased polling data for policy makers.

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Protecting Population Health in the Communities Where...

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2015/10/12

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Georges Benjamin, Executive Director of the American Public Health Association, on the need to support federal polices that serve to protect population health in the communities where people live.

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Findings from the Committee on Diagnostic Error in...

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2015/10/05

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. John Ball, VP Emeritus of the American College of Physicians and Chair of the Committee on Diagnostic Error in Health Care at the National Academies of Medicine, which determined that diagnostic errors are a major contributor to patient harm and need to be addressed by all stakeholders in the health care system.

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Dr. Darshak Sanghavi on CMS's Million Hearts Campaign

Healthcare Policy ·

2015/09/14

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Darshak Sanghavi, Director of the Preventive and Population Healthcare Models Group at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation which has launched the "Million Hearts" campaign to reduce cardiovascular disease. The 5-year campaign is CMS's largest experiment to date on pay-for-performance practice models and is supporting practices to follow the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association Risk

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Stoned: A Doctor's Case for Medical Marijuana

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2015/09/14

Host: John Russell, MD No substance on earth is as hotly debated as marijuana. Opponents claim it’s dangerous, addictive, carcinogenic, and a gateway to serious drug abuse. Conversely, fans claim it as a wonder drug, treating cancer, anorexia, AIDS, chronic pain, glaucoma, arthritis, migraines, PTSD, and insomnia. In Stoned: A Doctor's Case for Medical Marijuana, palliative care physician Dr. David Casarett investigates with researchers, doctors, and patients around the globe how

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Dr. Christine Cassel: President and CEO of the...

Healthcare Policy ·

2015/09/07

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Christine Cassel, President and CEO of the National Quality Forum, a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to improving health and health care through developing better health quality measures and data-sharing.

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An FDA Retrospective with Past Commissioner Dr....

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2015/08/17

This week, Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Margaret Hamburg, Foreign Secretary for the National Academy of Medicine at the National Academy of Sciences and recent Commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration. Dr. Hamburg discusses the changes initiated at the FDA under her leadership and the enormous challenge of keeping the nation's drug and food stream safe in a globalized supply chain.

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HHS Health Datapalooza: Where Government and Tech...

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2015/08/03

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Susannah Fox, Chief Technology Officer at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Ms. Fox presides over the HHS Idea Lab and Health Datapalooza, where tech innovators and health policy makers come together to create solutions to healthcare's biggest problems. She previously served for 14 years as Director of the Internet and Life Project at Pew Research Center, analyzing health impacts of an increasingly internet-connected

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CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden on the Nation's Top...

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2015/07/27

This week, Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Tom Frieden, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since 2009. Dr. Frieden discusses the most pressing challenges at the CDC, including antibiotic-resistant infections, the opioid abuse epidemic, and the recent Ebola epidemic, as well as efforts underway to combat these public health threats.

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Policy Updates from the Centers for Medicare &...

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2015/07/20

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Sean Cavanaugh, Deputy Administrator and Director of the Center for Medicare at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. He is responsible for overseeing the regulation and payment of Medicare fee-for service providers, privately-administered Medicare health plans, and the Medicare prescription drug program. Medicare provides health coverage to 50 million elderly and disabled Americans, with an annual budget of over $550 billion.

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A New Era of Scientific Research: Updates from the...

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2015/07/13

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Dr. Eric Green, Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health, the world's largest organization dedicated solely to genomics research. Dr. Green was on the team that mapped the human genome and talks about new initiatives at NIH to create better platforms for storing and sharing big data in this new era of scientific research.

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The Politics of CME: Perspectives from Andrew...

Healthcare Policy ·

2015/06/29

Host: Frank Russomano The role of continuing medical education (CME) within government is an important and ever-changing area of high interest and scrutiny among many stakeholders. The CME Coalition is an advocacy group working directly with government officials, lobbyist and other healthcare interest groups to help define and refine what CME is, and the role supporters have in medical education. Host Frank Russomano, reporting from the floor of the Alliance for Continuing Education in

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Updates from the Predictive Health Institute

Healthcare Policy ·

2015/06/29

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Dr Kenneth Brigham, cofounder and past director of the Emory/Georgia Tech Predictive Health Institute, on the future of predictive health. They discuss the use of genomics, biometrics, and nanotechnology to identify disease risks early in life and perhaps prevent the future onset of disease.

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Where Medical Knowledge Flows Freely: The Origins of...

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2015/06/22

This week, hosts Mark and Margaret speak with Harvard professor Dr. C. Michael Gibson, Founder and Chairman of WikiDocs.org, an open source website designed to facilitate collaborative authoring of medical content within the international community of healthcare professionals.

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