Episodes

Dr. Sanjeev Arora, founder of the Project Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (Project ECHO).

Conversations focuses this week on an innovative model of care that’s linking primary care providers with specialists in rural and underserved areas of the country. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Sanjeev Arora, founder of Project ECHO®, about how the ECHO model has the potential to increase access, improve health outcomes, and support primary care providers in caring for complex conditions.

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Jeff Margolis, founder of the Trizetto Group

Conversations focuses this week on using system science to create a healthcare system that is coordinated, consistent, efficient and based on best practices. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Jeff Margolis, founder of the Trizetto Group, about his vision for health care– Integrated Healthcare Management– and why this is the right time for a solution based on information technology.

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Dr. Michelle Gourdine, physician, author and health policy consultant.

This week on Conversations on Health Care®, Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Michelle Gourdine about the individual, cultural and social factors that have led to poor health outcomes among African Americans. She’ll discuss how everything from lifestyle advice to understanding how to navigate the healthcare system is important to bridge this gap in health status.

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Drs. Jerome Groopman and Pamela Hartzband, authors of the new book Your Medical Mind.

This week, Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Jerome Groopman, a Harvard physician and New Yorker staff writer, and Dr. Pamela Hartzband, an endocrinologist and faculty member at Harvard Medical School, about their new book Your Medical Mind: How to Decide What is Right for You. They explore what influences our medical decisions– from personal biases to statistical influences on decisions to test and treat.

To download a full transcript of this episode click here.

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Paul Starr, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University

This week, Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Paul Starr about his new book, Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar American Struggle over Health Care Reform. Dr. Starr takes us through the complexities of the debate over health care in America, the history of health reform in America, and how the Affordable Care Act both fulfills and falls short of earlier reform efforts.

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Stephen Downs, Chief Technology and Information Officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

 

 

Conversations on Health Care focusesthis week on a new initiative in health care that makes medical information accessible for patients. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Stephen Downs from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation about the Blue Button initiative, a technology that has the capability to revolutionize the way patients engage with their health care.

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