When MisInformation Becomes a Health Crisis w/ Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, Johns Hopkins
Health misinformation is no longer a fringe problem on the margins of public health. It has a measurable body count, and the systems that on...
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Health Care Rounds is a weekly podcast developed for health care leaders who are at the forefront of health care delivery and payment reform. Join Darwin Research Group founder and CEO John...
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Real Health Care Happens Between Doctor Visits w/ Wei-Li Shao, President, Omada Health
Between 80% and 90% of health outcomes are shaped by what happens between doctor visits. Yet the entire U.S. health care system, from paymen...
Mailbag: Debunking Vaccines Myths
A few weeks ago we conducted a survey of Our Take readers that included both listeners to our podcast and those who don’t (the latter group,...
Health Care's Affordability Crisis Is Getting Worse w/ Larry Levitt, CEO-Elect & EVP, KFF
Health care is 18% of U.S. GDP, the number one affordability concern for consumers, and the single biggest line item employers are trying to...
Are We Measuring Health Care Quality All Wrong? w/ Dr. Rachel Werner, Professor of Medicine, UPenn
Decades of quality measurement programs were designed to make U.S. health care better. The evidence suggests they have, just not nearly as m...
The State of Value-Based Health Care w/ John Marchica, Darwin Research Group
After a year of interviews about value-based care, the same things keep coming up. Fee-for-service is still the problem. Payers want to pay...
Why Health Care Reform Keeps Falling Short w/ Dr. Elliott Fisher, Dartmouth Institute
Decades after the research that proved high-spending regions don't produce better care, and 20 years after the term "accountable care organi...
Inside the Rural Health Transformation Program w/ Dr. Tim Ferris, InterSystems
Rural hospitals in the U.S. have been closing at a steady pace for over 50 years, and the country now has one of the lowest rates of acute h...
The Affordability Crisis Behind Value-Based Care w/ Dr. Michael Chernew, Harvard
U.S. health care spending keeps rising, quality scores keep climbing, and yet the care most Americans receive has barely improved. The measu...
What’s Holding Back Value-Based Care? w/ Don Calcagno, Founder, ValuesEdge
Value-based care has been the defining promise of health care reform for two decades. Yet new evidence still takes an average of 17 years to...
Why Membership Medicine Could Save Primary Care w/ Larry Kutscher, CEO, MDVIP
mary care physicians are burning out, and patients are paying the price. With the average primary care visit lasting just 15 minutes, the vo...
Why Health Care Treats Instead of Prevents w/ Dr. Barry R. Davis, Author, The Preventioneers
Health care spends trillions treating disease, but far less preventing it. The gap between what we know works and what actually gets impleme...
What’s Really Holding Back Value-Based Care? w/ David Snow, Chairman & CEO, Cedar Gate Technologies
Value-based care has been the goal for decades. So why does it still feel like we're moving in slow motion? The answer may come down to data...
Rebuilding Pediatric Care From the Ground Up w/ Danish Qureshi, Founder & CEO, Zarminali Pediatrics
Pediatric care is one of the most fragmented and underfunded corners of the American health system. Parents are left as de facto care coordi...
Lessons From Leading a Safety Net Hospital w/ Tesa Anewishki, President & CEO, Loretto Hospital
On Chicago's West Side, a 100-year-old safety net hospital serves a community where the average life expectancy is 20 years shorter than it...
How the VA Proved The Pharma Model Wrong w/ Dr. Eric Scott, U.S. Dept. of Veteran Affairs
The VA is one of the largest integrated health systems in the country, but it operates unlike anything in the private sector. What can pharm...
How Health Systems Build Elite Clinical Leaders w/ Dr. Jonathan Stallkamp, CMO, Main Line Health
Physician leadership can make or break a health system. What does it really take to earn doctors’ trust and move an organization forward? Dr...
A New Blueprint for Rural Health Care w/ Natalie L. Baggio, President, Corewell Health South
Regional health leaders are being asked to do the impossible right now: deliver on systemwide strategy while staying deeply responsive to th...
Standing Strong as an Independent Health System w/ Dr. Allen Smith & Dr. Sam Ash, South Shore Health
Independent community health systems are under increasing pressure as health care continues to consolidate. What does it really take to rema...
Making Health Care Costs Simple and Transparent w/ Mark Cuban, Co-Founder, Cost Plus Drugs
We’re ringing in 2026 with Mark Cuban! Prescription pricing remains one of the most opaque and frustrating parts of the health care system,...