The Transformer - The UW Medicine care transformation podcast

In this episode, we explore UW Medicine's Transgender & Gender Non-Binary Program (TGNB), which is working toward our vision to provide patient-centered and gender-affirming care to current and future TGNB patients in both the primary and specialty care setting. We are also helping our workforce become more gender aware and medically informed about how to take care of our gender-diverse patients.

UW Medicine Associate Vice President for Clinical Operations Cynthia Dold and Dr. D.C. Dugdale, medical director for value-based care, reflect on the journey toward improving quality of care and patient outcomes at a lower cost.

UW Medicine palliative care clinicians discuss how important collaborative and empathetic care -- in both the primary and specialty care settings -- is in helping our patients and their families find understanding and empowerment in dealing with serious illness and end-of-life situations.

In another segment looking at UW Medicine's strategic priority around healthcare equity, we'll explore how implicit bias and microaggressions factor into disparities in care and our own work environment.

Hear from clinicians and leaders how UW Medicine's telehealth services use emerging technologies to improve patient health outcomes and advance provider education.

UW Medicine directors Paula Houston and Pat Dawson, MD discuss institutional racism in the healthcare system and our own healthcare equity blueprint, mapping out the changes toward becoming a national model for healthcare equity and reducing disparities in healthcare delivery.

What's the difference between treating the sick patient in front of us vs. whole populations of patients? UW Neighborhood Clinics Executive Director Debra Gussin, Drs. Vicky Fang and Leah Marcotte, and Van Chaudhari, Population Health Management Administrator, discuss this broadened focus on serving populations as well as individual patients to prevent disease, promote health and reduce the burden of chronic illnesses.

Key leaders of UW Medicine's Project FIT (Financial Improvement Transformation) team -- Chief Supply Chain Officer Erik Walerius, Larry Dean, MD and Steve Fijalka, PharmD -- have a frank discussion about the financial challenges and opportunities that lie ahead and what we can all do to make a difference.

Are standardized pathways just "cookbook medicine?" UW Medicine Chief Medical Officer Carlos Pellegrini and Drs. Heidi Gray and Venu Pillarisetty take a deep dive into building roadmaps and repeatable models for common clinical procedures that are key to care transformation and implementing the "UW Medicine Way."

UW Medicine Chief Health System Officer Lisa Brandenburg and Drs. Carol Salerno and Danielle Lavallee discuss shared decision-making and partnering with patients to help deliver world-class, patient-centered care and improve communications, patient satisfaction and health outcomes.

Dr. Dave Flum and Dr. Josh Liao detail the whys and the hows of the road ahead and unscramble the alphabet soup of acronyms that dominate the care transformation conversation.

Dr. Dave Flum and Dr. Josh Liao open the care transformation podcast series with a discussion of the changing healthcare landscape, including talking about insurers and policymakers, value-based care and bundled payments.