Podcasts about improving population health

Todd Hlasney is the Director of Health Risk Solutions at Lockton where he and his team help companies build wellness programs that improve health and lower cost. In this episode, Todd shares best practices, how to make data actionable, and the ways to approach different segments of your employee base.  Mentioned in this Episode:Lockton Health Risk SolutionsTodd on LinkedInTopics:(2:21) - Introducing Todd Hlasney(3:28) - What is population health?(4:25) - Are the terms wellness and wellbeing interchangeable? (6:45) - Why would employers take responsibility for the health of their employees?(8:17) - Where does wellness start to be impactful for a company?(11:29) -  What are the types of health risks you are looking for and what are the interventions?(14:47) - What kind of ROI metrics, from a dollar standpoint, are you seeing and what are employers doing to get it?(18:23) - Is your group looking at blanketing across the 23-25% and creating strategies or are you getting hyper-specific on the high-cost claims?(24:55) - What are chronic conditions and what happens when you start to stack them?(27:19) - Can you explain "gaps in care" and how companies can close them?(30:31) - What does it look like in practice to get people to change their behavior?(33:29) - Is it fair to say that executive leadership drives the culture of the whole organization?(39:09) - Is there a way to get leadership on board with building up the company culture?(41:13) - Have you ever seen leadership roll out programs by using it only themselves first?(46:27) - What questions should employers be asking in order to build these programs?(50:26) - What are you sick of talking about?(52:19) - What are you most excited to be talking about?

Lisa Cherry is in conversation with Emm Irving,  Senior Programme Manager for Improving Population Health, NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board who leads on the Adversity, Trauma and Resilience Programme. The ambition is for the whole of West Yorkshire to become Trauma Informed by 2030. Lisa and Emm discuss the challenges, dealing with overwhelm and facing our own traumas alongside why we need to start with the workforce! 

Podcast #9 Looking Ahead in an Unfinished Journey References: Kindig DA. 2015. Can There Be Political Common Ground for Improving Population Health? Milbank Q 93(1):24–27. Kindig DA. 2007. Understanding Population Health Terminology. Milbank Q 85(1):139-161. Kindig D, Nobles J, Zidan M. 2018. Meeting the Institute of Medicine's 2030 US Life Expectancy Target. Am J Public Health108(1):87-92. McCullough JM, Speer M, Magnan S, Fielding JE, Kindig D, Teutsch SM. 2020. Reduction in US Health Care Spending Required to Meet the Institute of Medicine's 2030 Target. Am J Public Health 110(12):1735-1740. Hughes-Cromwick P, Kindig D, Magnan S, Gourevitch M, Teutsch 2021. The Reallocationists Versus the Direct Allocationists. Health Affairs Forefront. August 6. https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/forefront.20210729.55316 Kindig D. 2022. The Promise of Population Health: A Scenario for the Next Two Decades. NAM Perspectives. Commentary, National Academy of Medicine. Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.31478/202203a Kindig D. 2020. A Population Health Boot Camp. https://iaphs.org/a-population-health-boot-camp/ Wagstaff A. 2002. Inequality aversion, health inequalities and health achievement. J Health Econ 21(4):627–41. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12146594/

Podcast #7 Population Health Equity:  Finding Common Ground Dave explains his provocative and contrarian statement: “The effort to reduce health disparities is hindered by viewing health equity only in terms of racial inequities.” And he argues for seeing inequities through multiple lenses to find common ground. References: Kindig DA. 2015. Can There Be Political Common Ground for Improving Population Health? Milbank Q 93(1):24–27. Haidt J. 2012. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion. New York, NY. Pantheon Books. Isenberg N. 2016. White Trash: the 400-Year Untold History of Class in America. New York, New York. Viking. Kindig D. 2017. Population Health Equity: Rate and Burden, Race and Class. JAMA 317(5):467-468. Kindig DA. 2020. Using Uncommon Data to Promote Common Ground for Reducing Infant Mortality. Milbank Q 98(1):18–21.

It's no secret that the Black community tops the list of groups afflicted by hypertension, stroke, diabetes, heart disease, kidney failure, and cancer. What the statistics do not show is the pain, misery, and despair that these conditions create—not only for the individual, but also for family and friends. As an African-American doctor, Dr. Richard Walker has studied these conditions among his patients for many years. Now, in his new book, “Black Health Matters”, Dr. Walker offers a number of commonsense ways to prevent, manage, and possibly eliminate these killers, turning the tide of African-American health. And he not only provides us with a construct for thought leadership in population health equity, he practices this type of care at his home-based primary care practice TVP-Care in Houston, Texas. Dr. Walker has spent considerable time in researching the health and healthcare journey of African captives into slavery and understands what current African Americans now to need to do to survive nutritionally and culturally. He is truly on a mission to overcome the chronic ill health and early death that is so pervasive in Black communities. Most importantly, however, Dr. Walker is a leader in the value movement that believes traditional medicine should be merged with lifestyle medicine. He understands that African Americans can turn their health around by understanding and incorporating better nutrition, nutritional supplements, exercise, and regular healthcare checkups into their lives. In this important podcast discussion, we you will learn from a leading clinician and entrepreneur how we should go about improving Population Health Equity within African American communities in this Race to Value! Episode Bookmarks: 01:30 Introduction to “Black Health Matters” and the work of Dr. Richard Walker in the health value movement 03:30 What does the use of the word “value” mean when it comes to community health? 05:00 Dr. Walker discusses his upbringing in Spanish Harlem and how that experience led him to become a physician leader seeking to advance health equity 07:00 The “mystery” of excessive hospitalizations due to sugar consumption and how that led to an epidemic of Type 2 Diabetes in the African American community 09:00 The misperception in the African American community that most common chronic diseases are genetic (instead of caused by environmental of lifestyle factors) 10:00 Dismantling the informational disadvantage that leads to a misunderstanding of Social Determinants of Health 12:00 The impact of the murder of George Floyd and the BLM social justice movement and how that inspired Dr. Walker to write “Black Health Matters” 14:30 How the collective experience of African Americans over the last 400+ years has been based on “waiting” (e.g. slavery, citizenship, civil rights) 16:00 “Taking care of your own life is all about taking charge of the environment by understanding the root causes that lead to disease.” 16:30 How poor nutrition in the African American community stems from the slavery era and persists to this day 17:30 The inadequate training of the healthcare workforce further exacerbates preexisting issues of poor health among African Americans 18:30 “Black Health Matters” is all about understanding the progenitors of chronic disease that are not genetic, and how to mitigate them in African American communities. 19:00 Environmental hazards and chemical toxicities are more common in underserved, minoritized communities 20:30 Research that confirms the presence of systemic issues in the healthcare industry related to institutional racism 22:00 “The concept of value-based care is transformational because it has the potential of changing the course in healthcare by recognizing the true value of the individual.” 23:30 Will value-based care bring us to the “Quintuple Aim” that includes health equity? 24:30 How the founding vision of Dr. Walker's value-based,

Numerous healthcare organizations have adopted the guiding principles of the Quadruple Aim—a framework for healthcare excellence, the goals of which can be greatly supported through an intentionally designed built environment. In the second of a series of episodes based on the executive guide, “Enhancing the Quadruple Aim through Data-Driven Decisions in the Built Environment,” IMEG Director of Sustainability Adam McMillen discusses how the built environment can help healthcare organizations achieve the first goal, improving population health.

This episode is a master class in raising health outcomes at lower costs from an award-winning health care system in … Alaska?! Who knew? In fact, I learned about the work of the Southcentral Foundation and the Nuka System of Care only because I happen to listen to Swedish health care podcasts and heard about them on one of those shows. Color me surprised when the interview suddenly switched to English and the guest was from Alaska. Here’s the short version of what’s happening with the Nuka System of Care, which serves Alaska Native and American Indian people. They have gone as close to the Triple Aim as I’ve seen in this country. Health outcomes are superior at costs about half the average. Patients—or, as they call them, customer owners—are happy. So are clinicians. How this was achieved (spoiler alert here) was not through incrementally trying to jigger the earlier and pretty much failing model of health care delivery that had been going on in Alaska for Alaska Natives at that time. No can do! The Nuka System of Care was rebuilt pretty much from the ground up to be, for reals, patient- and community-centric and to be relationship based, not transactional. Behavioral health is a built-in, not dangling off the back bumper. It’s also about assembling a multidisciplinary primary care team, one in which each clinician on the team really can work at the top level of their license. In this health care podcast, I had the honor and pleasure of speaking with Douglas Eby, MD, MPH, CPE. Dr. Eby is the physician executive/vice president of medical services, Southcentral Foundation Nuka System of Care. This episode is sort of two parts. There is the main episode, which you’re listening to now, that gets into the how to provide effective health care from the provider organization, clinician, and community standpoint. In a few days, we’ll release “An Expert Explains” episode, where Dr. Eby specifically goes over the lessons a self-insured employer might take away from all of this. If you are intrigued by what you hear in this episode, Dr. Eby will also be speaking on July 14, 2021, at the Aspirational Healthcare Conference, which will be virtual. Go to aspirationalhealthcare.com for more info. Yours truly will be there as well on July 15, and I’m very much looking forward to it.  For those of you into more immediate gratification, some of the themes that Dr. Eby covers in this health care podcast are expanded on in my interview with Greg Makoul (EP203) about listening to patients and Darrell Moon, who is the founder of the Aspirational Healthcare Conference. You can hear in EP305 talking about the 1% year over year most expensive claimants and the best way to help them and help your cost management at the same time.  You can learn more at southcentralfoundation.com. Douglas K. Eby, MD, MPH, CPE, is vice president of medical services for Southcentral Foundation’s Malcolm Baldrige Award–winning Nuka System of Care. Doug is a physician executive who has done extensive work with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and other organizations around the Triple Aim, accountable care organizations (ACOs), patient-centered medical homes, whole system transformation, workforce, cultural competency, health disparities, and other topics. His speaking and consulting include work across the US, Canada, and portions of Europe and the South Pacific. Doug has spent more than 20 years working in support of Alaska Native leadership as they created a very innovative integrated system of care that has significantly improved health outcomes. Doug received his medical degree from the University of Cincinnati in Ohio and his master’s in public health degree from the University of Hawaii. 03:52 What’s the what and where of the Nuka System of Care? 04:49 What does the word Nuka mean? 05:25 “It’s all built around this idea that we’re raising … the ability for people to take control of their own health issues, and then we are just advisors … on that journey.” 06:39 “The reason why people do pay attention to us is … the proof in the pudding.” 09:09 What did the Southcentral Foundation do to create an ideal health system? 11:09 “It’s access, it’s relationship, it’s partnering, it’s being known … it’s getting at the whole family and the whole person.” 12:02 “There’s two huge problems with modern medicine all across the world. One is how money is handled … [and the other] is this blind acceptance of the medical model.” 14:14 “For 20 years, we’ve established a base of companionship and relationship.” 16:06 What does advanced primary care look like? 19:25 How does this new style of chronic management work, and why does it get better results than Centers of Excellence and other health system models? 23:25 “We refer out to specialists 65% less often than we used to.” 24:17 “It’s a ballet; it’s continual … all day, every day.” 25:33 How big are the patient panels in this system? 28:49 “I would say that 95% of what we do here is directly translatable to any location in the world.” 29:20 “Your workforce needs to look and feel like the community you’re trying to influence.” 32:12 “This is all designed and driven by the community that I am hired to support.” You can learn more at southcentralfoundation.com. @deby59 of @SCFinsider discusses #populationhealth on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #pophealth #digitalhealth What’s the “what” and “where” of the Nuka System of Care? @deby59 of @SCFinsider discusses #populationhealth on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #pophealth #digitalhealth “It’s all built around this idea that we’re raising … the ability for people to take control of their own health issues, and then we are just advisors … on that journey.” @deby59 of @SCFinsider discusses #populationhealth on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #pophealth #digitalhealth “The reason why people do pay attention to us is … the proof in the pudding.” @deby59 of @SCFinsider discusses #populationhealth on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #pophealth #digitalhealth What did the Southcentral Foundation do to create an ideal health system? @deby59 of @SCFinsider discusses #populationhealth on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #pophealth #digitalhealth “There’s two huge problems with modern medicine all across the world. One is how money is handled … [and the other] is this blind acceptance of the medical model.” @deby59 of @SCFinsider discusses #populationhealth on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #pophealth #digitalhealth “For 20 years, we’ve established a base of companionship and relationship.” @deby59 of @SCFinsider discusses #populationhealth on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #pophealth #digitalhealth What does advanced primary care look like? @deby59 of @SCFinsider discusses #populationhealth on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #pophealth #digitalhealth “We refer out to specialists 65% less often than we used to.” @deby59 of @SCFinsider discusses #populationhealth on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #pophealth #digitalhealth “It’s a ballet; it’s continual … all day, every day.” @deby59 of @SCFinsider discusses #populationhealth on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #pophealth #digitalhealth “Your workforce needs to look and feel like the community you’re trying to influence.” @deby59 of @SCFinsider discusses #populationhealth on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #pophealth #digitalhealth

Takeaways from today's episode: Decolonising global health is an ongoing movement allowing people (and researchers) to provide a local context in the conversations surrounding health. Though many definitions exist, it is based on the undoing of the colonial legacy that surrounds countries in the global south.Local health is global health - a local context is required to make it global. It is important to reflect on issues on decolonising global health to avoid neo-colonization and include diverse voices from the global south to spearhead the movement.It is not just about putting a researcher from the global south on the paper to get round publication guidelines and funders. It’s not about a tick-box exercise. The conversation needs to address power imbalances in funding, teaching or accessibility to learning resources. Investment in these areas can start to close the gaps.Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, written articles expected the global south to fail. But if we had diverse voices published and circulated en masse, the world would have known that the global south has always dealt with infectious outbreaks and the global north could have learnt some lessons from countries in the global south. ResourcesHow NOT to write about Africa, by Desmond Jumbam: https://gh.bmj.com/content/5/7/e003164‘The foreign Gaze’ by Seye Abimbola, the article referenced by Salma in the panel: https://gh.bmj.com/content/4/5/e002068The word global heath and what we need to think about when talking about decolonising it: https://gh.bmj.com/content/5/8/e002947COVID-19 and inequities surrounding the term global health: https://gh.bmj.com/content/5/8/e003394What the world can learn from Africa’s response to COVID-19: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/covid-19-africaDecolonizing COVID-19: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(20)30134-0/fulltextRead Renzo’s blog on global health: https://www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/author/renzo-r-guinto-md/Salma’s article on what is global health:https://gh.bmj.com/content/5/10/e002884.infoSilenced voices in global health: https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/silenced-voices-global-healthThe Global Health Security Index: what value does it add?:https://gh.bmj.com/content/5/4/e002477Africa convening - Health systems global: https://healthsystemsglobal.org/news/decolonizing-hpsr-the-africa-convening/ Guest informationRenzo Guinto, MD DrPH is Associate Professor and Inaugural Director of the Global Health Program of the St. Luke’s Medical Center College of Medicine in the Philippines. An Obama Foundation Asia-Pacific Leader, Renzo is also the Chief Planetary Doctor of PH Lab – a “glo-cal think-and-do tank” for advancing the health of both people and the planet – and member of the Lancet–Chatham House Commission on Improving Population Health post COVID-19. Twitter: @RenzoGuintoDesmond Jumbam is a Cameroonian health policy consultant based in Accra, Ghana. Currently, Desmond works with Operation Smile, a cleft NGO operating in over 30 countries, advising and leading the organization on health systems strengthening programs as well as health policy and advocacy engagements. He also leads research projects specifically focused on health financing for surgical care in low and middle-income countries. Prior to joining Operation Smile, Desmond was a health policy analyst with the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change at Harvard Medical School where he led and advised on the development of National Surgical Obstetric, Obstetric and Anesthesia Plans in several countries including Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia and Pakistan. Desmond holds a Master of Science in Global Health from the University of Notre Dame and a Bachelor of Arts in biological sciences from Taylor University in the United States. Twitter: @desmondtankoSalma M Abdalla is a physician by training and currently a research fellow at Boston University School of Public Health. She is the lead Project Director of the Rockefeller-Boston University 3-D Commission on Determinants of health, Data science, and Decision making. Dr Abdalla’s research focuses on how inequalities and power dynamics shape the health of populations and applying a systems thinking approach to the social, political, and commercial determinants of health. She is also interested in studying the effects of mass trauma on the mental health of populations. Twitter: @SalmaMHAbdalla Contact usEmail: enquiries@yourdigimentor.net Twitter: @mentor_podcast AcknowledgementsEditing by Mariana Vaz, https://www.marianacpvaz.com/Research: Isabela Malta, Alice Matimba, Emmanuela Oppong, Christine BoinettProducers: Isabela Malta (Producer), Alice Matimba (Senior Producer), Christine Boinett (Creator and Executive producer) and Emmanuela Oppong (Producer).Host: Alice Matimba and Christine BoinettMedia and Marketing: Catherine HolmesMusic: https://freesound.org/s/477388/ SupportWellcome Genome Campus Advanced Courses and Scientific ConferencesWellcome Sanger InstituteSocial Entrepreneurship to Spur Health

Brian Dixon, director of public health informatics at Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health at IUPUI, details how sharing social determinants of health data can help improve population health. Specifically, he shares about Regenstrief Institute's Indiana Network for Population Health and how it expanded on previous efforts to share patients' clinical data in order to include social determinants of health information.

Today's Outcomes Rocket guest is Kistein Monkhouse, founder and CEO at Patient Orator, a digital health startup empowering chronically ill underserved patients with effective communication tools and health care resources. You'll hear Kistein talk about how her company raises awareness of poor health outcomes and leveraging technology to tell patient stories more effectively to their doctors She also shares her insights on the topic of social determinants of health, better access and quality care for the underserved population, and more. Listen to my interview with Kistein here. https://outcomesrocket.health/patientorator/2020/07/

Join us Wednesday, January 31st 2018 for lens on the Population Health industry. David Nash, MD, MBA, (@nashpophealth) the founding and current Dean of the Jefferson College of Population Health will provide his thoughts on the current state of the science and best practices prevailing in population health management including what to expect at the 18th Population Health Colloquium in Philadelphia, March 19th - 21st. More about Dr. Nash: Dr. David B. Nash was named Founding Dean of the Jefferson College of Population Health (JCPH) in 2008. This appointment caps a 25-year tenure on the faculty of Thomas Jefferson University. He is also the Dr. Raymond C. and Doris N. Professor of Health Policy. Dr. Nash is a board-certified internist who is internationally recognized for his work in public accountability for outcomes, physician leadership development and quality-of-care improvement. Repeatedly named to Modern Healthcare's list of Most Powerful Persons in Healthcare, his national activities cover a wide scope. Dr. Nash is a principal faculty member for quality of care programming for the American Association of Physician Leadership (AAPL) in Tampa, FL and leads their academic joint venture with JCPH. He serves on the National Quality Forum (NQF) Task Force on Improving Population Health and the John M. Eisenberg Award Committee for The Joint Commission. He also is a founding member of the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) IQ Steering Committee, the group charged with infusing the tenets of quality and safety into medical education.

Union General Hospital, located in Farmerville, Louisiana, is a non-profit, 20-bed Critical Access Hospital. The hospital identified teen pregnancy and STDs as being a primary concern impacting the health, well-being and future of their community. Union General Hospital created the program, "It's a Girl Thing", and are now seeing outstanding health outcomes and expanding the program. They have received a national award for the program. Speaker: Claudia Wade, Union General Hospital

On PopHealth Week we chat with David B. Nash, MD, MBA the Dean of the Jefferson College of Population Health. 'Repeatedly named to Modern Healthcare’s list of Most Powerful Persons in Healthcare, Nash’s pro bono national activities cover a wide scope. He is on the VHA Center for Applied Healthcare Studies Advisory Board and he is a member of the Board of Directors of The Care Continuum Alliance (formerly DMAA). Dr. Nash is a principal faculty member for Quality of Care programming for the American Association of Physician Leaders (AAPL) in Tampa, Florida, and leads the academic joint venture between AAPL and the JCPH. He is on the NQF task force on Improving Population Health and is on the John M. Eisenberg Award Committee from the Joint Commission. He also is a founding member of the AAMC-IQ Steering Committee, the group charged with introducing the tenets of quality and safety into medical education. Finally, Dr. Nash has chaired the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) of the Pennslyvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (HC4) for more than 15 years and he is widely recognized as a pioneer in the public reporting of outcomes.' Join co-hosts Fred Goldstein, MS and Gregg Masters, MPH as we chat with this thought leader in population health and health reform. Produced for PopHeath Week by Gregg Masters, MPH for Health Innovation Media

December 14th 2016 at 12 Noon Pacific/3PM Eastern we chat with David B. Nash, MD, MBA the Dean of the Jefferson College of Population Health.  'Repeatedly named to Modern Healthcare’s list of Most Powerful Persons in Healthcare, Nash’s pro bono national activities cover a wide scope. He is on the VHA Center for Applied Healthcare Studies Advisory Board and he is a member of the Board of Directors of The Care Continuum Alliance (formerly DMAA). Dr. Nash is a principal faculty member for Quality of Care programming for the American Association of Physician Leaders (AAPL) in Tampa, Florida, and leads the academic joint venture between AAPL and the JCPH. He is on the NQF task force on Improving Population Health and is on the John M. Eisenberg Award Committee from the Joint Commission. He also is a founding member of the AAMC-IQ Steering Committee, the group charged with introducing the tenets of quality and safety into medical education. Finally, Dr. Nash has chaired the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) of the Pennslyvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (HC4) for more than 15 years and he is widely recognized as a pioneer in the public reporting of outcomes.' Join co-hosts Fred Goldstein, MS and Gregg Masters, MPH as we chat with this thought leader in population health and health reform. Produced for PopHeath Week by Gregg Masters, MPH for Health Innovation Media.

There's education, there's experience, and then there's the 'right stuff' --- the indefinable personality traits that earmark an individual as a change agent, collaborator and ambassador of case management, says Annette Watson, senior vice president of community transformation for Taconic IPA (TIPA), of TIPA's requirements for the RN case managers it hires for its advanced patient-centered medical homes. Then there are the not insignificant contributions of the RN case manager to accountable and patient-centered care, which Ms. Watson describes in this interview. While staff-buy-in and communication continue to challenge the embedded case manager model, the participant in CMS Innovation Center's Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) initiative says reimbursement for embedded case management is less of an obstacle today than in the past, due to funding-friendly care models and pilots descending from healthcare reform. Ms. Watson shared how TIPA has successfully embedded case managers in an open, multi-payor community during an October 9, 2013 webinar, "Improving Population Health with Embedded Case Managers in an Open, Multi-Payor Community."

Enhanced reporting and efficiency, significant reductions in readmissions in congestive heart failure patients and added leverage at contract negotiation are just a few advantages Bon Secours is deriving from its EHR-based data collection tools, explains Robert Fortini, vice president and chief clinical officer at Bon Secours. Fortini talks about the health system's shift from home-grown methodologies to the sophisticated IT knowledge base powering its population health management program, resulting in data that has a "compelling" effect at contract time. Robert Fortini drilled down on Bon Secours' tools and protocols for data analytics during an October 3, 2012 webinar, now available for replay, "Improving Population Health Management Through Effective, Efficient Data Analytics," a 45-minute webinar sponsored by The Healthcare Intelligence Network.