There are thousands of wellness apps, devices, wearables and telehealth tools that can be used for chronic disease management and patient health monitoring at home. Although new technologies can lead to early identification of health concerns, they may also lead to unnecessary interventions that result in unintended complications and worse outcomes. In this episode, we reconnect with Juggy Jagannathan, PhD, AI evangelist for 3M, to consider which people are most likely to benefit from new care tools and strategies.

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Patient care from home: Achieving optimal outcomes

As a palliative care physician, Dr. Beth Wolf experienced the complexity of communication. As she helped patients and families navigate issues related to pain or end-of-life care, she saw that the way clinicians communicate with each other was rich with opportunity for misunderstanding. So, how do we help physicians accurately document a patient’s true burden of illness without disrupting the delivery of efficient and compassionate care? Now, as a documentation champion at Roper St. Francis Healthcare (and an advisor to 3M), Dr. Wolf trains physicians on how to incorporate accurate and concise clinical documentation into their work with patients.

Clinical documentation: Easing the burden on physicians

When public health initiatives account for 90 percent of improvements in population health, what is the role of the care delivery system in addressing non-medical or social factors that drive outcomes? For Nico Pronk, PhD, President of the HealthPartners Institute and Chief Science Officer at HealthPartners, it means finding the right balance between caring for the urgent needs of a community and enhancing the vital conditions of a community, such as affordable housing, healthy food accessibility, and early childhood education. Based on the success of HealthPartners' Power Up 4 Kids program and other intiatives, Dr. Pronk discusses an approach that pays careful attention to the needs of a community and engages local stakeholders to improve the chances of good outcomes.

Prevention vs. treatment: Investing in the health of communities

As the largest health insurance program in the country, providing the majority of mental health care and long-term services and support, Medicaid is an indispensable component of the U.S. healthcare system. Matt Salo, Executive Director of the National Association of Medicaid Directors, works with state Medicaid agencies around the nation to improve quality, cost and the experience of care for patient populations that are most vulnerable. Our host, Dr. Gordon Moore sat down with Matt Salo to discuss the state of Medicaid in 2020 and beyond.

Medicaid: The backbone of U.S. health care

How can artificial intelligence help physicians who are overloaded with quality measures and administrative tasks that pull them away from patient care? Can AI help address the alarming increase in exhaustion and depression among clinicians? In his second Inside Angle podcast episode, Juggy Jagannthan, Ph.D., research director and AI evangelist at 3M MModal, explains how AI can ease the administrative burden by capturing the clinician/patient interaction in real time.

Can AI help solve the challenge of physician burnout?

State Medicaid agencies are under enormous pressure to reduce costs while maintaining quality of care for Medicaid beneficiaries. In this podcast episode, Dr. Gordon Moore talks with Billy Millwee, former Texas Medicaid director and now consultant to Medicaid programs across the U.S. Mr. Millwee discusses his work to help state agencies understand value-based payment, pursue waivers, and address social determinants of health. Each state brings different ideas to the table. Which approach works best? By creating the right incentives, state Medicaids can bolster innovation to improve outcomes and lower costs.

Searching for better outcomes and lower costs: The challenges facing state Medicaid directors

What is your opinion of U.S. health care? That's the question Dr. Paul Gordon asked of average Americans he met while biking coast to coast on a three-month sabbatical from his family medicine practice. His goal? Amplify the voices of those in rural areas and small towns to help clinicians be better practitioners---and listeners---when it comes to their patients.

Biking 3,255 miles to talk health care

In 2016, BayCare Health System took on its high readmission rates by launching seven different programs to lower readmissions. The problem? The programs were in silos, so overall results didn't meet objectives. In this episode, Teri Sholder, BayCare Health Senior Vice President and Chief Quality Officer, describes how the BayCare team used data analytics to break down silos and consolidate initiatives into "power combos" that help BayCare Health better achieve its goal of reducing readmissions.

Lowering readmission rates by breaking down silos

In part one of his podcast episode, Dr. John Wasson, Professor Emeritus at Dartmouth Medical School, suggests U.S. health care could learn a few lessons on quality improvement from the world of organized crime. This time around, Dr. Wasson dives into the issue of clinician burnout caused by "quantophrenia"---a condition he describes as measurement for its own sake without real benefit to patients or providers. The solution to quantophrenia? Just seven simple measures.

Measuring what matters in health care

Providers are increasingly overwhelmed by administrative work that takes them away from patient care. How can clinicians leverage AI solutions to optimize and modernize care without adding to already taxing levels of burnout? AI Evangelist V. Juggy Jagannathan, PhD, shares his expertise on artificial intelligence, deep learning and more in this episode.

Sorting through a sea of data: AI in health care

In this episode, Dr. Eugene Christian of Bon Secours Mercy Health System describes a new approach to solving the opioid addiction crisis. By reforming opioid prescription practices, creating new, non-narcotic regimens that tackle pain, and tracking metrics across its health system, Bon Secours is guiding physicians through a workflow that promotes patient safety.

Confronting the opioid crisis

When Dr. John Wasson was in medical school, he worked at an east coast resort that hosted well-known members of organized crime families. Reflecting back on this experience after a full career as a primary care physician and geriatrician, and as a member of the faculty at Dartmouth Medical School, Dr. Wasson sees lessons from organized crime that can be applied to a disorganized U.S. healthcare system: Don't damage the host, protect the brand and adapt aggressively. How can these lessons position the patient as the most important part of care delivery?

Lessons from organized crime for improving health care

What challenges do high-needs patients face when seeking care? This was the question Dr. Melissa Clarke encountered as she and her colleagues worked towards a "whole person" model of care at a Washington DC addiction clinic. Working to achieve health equity, the clinic introduced new and innovative programs that helped transform not only the patient, but also the caregiving process.

Social determinants of health: The whole person model of care

Imagine going to your primary care clinic and along with a blood test, they also took a "sample" of your language. The brain is too complicated for typical lab tests, but in the future a test like this may help diagnose mental health disorders more accurately. In this episode, Dr. Rebecca Resnik discusses how we can break down silos across areas of specialization and use technology to foster collaboration between mental health professionals and primary care physicians.

Searching for the holy grail of mental health care

In attempting to improve healthcare delivery, policy makers have tried a top-down approach to effect change. In this episode, Harold D. Miller, President and CEO of the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform advocates for a bottom-up style of reform, focusing on reinvigorating primary care and fostering healthcare transformation at the local level.

Good intentions and unintended consequences: A look at healthcare policy

Conversations at the heart of moving health care forward

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