This Week In Health Innovation

This episode of the AMCP Podcast Series powered by PopHealth Week features April Armstrong, MD, MPH. Health care expert Fred Goldstein of AMCP Podcast Powered by PopHealth Week sits down with Dr. April Armstrong to discuss psoriasis, a chronic and systemic inflammatory skin disease affecting children as well as adults and the tremendous impact on their physical and mental impact on quality of life. Dr. Armstrong is a general dermatologist with a focus on inflammatory skin diseases, and those include psoriasis and atopic dermatitis. She also treats patients with hidradenitis suppurativa, conducts research, and specifically looks at some of the systemic therapies and how they impact patients with inflammatory skin diseases.  Dr. Armstrong is Professor of Dermatology and Associate Dean at the University of Southern California (USC). She also serves as Vice Chair in the dermatology department and heads the psoriasis program at USC. Dr. Armstrong obtained her medical degree from Harvard Medical School and compl

On this episode of PopHealth Week our guests are Hamilton Baiden President, Heritage Health Solutions, and Rich Jones, MA, MBA, LCAS, SAP, Executive VP Heritage Health Solutions & the Executive Director of Heritage CARES. Heritage Health Solutions is an Integrated Health Care Management company providing a curated network of healthcare and pharmacy management services to improve patient care and reduce costs.  Heritage CARES is a confidential and evidence-based virtual program for substance misuse and suicide prevention and intervention.  For more information on Heritage's services go to www.heritagehealthsolutions.com/ or follow on twitter via @HeritageOrg.   ==##==

Today's show is a special edition of PopHealth Week where Fred Goldstein is the subject matter expert 'in the box' and it is my privilege and  opportunity to extract key insights from his considerable experience in the space. For more information Fred's work go to www.accountablehealthllc.com or follow him on twitter via @fsgoldstein.   If you're enjoying our work at PopHealth Week please subscribe to our channel on the Podcast platform of your choice and follow us on twitter via @pophealthweek. If you're in the market for private label thought leadership branded podcasts or video content whether streaming or on demand that amplifies your company, organization or enterprise value proposition, do ping me via gregg@healthinnovationmedia.com and follow me on twitter via @greggmastersmph. And check out the recent launch of The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy or AMCP Podcast Series powered by PopHealth Week at www.amcp.org/podcast with introduction by Susan Cantrell, its Chief Executive Officer.

On this episode of PopHealth Week our guest is Valerie Rogers, MPH Director, Government Relations for the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Prior to her role at HIMSS, Valerie worked on health system transformation and integration as the Senior Director of Integration at the Association of State & Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO). She also served as the Chief of Staff for the Baltimore City Health Department where she had oversight of the Department’s clinical information systems. Prior to her time in Baltimore, Valerie also worked for the National Association of County & City Health Officials (NACCHO) as the Director of Public Health Informatics. Valerie holds a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Hampton University (1997) and a Master’s degree in Public Health from Tulane University (2001). For more information on Valerie's work go to www.himss.org or follow her on twitter via @VNRogers74 and @HIMSS respectively.  HIMSS is holding its first in person gathering since the on

On this episode of PopHealth Week our guest is Ceci Connolly, President & CEO at the Alliance of Community Health Plans (ACHP), the "voice of America’s top-quality, nonprofit, community-based health plans. We advocate for policies and industry reforms that enhance the health of communities across the nation." Ceci's expertise is in Federal Health Policy, Congress, Not-For-Profit Health Companies, Value-Based Design, Healthcare Costs, Payer-Provider Partnerships, and Women’s Leadership. She is the co-author of Landmark: America’s New Health-Care Law and What It Means for Us All and previously worked at the McKinsey Center for Health Reform and PwC’s Health Research Institute. CECI is also a founding member of Women of Impact and a former Board member of Whitman-Walker Health. For more information on Ceci and ACHP's work go to www.achp.org or follow on twitter via @CeciConnolly and @_ACHP respectively.   If you're enjoying our work at PopHealth Week please subscribe to our channel on the Podcast platform

On PopHealth Week our guest is Denise Hines, who holds a Doctorate in Health Administration, is a certified, Project Management Professional and Fellow of the Healthcare Information Management System Society who serves as HIMSS Chief Americas Officer. Dr. Denise Hines is an award-winning, nationally recognized expert in healthcare technology. She has more than two decades of healthcare experience in a variety of settings, including health systems, physician offices, home health, technology vendors, consulting, state government and revenue management. Dr. Hines was named Chief Americas Officer for the Health Information & Management Systems Society (HIMSS) in January, 2019. She has been a member of the HIMSS Board of Directors and is the Chair Emeritus for HIMSS North America Board of Directors. She is the past president of the HIMSS Georgia Chapter and was recognized as the 2012 HIMSS Chapter Leader of the Year. ==##==  

On today's episode my guest is Patricia Salber, MD, MBA a thought leader, influencer, senior advisor and seasoned medical executive who is also the Founder, CEO, and Editor-in-Chief of The Doctor Weighs In, a leading online health & wellness information platform. She is a recognized voice in the digital health space spotlighted by LinkedIn in their rarified 'Top Voices in Healthcare for both 2017 & 2018' Dr Salber trained in and practiced internal and emergency medicine, served as a senior physician executive at Kaiser Permanente and Blue Shield of California and is a highly sought after healthcare consultant. She is the co-author of "Connected Health: Improving Care, Safety and Efficiency with Wearables and IoT Solution", and an advisory board member at a number of digital health startups (two of which have been acquired), and the author of numerous peer-review medical journals and articles in the lay press. Dr. Salber is a regular podcaster at the American Journal of Managed Care and a member of t

On today's show our guest is Nicole Bradberry Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of the Florida Association of ACOs (FLAACOs). FLAACOs is the premier professional organization for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) throughout Florida which provides education and collaboration in the fee for value healthcare space. We discuss ACOs, value based healthcare initiatives and innovative models in the mental health space. Nicole Bradberry is the Co-Founder / Chief of Growth and Innovation Officer for Vinifera Health.  Vinifera runs Mental Health Crisis and Urgent Care Centers with a focus on immediate access, quality care and the understanding that mental health and substance abuse drive significant health cost.  Prior to Vinifera, Nicole was the Founder and Managing Parter for Cura Health Management which creates and manages ACOs and other value-based healthcare entities.  Cura Health was recently sold to Healthlynked where she still remains as an advisor.  In addition she founded the Florida As

On today's show our guest is Jason L. Salemi, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, at the University of South Florida, College of Public Health. Dr. Salemi is a tenured Associate Professor with joint appointments in the at the University of South Florida College of Public Health and the Morsani College of Medicine. He also maintains adjunct faculty status at the Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Salemi has a demonstrated record of collaborative research, scholarly publication, teaching and advising, and participation in public health organizations and professional associations. He's amassed a substantial and versatile proficiency in database development, data linkage, management, and analysis, program and systems evaluation, community engagement, and information dissemination.

On this episode of PopHealth Week our guest is industy veteran consultant and innovator extraordinaire John Edelston, President & CEO of HealthPro Associates. We dive into his 36 year plus career of leading strategic and granular innovation in managed healthcare recently re-branded as a value based or high value healthcare. John's been at the table of a transaction or two perhaps most notably as co-founder of CareMore a fascinating history we explore in greater detail in this episode. We discuss a range of topics and frame current day innovations in healthcare delivery and finance from ACOs to Medical Homes. Edelston describes in detail the birth of CareMore via acquisition and integration of several southern California IPAs and 'medical group practices without walls'. Enjoy! ==##==  

On PopHealth Week our guest is our guest is Sri Ambati CEO & Founder of H20.ai   H2O.ai is a visionary Silicon Valley open source software company that creates and reimagines what is possible. A company of makers that brought to market new platforms and technologies to drive the AI movement. H2O is the leading open source data science and machine learning platform used by nearly half of the Fortune 500 and trusted by over 18,000 organizations and hundreds of thousands of data scientists around the world. H2O democratizes bigdata science and makes hadoop do math for better predictions. Prior to H20 Sri co-founded Platfora and was the Director of Engineering at DataStax. Before that he was Partner & Performance engineer at java multi-core startup, Azul Systems, tinkering with the entire ecosystem of enterprise apps at scale. Join us! ==##==

On today’s show our guest is Benjamin Ryan, PhD, MPH, Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Environmemtal Science at Baylor University. Dr. Ryan has experience working, researching and teaching in environmental health science, communicable and noncommunicable diseases, community resilience, humanitarian assistance and disaster risk reduction. He has led activities in these fields across the Indo-Pacific, Europe and North America. His field experience includes environmental health assessments in city and rural settings, responses to natural disasters and disease outbreaks, mass casualty incidents, failures of critical business functions, managing projects in Indigenous communities and facilitating delivery of health services to asylum seekers. Dr. Ryan is a member of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine, World Health Organization Thematic Platform for Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management Research Network, National Environmental Health Association, Texas Environmental

On PopHealth Week our guest is Tim Suther, Senior Vice President for Data Solutions at Change Healthcare. Change Healthcare is a leading independent healthcare technology company, focused on insights, innovation and accelerating the transformation of the U.S. healthcare system. Tim is responsible for the overall management, direction and leadership to the Data Solutions business, including its focus on inspiring a better healthcare system through the effective & responsible use of data & analytics. Join us!

Our first guest is on the AMCP Podcast Series powered by PopHealth Week is Chris Jennings, former Obama Administration Deputy Assistant to the President for Health Policy, and current task force member of the Biden transition team focused on pandemic immunization strategy. Chris is president of Jennings Policy Strategies, Inc., a nationally respected health care consulting firm committed to assisting foundations, purchasers, health systems and other aligned stakeholders develop policies to ensure higher quality, more affordable and sustainable health care. Chris is an over three decades-long health policy veteran of the White House, the Congress and the private sector. In 2014, he departed from his second tour of duty in the White House where he served President Obama as Deputy Assistant to the President for Health Policy and Coordinator of Health Reform. He served in a similar capacity in the Clinton White House for nearly eight years.

On this episode of PopHealth Week our guest, making an encore appearance, is Tony Slonim, MD, DrPH the president and chief executive officer of Renown Health, a vertically integrated non-profit, regional referral health system serving northern Nevada. Dr. Slonim is a unique health system leader with training as a clinician (both pediatric and adult critical care medicine), and doctoral degree in public health. In addition, prior to medical school Dr. Slonim’s clinical on-boarding included tenure serving as a staff nurse. Not your common background of a typical U.S. health system executive. In this episode we put that unique lens on COVID-19 from four points of view: (1) patient (cancer survivor), (2) clinician, (3) administrator and (4) public health practitioner. For more information on Renown Health’s operating footprint, see. For more information on Dr. Slonim and Renown’s leadership team, see.

On PopHealth Week we contiune to discuss topline COVID-19 pandemic news which unfortunately shows no sign of slowing. In fact positivity rates, hospital admissions, deaths are all accelerating, a growing pool of 'long haulers' report a range of long term health consequences as part of their recovery, while a vocial minority downplay or discount the threat to the public at large, ie, 'much to do about nothing'.  On today's edition of our COVID-19 update series we dive a little deeper into some of the headlines from the COVID-19 dashboard to the current state of vaccine development and comment on the likely agenda of the soon to be installed Biden/Harris administration. So first up is the U.S. COVID-19 dashboard where we've passed the grim milestone of 10.5 mil cases with death counts just shy of 1/4 million 240,857. Most troubling is positivity rates and hospital admissions are all trending up putting health systems are at increased risk in terms of both capacity (beds) & staffing. ==##==

PopHealth Week is brought to you by Health Innovation Media. Health Innovation Media brings your brand messaging alive via original or value added digitally curated content for omni channel distribution and engagement. Connect with us at www.popupstudio.productions On this episode of PopHealth WeekFred Goldstein, MS, president, Accountable Health, LLC and Gregg Masters, MPH, managing director, Health Innovatoin Media, provide a COVID-19 update focusing on the intersections between Public Health, Population Health and the COVID-19 pandemic with commentary on the impact on U.S. health systems.. Please! Everyone we can get through this only together. So do mask up when in public, practice social distancing and pay attention to personal hygiene. WE CAN SLOW THE SPREAD OF THIS DEADLY VIRUS. Please subscribe to PopHealth Week wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!

This episode of PopHealth Week is sponsored by Health Innovation Media. Coneect with us a www.PopUpStudio.productions Our guest is Teri Bourdeau, Ph.D., ABPP, Vice President of Training and Development for PracticeWise, LLC who's mission is 'to advance how evidence and information are used to improve the lives of children and families.' Dr. Bourdeau serves on the PracticeWIse Executive Management, Professional Development, and Services and Products Development teams. She received her B.A. in psychology and her M.A. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University. She completed a psychology internship in the department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University Medical School and a pediatric and clinical psychology postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. Dr. Bourdeau was an Associate Professor of Behavioral Sciences at the Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences and also engaged in private practice prior to assuming her current positio

On PopHealth Week our guest is Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, author, health economist, advisor and trend-weaver supporting organizations at the intersection of health, technology and people. Jane founded the popular blog THINK-Health after working for ten years with health care consultancies in the U.S. and Europe. Jane’s clients are all stakeholders in health: technology, biotech and life sciences, providers, plans, retail, financial services, food and consumer goods. In her new book, “Health Citizenship: How a virus opened hearts and minds” Jane weaves together six months of new data – including consumer market research, health policy developments, healthcare industry updates, clinical evidence, biostatistics and pop culture – to make sense of the “next normal” for life, health, health care and the evolving American commons social contract. This timely piece tracks how the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has and will likely continue to re-shape our world; Do follow Jane’s work on twitter via @healthythinker. And for

On This Week in Health Innovation my guest is Don Crane, President and CEO of America’s Physician Groups (APG). APG is the nation’s leading professional association representing medical groups and independent practice associations modeling best in class in coordinated care. APG is the nation’s largest trade association that explicitly promotes capitation as the payment model for its members, all of whom accept various forms of risk-based capitation or other population-based payment. America’s Physician Groups mission is to provide advocacy and education for physicians, and to lead the coordinated care movement across the nation. APG is a professional association, representing over 300 medical groups, IPAs and integrated healthcare systems across the nation. Its members are committed to responsible payment models that assume accountability for both cost and quality, believing that patient-centered, coordinated, and accountable care offers the highest quality, most efficient delivery mechanism, and greatest