Ahead In Health

Building Healthy Communities with Bechara Choucair

Health care is poised at a pivotal moment. The COVID-19 pandemic has turned so many of our previous assumptions and practices upside down. And it has revealed to us, with painful clarity, our shortcomings. But this time has also opened up a rare chance to recast the future. So as we emerge from the pandemic, we don’t have to go back to where we were. In fact, we shouldn’t. We have a chance now not just to tinker around the edges, to make small improvements, but to reimagine healthcare and re...

The Science of Influence, with Andy Slavitt and Katy Milkman

Changing people’s behavior is arguably the holy grail of medicine. To keep patients healthy, we ask them to do all sorts of things—come to their appointments, take their medications, get their vaccines. And beyond the clinic, we want them to exercise, eat healthily, get enough sleep, limit alcohol, avoid smoking, and lately wear masks and take COVID-19 tests. If we could collectively succeed at this kind of health-supporting behavior, we could solve a whole lot of the sickness and death that...

COVID-19, Patient Data, and Personalized Health with Ashwini Zenooz and Paul Meyer

We are awash in data. In health care, we (and our doctors) are constantly generating medical data from our health apps, connected devices, electronic health records, labs, images and treatment plans. Yet, very little of it is used or interpreted in a way that produces meaningful insights… or helps us predict or prevent a problem before it starts. In this episode of Ahead in Health, host Jodie Lesh talks to Dr. Ashwini Zenooz and Paul Meyer, two people who are revolutionizing how patient da...

Caring for the Caregivers with Kate Ryder

Our caregivers need their own support systems. Most caregivers are women, and over a third of women have skipped important doctor’s visits since the pandemic began. Part of that is overwhelm. But another part of it speaks to the fact that health care is not plugged into women’s lives in ways that make it easier for them to access specific services at key moments or phases of life.  In this episode of Ahead Health, host Jodie Lesh talks to Kate Ryder, founder and CEO of Maven Clinic. Maven’s...

Digital Equity in the Shadow of Digital Health with john a. powell and Abner Mason

Virtual health care boomed in the COVID-19 pandemic, and it’s undoubtedly a huge part of the future of medicine. But is that good news for everyone? Underserved communities are at risk of being left even further behind as the most affordable, timely, convenient care increasingly happens online. Digital care actually has the potential to do the opposite—to improve access, personalize care, and reduce historic health inequities—but only if we design it right, and do so right now. In this epis...

The Ever-Expanding Exam Room with Daniel Kraft M.D. and Jordan Shlain M.D.

Health care has expanded beyond the clinic, the lab and the hospital. Today, more people than ever are using virtual health. It’s in our homes, parks and gyms. Even before Covid accelerated these trends, there were more and more health apps, wearable technologies, and ways to message or video chat with your doctor. AI is being used for early detection and for decision making. In this episode of Ahead in Health, host Jodie Lesh talks to Daniel Kraft M.D. and Jordan Shlain M.D., two noted hea...

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An inside look at the future of healthcare. In each episode, Jodie Lesh, Chief Transformation Officer at Kaiser Permanente, speaks with thought leaders and care providers who are helping shape how we all access care — from cutting-edge technologies, to designs and innovations that challenge the status quo. Ahead In Health delivers critical conversations about what state-of-the-art, equitable and ethical care can be.

Learning and Leading in Crisis with Leah Belsky, Coursera

As we have developed into a world living with COVID-19, an astounding amount of processes and procedures across sectors have been transformed. And as the situation evolves, we continue to live in a state of regular and massive change. So what does innovation mean in this world of rapid evolution? How can we take the shifts that this pandemic has induced -- in markets, regulation and policy, digital transformation, health management, etc. -- and learn from them in order to better motivate cha...

What’s the Future of AI in Healthcare? With Dr. Rumman Chowdhury, Parity AI

Advanced technologies provide a unique ability to process data in efficient and smart ways, allowing healthcare providers and administrators to anticipate patients’ needs, design targeted preventative programs, innovate remedies, and remove burdensome tasks from these processes. In this episode, we look at the implications and opportunities for the use of AI in Healthcare. How can we streamline and verify quality data to ensure our AI decisions are instructive, ethical, and valuable? How can...

Digital Doctors (and Real Ones) in Your Backyard with Marcus Osborne, Walmart Health

Health care is ripe for digital innovations to break down barriers and improve access and convenience. What technological bridges must we cross to build this future? How do we design the infrastructure today to ensure high quality care is low-cost and accessible, and can be delivered conveniently, in the right place at the right time? Beyond simple video calls with physicians, the future hinges upon our capacity improve connections between the clinic and home. By building viable modalities o...

Designing New Spaces of Care with Brad Lukanic, CannonDesign

While virtual models of work and healthcare have taken precedent in the year of COVID-19, how people interact with the physical spaces of our world is ripe for innovation. How might we reimagine our built environment to meet the growing need for flexible work spaces and blended models of in-person and virtual interactions? What innovative partnerships are needed to create healthy ecosystems across rural and urban environments? The spaces we inhabit have a strong impact on our sense of safety...

Mental Health at Your Fingertips? With Megan Jones Bell, Headspace

For decades health reformers have been pushing American medicine to adopt more proactive models of care -- led in large part by Kaiser Permanente and its deep history in preventive medicine. Yet focusing healthcare conversations on maintaining health rather than managing sickness appears to be a constant challenge. Today consumer technologies are driving people to monitor, track and manage more and more elements of their lives, in pursuit of total health and wellbeing -- from mental to physi...

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