Latest Athenainsight Podcast Episodes

Battling physician burnout, one rap at a time

Decoding Healthcare - October 13, 2018 14:10 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 81 ratings
How many doctors have more than a million Facebook followers, their own YouTube channel, and a stage name? Zubin Damania, also known as ZDogg, MD, has carved out a unique niche – and a booming social media franchise – by skewering the dysfunction and absurdity at the core of what he calls "Healt...

Introducing the brick-and-mortarless hospital

Decoding Healthcare - September 13, 2018 20:45 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 81 ratings
If the word "telehealth" conjures up for you images of scrappy startups challenging big hospital behemoths, get ready to check your assumptions. In this episode of "Decoding Healthcare," we learn how one of the largest health systems in the U.S. is disrupting itself, and virtualizing care, to b...

Prabhjot Singh: A street-level view of community health

Decoding Healthcare - August 15, 2018 12:37 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 81 ratings
We take (virtually) to the streets of New York with Mount Sinai’s Prabhjot Singh, M.D., who’s learned hands-on that frontline caregivers are the key to building a solid ground game for population health in the U.S. You can listen to more episodes of “Decoding Healthcare" on your favorite podcas...

Silicon Valley, meet healthcare

Decoding Healthcare - June 27, 2018 14:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 81 ratings
This episode finds our intrepid podcast duo getting down and geeky in the name of healthcare innovation. Trigger warning: APIs will be discussed! athenahealth CMO Kevin Ban, M.D., and athenaInsight editor-in-chief John Fox check in with Robert Van Tuyl, who, as chief innovation officer at Easte...

Saving lives with data sharing and $10 sketch pads

Decoding Healthcare - May 23, 2018 11:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 81 ratings
As the adage goes, all healthcare is local. In this episode we turn our focus to Trenton, New Jersey where an experiment in data sharing and institutional collaboration is putting high-risk patients at the center of care. We speak to Dr. Kemi Alli, CEO of Henry J. Austin Health Center about the ...

Of llamas and interop

Decoding Healthcare - May 09, 2018 17:19 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 81 ratings
“Decoding Healthcare” goes on the road to Unity Farm in Sherborn, Mass., to talk with farmer-slash-healthcare visionary John Halamka, M.D., CIO of Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center in Boston. In addition to determining exactly why llamas spit, Halamka and podcast hosts athenahealth CMO Kevi...

Connecting the Dots

Decoding Healthcare - May 02, 2018 11:02 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 81 ratings
As incentives shift and innovation takes hold, old information siloes are breaking down and healthcare is opening up in ways that that are surprising and inspiring. In this kickoff episode, we frame up our second season theme and indulge in some word play to get us started. Decoding Healthcare ...

Putting pop health into practice: Making it work

Decoding Healthcare - December 01, 2017 19:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 81 ratings
Building an ACO is a multilayered challenge — but it can be done. Kevin Hoppe, Chief Operating Officer of the Lahey Clinical Performance ACO, talks about the trial-and-error process his organization went through as it developed a clinically integrated network, from figuring out the right physici...

The past and future of value-based payments: The voice of doom

Decoding Healthcare - November 20, 2017 17:26 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 81 ratings
Value-based payments are built on the idea that money drives behavior. But have the incentives so far been swift and tangible enough to bring about real change? Paul Levy, former CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, offers a reality check about the promise and pace of payment reform, and...

Innovations in chronic care: A cure for loneliness

Decoding Healthcare - November 14, 2017 19:04 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 81 ratings
When it comes to caring for the most vulnerable populations, the social determinants of health can be varied, broad, and unexpected. Sachin Jain, M.D., the CEO of CareMore, talks about a new initiative to treat loneliness in senior citizens — and the lessons he learned from helping to develop th...

Managing a network: Where healthcare meets Moneyball

Decoding Healthcare - October 23, 2017 19:55 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 81 ratings
Building a clinically integrated network is like building a baseball team: It takes utility players, specialists, and some data-driven magic. Julie Bietsch, RN, vice president of population health at Dignity Health, shares her strategies for building a network and reducing out-of-network migrati...

Building care teams: The universe is expanding

Decoding Healthcare - October 16, 2017 19:15 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 81 ratings
Traditionally, physicians have been at the center of patient care. But population health depends on expanded care teams that include nurses, care coordinators, and even clinical pharmacists. Rob Fields, M.D., medical director of the Mission Health ACO, talks about managing those teams — from enc...

The pop health transformation: Serving up the orange

Decoding Healthcare - October 06, 2017 15:04 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 81 ratings
What does the cure for scurvy have to do with the transition to population health? It shows that in healthcare, change — even change that’s unequivocally good — takes time. Emergency room physician Kevin Ban, M.D., head of athenahealth’s population health service, talks about his own journey fro...