Latest Vermont policy Podcast Episodes
Season Four. . . Coming Soon
Policy in Plainer English - September 30, 2021 12:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe Policy in Plainer English podcast is returning this fall! And it's going deeper on the food access and health care topic. Want to catch up ahead of the next season? Here are some concepts from Season Three that will be important: Lifestyle Medicine Part 1 Lifestyle Medicine Part 2 Childre...
Food and Health Care - Season Finale
Policy in Plainer English - May 04, 2021 14:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe're wrapping up our series on food and health care with a conversation with Georgia Maheras of Bi-State Primary Care Association. If you'd like to browse all the episodes in this series, we've linked them below in order. This season the episodes built on each other more than in our previous ...
Food Prescription Program
Policy in Plainer English - April 19, 2021 02:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn our final example of a food in health care project, we welcome guests Chelsey Canavan and Natalie Romano from Dartmouth-Hitchcock and Jennifer Fontaine from the Upper Valley Haven to discuss a new Food Prescription pilot. You may have also heard of Produce Prescriptions, which are a way for ...
Children and Healthy Eating
Policy in Plainer English - April 05, 2021 12:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis episode we talk with two people leading programs that engage with children around topics in healthy eating: Koi Boynton, from Healthy Roots Collaborative, and Emmy Wollenburg, from RiseVT speaking about Dinner Together. If you're interested in programs designed to help children access hea...
Lifestyle Medicine - Part 2
Policy in Plainer English - March 22, 2021 15:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsYou will find important context and links at the first half of this 2-part episode on Lifestyle Medicine, so if you haven't checked that out, there's no time like the present. This episode features a conversation with the Lifestyle Medicine team at Springfield Medical Care Systems - Laura Jens...
Lifestyle Medicine - Part 1
Policy in Plainer English - March 14, 2021 14:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn the first of two episodes on Lifestyle Medicine, we interview Dr. Elisabeth Fontaine and Dr. Scott Durgin. They provide background on the Lifestyle Medicine framework, which will set us up to talk to more members of the Lifestyle Medicine team at Springfield Medical Care Systems about how the...
Medically Tailored Meals
Policy in Plainer English - February 24, 2021 13:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis episode we welcome David Waters, CEO of Community Servings, to our show. Community Servings is a Massachusetts-based Medically Tailored Meals (MTM) program that is also a leader in the national Food is Medicine Coalition. Community Servings was founded in 1990 to serve local Dorchester an...
Bonus Episode: The Future of Audio-Only Health Services
Policy in Plainer English - January 11, 2021 00:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings[Update to this episode: You can read the July, 2021, rule on audio-only telehealth reimbursement from the Dept. of Financial Regulation here] The Policy in Plainer English podcast had been taking a break between seasons, but we return now briefly to bring you this bonus episode on the future...
Food and Transportation
Policy in Plainer English - December 17, 2020 00:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsNot to be confused with our episode on Telehealth and Transportation, this episode is on Food and Transportation. . . perhaps we're adding up to a season on transportation. In this episode Faye Mack, of Hunger Free Vermont, and Maureen Boardman, of Little Rivers Health Care, join us to talk abo...
Bonus Episode: Panel on Connecting to Food Resources
Policy in Plainer English - December 07, 2020 01:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsOn November 19th, Bi-State Primary Care Association hosted a discussion with a large panel of organizations that help health care practices and their patients (and others, but we're health care focused) connect with food resources. They discussed how they have adjusted their programs in response...
Help Me Grow
Policy in Plainer English - December 03, 2020 12:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis episode features Janet Kilburn and Elizabeth Gilman discussing Help Me Grow, and the role this program's coordinative services play in helping families with young children connect to food resources. As noted in the podcast, connecting for food access is just one piece of what Help Me Grow ...
Care Navigator
Policy in Plainer English - November 22, 2020 19:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe continue our discussion of care coordination with Jodi Frei, of OneCare Vermont, and Patrick Clark, of Gifford Medical Center, and take a deep dive on a particular platform: Care Navigator. Care Navigator is part of a larger approach to Care Coordination at OneCare, and there's a lot of inf...
Care Coordination
Policy in Plainer English - November 09, 2020 04:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe last several episodes went over the process of screening for food insecurity among patients at a health care practice. This episode gets into what happens next - and what happens next usually involves a care coordinator (or similar position). We have Kaylana Blindow (Bi-State Primary Care ...
Predicting Food Insecurity
Policy in Plainer English - November 02, 2020 12:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsBefore moving on to Care Coordination as part of our series on accessing food resources, we're pausing for a quick look at using predictive analytics to assess which patients might be at risk of food insecurity and how to best reach them with resources they can use. This episode references s...
Hunger Screening - Part Two
Policy in Plainer English - October 19, 2020 15:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe second half our of episode on screening for hunger and food insecurity. . . and you can probably guess what these show notes are going to say: start with the first half! In this episode, our original guests (Kristen Bigelow-Talbert and Katy Davis) are joined by Christina Quinlan from Isla...
Hunger Screening - Part One
Policy in Plainer English - October 12, 2020 03:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsKristen Bigelow-Talbert, from Bi-State Primary Care Association, and Katy Davis, from Hunger Free Vermont, discuss screening for hunger and food insecurity. If poor diet leads to poor health, and health care providers want their patients to stay well, then it makes sense that we would screen for...
Food and Health - An Introduction
Policy in Plainer English - October 05, 2020 11:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis episode gives a short introduction to our topic for Season Three. If you want more background information on food access in general here are some good starting places: Feeding America - includes Hunger and Health exploring health connections and the Map the Gap site for statistics Food Re...
VPQHC Connectivity Program
Policy in Plainer English - September 21, 2020 02:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsUpdate: The program described in this podcast is now live and accepting applications from Vermont practices until Oct 5: www.vpqhc.org/ccptelehealthvt In a follow up to our telehealth series from this spring, we check in with Hillary Wolfley, Associate Director at the Vermont Program for Qualit...
Introducing Season Three - Food Access and Health Care
Policy in Plainer English - September 17, 2020 15:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe're leaving telehealth and entering the world of food . . . food and health care (although, as former director of a restaurant and farmer association, I'm happy to talk about any element of food that might be of interest). Before we completely exit the telehealth realm, I'm doing a few more ...
Telehealth in the Time of COVID-19 - Season Finale
Policy in Plainer English - June 28, 2020 21:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe're wrapping up our special series on telehealth with a conversation with Georgia Maheras of Bi-State Primary Care Association, where we hit on some of the highlights of what we discussed over the season. A few items referenced in this conversation that we have not previously linked are: VPQH...
Transportation and Telehealth
Policy in Plainer English - June 23, 2020 02:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis episode starts where we probably would have started a telehealth series in normal, non-COVID-19 times . . . looking at telehealth as one of the tools available to help overcome transportation-based barriers to accessing health care. Chris Towne, of Northern Counties Health Care*, and Dr. Br...
Telehealth and Global Budgets
Policy in Plainer English - June 09, 2020 11:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsHere we check back in on a topic from Season One - global budgets. You may remember this as the final phase of our journey into value-based payment reform. But if this is the first time you've heard that phrase, never fear - we give a quick recap at the beginning. And an even shorter one here: ...
Telehealth and Provider Consultations
Policy in Plainer English - June 02, 2020 10:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn this episode we're joined by Katie Marvin, MD, from Community Health Services of Lamoille Valley (CHSLV) and Jennifer Fenn, NP, from Northern Tier Center for Health (NOTCH) to talk about provider-to-provider connections through telehealth. One thing this episode doesn't touch on is what is r...
Teledentistry
Policy in Plainer English - May 26, 2020 11:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAt the end of last week, Governor Scott and the Vermont Department of Health authorized dental practices to start accepting non-emergency patients for the first time since the COVID-19 emergency began. Because of its aerosol generating procedures and the creation of droplets when performing work...
Teledentistry
Policy in Plainer English - May 26, 2020 11:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAt the end of last week, Governor Scott and the Vermont Department of Health authorized dental practices to start accepting non-emergency patients for the first time since the COVID-19 emergency began. Because of its aerosol generating procedures and the creation of droplets when performing work...
Telehealth Reimbursement & COVID-19 Part Two
Policy in Plainer English - May 16, 2020 22:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsOur second episode on Telehealth Reimbursement during COVID-19 looks at the systems used to set payment for telemedicine services. If you want more details on evolving Medicare telehealth billing guidance in response to COVID-19, see this video from CMS, updated on May 8th If you want lots o...
Broadband for Telehealth
Policy in Plainer English - May 14, 2020 11:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis episode tackles broadband deployment in Vermont and telehealth in approximately ten minutes. . . obviously, we don't include everything. Below are some links to help you learn more. We thank Clay Purvis and Rob Fish of the Vermont Department of Public Service for being generous with their t...
Telehealth and the Telephone Epilogue - CCM
Policy in Plainer English - May 05, 2020 10:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn an epilogue to the Telehealth and the Telephone episode (which got a little long on us) we present this quick look a specific program used by FQHCs and other practices, the Medicare Chronic Care Management Program. It’s useful to consider because of its emphasis on establishing a regular chec...
Telehealth and the Telephone
Policy in Plainer English - April 28, 2020 11:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis episode of Policy in Plainer English tackles Telehealth and the Telephone, with Dr. Audrey Von Lepel (NOTCH) and Dr. Adam Greenlee (Community Health Centers of Burlington). We thank Northern Counties Health Care for supporting this series. For all the details you could ever want on teleheal...
Telehealth Reimbursement & COVID-19
Policy in Plainer English - April 23, 2020 03:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAs foreshadowed in the previous episode, we can't go much further into exploring telehealth during COVID-19, and its prospects for being available after COVID-19, without discussing reimbursement. So here we dip our toes in. If you want to do more than toe-dip, the entire narration can be consi...
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