This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Sonia Sarkar, Chief of Staff of Health Leads, a national organization dedicated to creating a health care system that addresses all patients’ basic resource needs as a standard part of quality care. She discusses Health Leads’ deployment of college students in clinics across the country who assist patients in gaining resources to impact the underlying causes of poor health.
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his week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Harry Greenspun, Sr. Advisor for Healthcare Transformation and Technology at the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions where his focus is on key health information technology and clinical transformation issues. He discusses the obstacles to meaningful use of HIT and the solutions they are focused on implementing.
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his week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Beverly Malone, Chief Executive Officer of the National League for Nursing which is dedicated to the improvement of nursing education. Dr. Malone is also on the Advisory Committee at the Office of Minority Health at the Department of Health and Human Services and talks about the need for improved access to better nurse training to meet the growing health industry demands, especially in underserved communities.
This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. H. Jack Geiger, co-founder of Physicians for Human Rights and Physicians for Social Responsibility, both of which went on to earn the Nobel Prize for Peace. Dr. Geiger is considered the founder of the Community Health Center movement in this country and discusses his decades of activism for equality in health care.
This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Chileshe Nkonde-Price, Cardiologist and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/US Department of Veterans Affairs Clinical Scholar at UPENN School of Medicine. Dr. Price discusses the digital platform she developed, Change My Steps, designed to assist African American Women in reducing risk factors for higher rates of cardiovascular disease.
This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Kevin Counihan, Chief Executive Officer of AccessHealthCT, Connecticut’s state-based insurance exchange created under the Affordable Care Act. Mr. Counihan addresses the reasons for the portal’s success compared to the Federal Exchange, and how other states are planning to adopt the Connecticut model.