Podcasts by RoS: Review of Systems

RoS: Understanding the Costs of PAs with Chris Morley from 2023-12-12T19:51:28.056360

Christopher Morley joins us this week to talk about prior authorizations, or PAs – a bureaucratic headache well known to anyone in primary care in which a physician’s office must complete additi...

RoS: Understanding the Health Effects of Homelessness with Dr. Margot Kushel from 2023-12-12T19:51:28.048819

Our guest this week is Dr. Margot Kushel, a Professor of Medicine at UCSF and Director of the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations, as well as the Director of the UCSF Benioff Homelessness and...

RoS: Opioid Use Disorder Care in Primary Care from 2023-12-12T19:51:28.042172

Welcome to Recovery Month! In celebration of primary care’s role in addiction care, we are featuring a show about caring for patients with addiction.

Our guests this week are Adele Ojeda,...

RoS Reprise: Understanding the Association of Primary Care Physician Supply and Mortality in the US from 2019-08-20T04:03:59

This week, we are joined by Russ Phillips! Dr. Russell Phillips is Director of the Center for Primary Care and the William Applebaum Professor of Medicine and Professor of Global Health and Soci...

RoS: Understanding Increasing Mid-Life Mortality in the US with Steven Woolf from 2019-07-23T02:13:55

Our guest this week is Dr. Steven Woolf. He is the C. Kenneth and Dianne Wright Distinguished Chair in Population health and Health Equity at VCU as well as Director Emeritus and Senior Advisor ...

RoS: Design Thinking&Clinics with No Waiting Rooms with Stacey Chang from 2019-06-25T13:23:51

Our guest this week is Stacey Chang. He is the executive Director of the Design Institute for Health at Dell Medical School. He joins us today to talk about design in medicine and how we can use...

RoS: Transitions in Care from Pedi to Adult Care for Medically Complex Patients from 2019-06-11T21:51:03

What happens when a medical complex young person turns 18, and then, suddenly, they make their own medical decisions rather than their parents? How does one navigate the sometimes very thorny is...

RoS Addressing Food Insecurity among diabetic patients at Geisinger with Allison Hess from 2019-05-27T18:37:55

This week, we are joined by Allison Hess, VP of Health for the Steele Institute for Innovation at Geisinger to talk about Geisinger’s Fresh Food Farmacy, a program that provides food insecure pa...

RoS: Understanding the association of primary care physician supply&mortality in the US with Russ Phillips from 2019-05-27T18:34:28

This week, we are joined by Russ Phillips! Dr. Russell Phillips is Director of the Center for Primary Care and the William Applebaum Professor of Medicine and Professor of Global Health and Soci...

RoS Gender Equality in Medicine with Cheryl Pritlove&Elizabeth Metraux from 2019-05-27T18:34:26

This week, we have two amazing guests, Cheryl Pritlove and Elizabeth Metraux. They are joining us to talk about gender disparities in medicine. Cheryl Pritlove is a Research Scientist at the App...

RoS: The Psychology of Change with Kate Hilton of IHI, Ep 2 from 2019-05-27T18:28:45

Why is change so difficult? So often, we know what needs to be done – but actually making change is where we get stuck. Kate Hilton, our guest last week and this week for a 2-part series, is on ...

RoS: The Psychology of Change with Kate Hilton of IHI, Ep 1 from 2019-05-27T18:28:01

Why is change so difficult? So often, we know what needs to be done – but actually making change is where we get stuck. Kate Hilton, our guest this week and next for a 2-part series, is on the F...

RoS Racism and Inequity in Healthcare with Utibe Essien from 2019-05-27T18:27:32

Utibe Essien, a Health Equity researcher, primary care physician in the VA Pittsburgh Health System, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine joins us t...

RoS Gun Violence – A View from the Trauma Bay&Public Health w Megan Ranney&David Hemenway from 2019-05-27T18:27:30

This week, we have a very special collaborative show with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s podcast, This Week in Health. We are featuring perspectives on gun violence from the tra...

RoS Journal Club: letters and quetiapine rx, an RCT of CHWs&primary care, levels of prenatal education from 2019-05-27T18:21:58

This week, Thomas Kim, David Rosenthal, and Audrey Provenzano bring you a journal club episode. Audrey talks about: Effect of Peer Comparison Letters for High-Volume Primary Care Prescribers of ...

RoS: Barriers to accessing medical records for patients&providers, and how that harms care from 2019-05-27T18:21:08

How long have we all, collectively in healthcare, spent on hold with medical records departments, listening to mind-numbing muzac or assembled around the fax machine, waiting for your patient’s ...

RoS Reprise: Policies affecting the care of pregnant women with SUDs with Center on Addiction’s Lindsey Vuolo&Sarah Dauber from 2019-05-27T18:21:07

In this reprise episode, our guests are Sarah Dauber, Ph.D & Lindsey Vuolo JD, MPH of Center on Addiction, a science-based non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to finding and prom...

RoS: The Effects of Alternative Payment Models (APMs) on Primary Care with Mark Friedberg from 2019-05-27T18:14:34

Our guest this week is Dr. Mark Friedberg. Mark is a senior physician policy researcher at the RAND corporation and a practicing primary care physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he ...

Reprise: Sunflower Team at Lynn Community Health Center part 2 – Building Teams That Reach Their Fullest Potential from 2019-05-27T18:10:34

In this reprise series on the care of pregnant women with substance use disorders, Landrey Fagan and Pat Lee join us to talk about their experience forming their team called the Sunflower team a...

Reprise: Sunflower Team at Lynn Community Health Center part 1 – Care For Pregnant Women With Opioid Use Disorder from 2019-05-27T18:08:53

In this reprise series on the care of pregnant women with substance use disorders, Landrey Fagan and Pat Lee join us to talk about their experience forming their team called the Sunflower team a...

RoS Drs Christine Riedy&Tien Jiang from the Center for Integration of PCare&Oral Health, CIPCOH from 2019-05-27T18:08:51

As everyone in primary care knows, oral health care in the US can be very difficult to access. Tien Jiang, DMD MEd, an instructor of oral health policy and epidemiology at Harvard School of Dent...

RoS Reprise – Teams in Primary Care with Ann O’Malley and Patricia Satterstrom, Part 2 from 2019-05-27T17:38:07

These days, primary care is all about teamwork. We are all asking ourselves – how can we make our teams function better? And – a question we should ask, but often don’t: should this task be done...

RoS Reprise – Teams in Primary Care with Ann O’Malley and Patricia Satterstrom, Part 1 from 2019-05-27T17:36:54

These days, primary care is all about teamwork. We are all asking ourselves – how can we make our teams function better? And – a question we should ask, but often don’t: should this task be done...

RoS Community Building Among Clinicians to Counteract Burnout with Nic Nguyen from 2019-05-27T17:36:52

Dr. Nicolas Nguyen is our guest this week. Dr. Nguyen is a practicing Family Physician and the Director of Physician Experience and Provider Development at Beth Israel Deaconess HealthCare. He ...

RoS The effects of neighborhood greening on mental health with Eugenia South&Michelle Kondo from 2019-05-27T17:36:50

This week, Michelle Kondo and Eugenia South join us to talk about their research looking at how neighborhood contexts impact health and safety in urban environments, and their recent publicatio...

RoS Journal Club Opioid OD among pregnant women, midlife deaths in the US&assn of scribes with MD workflow&patient experience from 2019-05-27T17:28:50

This week, Thomas, Audrey, and David bring you a journal club featuring discussion of three recent papers: Fatal and Nonfatal Overdose Among Pregnant and Postpartum Women in Massachusetts by Dav...

RoS Reprise: Understanding the inadequate state of gun violence research in the US with Dr. Mark Rosenberg from 2019-05-27T17:28:43

For the second show in our series about gun violence, we are joined by Dr. Mark Rosenberg. Dr. Rosenberg worked for many years at the CDC, and helped to found the National Center for Injury Prev...

RoS Policies affecting the care of pregnant women with SUDs with Center on Addiction’s Lindsey Vuolo&Sarah Dauber from 2019-05-27T17:28:41

This week, our guests are Sarah Dauber, Ph.D & Lindsey Vuolo JD, MPH of Center on Addiction, a science-based non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to finding and promoting solution...

Sunflower Team at Lynn Community Health Center part 2 – Building Teams That Reach Their Fullest Potential from 2019-05-27T17:24:27

In the second of our series on the care of pregnant women with substance use disorders, Landrey Fagan and Pat Lee join us to talk about the hard work that went into forming the Sunflower team at...

Sunflower Team at Lynn Community Health Center part 1 – Care For Pregnant Women With Opioid Use Disorder from 2019-05-27T17:23:04

In the first of our series on the care of pregnant women with substance use disorders, Landrey Fagan and Pat Lee join us to talk about their experience forming their team called the Sunflower te...

RoS Understanding the new CMS proposed rules with Shari Erickson of ACP from 2019-05-27T17:17:49

Shari Erickson, MPH is our guest this week. She with us about the proposed rules recently released by CMS that would drastically change how physicians bill, especially in primary care, how these...

Re-imagining primary care in the US&what we can learn from Costa Rica with Asaf Bitton from 2019-05-27T17:17:47

Asaf Bitton MD, MPH is our guest this week. Asaf talks with us about what he sees as crucial steps in improving primary care in the US and what we can learn from primary care systems globally, p...

RoS Understanding Career Plans of Primary Care IM Residents w Sonja Solomon, Krisda Chaiyachati, and John Moriarty from 2019-05-27T17:17:44

This week, Drs. Sonja Solomon, Krisda Chaiyachati, and John Moriarty join us to discuss a paper they published in JGIM in 2016 entitled Why Aren’t More Primary Care Residents Going into Primary ...

RoS: Improving Primary Care at Various Levels of Scale with Ted Long from 2019-05-27T17:17:42

This week, Ted Long, the VP for Primary Care at NYC Health + Hospitals joins us to talk about how we can make primary care better for patients and for physicians at various levels of scale. He p...

RoS Community Health Workers with Shreya Kangovi&Lisa Kidd reprise from 2019-05-27T17:14:29

This week, we have two very exciting guests: Shreya Kangovi, an internist/pediatrician and researcher who studies CHW interventions and developed a multi-stakeholder team-based CHW model called ...

RoS Primary Care Through the Lens of an Anthropologist w Scott Stonington reprise from 2019-05-27T17:10:46

Dr. Scott Stonington is a medical and cultural anthropologist, and an internist. He studies decision-making at the end of life in Thailand and spent many years accompanying Thai patients at the ...

RoS: How the system gets in the way of taking care of patients with Elisabeth Rosenthal from 2019-05-27T17:10:44

Elisabeth Rosenthal is a physician and a noted writer and Editor In Chief of Kaiser Health News. She recently published An American Sickness, a book exploring how the business of medicine has go...

RoS Women in Medicine in the Era of #MeToo with Nwando Olayiwola and Elisabeth Poorman from 2019-05-27T17:10:42

Our society is coming to a reckoning with how we treat women, and medicine has it’s own reckoning too. This week, we have two guests: Nwando Olayiwola, a family physician, corporate leader, rese...

RoS: Journal Club – High Levels of Capitation Payments&Proactive Team&Non-Visit Care w Sanjay Basu and Bruce Landon from 2019-05-27T16:59:05

Primary care practices across the US are starting to change the way we practice, incorporating more non-visit types of care such as e-visits or telephonic or even skype visits. Adding these moda...

RoS: SNAP and the Farm Bill – Food Insecurity in the clinic&as a public health issue with Sara Bleich and Hilary Seligman from 2019-05-27T16:59:01

This week, Review of Systems joins forces with Harvard Chan This Week in Health for a crossover podcast episode! We’re talking about food stamps, or SNAP, and how upcoming legislation in the Far...

RoS: Understanding the Importance of Adverse Childhood Events on Health w Audrey Stillerman part 2 from 2019-05-27T16:58:58

There is a growing recognition of the role of trauma, particularly childhood trauma or adverse childhood events on health and health outcomes. Family physician Audrey Stillerman joins Thomas Kim...

All of us like to think that we provide high-value care for our patients; but the truth is, just like the rest of the health care system, primary care provides a lot of low value care too – and we drive a lot of overuse. John Mafi joins us this week to talk about his leading research into these thorny, complex issues. from 2019-05-27T16:57:51

There is a growing recognition of the role of trauma, particularly childhood trauma or adverse childhood events on health and health outcomes. Family physician Audrey Stillerman joins Thomas Kim...

RoS: Understanding High Value and Low Value Care with John Mafi from 2019-05-27T16:57:49

All of us like to think that we provide high-value care for our patients; but the truth is, just like the rest of the health care system, primary care provides a lot of low value care too – and ...

RoS: Teams in Primary Care with Ann O’Malley and Patricia Satterstrom, Part 2 from 2019-05-27T16:49:52

Our guests this week and last, Ann O’Malley and Patricia Satterstrom, join us for the second of a two week series about teams and can help us start to answer some of those questions. If you miss...

RoS: Teams in primary care with Ann O’Malley and Pat Satterstrom part 1 from 2019-05-27T16:47

Our guests this week and next, Ann O’Malley and Patricia Satterstrom, join us for a two week series about teams and can help us start to answer some of those questions. Patricia, who goes by Pat...

RoS: Gun Violence Research in the US with Dr. Mark Rosenberg from 2019-05-27T16:46:57

For the second show in our series about gun violence, we are joined by Dr. Mark Rosenberg. Dr. Rosenberg worked for many years at the CDC, and helped to found the National Center for Injury Prev...

RoS: Gun Violence as a Public Health Issue&Health Professionals as Advocates from 2019-05-27T16:46:54

This week, we have several guests. Joining us now are members of the HMS center for primary care student leadership committee, Galina Gheihman, Megan Townsend, and Andreas Mitchell. With the rec...

RoS: Reprise – Oral Health in the United States with Mary Otto from 2019-05-27T16:25:37

How many times have you treated a dental infection in your primary care office, or spent 10 minutes after a visit googling a dentist that takes your patient’s insurance? We’ve all done it too ma...

RoS: Narratives of Life&Death with Daniela Lamas from 2019-05-27T16:25:34

We spend lots of our time in medicine communicating through research – standardized, peer-reviewed, and of course crucial! But medicine is full of compelling humanistic narratives. The great Mar...

RoS: The Changing Primary Care Workforce with Bianca Frogner from 2019-05-27T16:25:32

As everyone in primary care tries to shift to team based models of care, task shift, and deliver value rather than volume, we are all looking at staffing and workforce issues. What is the best w...

RoS: A neighborhood view of health with Prabhjot Singh from 2019-05-27T16:16:07

In 2011, Dr. Prabhjot Singh attended the funeral of one of his patients, whom he calls Ray. He describes in his book, Dying and Living in the Neighborhood, a Street-Level View of America’s Healt...

RoS: Getting Social Determinants of Health Right with Krisda Chaiyachati from 2019-05-27T14:30:43

How many times have you had a patient no-show to an appointment, or show up 20 minutes late because of difficulties with transportation? We’ve all been there. Dr. Krisda Chaiyachati wondered whe...

RoS: Understanding Medicaid Work Requirements with Sara Rosenbaum, JD from 2019-05-27T14:23:45

Over the last few months, you’ve probably heard about a few states making changes to their Medicaid programs that will require able-bodied Medicaid recipients to work. This is a major policy shi...

RoS: The importance of management in healthcare with Raffaella Sadun from 2019-05-27T14:22:39

Raffaella Sadun is the Thomas S. Murphy Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. Her research focuses on management and organizational chan...

RoS: Community Health Workers with Shreya Kangovi&Lisa Kidd from the Penn Center for CHWs from 2019-05-27T14:19

This is our first episode of Review of Systems in partnership with the Harvard Center for Primary Care – we are very excited – our website has moved to https://primarycare.hms.harvard.edu, or yo...

A new partnership: RoS&The Harvard Center for Primary Care from 2019-05-27T14:08:25

Dear listeners,

We have a brief and very exciting update for you today about the podcast! We are joining forces with the Harvard Center for Primary Care! We are so excited to be working t...

Primary care through an anthropologist’s lens from 2019-05-27T13:40:21

Dr. Scott Stonington is a medical and cultural anthropologist, and an internist. He studies decision-making at the end of life in Thailand and spent many years accompanying Thai patients at the ...

The Healing Power of Narrative with Annie Brewster from 2019-05-27T13:39:35

Dr. Annie Brewster found herself frustrated as a primary care physician. There simply was not enough time to hear her patients’ stories and feel that she got to know them. Her belief in the mean...

CareMore Health with Sachin Jain from 2019-05-27T13:28:06

Over the last 25 years, CareMore health has been a leader in innovative care models for chronic disease. The company serves 100,000 patients in 8 states through Medicare Advantage programs and m...

Journal Club: Medical Legal Partnerships at VA Medical Centers Improved Housing and Psychosocial Outcomes for Vets from 2019-05-27T13:27:21

This month’s journal club, we discuss the article Medical Legal Partnerships At VA Medical Centers Improved Housing and Psychosocial Outcomes for Vets by Jack Tsai, Margaret Middleton, Jennifer...

Reprise: Design Thinking with Bon Ku from 2019-05-27T13:25:08

This week we are featuring a reprise show with Bon Ku, the Assistant Dean for Health and Design and an Associate Professor at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, to...

Understanding the Opioid Epidemic with Dan Ciccarone from 2019-05-27T13:24:03

The opioid epidemic is the greatest public health crisis of our time. It is estimated that about 64,000 people died of opioid overdoses in 2016 – more than died in the Vietnam war or in 1 year a...

Andrew Bazemore – Community Vital Signs: Achieving Equity through Primary Care Means Checking More than Blood Pressure from 2019-05-27T13:16:34

In this episode, another in a series with speakers from the 2017 second Starfield Summit, we talked with Dr. Andrew Bazemore about how primary care occupies the juncture between public health an...

Understanding how to address social determinants of health with Laura Gottlieb from 2019-05-27T13:15:45

These days, we hear about social determinants of health constantly – more of us are screening for social needs in our clinics and payers are searching for effective ways to address them as an av...

Journal Club Lightning Round: evidence based policy and vaccine rates, municipal non-health spending and health rankings, and is less really more? from 2019-05-27T13:14:29

For this week’s journal club, David, Thomas, and Audrey bring listeners short overviews of three articles. Audrey discusses an article published in the journal Pediatrics Dec 18 2017, called Exe...

Nwando Olayiwola – primary care, tech, and leadership from 2019-05-27T13:13:09

How can we use tech to make healthcare better and more accessible? Dr. Nwando Olayiwola, a family physician, faculty member at UCSF, and Chief Clinical Transformation Officer for RubiconMD, a le...

Reprise – Population Health Management with Dave Chokshi from 2019-05-27T13:10:56

This week, we are joined by Dave Chokshi. Dave is the Chief Population Health Officer of OneCity Health and Senior Assistant Vice President at New York City Health + Hospitals—the largest public...

Reprise – How does architectural design influence c-section rates? With Mass Design&Ariadne Labs from 2019-05-24T01:18:47

This episode starts with a question: “what if the architectural design of an obstetric unit influenced the c-section rate in that unit?”

That question occurred to obstetrician/gynecologis...

Can CHW support improve outcomes for patients with multiple chronic diseases? Kangovi et al, Journal Club from 2019-05-24T00:46:10

Thomas Kim, David Rosenthal, and Audrey Provenzano discuss a recent article from the American Journal of Public Health called Community Health Worker Support for Disadvantaged Patients with Mult...

Understanding how to return joy to practice with Christine Sinsky from 2019-05-24T00:45:04

In order to make primary care better, we have to understand what is working and what isn’t – and not just in broad strokes, but in granular detail. Dr. Christine Sinsky is on the cutting edge of...

Caring for high need, high cost patients with Jeffrey Brenner from 2019-05-24T00:45:02

Jeffrey Brenner is best known for his ground-breaking work with high-need patients in Camden, New Jersey, where he founded the Camden Coalition and changed how we all think about caring for this...

Our Oral Health Crisis with Mary Otto, author of Teeth from 2019-05-24T00:39:32

How many times have you treated a dental infection in your primary care office, or spent 10 minutes after a visit googling a dentist that takes your patient’s insurance? We’ve all done it too ma...

Reprise – Journal Club: Sinsky et al, Allocation of Physician Time in Ambulatory Practice from 2019-05-24T00:38:03

David Rosenthal, Thomas Kim, and Audrey Provenzano discuss the landmark study published in Annals of Internal Medicine by Sinsky and colleagues, Allocation of Physician Time in Ambulatory Practi...

Partnering Primary Care&Public Health — Lloyd Michener from 2019-05-24T00:36:29

Can we solve chronic disease using a medical model? In this episode, the first in a series with speakers from the 2017 second Starfield Summit, we talked with Dr. Lloyd Michener – the principal ...

A Career in Public Service&Drafting the ACA – John McDonough from 2019-05-24T00:35:39

We are tremendously lucky to welcome health policy expert John McDonough as our guest this week. He has had a long and distinguished career in public service as well as a scholar and advocate. W...

Reprise: Integration of Healthcare&Social Services with Lauren Taylor from 2019-05-24T00:33:08

Today we’re joined by Lauren Taylor, a health services researcher based at Harvard Business School, where is she is earning her doctorate in health policy and management. Prior to joining HBS, L...

Journal Club: Lightning Round! Primary care vs Specialty care, Doorknob moments&Cost effectiveness of buprenorphine initiation in the ED from 2019-05-24T00:31:29

This week Thomas Kim, David Rosenthal, and Audrey Provenzano talk about three recently published manuscripts for a lightning round edition of Journal Club. Thomas shares a paper by Bynum et al, ...

Integrating Primary Care&Behavioral Health at Lynn CHC: Kiame Mahaniah&Mark Alexakos from 2019-05-24T00:30:03

Primary care models integrating behavioral health services are being adopted across the country. This week, we talked with two leaders at the Lynn Community Health Center (LCHC), Dr. Mark Alexak...

How do we improve the value of care delivered in primary care? with John Mafi from 2019-05-24T00:29

All of us like to think that we provide high-value care for our patients; but the truth is, just like the rest of the health care system, primary care provides a lot of low value care too – and ...

Lori Tishler of Commonwealth Care Alliance – Caring for the Most Vulnerable Patientsc from 2019-05-24T00:27:59

Have you ever felt lonely and overwhelmed in a clinic room with a patient whose needs are far beyond your skills and ability to meet? I have, many times, and so has our guest this week, Dr. Lori...

Understanding High Utilization of Unscheduled Care in Pregnant Women of Low Socioeconomic Status – Mehta et al from 2019-05-24T00:24:50

This week, we are discussing an article from the Journal Women’s Health Issues, entitled: Understanding High Utilization of Unscheduled Care in Pregnant Women of Low Socioeconomic Status, by Poo...

Tom Bodenheimer – Building Blocks of High-Performing Primary Care and the Quadruple Aim from 2019-05-24T00:22:53

Dr. Tom Bodenheimer is one of the world’s foremost experts in primary care re-design, having recently written about high-performing primary care clinics and the Quadruple Aim, which are articles...

How does architectural design impact c-section rates? Mass Design&Ariadne Labs from 2019-05-24T00:22:46

This episode starts with a question: “what if the architectural design of an obstetric unit influenced the c-section rate in that unit?”

That question occurred to obstetrician/gynecologis...

Frederick Chen – Teaching Health Centers from 2019-05-24T00:20:38

Teaching health centers (THCs) are primary care residency training sites in community-based organizations, often in federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), in contrast to traditional tertiar...

Journal Club – Association Between Process Measures&Mortality in Individuals with Opioid Use Disorders from 2019-05-24T00:17:03

This week, we are discussing a recent article from the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence, entitled: Association between process measures and mortality in individuals with opioid use disorders,...

Dave Chokshi – Population Health Management from 2019-05-24T00:10:48

This week, we are joined by Dave Chokshi. Dave is the Chief Population Health Officer of OneCity Health and Senior Assistant Vice President at New York City Health + Hospitals—the largest public...

Danielle Ofri – Communication Between Patients&Doctors from 2019-05-24T00:09:32

This week, we are joined by Danielle Ofri. Danielle is a primary care physician at Bellevue Hospital and a prolific essayist and author. We start out talking about her most recent book, What Pat...

Joshua Freeman – Designing a Fair&Equitable Healthcare System from 2019-05-24T00:08:30

Dr. Joshua Freeman is a family physician, health policy researcher, social justice activist, and writer. He publishes a widely-read blog, “Medicine and Social Justice”, and in 2015 published a ...

Journal Club – Exploring the Patient and Staff Experience with the Process of Primary Care from 2019-05-24T00:07:28

This week, we bring you a journal club on the manuscript: Exploring the Patient and Staff Experience with the Process of Primary Care, which was published in Annals of Family Medicine in the Jul...

How to Prevent Burnout with Diane Shannon&Paul DeChant from 2019-05-24T00:01:08

This week, in the second of our series about physician burnout, our guests focus on solutions. Diane Shannon and Paul DeChant, both physicians, join us to talk about their recent book Preventing...

Colin West – The Evidence Behind Burnout from 2019-05-23T23:58:08

This week, we are joined by Colin West, professor of Medicine, Biostatistics and Medical Education at Mayo Clinic. Colin’s research focuses primarily on physician well-being, evidence based medi...

David Himmelstein – Blending Research&Advocacy from 2019-05-23T23:57:25

Our guest this week is David Himmelstein. He is a distinguished professor of public health and health policy in the CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College, adjunct clinical professor at ...

Journal Club – Do On-Site Mental Health Professionals Change Pediatricians’ Responses to Children’s Mental Health Problems? from 2019-05-23T23:56:19

On our journal club this week, we talk about an article published in September 2016 in the journal Academic Pediatrics: Do On-Site Mental Health Professionals Change Pediatricians’ Responses to ...

Gail D’Onofrio, Initiation of Suboxone Treatment for Opiate Use Disorder in the ED from 2019-05-23T23:50:23

This week we are again looking at the opioid crisis, but this time from the perspective of an emergency room physician. Gail D’Onofrio, MD, MS is Physician-in Chief of Emergency Services at Yale...

Harold Pollack – ACA and AHCA Update from 2019-05-23T23:48:17

This week we are joined a few days early by Harold Pollack to bring you a timely update on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) repeal and American Health Care Act (AHCA) legislation that is moving qui...

Bon Ku – Design Thinking in Healthcare from 2019-05-23T23:46:56

This week we are joined by Bon Ku, the Assistant Dean for Health and Design and an Associate Professor at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, to talk about design t...

Journal Club – Los Angeles Safety Net Program eConsult System Was Rapidly Adopted and Decreased Wait Times to See Specialists from 2019-05-23T23:45:21

For this week’s journal club, we are talking about a recent paper from Health Affairs entitled: Los Angeles Safety Net Program eConsult System Was Rapidly Adopted and Decreased Wait Times to See...

Reprise – David Buck, Caring for High-Need, High-Cost Patients from 2019-05-23T23:40:59

This week, Thomas Kim hosts the show and interviews Dr. David Buck, a family physician and professor of family and community medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine. He is the founder and pr...

Reprise – Natalie Spicyn, Unionizing Clinicians from 2019-05-23T23:40:02

This week we are joined by Natalie Spicyn, an internist and pediatrician at Chase Brexton, a Federally Qualified Community Health Center in Baltimore. Like all FQHCs, Medicaid patients are a lar...

Lauren A Taylor – Integration of Healthcare and Social Services from 2019-05-23T23:38:23

Today we’re joined by Lauren A Taylor, a health services researcher based at Harvard Business School, where is she is earning her doctorate in health policy and management. Prior to joining HBS,...

Journal Club – How do Pregnant Women Use Quality Measures when Choosing Their Obstetric Provider? from 2019-05-23T23:36:38

Today we’re discussing a paper published in the January 2017 issue of Birth titled: How do pregnant women use quality measures when choosing their obstetric provider? by Rebecca A. Gourevitch MS...

Lisa Sanders – Patient Stories&Zebras from 2019-05-23T23:35:03

This week, we are joined by Lisa Sanders. You may recognize her name from the monthly “Diagnosis” column that she writes for the New York Times Magazine. She writes about unusual cases and diagn...

Dennis Dimitri – Supervised Injection Facilities from 2019-05-23T23:20:08

Today we are joined by Dr. Dennis Dimitri, the immediate past-president of the Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS) and current chair of the society’s Task Force on Opioid Prescribing and Physici...

Seth Berkowitz – Food Insecurity and Chronic Disease from 2019-05-23T23:20:05

This week we are joined by Seth Berkowitz to talk about his research examining the associations between food insecurity and health outcomes. Seth is a primary care physician, Instructor of Medic...

Less AND More Are Needed to Assess Primary Care – Rebecca S. Etz et al from 2019-05-23T23:20:02

On this week’s journal club, David Rosenthal, Audrey Provenzano, and Thomas Kim discuss Less AND More are Needed to Assess Primary Care, which was recently published in the Journal of the Americ...

Andrew Schutzbank – Iora Health from 2019-05-23T23:20

This week we are joined by Andrew Schutzbank, the Vice President of Product and Technology at Iora Health. His passion for revolutionizing health care began as a medical student at Tulane in pre...

Emma Sandoe – Update on the AHCA&ACA from 2019-05-23T23:19:57

This week, we are publishing the show a few days early to bring you a timely AHCA and ACA update. We are joined once again by Emma Sandoe, a PhD candidate in Health Policy & Political Analys...

David Buck – Caring for High Need, High Cost Patients from 2019-05-23T23:19:53

This week, Thomas Kim hosts the show and interviews Dr. David Buck, a family physician and professor of family and community medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine. He is the founder and pr...

Journal Club: Association Between PCMHs&Adherence to Chronic Disease Medications from 2019-05-23T23:19:50

On today’s Journal Club, we discuss a paper published in Annals of Internal Medicine in November 2016, entitled Association Between Patient-Centered Medical Homes and Adherence to Chronic Diseas...

Sarah Wakeman: Treating Patients With Substance Use Disorders&the Opioid Crisis from 2019-05-23T23:19:46

Today we are joined by Sarah Wakeman to talk about substance use disorders, one of the most pressing public health issues of our time. Sarah is the Medical Director of the Massachusetts General ...

Natalie Spicyn: Unionizing Clinicians from 2019-05-23T23:19:44

This week we are joined by Natalie Spicyn, an internist and pediatrician at Chase Brexton, a Federally Qualified Community Health Center in Baltimore. Like all FQHCs, Medicaid patients are a lar...

Matt Broaddus: What are Medicaid Block Grants? from 2019-05-23T23:19:30

This week we are joined by Matt Broaddus to talk about block granting Medicaid, which is a major health policy change that the Trump administration plans to pursue in the coming months. Matt is ...

Journal Club: Powers et al – Non-Emergency Medical Transportation; Delivering Care in the Era of Uber and Lyft from 2019-05-23T23:19:17

This week we’re excited to bring you a journal club episode, highlighting a study published in the September 2016 issue of JAMA by Brian Powers and colleagues Scott Rhinefort and Sachin Jain fro...

Jessie Gaeta: SPOT – Supportive Place for Observation and Treatment from 2019-05-23T23:16:55

Today our guest is Jessie Gaeta, the Chief Medical Officer of Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program. She is a leading advocate for supportive housing for chronically homeless individuals, ...

Andrew Morris-Singer: Organizing&Advocacy from 2019-05-23T23:16:49

We are joined this week by Andrew Morris-Singer, a general internist and founder of Primary Care Progress. Primary Care Progress is a national non-profit organization dedicated to building a str...

Emma Sandoe: Affordable Care Act Repeal Update from 2019-05-23T23:16:41

Emma Sandoe, a PhD student in Health Policy Political Analysis at Harvard University, joins us for a discussion of the Affordable Care Act. Prior to starting her PhD program, Emma spent six year...

Journal Club: Sinsky et al, Allocation of Physician Time in Ambulatory Practice from 2019-05-23T23:16:32

David Rosenthal, Thomas Kim, and Audrey Provenzano discuss the recent manuscript published in Annals of Internal Medicine by Sinsky and colleagues, Allocation of Physician Time in Ambulatory Pra...

David Levine: Home Hospital Research from 2019-05-23T23:12:29

On our premier show, Dr. David Levine, a general internist and research fellow in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical S...