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Good intentions and unintended consequences: A look at healthcare policy

Sometimes ideas for healthcare reform can morph into problematic policies that inadvertently drive up costs and erode quality. What happens when we instead encourage innovation at the individual health system level? In attempting to improve healthcare delivery, policy makers have tried a top–down approach to effect change. In this episode, Harold D. Miller, President and CEO of the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform advocates for a bottom-up style of reform, focusing on reinvigorating primary care and fostering healthcare transformation at the local level.

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Harold D. Miller President and CEO, Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform

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L. Gordon Moore, MD Senior Medical Director, Clinical Strategy and Value-based Care

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In this episode, Dr. Gordon Moore talks with Dr. Christine Sinsky, Vice President for Professional Satisfaction with the American Medical Association (AMA) and a national leader in studying the connection […]

Caring for the caregivers

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On the frontlines of collaborative care

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So many measures

How do we develop quality measures that help improve care outcomes without creating more work for physicians? Dr. Michael Barr of the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) discusses the drive to create measures that are timely and relevant.

Telemedicine: Enhancing access to improve outcomes

What happens when you need health care, but the services just aren’t available in your hometown? Telemedicine pioneer Barb Johnston explains how quality suffers when people don’t have easy access to caregivers—and how telemedicine is changing lives.