Raise the Line

“I always think about careers as some mixture of careful career planning and then leaving tremendous amounts of space for serendipity,” says Dr. Peter Buckley, whose career as a researcher, a physician, academic leader, and health system leader includes membership on the Board of Directors of the Association of American Medical Colleges. In this episode of Raise the Line, Dr. Buckley shares with Shiv Gaglani how he became drawn to psychiatry, academic leadership, and the issue of schizophrenia, specifically, and discusses the increased importance of mental healthcare now as a result of COVID. What are the changes that VCU School of Medicine has had to make due to the pandemic, and which of those are here to stay? What is behind the increase in medical school enrollments and med school philanthropic giving? Tune in to discover answers to these questions, Dr. Buckley's advice to students, and his optimistic take on the ongoing transformation of the healthcare industry in America. If you like this podcast, please share it on your social channels. You can also subscribe to the series and check out all of our episodes at www.osmosis.org/podcast

How can a barbershop be an access point to care? It's a question that Taylor Justice and his company, Unite Us, are figuring out on the ground in certain communities in North Carolina, and a model they are looking to expand, collaborating with various kinds of community organizations to build infrastructure by meeting patients where they're comfortable. Recognizing that so much of a person's overall wellbeing happens in their home community, Justice founded the technology platform Unite Us in 2013 to extend the traditional clinical care coordination network by connecting health, human, and social service organizations to securely exchange data around a shared patient. Initially focused on the veteran and military population, Unite Us now serves all citizens and is active in over 42 states across the country. In Justice's estimation, COVID has highlighted the lack of appropriately collaborative public health infrastructure. “I think that's one of the big learnings that we've seen from the pandemic,” he says. “No one can do this alone.” Tune in to this episode of Raise the Line to learn why Justice believes some of our nation's massive healthcare spending should be reallocated to human and social services, and why he predicts that these services will become bigger parts of the healthcare ecosystem going forward. If you like this podcast, please share it on your social channels. You can also subscribe to the series and check out all of our episodes at www.osmosis.org/podcast

Dr. Mark Schuster has asked students in the entering class at the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine to write a letter to themselves about their passions and goals that will be returned to them at graduation. After an extremely competitive, yet holistic admissions process to a program that has waived students' tuition with no strings attached, the admitted applicants “are the kinds of students who want to save the world,” Dr. Schuster boasts. He doesn't want the med school journey to burn out any of their spark. In addition to his role as Founding Dean and CEO of the Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine, Dr. Schuster is recognized as an international leader in research on child, adolescent and family health and is also a member of the prestigious National Academy of Medicine. In this episode of Raise the Line, he speaks with Shiv Gaglani about his journey into pediatrics and leadership roles, how Kaiser Permanente has met the challenge of opening a medical school during a pandemic, and how COVID-19 has been an opportunity to teach about health disparities. Tune in for an inside glimpse of the school's unique admissions process and hear Dr. Schuster's advice on serving patients by viewing them as whole people in the full context of their lives. If you like this podcast, please share it on your social channels. You can also subscribe to the series and check out all of our episodes at www.osmosis.org/podcast

“Why can't we get better health when we're spending two to three times as much money as any other high-income nation?” asks Dr. Vivian Lee, as so many other Americans have asked for so many years. But not many have developed answers as compelling as hers, making Lee one of the leading voices on healthcare reform in the country. Lee’s perspective, shaped by a rich set of experiences as a clinician, leader and academic, is strengthening a movement to make healthcare more centred on helping patients be as healthy as possible instead of being geared to just treat them when they are sick. Her influential book “The Long Fix” lays out an action plan to create a less costly system and a healthier population. As she explains to host Shiv Gaglani, positive change will depend in part on clinicians knowing as much as possible about the business of healthcare, and also about what other providers do. “You need to understand what every person's role is on the care team. Until you can make the most of every person, how can you drive value?” After running a highly-respected academic health system, Lee is now making an impact in the private sector at Verily Life Sciences, part of the Google family of companies. Listen in to learn how Verily is using digital health and data analytics to support schools, employers and patients during COVID, and the impact it is hoping to make long-term. If you like this podcast, please share it on your social channels. You can also subscribe to the series and check out all of our episodes at www.osmosis.org/podcast

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Fred Singer has a message for those in higher ed grappling with the imperative to deliver education online: offering “Zoom University” isn’t enough. “Simply repurposing a classroom doesn't make any more sense going forward than it did in the 1990’s for the newspapers to dump content online and assume the world's going to change. It didn't work that way.” And Singer knows what he’s talking about because he was there when the Washington Post first went online.  He’s built a fascinating career “chasing interesting, disruptive movements” as an internet pioneer and entrepreneur. As CEO of Echo360, he now sits at the intersection of innovation and education. His company, which is the first video platform designed to foster active, engaged, and personalized video-based learning, has been boosted by COVID as schools of all types have been forced to offer and improve distance learning. In this episode with host Shiv Gaglani, Singer highlights the parallels he sees between the relatively slow adoption of learning technologies in both education and healthcare, and predicts that major change is going to happen faster than people might realize. “All the technology and tools exist to deliver much cheaper education, much more convenient education. I think there will be huge opportunities for people that know how to embrace the change and not try to block it.” If you like this podcast, please share it on your social channels. You can also subscribe to the series and check out all of our episodes at www.osmosis.org/podcast

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Peter Frishauf, founder of Medscape, discusses the history and impact of Medscape in revolutionizing medical education and providing global access to valuable content for better patient care. He also explores the partnerships and analytics involved, as well as the lasting impacts of COVID-19 on the US healthcare system. Discussions on equity, consumer education, and collaboration for improved health are highlighted.

Risk management is a critically important part of providing healthcare and, you might be surprised to learn, goes far beyond dealing with medical errors.  In fact, modern risk management encompasses most aspects of healthcare operations, including HR and finances.  When Marlene Icenhower, who has degrees in nursing and law, first got into risk management decades ago, it was largely reactive in nature. “It had to do with the process that occurred after a medical mishap, and it was pretty much confined to just the clinical arena and the legal mop-up that took place after that event.” Over the past several decades, however, it's evolved into a function that's more proactive. “The idea now is to look for trends, issues, or lapses and then implement measures to fix them before they result in injury to a patient.” Icenhower is a senior risk specialist at Coverys, one of the largest medical malpractice insurance companies in the country, and spends a good deal of her time answering questions and brainstorming with providers around the country about everything from telehealth regulations to what should be done when a patient leaves against medical advice.  In this conversation with host Shiv Gaglani, Icenhower talks about finding the “why” behind education, how COVID is changing healthcare, and what she wishes medical and nursing schools would spend more time teaching.  If you like this podcast, please share it on your social channels. You can also subscribe to the series and check out all of our episodes at www.osmosis.org/podcast

After a negative experience at a chaotic pharmacy while battling a sinus infection, Eric Kinariwala identified the need for an easier way to get prescription medications. That was the spark for creating Capsule, a New York based digital pharmacy startup that has expanded to Chicago, Boston, and Minneapolis. “We built the entire experience around the idea that if your mom was a pharmacist and you were the only customer in the world, what would that experience look like?” Capsule is considered a leading disruptor in the pharmacy industry by offering fast delivery and having pharmacists on call 24/7 to help customers among other benefits, but Kinariwala thinks the reasons for the company’s success goes beyond that.  “What we've learned is that it's really not about the speed of the delivery.  It's about all of the other things around the experience that the technology platform enables that makes it really, really frictionless and easy to do something that has historically been really complicated.”  Check out this episode of Raise the Line to learn how the patient-pharmacy relationship is changing, how Capsule is meeting the needs of physicians, health systems, payers and other stakeholders, and how COVID has fueled the company’s growth.   If you like this podcast, please share it on your social channels. You can also subscribe to the series and check out all of our episodes at www.osmosis.org/podcast