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Modern Practice Podcast
by Dr. Tom Villanueva and Vizient Medical Leadership Team
Modern Practice is your curbside consult with top clinicians from around the country. This exciting podcast series features medical experts sharing their ideas and approaches for the latest strategic trends and clinical challenges. Hosted by Dr. Tom Villanueva and brought to you by the Vizient Medical Leadership team.
Episodes
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Rethinking medical group strategy, Part 3
This episode of our award-winning podcast concludes our discussion on a new approach for medical groups in this time of drastic change. Only those models undergoing change will succeed. Host: Tomas Villanueva, DO, MBA, FACPE, SFHM Senior Principal, Performance Improvement Consulting Vizient…
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Rethinking medical group strategy, Part 2
All the drastic changes occurring in healthcare, particularly in the way it is delivered, necessitate corresponding changes in how we structure medical groups. This episode of our award-winning podcast continues the discussion on the need for a new strategy for medical groups, and an expert…
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Rethinking medical group strategy, Part 1
The huge flurry of changes in how we deliver healthcare have brought into question the viability of the conventional medical group model, whether it’s sustainable and gives us a competitive advantage or whether we need to invest in something else. On the next three episodes of this award-winning...
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Developing learning areas to improve and sustain performance, Part 3
On this final episode of a three-part series, Tomas finishes his discussion with two experts on high-reliability organizations who examine the crucial role of learning areas in the success of top performers. High-performing organizations take care of not only their patients but their staff and...
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Developing learning areas to improve and sustain performance, Part 2
On this episode, Tomas continues his discussion with two expert guests about learning areas and how they are proving effective and essential in developing high-reliability organizations. Host: Tomas Villanueva, DO, MBA, FACPE, SFHM Senior Principal, Performance Improvement Consulting Vizient...
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Developing learning areas to improve and sustain performance, Part 1
Learning areas have become an effective aspect of high-reliability organizations in healthcare. Employing floor or departmental huddles as the focal point for these learning areas, the experience of the huddles has been augmented and reinforced by bulletin boards and whiteboards. Even more...
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The workforce challenge, Part 2
The healthcare workforce is in a state of crisis: shortages of healthcare workers, rampant burnout, schedules in flux and outbreaks of violence in the workplace. On this episode, Tomas continues his discussion with a leading expert on the healthcare workforce on steps organizations can take to...
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The workforce challenge, Part 1
Before the Covid outbreak, the healthcare workforce was already in a state of crisis. Covid made it much worse. On this new series of our award-winning podcast, we examine the varied causes behind workforce challenges and shortages of nurses, physicians and other related disciplines. We’ll also...
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Challenges in documenting spinal surgery, Part 3
On this episode, Dr. Tomas Villanueva and a leading clinical documentation expert finish their discussion on the need to correctly document everything involving spial surgery. Spinal surgery represents a complex challenge for documentation specialists and clinicians alike, and this episode will...
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Challenges in Documenting Spinal Surgery, Part 2
On this episode, Dr. Tomas Villanueva continues his discussion with a leading clinical documentation expert on the need to correctly document everything involving spial surgery. Spinal surgery represents a complex challenge for documentation specialists and clinicians alike. Host: Tomas…
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Challenges in documenting spinal surgery, Part 1
Spinal surgery represents a complex challenge for clinical documentation. Difficult to code and representing query situations that can be demanding, this is the area of focus for this episode of Modern Practice. Joining Dr. Tomas Villanueva is a leading expert returning to the podcast to talk…
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Mental fitness for physicians, Part 3
Years of medical school, residency and fellowships have proven to do little in teaching physicians how to care for themselves. Physician burnout is at an all-time high. On this episode, a physician who is a leading expert on physician stress discusses how to improve mental fitness in those who’ve...
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Mental fitness for physicians, Part 2
This episode of our award-winning podcast continues the discussion on why mental fitness is so crucial for physicians and other clinicians today and yet is a concept that physicians still tend to avoid or downplay. Physician training and medical school have not helped. Join us for this gritty...
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Mental fitness for physicians, Part 1
Though physicians spend years in medical school, residency and fellowships to learn how to care for patients, they spend little time learning how to care for themselves. Physician burnout, leading to physician turnover, is skyrocketing. On this episode, a physician who is a leading expert on...
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The difficulty of quality metrics, Pt 3
On this episode of our award-winning podcast, Dr. Tomas Villanueva concludes his discussion on how organizations can approach quality metrics today – what metrics to choose and how to apply them. Moderator: Tomas Villanueva, DO, MBA, FACPE, SFHM Senior Principal, Performance Improvement…
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The difficulty of quality metrics, Pt 2
On this episode of our award-winning podcast, Dr. Tomas Villanueva continues his discussion on how organizations can approach quality metrics today – what metrics to choose and how to apply them. Moderator: Tomas Villanueva, DO, MBA, FACPE, SFHM Senior Principal, Performance Improvement…
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The difficulty of quality metrics, Pt 1
Concerning quality measures in healthcare organizations, a common complaint is, “I've got so many people looking over my shoulder, pulling our data in, ranking me, rating me, everything else, and there is no way I can keep track of literally the hundreds of metrics for which we’re accountable.”…
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Why Risk Adjustment Is So Important
This episode of the award-winning podcast examines the importance of risk adjustment. Dr. Tomas Villanueva leads the discussion on the impact of this crucial aspect of documentation that can affect hospital outcomes. Moderator: Tomas Villanueva, DO, MBA, FACPE, SFHM Senior Principal, Clinical...
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Advances in colorectal cancer screening, Pt 2
Screening for colorectal cancer (CRC) has seen a lot of innovations, but there is still the conventional gold standard. On this episode of our award-winning podcast, Dr. Tomas Villanueva welcomes Dr. Aziz Aadam to discuss the need for early colorectal cancer (CRC) detection, and the options...
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Advances in colorectal cancer screening, Pt 1
In this episode of the award-winning podcast Dr. Tomas Villanueva welcomes Dr. Aziz Aadam to discuss the need for early colorectal cancer (CRC) detection, which drastically increases the rate of survival, and how improvements in CRC screening are giving patients better options. Moderator: Tomas...
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The air you breathe: Eliminating surgical smoke in the OR, Part 2
On this episode, we continue our discussion on preventing surgical smoke in the OR. Moderator: Tomas Villanueva, DO, MBA, FACPE, SFHM Senior Principal, Performance Improvement Consulting Vizient Guest: Rachel Medina, BSBA Senior Category Manager, Surgical Services Vizient Show Notes: [00:29]...
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The air you breathe: Eliminating surgical smoke in the OR, Part 1
The daily smoke produced in an operating room is the equivalent of 27-30 cigarettes, and the OR staff breathes this in five days a week. When tools in the OR cut and cauterize human tissue, they generate a plume of smoke containing toxic chemicals, carcinogens, malignant cells and viruses.…
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A comprehensive approach to reducing PSIs, Part 4
On this episode of our award-winning podcast, we finish our feature on an organization that has made huge strides in reducing Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) throughout health system. We will discuss the phenomenal results of the initiative so far and what is planned for the near future at…
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A comprehensive approach to reducing PSIs, Part 3
On this episode of Modern Practice, we continue highlighting an organization that has made huge strides in reducing Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) throughout health system. Moderator: Tomas Villanueva, DO, MBA, FACPE, SFHM Senior Principal Clinical Operations and Quality Vizient Guests: Rachel...
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A comprehensive approach to reducing PSIs, Part 2
This episode of our award-winning podcast continues the success story of how Sanford Health has reduced PSIs through a concerted, multifaceted effort throughout the organization. Tomas interviews members of the clinical team that guided the way. Moderator: Tomas Villanueva, DO, MBA, FACPE, SFHM...
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A comprehensive approach to reducing PSIs, Part 1
Developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Patient Safety Indicators, or PSIs, represent measurements of adverse events that enable healthcare organizations to gauge how they compare to others regarding patient safety. In addition, CMS looks at PSIs in scoring and...
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Emerging Treatments for Atrial Fibrillation, Part 3
On this episode of our award-winning podcast, a leading expert in electrophysiology concludes our discussion on pulsed field ablation as the newest approach to treating atrial fibrillation. Moderator: Tomas Villanueva, DO, MBA, FACPE, SFHM Senior Principal Clinical Operations and Quality Vizient...
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Emerging Treatments for Atrial Fibrillation, Part 2
On this episode of our award-winning podcast, a leading expert in electrophysiology explains the pathophysiology of atrial fibrillation and how therapies for it have evolved over the years, with pulsed field ablation emerging as the newest approach. Moderator: Tomas Villanueva, DO, MBA, FACPE…
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Emerging Treatments for Atrial Fibrillation, Part 1
Atrial fibrillation ablation therapies have progressed from rather primitive approaches to improved treatments that have emerged in recent years. In this series of our award-winning podcast, we discuss the history of the practice of electrophysiology and improvements that field has experienced....
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Hermes Award-winner! Surviving cardiac arrest
Simon Henley was on a video call with his manager when he suddenly disappeared from the screen. He had fallen to the floor with a cardiac arrest. Not to be confused with an acute myocardial infarction, cardiac arrest is usually fatal, requiring a defibrillator and immediate CPR to revive the...
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Rethinking medical group strategy, Part 3
This episode of our award-winning podcast concludes our discussion on a new approach for medical groups in this time of drastic change. Only those models undergoing change will succeed. Moderator: Tomas Villanueva, DO, MBA, FACPE, SFHM Senior Principal Performance Improvement Consulting Vizient...
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Rethinking medical group strategy, Part 2
All the drastic changes occurring in healthcare, particularly in the way it is delivered, necessitate corresponding changes in how we structure medical groups. This episode of our award-winning podcast continues the discussion on the need for a new strategy for medical groups, and an expert…
more -
Rethinking medical group strategy, Part 1
The huge flurry of changes in how we deliver healthcare have brought into question the viability of the conventional medical group model, whether it’s sustainable and gives us a competitive advantage or whether we need to invest in something else. On the next three episodes of this award-winning...
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Facing hostile patients, Part 2
In this re-air of our two-part, award-winning podcast series, we discuss how physical violence in the healthcare workplace is on the rise. Healthcare workers are more in danger of violence than are police officers or prison guards. Looking at the labor force in general, healthcare workers have…
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Facing hostile patients, Part 1
Hermes award-winner! In a special re-air of this award-winning episode, we discuss how the hospital is increasingly becoming a hostile environment, with clinicians facing verbal abuse and physical violence from patients and their families. Clinicians need skills to defuse conflict and hopefully...
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How research marketing can impact your organization, Part 3
This episode of our award-winning podcast finishes our discussion on the state of research today. Despite proven benefits, enrollment in clinical trials is sparse across the country, but participation can positively impact patients and organizations alike. Two experts in research lay out all the...
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How research marketing can impact your organization, Part 2
Despite proven benefits, enrollment in clinical trials is sparse across the country. This episode of our award-winning podcast continues our discussion on the state of research today and how participation can positively impact patients and organizations alike. Two experts in research lay out all...
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How research marketing can impact your organization, Part 1
The truth is: patients enrolled in clinical trials fare better than patients who are not. Participating in research can be a boon to a practice or organization and its patients. Yet, enrollment in clinical trials is still sparse across the country and part of the reason is organizations don’t...
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Improving care with single-use ureteroscopes, Part 2
On this episode of our award-winning podcast, we continue discussing the impact and benefits of the latest generation of single-use endoscopes, which promise a revolutionary role in surgery. Moderator: Tomas Villanueva, DO, MBA, FACPE, SFHM Senior Principal, Performance Improvement Consulting...
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Improving care with single-use ureteroscopes, Part 1
The latest generation of single-use endoscopes promises a revolutionary role in surgery. On this episode of our award-winning podcast, we discuss the impact and benefits of single-use ureteroscopes. Moderator: Tomas Villanueva, DO, MBA, FACPE, SFHM Senior Principal, Performance Improvement...
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Issues around elective surgery documentation, Part 3
On this episode, we finish the discussion about the challenges and issues involving documenting elective surgeries in order to improve care and maximize reimbursement. Moderator: Tomas Villanueva, DO, MBA, FACPE, SFHM Senior Principal, Performance Improvement Consulting Vizient Guests: Rachel…
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Issues around elective surgery documentation, Part 2
This episode continues the series on challenges and issues involving correctly documenting elective surgeries. A leading expert provides practical guidance and considerations that enable you to be correct in documenting these patients in order to improve care and maximize reimbursement.…
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Issues around elective surgery documentation, Part 1
Elective surgeries are on the rise again following a downswing during the COVID era. Yet, with this rise in these procedures, there are challenges and issues involving correctly documenting elective surgeries that practices and organizations need to consider and address. On this episode, a…
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How to transform to a safety culture, Part 2
A safe culture is a key factor in developing a highly reliable organization, or HRO, and ensuring a healthy workplace. It means fostering psychological safety in that culture. On this episode, we continue our discussion on psychological safety and a healthy workplace. Moderator: Tomas Villanueva,...
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How to transform to a safety culture, Part 1
A healthy culture is a key factor in developing a highly reliable organization, or HRO. For a culture to be healthy depends on the existence of psychological safety in that culture. In this new series of our award-winning podcast, we discuss how to develop a healthy workplace as we continue our...
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Investing in the transition of APPs to practice, Part 2
On this episode, we continue our discussion about the need to provide a transition for advanced practice providers (APPs – nurse practitioners, physician assistants) from the academic setting to clinical practice, similar to the residencies and fellowships provided to physicians. You’ll learn how...
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Investing in the transition of APPs to practice, Part 1
Advanced Practice Providers, or APPs, have taken on an increasingly important role in patient care over the years. Comprised of nurse practitioners and physician assistants, APPs receive advanced education and clinical training for performing a wide range of care services, many of which were...
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Developing learning areas to improve and sustain performance, Part 3
On this final episode of a three-part series, Tomas finishes his discussion with two experts on high-reliability organizations who examine the crucial role of learning areas in the success of top performers. High-performing organizations take care of not only their patients but their staff and...
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Developing learning areas to improve and sustain performance, Part 2
On this episode, Tomas continues his discussion with two expert guests about learning areas and how they are proving effective and essential in developing high-reliability organizations. Moderator: Tomas Villanueva, DO, MBA, FACPE, SFHM Senior Principal, Performance Improvement Consulting Vizient...
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Developing learning areas to improve and sustain performance, Part 1
Learning areas have become an effective aspect of high-reliability organizations in healthcare. Employing floor or departmental huddles as the focal point for these learning areas, the experience of the huddles has been augmented and reinforced by bulletin boards and whiteboards. Even more...
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Modern Practice is your curbside consult with top clinicians from around the country. This exciting podcast series features medical experts sharing their ideas and approaches for the latest strategic trends and clinical challenges. Hosted by Dr. Tom Villanueva and brought to you by the Vizient Medical Leadership team.
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