UNLEASHED: Redesigning Health Care

What do elders really want and need? How must the health care system respond? Amber Barnato, director of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, also a hospice and palliative care doctor, offers a response to Episode 15.  Find more information, including additional resources and an excellent transcript, at www.unleashedpodcast.org/#e16

EPISODE 15 -  When Si France heard about the PACE program, a care model for nursing-home-eligible seniors, he thought it was the most amazing care model that he’d ever heard of in the United States. He went on to launch WelbeHealth, which serves seniors in thirteen locations in California … and growing.   Find more information, including additional resources and an excellent transcript, at www.unleashedpodcast.org/#e15.

EPISODE 14 - We are introducing a new kind of episode, a response episode. Guests will offer reactions to the prior episode. Our first respondent, Roy Ziegelstein, comments on our story in Episode 13 about caring for people with serious mental illness. Find more information, including additional resources and an excellent transcript, at www.unleashedpodcast.org/#e14

EPISODE 13:  Joe McDonough has a straightforward goal: Keep people with serious mental illness healthy and out of the hospital. He’s doing it with home visits. Find more information, including additional resources and an excellent transcript, at www.unleashedpodcast.org/#e13.

EPISODE 12 - Our final episode in a four-episode series on primary care. Today: Artificial Intelligence. Is it possible that technology could actually restore humanity in health care? What other doors might AI open? Find more information, including additional resources and an excellent transcript, at www.unleashedpodcast.org/#s2e6.

EPISODE 11 - Our third episode in a four-episode series on primary care. Today: Advanced Primary Care, sometimes called team-based primary care. What happens when you combine the advantages of Direct Primary Care with bigger clinical teams that include advanced practice providers, health coaches, behavioral health professionals, pharmacists, nutritionists, and more? What gets better for patients? What gets harder for clinicians? Find more information, including additional resources and an excellent transcript, at www.unleashedpodcast.org/#s2e5.

EPISODE 10 — Our second episode in a four-episode series on primary care. Today: Direct primary care. What happens when you take the middle man … the health plan … out of primary care? What happens when primary care clinicians no longer have to worry about billing and coding? What new services do they offer? What else do they do differently? Find more information, including additional resources and an excellent transcript, at www.unleashedpodcast.org/#s2e4.

EPISODE 9 — Our first in a four episode series on primary care. Today: Full scope family medicine. Is it an unfortunate necessity in remote areas, or a model for primary care everywhere? Find more information, including additional resources and an excellent transcript, at www.unleashedpodcast.org/#s2e3.

EPISODE 8 - Goran Henriks has spent decades leading innovation in the Swedish health system, and he’s gained an international reputation for his work. He shared three patient stories with us, each offering a conceptual building block for clinician-innovators. Find more information, including additional resources and an excellent transcript, at www.unleashedpodcast.org/#s2e2.

EPISODE 7 - Winnie Henderson, a surgeon who focuses on breast cancer treatment at Oregon Surgical Wellness, describes how she deepens her connections with patients through empathy, education, and collaborative decision making. She also describes the benefits, for both patients and doctors. Find more information, including additional resources and an excellent transcript, at www.unleashedpodcast.org/#s2e1.    

EPISODE 6 - JoAnna Leyenaar, a pediatric hospitalist at Dartmouth Health, is developing mental health skill-building programs for teens who are boarding at the hospital, sometimes for several days,  after a mental health crisis.  Find more information, including additional resources and an excellent transcript, at www.unleashedpodcast.org/#s1e6.

EPISODE 5 - Lara Goitein shares her experience building and leading a program for clinician led innovation and continuous improvement at a community hospital in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Find more information, including additional resources and an excellent transcript, at www.unleashedpodcast.org/#s1e5.

EPISODE 4 - David de Geisel is building community partnerships and advancing innovative methods for testing for and treating Hepatitis C. Find more information, including additional resources and an excellent transcript, at www.unleashedpodcast.org/#s1e4.

EPISODE 3 - Jessica Salwen-Deremer, a gastro-psychologist and an innovation leader at Dartmouth Health, is building new care models for patients with irritable bowel syndrome. Find more information, including additional resources and an excellent transcript, at www.unleashedpodcast.org/#s1e3.

EPISODE 2 - Dick Levy is a philanthropist with deep interest in … and deep knowledge of … innovation in health care delivery. Find more information, including additional resources and an excellent transcript, at www.unleashedpodcast.org/#s1e2.

EPISODE 1 - Tyler Hartman and Kate Richards have a goal: Get pre-term babies home sooner. A pioneering innovation effort at Dartmouth Health.  Find more information, including additional resources and an excellent transcript, at www.unleashedpodcast.org/#s1e1.