Episodes
VP and Head of Solutions at Nuna, Parag Patel, chats about how the Prometheus Episode Grouper from Change Healthcare has helped Nuna better serve all.
Published 03/15/23
Thyme Care Co-Founder, President, and CMO, Dr. Bobby Green, joins host Yousuf Zafar, MD to discuss how his team at Thyme Care are working to provide personalized care guidance to help cancer patients through their journey. Dr. Green also shares the importance of combining a human touch with technology to help improve lives and reduce care costs.
Published 01/10/23
Safr Care CEO, Syed Gilani, chats how Safr Care approaches the unique challenges they face, and how Change Healthcare helps them achieve its mission.
Published 12/20/22
Founder and CEO of State of Reform, DJ Wilson, joins host Deanne Kasim to discuss the efforts underway to bring health plans, and providers together, with an emphasis on innovation.
Published 12/16/22
Quartz Health Solutions director of accreditation and quality insurance, Amy Bachhuber and senior director of Medicare operations, Mark Kirchberg join host Shelley Stevenson to discuss how they implement dual eligible special needs plans.
Published 11/01/22
Sirona Strategies Partner Kristen Ratcliff McGovern joins host Deanne Kasim to discuss policy and legislative trends leading up to the midterm elections. McGovern shares the key issues Congress needs to focus on before the end of the year, as well as some pre- and post-election considerations.
Published 10/04/22
Luma Health CEO Adnan Iqbal shares why he co-created the digital patient engagement platform and how they separated themselves from the competition.
Published 07/26/22
Kevin Vaccarello shares how Sustain Hawaii has used technology to support their mission of transforming the islands’ capacity for self-reliance.
Published 06/28/22
With the new CMS and ONC regulations firmly in place, individual access is taking off. But there are still some tricky issues to address around consent and data segmentation. In this episode of the Let’s Talk Interop podcast, our panel explores how technology can support consent capture and revocation as well as consent sharing. They also dive into the work our industry is doing to create standardized ways to segment sensitive data so that patients can safely access their own data and...
Published 05/05/22
As our public health emergency (hopefully) winds down, federal and state governments are reshaping healthcare policy. To gain clarity we sat down with Ceci Connolly, CEO for the Alliance of Community Health Plans to discuss federal and state healthcare policy trends around Medicaid, mental health, preauthorization and value-based care.
Published 04/15/22
Get to know the newly released Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA): what it is, what it does, and how it might impact nationwide interoperability.
Published 02/25/22
While crossing professional paths over many years, health IT leaders Eric Lacy and Jim Schreiner became good friends—and learned advocates for the transition of enterprise imaging to the cloud. From their perspectives, informed by a radiology practice and a hospital setting respectively, they offer advice and optimism on what lies ahead on the path to the cloud. Tracy Byers, Senior VP and General Manager of the enterprise imaging business for Change Healthcare leads the conversation.
Published 01/28/22
Mike Russell is the co-founder and CEO of Monument, an online treatment platform for those looking to change their relationship with alcohol. In this episode, Change Healthcare’s Anuj Desai talks with Mike about how his own experience drove him to create a new approach to alcohol treatment. Mike tells Anuj how his company was born and how technology has enabled an alternative care mode
Published 01/11/22
For healthcare providers, the potential of cloud technology intrigues, yet adoption has proven difficult.
Nowhere is this more evident than in imaging, which has a legacy of aging, on - premise applications that interact with every point of care. Faced with unscalable solutions and limited alternates, many providers’ have stalled their initiatives.
Today’s enterprise cloud imaging solutions offer new hope. Here we discuss what’s next for cloud based medical imaging, outlining drivers and...
Published 01/04/22
We recently asked payers across the country about the No Surprises Act. What do they think about it? How are they preparing for it? How do they feel it will affect their business? In this inaugural episode of our government mandates theme — which we plan to record quarterly, or as critical updates become available — our panelists reflect on payers’ survey responses.
Published 12/17/21
Join our presenters as they discuss the history and future of HEDIS reporting. Listen in to discover how existing pain points, regulatory agencies, and environmental factors are influencing the transition from claims-based to clinical-based measures.
Today’s panel includes: Genevieve Morris, senior director, clinical interoperability strategy at Change Healthcare; Robert Connely, vice president, business development, provider networks, clinical networks at Change Healthcare; Eric Whitley,...
Published 12/03/21
As a “free-range” child in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, Dr. John Halamka rode his bicycle to the dumpsters of defense contractors, pulling out the integrated circuits they had thrown away. By age 14, he had gained an advanced understanding of technology, however his passion lied in biology and life sciences—which led to a “crazy idea”: “What if I made a career that brought together technology and service to patients?” Roughly a half century after his novel notion, Dr. Halamka joins Change...
Published 12/02/21
In today’s episode, Tim Suther is joined by Dr. Mark Cullen, who’s been at the forefront of population health for decades—even before it was a recognized field. Listen in as Tim and Dr. Cullen discuss the collaborative effort that has gone into the COVID-19 Research Database, and what the resulting research and analysis can tell us about vaccine effectiveness, breakthrough infections, social determinants of health (SDoH), and booster vaccines.
Today’s panel includes: Dr. Mark Cullen,...
Published 11/18/21
The US Government is poised to make groundbreaking federal and state policy decisions. Special guest Matt Salo, executive director of the National Association of Medical Directors, joins us to discuss the latest congressional action on the infrastructure package, challenges of current budget reconciliations, and Medicaid expansion consideration. We also explore critical state health and health tech topics including the growing data privacy and security policy efforts, state public option...
Published 10/18/21
Analytics are key to success in value-based care. That’s because analytics deliver data-driven insight into exactly what it takes to achieve desired patient outcomes for any given episode of care. With that insight, payers and providers can collaborate to move more smoothly from fee-for-service to fee-for-value, to create logically bundled payment programs, and to produce insight-driven results. So learning more about VBC analytics will help you reap more of VBC’s potential benefits.
Published 09/27/21
Analytics are key to success in value-based care. That’s because analytics deliver data-driven insight into exactly what it takes to achieve desired patient outcomes for any given episode of care. With that insight, payers and providers can collaborate to move more smoothly from fee-for-service to fee-for-value, to create logically bundled payment programs, and to produce insight-driven results. So learning more about VBC analytics will help you reap more of VBC’s potential benefits.
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Published 09/24/21
Would you order something online but not expect to know the cost until after the item is delivered? The answer is probably, no! For years, healthcare costs have been a mystery, not revealed until after services were completed. Now, with the shift to cost transparency in healthcare, consumers are acquiring the tools to get advanced pricing on healthcare services. Two important federal regulations are helping to drive this new normal.
In this episode, host Ed Domansky talks with Mike Peresie...
Published 08/10/21
Consumers expect digital access to providers to be on par with their online retail experiences. After all, they're footing the bill for healthcare under their high-deductible health plans. And o providers today need a “digital front door” that attracts and retains patients, and ultimately drives revenue. Today’s show brings together healthcare leaders from Adobe, Microsoft, and Change Healthcare to discuss this new normal, and what providers need to know to be successful with a...
Published 06/17/21
Paper checks comprise about one-third of all payments from health plans to providers. They’re accompanied by printed remittance information, which adds to the costs of printing, mailing and depositing checks. How can healthcare convert more payments from paper to electronic formats? In part one of a two-part series, host Brian Andrews, along with colleagues Dan Pay and Mark Zurline, discuss new technology that simplifies payment processing and posting.
Published 06/16/21