Healthcare Strategies

How Cartoons Help One Doctor Advocate for Patients in Primary Care

Anita Ravi, MD, co-founder of the PurpLE Health Foundation, exhorts healthcare organizations to provide care that is trauma-informed and social determinants of health aware. Drawing from her own encounters treating patients who have experienced abuse, she discusses practical ways to reshape healthcare systems’ approach to mental healthcare screenings and describes how cartooning has helped breach communication barriers.

Implementing Advanced Primary Care Models in a Fee-for-Service World

Ryan Schmid, MBA, CEO and president of Vera Whole Health, outlines his organization’s advanced primary care model and discusses how this differs from traditional primary care. Vera Whole Health's model emphasizes the need for a transition from fee-for-service to value-based reimbursement in order to promote more holistic, patient-centered care.

Using Telehealth to Address the Nation’s Mental Health Crisis

Healthcare Strategies talks to Amy Lerman, a member of the Health Care and Life Sciences team at Epstein Becker Green, about the challenges and benefits of launching a telemental health service. With the growing need for mental health care bumping up against barriers to access and a shortage of specialists, hospitals and health systems are turning to telehealth to put patients in front of providers when and where they’re needed. Lerman talks about best practices for launching such a platform as well as strategies for delivering quality virtual care.

Top Health IT Security Trends of 2019 and Industry Needs for 2020

Dr. Saif Abed, Clinical Cyber Defense Systems CEO shares insights on cybersecurity trends of 2019, one of the most disruptive years in terms of cyberattacks and big breaches. Abed also dives into ways providers can begin tackling some of healthcare’s greatest privacy and security challenges, including constricted resources and an ever-increasing list of endpoints, while looking into what the healthcare sector can expect in the new year.

Giving a Legal Voice to Patient Experience in Behavioral Health

As an attorney at Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman, Christian Puff explains to Healthcare Strategies the legal and technical barriers preventing truly value-based behavioral healthcare reform. As a behavioral health patient, Puff shares how payers and providers need to combine medical and behavioral healthcare.

Using Population Health Management to Target Rural Care Disparities

The Director of the Office of Preventive Health and Health Equity at the Mississippi Department of Health, Victor Sutton, PhD, MPPA, discusses challenges to overcoming rural care disparities. Through their work with community partners, Sutton and his team are developing evidence-based population health management programs that are sustainable and scalable to improve patient outcomes.

Using mHealth to Boost Member Engagement, Outcomes

Worthe Holt, Jr., MD, vice president and deputy CMO with Humana, discusses the benefits and challenges of using mHealth tools and platforms to improve member engagement and foster better health and wellness outcomes. Humana is one of several payers turning to connected health to improve its relationship with members and reduce healthcare expenses.

Turning Social Determinants of Health Data into Action

Healthcare Strategies talks to Steve Miff, PhD, CEO and President of the Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation, about the challenge of incorporating social determinants of health into patient care, the task of creating a new form of integrated health, the need to better manage high utilizers, and the future of social determinants of health.