Conversations On Health Care

Hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter from CHC's Conversations on Health Care program speak with Jennifer Tolbert, Director of State Health Reform at the Kaiser Family Foundation. She breaks down the rollout of the Affordable Care Act and its potential impact on the uninsured population and how it may differ in states across the country.

Hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter from CHC's Conversations on Health Care program speak with Dr. Ardis Dee Hoven, an internal medicine and infectious disease specialist in Lexington, KY who has been sworn in as the 168th president of the American Medical Association (AMA), the nation's largest physician organization. During her presidency Dr. Hoven will focus on the AMA's three strategic areas: improving health outcomes, accelerating change in medical education and enhancing physician satisfaction and practice sustainability.

Hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter from CHC's Conversations on Health Care program speak with Dr. H. Jack Geiger, co-founder of Physicians for Human Rights and Physicians for Social Responsibility, both of which earned the Nobel Peace Prize. Dr. Geiger is considered the founder of the Community Health Center movement in this country and discusses his decades of activism for equality in health care.

Hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter from CHC's Conversations on Health Care program speak with Deven McGraw, Director of the Health Privacy Project at the Center for Democracy and Technology. Ms. McGraw discusses strategies to insure patient privacy and security of patient data sharing in the emerging world of Health Information Technology.

Hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter from CHC's Conversations on Health Care program speak with Dr. Rishi Manchanda, Founder and President of HealthBegins, an online portal to link "upstreamists" - health clinicians working on solving the social and environmental determinants of health. He discusses his new book, The Upstream Doctors, in which he promotes a movement to develop a national force of "upstream" medical professionals dedicated to transforming health care at its source, where patients live, work and play.

Hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter from CHC's Conversations on Health Care program speak with Dr. Kavita Patel, Managing Director of Delivery System Reform and Clinical Transformation at the Brookings Institution, and Co-Chair of the Bipartisan Policy Center's Health Professional Workforce Initiative. Dr. Patel discusses their recently released reports which examine the need for better national planning strategies for projecting health care work force needs in the future.

Hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter from CHC's Conversations on Health Care program speak with Aaron Smith, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Young Invincibles, a non-profit working to give young adults a voice in the political process. Mr. Smith discusses their impact on provisions in the Affordable Care Act affecting the "millennial" population and their national efforts to encourage young adults to participate in the Insurance Exchanges.

Host: John J. Russell, MD Hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter from CHC's Conversations on Health Care program speak with Ken Sperling, National Exchange Strategy Leader at Aon Hewitt. Mr. Sperling discusses the growing trend towards health insurance exchanges in the corporate benefits world, and the impact the Affordable Care Act is having on corporate health care costs and employee benefits.

Hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter from CHC's Conversations on Health Care program speak with Dr. Harold P. Freeman, Founder and CEO of the Patient Navigator Institute. Dr. Freeman discusses his pioneering work in the patient navigation movement, which seeks to reduce health disparities by using specially trained patient navigators to assist the underserved population in removing barriers to care.

Hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter from CHC's Conversations on Health Care program speak with David Chase, CEO and Founder of Avado, and former leader of Microsoft's Health business. He's created a Patient Portal and Relationship Management system, designed to give the patient a seat on the care team, that will help patients better-manage their chronic disease by fostering better communication between patients and providers.

Hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter from CHC's Conversations on Health Care program speak with Dr. William Newsome, Stanford University neurobiologist and co-chair of the President's BRAIN Initiative which is seeking to map the human brain. Similar to the Human Genome Project, the BRAIN Intiative will require significant collaboration from all varied fields within neuroscience to unravel the secrets of medical science's "final frontier" - the human brain.

Hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter from CHC's Conversations on Health Care program speak with surgeon and entrepreneur Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, who is Co-Chair of the Bipartisan Policy Center's new CEO Council on Health and Innovation. Dr. Soon-Shiong discusses the Council's efforts to construct an information superhighway for healthcare that is poised to revolutionize care delivery, payment models, evidence-based treatments and outcomes in health care.