Off the Chart with Medical Economics
Off the Chart with Medical Economics
Medical Economics
Off the Chart with Medical Economics features lively and informative conversations with health care experts, opinion leaders, and practicing physicians, about the challenges facing medical practices today.
20: Vaccine mandates: The do's and don'ts for medical practices
How can medical practices reduce the chance of employees resisting, or successfully suing over, vaccine mandates? Health care attorney Michelle Greenberg explains. 
Sep 27, 2021
19 min
19: How one small-town physician is convincing his patients to get vaccinated for COVID-19
Shawn Purifoy, MD, a family doctor in rural Arkansas, says hearing the facts from trusted sources is key to dispelling patients' fears about vaccination.
Sep 2, 2021
46 min
18: How a practice's culture influences physician burnout
Samuel Edwards, M.D., discusses his recent study in Health Affairs of  why burnout levels differ among primary care practices and what practices can do to reduce burnout among doctors and staff. 
Jul 27, 2021
15 min
17: The new priorities for health IT
Micky Tripathi, the new National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, discusses his office's role in addressing the COVID-19 pandemic, improving EHR interoperability, and more. 
Jun 16, 2021
17 min
16: Easing the prior authorization process
Tim Sullivan, Pharm.D., director of pharmacy market solutions for UnitedHealth Group, describes the EHR-embedded tool UnitedHealth has developed to ease the prior authorization process for prescription medications. 
May 3, 2021
13 min
15: Can artificial intelligence reduce prescribing errors?
Dr. Gidi Stein, cofounder of the Israeli company MedAware, talks about the growing potential of artificial intelligence in medicine, and how it can be used to help avoid diagnostic and prescribing errors. 
Apr 9, 2021
26 min
14: How PBMs drive up prescription drug prices
Health care attorney Jonathan Levitt explains pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and how they have come to play a major role in drug pricing and availability. 
Mar 22, 2021
22 min
13: How the COVID pandemic can reduce health care inequity
Leon McDougle, MD, president of the National Medical Association, explains why Black Americans have been especially hard-hit by the COVID pandemic, and what policy changes the nation needs to improve health care for Blacks and other traditionally underserved communities. 
Feb 26, 2021
23 min
12: Telehealth's long-term impact on the business of medicine
If telehealth is here to stay, it could bring major financial and operational changes for medical practices. Ron Holder, COO of the Medical Group Management Association, offers advice on how practices can prepare for what may lie ahead.
Jan 29, 2021
23 min
11: The growing role of remote patient monitoring devices
Josh Claman, the CEO of Rimidi, discusses how remote monitoring devices can provide doctors with important patient health data while also creating a new revenue stream for practices.
Dec 21, 2020
20 min
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