Consumer-First Health Group
Serving Patients and Doing Business in Spite of COVID-19 w/ Tashfeen Ekram, MD
Many doctor’s offices have been closed for weeks and those that haven’t have seen massive cancellations. This episode is for healthcare providers and people working inside health offices. Today we’re going to share what we’re seeing across the…
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6: Nursing Homes and COVID-19
On the second half of this two-part episode on Broken Healthcare, we follow along as the Akrie family struggles to find answers after they learn their father, a resident of a long-term care facility, has fallen ill with Covid-19. How did this happen? Could it have been prevented? As the coronavirus pandemic claims victim after…
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7 – How Community Healthcare Workers Innovate to Overcome Medication-Related SDoH Barriers
In this episode we are joined by June Simmons, President & CEO with Partners in Care Foundation and Ray Woosley, Founding President of the Arizona Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics. They discuss the critical role of community healthcare workers in the HomeMeds program and share stories about the incredible impact this program has…
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Taking Friction Out of the Prescription Process with Surescripts Real-time Prescription Benefit – Dr. Andrew Mellin
Surescripts is at the center of almost all prescriptions for medications in the US. In this era, when almost no other kind of prescriptions are being allowed, how is Surescripts thinking about digital prescriptions? How has Surescripts adapted to the…
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Episode 5: Nursing Homes, COVID-19 and a River of Grief
You have probably heard the headlines: The coronavirus is hitting our nursing homes and long-term care facilities hard. By late April, more than 11,000 people have died from the disease in US nursing homes. But those people are more than numbers. They’re our loved ones and friends. On the first half of this two-part episode…
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