New on Demand Episodes 10/19/21

PopHealth Week
Show rebroadcasts at 5:30 am, 1:30 pm and 9:30 pm ET every weekday.

Hosts Gregg Masters and Fred Goldstein meet Scott Haas, Sr. Vice President of Integrated Healthcare Metrics at Wells Fargo Insurance Services USA, Inc. They discuss innovation in the employee health benefits space and the vital role of primary care to advance the interests of the triple aim especially countering the legacy incentives of fee-for-service motivated specialists as agents of the ‘heads in beds model of most U.S. health systems – with some IDN exceptions embracing capitation of value based care models.

Conversations on Health Care
Show rebroadcasts weekdays at 1:00 am, 9:00 am, and 5:00 pm ET.

Hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter welcome Dr. Michael Mina, Epidemiologist and member of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at Harvard where they are taking a multi-disciplinary approach to tackling the ongoing pandemic. Dr. Mina has long been a proponent of making cheap, rapid, at-home COVID tests available to all Americans as a much more effective way to curtail the pandemic’s spread. He says these tests which have been deployed successfully in other countries, are almost 100 per cent effective in identifying potential infectious ‘super-spreaders’, and that government should classify them as a public health, not a medical, tool to allow for more swift production and deployment. He also discusses their efforts to build a global surveillance system for future disease outbreaks.