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Mothers in the United States face a reality of worsening maternal mortality and morbidity rates, especially mothers in the BIPOC community. What factors are contributing to these maternal health outcomes inequities and how can we reverse this negative trend? In this Inside Angle episode, Dr. Steven Calvin, board-certified OB-GYN and maternal-fetal medicine physician, shares his more than 40 years of experience caring for moms and babies, and discusses ways maternal outcomes could be improved.

All of us have experienced trauma in our lives. How has trauma shaped your life and what did you learn from that experience? For Allison Massari, navigating a life altering accident and its aftermath has taught her many lessons and continues to inform her unique perspective on resilience and healing. Hear Allison’s story and don’t miss her full keynote at the 3M Client Experience Summit, May 22-25 in Atlanta.

Technology isn’t a cure all for every problem facing the U.S. health care industry, but saving a doctor 30 minutes every day so they can spend more time with patients is something worth working toward. Thomas Polzin, director of natural language processing at 3M Health Information Systems, explores how natural language understanding, machine learning and artificial intelligence can work transform how clinicians deliver care.

Interested in learning about health care startups and what they can bring to the table, but aren’t able to attend technology conferences? Look past the colorful booths and swag and dig into true health care innovation with Chelsea Plant, an investment manager with 3M Ventures. She provides key insight on what many of these companies are focused on for 2023 and beyond, discussing factors that go into a successful startup and a successful partnership.

The average patient chart contains thousands of words and those words add up fast when caring for multiple patients a day. Doctors everywhere can be overwhelmed with all this data, that is often scattered throughout emails, electronic health records (EHRs) and phone calls, but what is the solution to this information overload? How can we redesign EHRs and other health care tools to support the way doctors work today? Dr. Subha Airan-Javia, hospitalist for the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and CEO and co-founder of CareAlign, proposes ideas to relieve the cognitive load placed on providers.

Is your health system considering taking on more downside risk? In this episode, join Dr. Sandeep Wadhwa, global chief medical officer at 3M Health Information Systems, as he dives into key Medicare, Medicaid and commercial insurer payment trends that will influence risk adjustment, quality and population health.

In this episode, AI evangelist Juggy Jagannathan, PhD, discusses the advancement of speech recognition technology with Detlef Koll, global vice president of research and development at 3M Health Information Systems. Travel along the timeline of speech recognition history, starting with isolated word speech recognition all the way to continuous word speech recognition and automatic transcription technologies that create time to care for physicians.

What does it mean to be an anti-racist health care organization? How can health systems move beyond buzzwords and check boxes to take real action toward achieving health equity? In this episode, host Dr. Melissa Clarke and guest DeAnna Minus-Vincent, executive vice president, chief social justice and accountability officer at RWJBarnabas Health System, explore how small change can drive systemic change and ultimately lead to more equitable care for all.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, health care workers were hailed as heroes, but many have since decided to leave the health workforce. Why? In this episode, host Dr. Travis Bias and guest Dr. Bianca Frogner, professor in the family medicine department in the School of Medicine at University of Washington, take a closer look at issues affecting health care workforce retention and recruitment, like lagging wages, lack of coordination and workplace violence.

Telemedicine is far from perfect, but during the COVID-19 pandemic it became an essential tool for delivering care. Will the trend towards telemedicine continue after the pandemic, or fall by the wayside? Dr. Matt Sakumoto, a virtualist primary care physician at Sutter Health in San Francisco, describes the concept of digital empathy in telemedicine and how it could help this technology be more than just a blip on the health care radar.

Let’s face it: Value-based payment models are still a work in progress. How can we create value-based programs so that historically underserved populations, both rural and urban, can experience improved care outcomes? Dive into the topics of health equity, advanced payment model design and more with guest Dr. Amol Navathe, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medical ethics and health policy at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Great user experience is paramount in our digital world. But it doesn’t always translate to health care settings. With more than 20 years as a usability/user experience (UX) engineer and manager, Dr. Randolph Bias has spent his career helping software developers make human-computer interfaces “user friendly.” Learn how these ideas can be applied to the medical world, including in the electronic health record (EHR) and for advancing telemedicine.

Introducing Dr. Melissa Clarke and Dr. Travis Bias, new hosts of the Inside Angle podcast! Dr. Clarke is senior medical director for health care transformation and health equity, and Dr. Bias is chief medical officer of the clinician solutions business at 3M Health Information Systems. In this episode, Melissa and Travis discuss everything from their time providing health care and training to physicians abroad, to how we can address physician burnout and incorporate technology to meaningfully impact care outcomes and payment models. Each month Melissa and Travis will talk to industry experts about the challenges they face, what solutions they have tried, what’s worked and what hasn’t, and the lessons they’ve learned along the way.

Getting into health care somewhat accidentally as a child, Dr. Kyna Fong, CEO and co-founder of Elation Health, set out to create clinical first technology to bolster primary care. What is clinical first technology? Listen to Dr. Fong’s perspective on the importance of health care innovation that supports the core of care: the physician patient relationship.

When South Shore Hospital Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI) Director Kim Conner was tasked with analyzing the organization’s existing CDI program, she decided it was time for big changes. In this episode, Kim shares how she worked alongside coding, quality and physician teams to ensure complete and accurate documentation of patient encounters. Physician buy in through positive, data driven feedback and education has been key to the organization’s success, as well as recognizing physician burnout and working on ways to reduce it.

What are the fundamental drivers of high costs and low quality care in the U.S. health care system? In this episode, Sophia Tripoli, director of health care innovation at Families USA, describes her organization/s work on value initiatives that focus on re-orienting the health care system to deliver health. She also discusses forwarding consumer-focused policy agendas to improve health care delivery and payment systems.

Many states and health plans have adopted value-based payment models to address social determinants of health. How do these models work and are they working? In this episode, William Bleser, PhD at Duke Margolis Center for Health Policy, digs into the details of some of these models, bringing to light key strategies for successful payment reform and pitfalls to avoid.

In order to practice medicine, doctors have to take and pass board certification exams to prove they are current in their field. Dr. Richard Baron, president and CEO of the American Board of Internal Medicine and the ABIM Foundation, reveals the importance of these exams beyond testing medical knowledge. He shares ideas about the future of primary care, quality measurement and what it truly means to be a good doctor.

When U.S. business leaders noticed that their employees in other countries were getting better care and outcomes for less cost than in the U.S., they knew something needed to change. Enter the Primary Care Collaborative (PCC), a not-for-profit, multi-stakeholder organization dedicated to sharing best practices to support the growth of high performing primary care. Ann Greiner, president and CEO of the PCC, describes the organization’s work and commitment to finding a solution to the current state of primary care in the U.S.

How can we fix the U.S. health care system so that it is both less costly and provides better patient outcomes? It’s a complicated question with no easy answer. One solution is to invest more in high quality primary care, with an emphasis on continuity of care that fosters a partnership between providers and patients. Chris Koller, president of the Milbank Memorial Fund, shares how the organization is working with public officials to improve the health of all populations and their work with states to set health care cost growth targets.