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Dr. Regina Herzlinger, Harvard Business School

Dr. Regina Herzlinger, Harvard Business School

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Regina Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration Chair at the Harvard Business School. She is considered “the “Godmother of consumer driven health care” and discusses new incentives in the wake of the Affordable Care Act that are increasingly taking the consumer into account, spurring innovation in health industry business models that are poised to better serve consumers while driving down costs. 

Alan Weil, Editor-in-Chief of Health Affairs

Alan Weil, Editor-in-Chief of Health Affairs

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Alan Weil, Editor-in-Chief of Health Affairs, the leading journal at the intersection of health, health care, and health policy. Mr. Weil discusses the vital role the publication must play as a non-partisan, peer-reviewed journal in the ongoing health care debate and how its presence is poised to expand in the new media marketplace.

Dr. Elizabeth Bradley, Yale Global Health Initiative

Dr. Elizabeth Bradley, Yale Global Health Initiative

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Elizabeth Bradley Director of the Yale Global Health Initiative and co-author of The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less. Dr. Bradley discusses her research comparing American health spending and outcomes against 30 industrialized nations, and the reasons for poor outcomes here relative to the highest per capita health spending. 

Dr. Wendy Everett, CEO, Network for Excellence in Health Innovation

Dr. Wendy Everett, CEO, Network for Excellence in Health Innovation

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Wendy Everett, CEO of the Network for Excellence in Health Innovation (NEHI), a non-partisan health policy institute seeking to enable innovations that improve the quality and lower the costs of health care. She discusses their target areas of interest including the improvement of care delivery systems, payment reform and telemedicine.

Dr. Karen DeSalvo, National Coordinator for Health IT

Dr. Karen DeSalvo, National Coordinator for Health IT

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Karen DeSalvo, National Coordinator for Health IT at the Office of the National Coordinator at HHS. Dr. DeSalvo discusses ONC’s plans to advance Health IT beyond adoption to meaningful use and interoperability of health information technology, as well as health information exchange, to advance the triple aim of better care, better outcomes and reduced costs in health care.

Sonia Sarkar, Chief of Staff of Health Leads

Sonia Sarkar, Chief of Staff of Health Leads

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Sonia Sarkar, Chief of Staff of Health Leads, a national organization dedicated to creating a health care system that addresses all patients’ basic resource needs as a standard part of quality care. She discusses Health Leads’ deployment of college students in clinics across the country who assist patients in gaining resources to impact the underlying causes of poor health.