6th Annual Mission of Mercy a Big Success!

6th Annual Mission of Mercy a Big Success!

The following piece was written by Kiran Narain, the HealthCorps Navigator serving in CHC’s Mobile Dental Program. She’ll be attending Dental School in the fall!      Last weekend, the HealthCorps Navigators volunteered for the 6th annual free dental clinic, Mission of Mercy (CT-MOM).  This year, the two-day clinic was hosted in Bridgeport at the Webster Bank Arena on June 7th-8th to serve the underserved and uninsured.  Volunteers began the extensive set-up two days prior to the clinic where the arena…

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Dr. Harold P. Freeman, Founder and CEO of the Patient Navigator Institute

Dr. Harold P. Freeman, Founder and CEO of the Patient Navigator Institute

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Dr. Harold P. Freeman, Founder and CEO of the Patient Navigator Institute. Dr. Freeman discusses his pioneering work in the patient navigation movement, which seeks to reduce health disparities by using specially trained patient navigators to assist the underserved population in removing barriers to care.

Patrick Miller, Founder of the APCD Council

Patrick Miller, Founder of the APCD Council

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Patrick Miller, MPH, founder of the All-Payer Claims Database Council at the University of New Hampshire’s Institute for Health Policy and Practice. Mr. Miller discusses the APCD Council’s focus on improving the development and deployment of state-run claims databases which provide health information that can be used to improve access to quality healthcare while reducing costs.

June is Men’s Health Month

June is Men’s Health Month

     The remarkably warm weather late last week welcomed in the month of June, and with that a very important awareness observance. June is Men’s Health Month, a nationwide effort to remind men of all ages how critical it is that they regularly see a medical provider. Even men in great shape stand to benefit from developing an ongoing relationship with a primary care provider, as getting into the practice of proactively addressing one’s health can prevent the most minor…

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Dr. Francis Collins, Director of NIH

Dr. Francis Collins, Director of NIH

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health about the broad scope of research underway at NIH as well as his previous work leading the team that mapped the human genome, for which he won the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Waco Hoover, CEO of the Institute for Health Technology Transformation

Waco Hoover, CEO of the Institute for Health Technology Transformation

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Waco Hoover, co-founder and CEO of the Institute for Health Technology Transformation. They discuss the Institute’s recent report, “Analytics: The Nervous System of IT Enabled Health Care” which explores the impact big data analytics is having on health care delivery, outcomes and costs.