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2016-09-06

  The Affordable Care Act in Practice: Successes, Failures, and What Comes Next

Host: Matt Birnholz, MD The Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010 to provide more Americans access to affordable quality health insurance and to reduce health care spending. But have these goals actually been met, and if not, what will it take to get...
2016-02-22

  Controversies in Drug Pricing: How Will Capitol Hill Respond?

Host: Frank Russomano Interest in health policies related to drug pricing has spiked in recent times. While remarkable research discoveries have positively escalated the pharmaceutical industry with release of more novel drugs, the question on how dru...
2016-02-08

  All Things Educational: A Panel Discusses Independent CME, The Sunshine Act, and Reporting

Host: Frank Russomano There has been ongoing dialogue about the guidance needed to provide clarity on the reporting of indepedent medical education payments and the Sunshine Act. In this discussion, expert panelists analyze the definition of indirect ...
2015-12-28

  Collaborative Projects and Future Directions for the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation

Host: Frank Russomano Host Frank Russomano welcomes Rhondell Domilici, Regional Director for the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation, to discuss the organization's humble origins in 1967 as a small physician-patient collaborative, its rapid growth on a nat...
2015-07-20

  DocBookMD: A Physician's Journey Toward Improving Patient Care

Host: Frank Russomano Host Frank Russomano welcomes Dr. Tracey Haas, Chief Medical Officer of DocbookMD, an innovative communication platform for health care providers. Dr. Haas shares her story of how she and her husband, Dr. Tim Gueramy, discovered ...
2015-07-13

  The Role of Technology in Precision Medicine

Host: Frank Russomano There are far too many diseases that do not have proven means of prevention or effective treatments. As such, health care providers must gain better insights into the biology of these diseases to make a difference for the million...
2015-06-29

  The Politics of CME: Perspectives from Andrew Rosenberg and Thomas Sullivan

Host: Frank Russomano The role of continuing medical education (CME) within government is an important and ever-changing area of high interest and scrutiny among many stakeholders. The CME Coalition is an advocacy group working directly with governmen...
2015-03-16

  Relocating a World Class Trauma Center: Perspectives from Penn Medicine's COO, Garry Scheib

Host: Frank Russomano Trauma care is one of the most complex health system infrastructures in the US. Depending on the type of injury sustained, a patient may require multidisciplinary intervention from any and/or every medical and surgical specialty,...
2015-01-26

  "Overcoming Obamacare:" Health Policy Perspectives with Author Philip Klein

Host: Frank Russomano “One cannot understand policy without appreciating the philosophy that is driving it.” That’s a passage taken from author Philip Klein's book, Overcoming Obamacare: Three Approaches to Reversing the Government Takeover of Health ...
2014-12-22

  The Deadly Politicization of Ebola

Host: Frank Russomano"When political considerations trump basic medical strategies proven effective over centuries, the danger can be grave." That's a passage taken from a recent article called"The Deadly Politicization of Ebola," written by Dr. Richar...