
Medecision Podcast
Expert perspectives on the hot topics in healthcare.
Episodes
25 episodes
The Future of Care Management: Leveraging AI and Automation
Traditional care management strategies are struggling to keep pace with rising administrative burdens, workforce shortages and increasingly complex member needs. Outdated processes — like relying on phone calls — fail to scale engagement and le...
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The Provider’s Role in Payer Care Management
As healthcare evolves, the demand for connected, data-driven, and member- and patient-centric systems is at an all-time high. By 2027, 70% of healthcare organizations are projected to adopt digital-first care management strategies, interoperabl...
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47:30

Guiding the member’s health journey for optimal outcomes: Payer leaders’ strategies for data-driven care management
While traditional telephonic and modern digital self-service care management approaches are necessary for health plans, what both programs need now are data and insights to create deep contextual awareness of health plan members. To be effectiv...
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Introducing Aerial: The Future of Real-Time Healthcare Data
DiscoverThe importance of platform thinking in overcoming healthcare data challengesStrategies for real-time and flexible data ingestion and integration (the toughest nut to crack)Considerations for building...
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Inside the Beltway Insights from Maverick Health Policy
As election year dynamics unfold, the impact on healthcare policy will be significant. This exclusive webinar, presented by Maverick Health Policy and hosted by Medecision, offers you a front-row seat to understand these changes. Our panel of W...
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59:13

The Top Care Management Barriers — And How To Tackle Them
To manage costs and advance value-based care models, health plans and health systems that take on risk need effective care management and population health programs. However, many legacy tools involved in these efforts are frustrating to use an...
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52:45

The State of Utilization Management 2024
The executives examined independent market research that surveyed health plan leaders about the current state of UM and what organizations need to transform both Utilization Management and Care Management.Key findings relative to UM include...
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55:40

January: The Year Ahead in Care Management, Utilization Management, Personalization & Population Health
Did you know that, despite 95% of health plan executives stressing the importance of personalization, only a third consider their operations highly personalized?This podcast will examine the results of Medecision's exclusive market rese...
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58:43

2021 Star Ratings Power Hour: Bottom-Line Impact and Strategies
The 2021 Star Ratings Power Hour: Bottom-Line Impact and Strategies was recorded on June 30, 2021.In this episode, Julie Barnes, JD, Founder and Principal of Maverick Health Policy, and Kimberly Swanson, Vice President of Quality and Cl...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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46:19

Advancing Utilization Management Performance
In this episode, Julie Barnes, JD, Founder and Principal of Maverick Health Policy, shares valuable insight into the prior authorization rule affecting utilization management and what health plans and healthcare providers should be considering ...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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13:09

Trust Reset: How to Better Serve Underserved Populations
In this episode, we bring together healthcare leaders with vast experience in caring for and engaging underserved and vulnerable populations. Our experts include Dr. Jan Berger, founder and CEO of Health Intelligence Partners, Jess...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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45:14

Post-Election Healthcare Policy Implications
In this episode, we bring together some of the most thoughtful and visionary healthcare policy experts for an engaging executive-level discussion about post-election policy implications for the healthcare industry. Our expert gues...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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52:48

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Healthcare Consumers
In this episode, we speak with health economist, advisor, trend weaver, and author, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn. Jane shares the major trends she’s seeing as COVID reshapes health consumer behavior, including virtual health adoption, digital transformat...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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50:53

Accelerate Your Virtual Patient and Member Engagement Program
In this episode, we invite Lynne Dunbrack, Group Vice President at IDC Health Insights, and ChristianaCare CareVio leaders Nicole Masci and Barb Gillis to share their expert insight into virtual care in the “new normal” and best practices for c...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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33:23

Virtual is Reality: 5 Things You Need to Know About Virtual Health
In this episode, Medecision President and CEO Deb Gage facilitates a roundtable discussion about virtual health with healthcare leaders Dr. Janice E. Nev...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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58:53

Game Changing Strategies for Virtual Health
Game Changing Strategies for Virtual Health was recorded on September 21st, two-thousand-twenty during the Modern Healthcare Virtual Health Summit.In this episode, Medecision leaders D...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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58:59

The Novel Coronavirus - Over 6 Months In: August 2020 Facts and Prevention Strategies
In this episode, special guest Dr. Terry McInnis joins us to talk about what we’ve learned about the coronavirus, since she spoke with us back in April. Terry began her career as a physician in the Air Force, and has since held many roles...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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49:26

COVID-19 and the Impact on End-of-Life Decisions & Palliative Care
Facilitated by Ellen Dalton, Medecision’s Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing and Customer Experience Officer, and our special guest, Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider, this episode explores how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting and changing e...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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43:29

Mental Wellbeing and Coronavirus
In this episode, we spoke with Babette Apland, the Managing Director of Call to Mind, the initiative from American Public Media and Minnesota Public Radio focused on fostering an open conversation about the importance of mental health, particul...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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38:21

Driving Quality Initiatives Now & Into The Future
In this episode, Julie Barnes, Founder and Principal of Maverick Health Policy, and a health care policy expert with years of experience helping the private sector navigate federal government activities that impact the health care system, discu...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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27:51

Bioethics & the COVID-19 Pandemic
In this episode, Dr. Carolyn Smith discusses the principles of bioethics during the COVID-19 pandemic, the public health code of ethics, and triage and the allocation of scare resources. She examines the ethics of research, end of life iss...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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40:12

The New Normal
In this episode, Medecision Advisory Board Chair, Dr. Richard Popiel, examines some of the early trends that may define our new normal, and highlight how the healthcare industry - and society at large - are likely to look fundamentally differen...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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32:47

A Discussion About Novel Coronavirus – Facts, Lessons and a New Revolution
In this episode, A Discussion About Novel Coronavirus – Facts, Lessons and a New Revolution, our Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing and Customer Experience Officer Ellen Dalton facilitates a conversation with Medecision Advisory Board...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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40:02

A New View of Population Health
Doctor Jan Berger gives us some thought-provoking perspectives around what Population Health looks like during, as well as after the COVID-19 pandemic, and what that may mean for the healthcare ecosystem.
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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48:32

Charting Coronavirus and Implications for Health Plans
Terri Kline, an epidemiologist, Medecision Advisory Board member, and long-time partner gives us some fascinating and valuable perspectives around what’s happening with the COVID-19 pandemic and the implications it may have on our healthcare ec...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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