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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 2011

Governor Gary R. Herbert of Utah.

Conversations on Health Care® focuses this week on Utah's innovative health insurance exchange. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Governor Gary Herbert about the creation of their exchange in 2007, why it's unique and what lessons other states might take from Utah as they begin planning their own exchanges.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2011

David Wessel, economics editor of the Wall Street Journal.

This week, Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with David Wessel, economics editor of the Wall Street Journal. He'll give us his perspective on the economy and the forces that are shaping health care and living standards around the world.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 2011

Donna Thompson, chief executive officer of Access Community Health Network in Chicago.

Conversations on Health Care® focuses this week on the unique role of community health centers in integrating clinical excellence with education, training, and research. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Donna Thompson, RN, CEO of Access Community Health Network in Chicago, the country’s largest health center and developer of the first NIH funded research center devoted exclusively to studying health disparities.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 2011

Barbara DiPietro, policy director for the National Health Care for the Homeless Council.

Conversations on Health Care® focuses this week on the health care needs of the homeless. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Barbara DiPietro, who directs policy and advocacy for the National Health Care for the Homeless Council, about delivering patient-centered, team-based, coordinated health care to those experiencing homelessness and how this fits into the larger healthcare system.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 2011

Dr. John Wennberg, the Peggy Y. Thomson Professor for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth College.

This week on Conversations on Health Care®, Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. John Wennberg whose research for the past 40 years has focused on variations in health care around the country and its implications on the individual, the community and the health care system as a whole. Dr. Wennberg is the Peggy Y. Thomson Professor for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth and founder and director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, home to the Dartmouth Atlas Project.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 2011

Dr. Alan Fleischman, medical director of the March of Dimes Foundation.

Conversations on Health Care® focuses this week on strategies to improve maternal-child health, reduce premature birth and eliminate disparities in birth outcomes. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Alan Fleischman, medical director of the March of Dimes Foundation, about current efforts at the national and local levels to achieve these goals.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 2011

Dr. Mary Jane Koren, vice president for the Picker-Commonwealth Fund Long-Term Quality Improvement Program.

Conversations on Health Care® focuses this week on reforming long-term care. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Mary Jane Koren, a long-term care expert, about improving the quality of life through system changes that focus on the needs of the individual versus the needs of the institution.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 2011

Dr. Lucian Leape, a leading figure in the modern patient safety movement.

Conversations on Health Care® focuses this week on patient safety - how far we've come and what still needs to be covered. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Lucian Leape, one of the country's leading figures in patient safety whose body of work includes the landmark Institute of Medicine report "To Err is Human." Dr. Leape currently chairs the Lucian Leape Institute at the National Patient Safety Foundation and teaches at the Harvard School of Public Health.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 2011

Dr. Paul Tang, Chief Innovation and Technology Officer for the Palo Alto Medical Foundation.

Conversations on Health Care® focuses this week on steering the country into a new era of health information technology. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Paul Tang, chief innovation and technology officer for the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, about how patients from kids to centenarians are going online to play a greater role in their health care.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 2011

Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

Conversations on Health Care® focuses this week on Planned Parenthood, the largest provider of reproductive healthcare in the country. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Planned Parenthood’s President, Cecile Richards, about its role expanding access to health care for women, men and teens. The conversation moves beyond the current political debate in Washington to the underlying health care needs of Americans.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 2011

Dr. Gary Kaplan, President and CEO of the Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, Washington on total transformation of the culture of health care.

Conversations on Health Care® focuses this week on transforming the culture of healthcare institutions from the ground up. Virginia Mason’s President and CEO, Dr. Gary Kaplan, speaks with Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter about the 10-year journey to create a patient-centered, safe, effective system using the Toyota “stop the line” quality approach.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 2011

Chaitali Sinha, Program Officer, Governance, Equity, and Health of the International Development Research Centre.

Conversations on Health Care® focuses this week on improving health outcomes in developing countries through e-Health. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Chaitali Sinha from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) about how countries with fewer resources are driving e-Health innovations, especially in mobile health, and what lessons from IDRC supported projects can be applied to health care in the United States.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 2011

Dr. Timothy Ferris, medical director of the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization at Mass General and director of its Care Management Program.

This week, Conversations on Health Care® highlights a demonstration project that’s been reducing costs for high-risk, chronically ill patients with the use of intensive primary care. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Timothy Ferris, director of the Care Management Program at Massachusetts General Hospital, about how this model of care has been effective and what the next steps are translating it nationally.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Dr. David Kindig, professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and senior advisor to its Population Health Institute.

Conversations on Health Care® focuses this week on using population health data to improve the health of our communities. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. David Kindig from the University of Wisconsin’s Population Health Institute about the factors that influence health outcomes for a community, and how we can use data to drive changes in policy and practice.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2011

President Obama's budget proposal for fiscal year 2012.

Conversations on Health Care® brings you a special episode about President Obama's budget proposal for fiscal year 2012. Mark and Margaret break down the health care spending components of his proposal, what the House Appropriations Committee plans to do for the rest of this fiscal year, and the impact of federal spending and cuts on the health and wellness of our communities.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Mark Pauly, Wharton healthcare economist and father of the individual mandate.

This week, Conversations on Health Care® brings an economist’s focus to specific areas of health reform. Dr. Mark Pauly, healthcare economist and vice dean at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, analyzes the Affordable Care Act, the intent of an individual mandate and how providers and consumers are likely to respond to incentives in the legislation.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Dr. Richard Gilfillan, acting director for the new Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

Conversations on Health Care® focuses this week on delivery system reform. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Richard Gilfillan, acting director of the newly launched Innovation Center at CMS, about its crucial mission to test, analyze and spread innovative payment and service delivery models to reduce healthcare costs and enhance quality.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2011

Alan Weil, executive director of the National Academy for State Health Policy.

Conversations on Health Care® focuses this week on developments in healthcare reform and innovation at the state level. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Alan Weil from the National Academy for State Health Policy, about the role states play implementing the new healthcare law, and the opportunity for every state to act as a laboratory for innovation.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2011

Marc Wetherhorn, national advocacy director for the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC).

Conversations on Health Care® continues the discussion on community health centers this week. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Marc Wetherhorn, national advocacy director for NACHC, about bipartisan political support for health centers going forward and their role in transforming health care.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2011

Dan Hawkins, senior vice president for policy and research at the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC)

Conversations on Health Care® focuses this week on the latest policy developments affecting community health centers. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dan Hawkins from NACHC about health centers important role and continued growth under healthcare reform, as well as the policy agenda for NACHC with a new Congress.