Healthcare Reimagined
On Healthcare reimagined, we speak with clinicians, entrepreneurs, and provider and payor executives who are innovating within US Healthcare.
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Healthcare Reimagined
Meena Seshamani, MD, PhD, VP of Clinical Care Transformation, Medstar Health
On May 20th I interviewed Dr. Meena Seshamani, who as VP of Clinical Care Transformation at Medstar Health, leads value-based care initiatives across the 10-hospital, 300-outpatient clinic health system. Prior to her work at Medstar, Dr. Seshamani was the Director of the Office of Health Reform at the DOHHS, where she drove strategy and managed the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. We discussed the importance of post-discharge follow-up for low-income COVID patients, and Medstar's coordination between nurses and community health workers to ensure patients have their basic needs addressed and can properly isolate. Dr. Seshamani shared her thoughts on what steps could be taken at a National level to curb the spread of this virus and safely reopen the economy.
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Time Stamps
00:00 – Introducing Dr. Meena Seshamani
00:55 – How Medstar has transformed and innovated to meet the unique challenges COVID-19 has posed
08:25 – What initiatives will endure beyond the pandemic?
11:25 – How is Medstar thinking about challenges brought on by the pandemic (a possible second wave, implications for those with behavioral health issues & chronic disease, etc.)?
13:20 – Given your experience at HHS, how would you manage the pandemic from a national perspective?
18:10 – In retrospect of the pandemic, what advice would you give you past self?
21:15 – Conclusion