Turn on the Lights Podcast

Turn on the Lights Podcast

Brought to you by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)Brought to you by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)
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How Maryland Is Testing a Different Way to Pay for Health Care with Dr. Meena Seshamani

What happens when a practicing surgeon, health economist, and federal policymaker brings all those perspectives into one leadership role? In this episode, Dr. Meena Seshamani, Secretary of Health for Maryland, discusses how her journey across clinical care, health system leadersh ...  Show more

 . 38min 38sec
Why Public Health Keeps Getting Ignored Until It’s Too Late with Michelle Williams & Linda Marsa

If public health is the foundation for individual health, why is it still treated like a “nice to have” until a crisis hits? In this episode, Michelle Williams, an epidemiologist and public health leader, and Linda Marsa, a health care journalist, discuss what public health actua ...  Show more

 . 43min 57sec
The Real Reason Training Alone Cannot Fix Patient Safety with Professor Charles Vincent

Blame rarely makes care safer, but understanding the system usually does. In this episode, Professor Charles Vincent, a clinical psychologist and leading patient safety researcher, explains how harm often emerges from a chain of small breakdowns, not from a single “bad” decision, ...  Show more

 . 33min 25sec
How Stories Can Help People Rethink Health Care Reform with Shantanu Rai

Stories can help people understand why health care keeps failing both patients and clinicians. In this episode, Shantanu Rai, a primary care physician and novelist, discusses how his medical thriller, A Dangerous Diagnosis, became a way to explore moral injury, physician burnout, ...  Show more

 . 38min 26sec
Who Sets the Table for Quality Measurement in U.S. Health Care? with Brenna Rabel & Michelle Schreiber

How do we decide what “good care” looks like, and who gets to choose the scorecard? In this episode of Turn on the Lights, Kedar Mate speaks with Dr. Michelle Schreiber of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and Brenna Rabel of Battelle about how quality measures are dev ...  Show more

 . 48min 32sec