INBW29: The Secret to Transforming Our Health Care System Revealed—A Summary of the Wisdom of Relentless Health Value Guests in 2020
December 17, 202025:23

INBW29: The Secret to Transforming Our Health Care System Revealed—A Summary of the Wisdom of Relentless Health Value Guests in 2020

I had a vision for this inbetweenisode. I wanted to highlight the wisdom of our amazing guests this year. I really wanted to find some theme that might be a key to our health care transformation. To achieve maximum suspense, here’s the very short story of how I got from “Is there a common thread of wisdom throughout all the RHV episodes this year?” to “Why, yes, there is … and it’s a good one!”

So, let’s start our journey of discovery with this. Here’s a fact: If you talk to patients, they will often tell you that they receive poor care or their needs are not met—when they fall between different providers, or their payer and their provider and their PBM (pharmacy benefit manager) are singing off of different sheets of music.

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When not hosting the show, Stacey is co-president of Aventria Health Group, a marketing agency and consultancy. Aventria specializes in helping pharmaceutical, employer, pharmacy, and health system clients improve patient outcomes by creating and leveraging collaborations with other health care organizations. For more than 20 years, Stacey has innovated better-coordinated health solutions benefiting all stakeholders and, most of all, the patient.


01:18 Don Fowls, MD, from EP298.
02:47 What will it take to get to a place where the triple or quadruple aim is met?
03:07 Sylvia Romm, MD, MPH, from EP283.
05:37 “I’d say there’s two kinds [of collaborations]: There’s the vertical kind … but also lateral or horizontal.”—Stacey
06:19 Dr. Kimberly Noel from EP251.
07:46 Rahul Dubey from EP259.
08:57 Richard Zane, MD, from EP255.
10:04 Mark Blum from EP248.  
10:34 Conversation with David Contorno and Emma Fox from E Powered Benefits.
11:44 “We are human; we do serve ourselves.”—Rahul Dubey
14:56 “In so many cases, the solution already exists. … It’s just that the solution has not been adopted broadly.”—Dave Chase from Health Rosetta
15:52 George Mathew, MD, from EP253.
17:21 Alex Fair from EP229.
19:29 What are the essential ingredients of a collaboration?
19:37 Steve Schutzer, MD, from EP294.
20:29 Dave Dierk, co-president of Aventria Health Group, shares a few thoughts on this matter.
21:45 “I think it’s a pretty sound assumption that we all should probably be contemplating how we can better collaborate.”—Stacey
24:04 “There’s a great willingness to work together and find new solutions to provide better patient care because there’s a need for it.”—Dave Dierk

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