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If Primary Care is the Health System’s Front Door, Why is it Last in Line for Investment?
HealthSpark, Episode 5: Zirui Song, Associate Professor of Health Care Policy and Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a primary care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, examines how payment structures, public policy, and market forces converge to impact what patients can access and how clinicians practice.
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What Will it Take for Health Systems to Support Real-Time, Data-Driven Patient Care?
HealthSpark, Episode 4: Elliott Antman, Cardiologist and Senior Physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, explores how rapidly changing cardiovascular physiology generates vast streams of monitoring data, and what it will take for health systems to translate that information into timely guidance for real-time clinical decision-making.
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Is “Value-Based Care” Really Delivering Value to Patients?
HealthSpark, Episode 3: Mary Witkowski, Fellow at Harvard Business School's Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness and a member of the teaching faculty at Harvard Medical School, explores how health systems can shift from paying for volume to paying for value in ways that improve outcomes without destabilizing care delivery.
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The Power of the Cognitive Flow State
MedEdPearls March 2026: Using the Flow State Model to Decode Learner Behavior
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Are Current Data Systems Ready for AI-Driven Health Care?
HealthSpark Episode 2: Yuri Quintana, Chief of the Division of Clinical Informatics at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, examines how fragmented patient data and rapidly evolving AI tools create powerful opportunities for patient engagement but also serious risks when health decisions are made using incomplete or misleading information.
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Are Health Systems Built for Today’s Patients?
HealthSpark Episode 1: Rifat Atun, Professor of Global Health Systems at Harvard University, discusses how data, digital tools, and AI could support more integrated, personalized care models in health systems facing rapid demographic and epidemiological change.
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Digital Health Content That Meets People Where They Are
In an era of rampant online misinformation, improving health literacy and access to credible digital health content is critical.
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Narrative Medicine to Expand the Reach of Health Professions Education
In this Harvard Macy Institute blog post, alternative models of health professions education are discussed.
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HealthSpark: Ignite Your Health Care Leadership
Quick, relevant insights for business professionals, clinicians, scientists, and health care professionals who want to lead change—no matter their role.
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Precision Medicine: From Population Averages to Individual Insight
As data, omics, and AI converge, precision medicine is enabling clinicians to predict disease earlier and deliver truly individualized, preventive, and more effective care.
