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How Long Can Health Systems Afford to Sideline the Private Sector?
HealthSpark, Episode 24: Tisha Boatman, Executive Vice President of External Affairs at Siemens Healthineers, reflects on how changing funding dynamics, shifting attitudes toward collaboration, and a more ecosystem‑oriented mindset are redefining the role of the private sector in health systems worldwide.
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Biomarkers and the Future of Medicine: Why Every Health Professional Needs to Understand Them
From diagnosis and risk prediction to treatment selection and drug development, biomarkers quietly power the precision and progress of modern medicine.
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Cultivating Student Agency in the AI Era
MedEdPearls August 2026: Heutagogy and Human‑Centered AI in Medical Education
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When Patients are Hungry, Uninsured, and Scared, What Does High-Quality Care Look Like?
HealthSpark, Episode 23: Mallika Marshall, an internal medicine physician at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Chelsea Urgent Care Clinic and Revere Health Center, explores what it takes to deliver equitable, patient-centered care in the face of profound social and economic barriers.
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Why are Millions Dying from a Curable Disease?
HealthSpark, Episode 22: Rushdy Ahmad, Director of the Diagnostics Accelerator at Harvard's Wyss Institute, examines why curable diseases like tuberculosis still claim so many lives. He discusses what it will take across science, funding, and policy to get simple tests into the places where people need them most.
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AI Model Could Help With Difficult Pediatric Genetic Diagnosis
In this episode of Science Snapshot, see how Boston Children’s Hospital used OpenAI’s o3 Deep Research model to surface leads in 18 previously unsolved pediatric cases.
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Clinical Teaching Doesn't Need More Time, It Needs Better Design
In this Harvard Macy Institute blog post, design thinking is applied to make clinical teaching more intentional, learner-centered, and effective.
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Are Hospitals Trying to do too Much for too Many Patients?
HealthSpark, Episode 21: Mary Witkowski, Fellow at Harvard Business School's Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness and a member of the teaching faculty at Harvard Medical School, examines how shifting from "do everything" hospitals to condition‑focused care teams can improve outcomes, reduce waste, and create a better experience for both patients and clinicians.
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Teaching with Intention in Medicine: How Clinicians Can Become More Effective Educators
Medical educators who understand how learning works and how to design for it are better prepared to train clinicians in an increasingly complex medical field.
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How Do We Match the Right Drug to the Right Patient?
HealthSpark, Episode 20: Tanya M. Laidlaw, MD, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and allergist-immunologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, shows how treating severe asthma with advanced biologics can still feel like trial-and-error, and why linking patient experience, biomarkers, and research is critical to getting treatment right the first time.
