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Can We Pay for Health Care in Ways That Clinicians and Patients Believe in?
HealthSpark, Episode 9: Andrew Dreyfus, former President and Chief Executive Officer of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, draws on decades of work at the center of U.S. health care reform to examine how public payers and new data capabilities can align health care towards models that support better decisions, safer care, and more sustainable costs.
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Can Outcomes-Based Care Work in Real-World Payment Models?
HealthSpark, Episode 8: Sandhya Rao, Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and a practicing primary care physician, She examines the shift from fee-for-service to outcomes-based payment by analyzing how contracts, metrics, and compensation must evolve to influence day-to-day clinical practice.
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Why Effective Presentation Skills Matter for Today’s Clinicians and Scientists
As research grows more collaborative and competitive, strengthening clinicians’ and scientists’ presentation skills is essential to ensure that strong data is understood, supported, and translated into real-world impact.
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Creating an AI Community of Practice and Learning Together
MedEdPearls April 2026: From Isolated Experiments to a Living AI Community of Practice
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Can Health Care Stay Competitive When Hospitals Keep Merging?
HealthSpark, Episode 7: Leemore Dafny, an applied microeconomist and former Deputy Director for Health Care and Antitrust at the Federal Trade Commission, examines how consolidation among hospitals and health care organizations affects competition, pricing, and wages. She considers what policy tools are available when traditional market forces are no longer sufficient to keep costs in check.
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Navigating Health Professions Educator Development Programs
In this Harvard Macy Institute blog post, reflection questions to guide decisions about pursuing health professions educator development programs are discussed.
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Can Health Care be Both Equitable and Profitable?
HealthSpark, Episode 6: Tisha Boatman, Executive Vice President of External Affairs at Siemens Healthineers, leads global efforts in government affairs, partnerships, reimbursement, and health access initiatives at one of the world's largest medtech companies. She explores how long-term, scalable health care models that consider social determinants can deliver quality care while creating sustainable business opportunities in underserved areas.
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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.
