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The Implementation Gap: Why Evidence May Fail Without Strong Leaders
Turning evidence into impact requires more than rigorous research—it demands leaders who design studies for real-world implementation, align stakeholders, and bridge the persistent gap between what works in theory and what transforms care in practice.
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How Do We Turn Global Unmet Need into Sustainable Patient Access?
HealthSpark, Episode 14: Tisha Boatman, Executive Vice President of External Affairs at Siemens Healthineers, explores how strategic decisions in health technology and delivery can transform markets and patient lives by expanding sustainable access to high-quality care around the world.
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Can Smarter Payment Design Turn Mental Health Care into Standard Care?
HealthSpark, Episode 13: Sandhya Rao, Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and a practicing primary care physician, explores how innovative care models, thoughtful benefit design, and real-world implementation challenges intersect in the effort to expand access to high-quality and affordable mental health care.
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How Can the Lifesaving Power of Diagnostics Be More Fully Realized?
HealthSpark, Episode 12: Rushdy Ahmad, Director of the Wyss Diagnostics Accelerator at Harvard's Wyss Institute, explores how biomarker-driven diagnostics can transform critical unmet needs into groundbreaking tools that reach patients around the world.
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What if Your Country's Strongest Economic Engine is Health Care Itself?
HealthSpark, Episode 11: Dr. Rifat Atun, Professor of Global Health Systems and Director of the Health System Innovation Lab at Harvard University, examines how rapid population aging, outdated regulations, and workforce constraints are requiring countries to reimagine health as less of a budgetary burden and more as a foundation for economic growth.
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If Mental Health is "Covered", Why is Care Still So Hard to Get?
HealthSpark, Episode 10: Bill Frist, physician, former US Senator and Senate Majority Leader, and health care investment and policy leader, examines why policy promises like mental health parity can still fall short in real-world access.
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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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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.
