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Are Legacy Systems Holding Back Digital Health Innovation?
HealthSpark, Episode 19: Ariel Stern, Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Digital Health, Economics, and Policy at the Hasso Plattner Institute and Professor at the University of Potsdam, discusses why so many promising digital health tools fail to move beyond pilot projects and outlines the steps health systems, payers, and industry partners must take to integrate these solutions into routine care for patients and clinicians.
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Is Obesity Our Most Visible and Misunderstood Health Inequity?
HealthSpark, Episode 18: Fatima Cody Stanford, an obesity medicine physician scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, explains why obesity is one of the most complex challenges in modern health care and explores what it will take to replace blame with evidence‑based, compassionate action.
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What Happens When Your Watch Starts Acting Like a Clinician?
HealthSpark, Episode 17: Elliott Antman, Cardiologist and Senior Physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, examines how smartwatches and other consumer devices are redefining what patients notice and bring into the exam room, and how clinicians can use this data effectively.
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Is Private Equity Strengthening Health Care, or Eroding it from Within?
HealthSpark, Episode 16: Leemore Dafny, an applied microeconomist and former Deputy Director for Health Care and Antitrust at the Federal Trade Commission, examines how private equity-driven consolidation is reshaping health care spending and market stability, and whether these deals serve the public interest by protecting access, affordability, quality, and competition.
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How Can AI and Digital Tools Help Care for More Patients with Fewer Clinicians?
HealthSpark, Episode 15: Yuri Quintana, Chief of the Division of Clinical Informatics at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, who has spent decades designing digital health and AI solutions, explores how these ecosystems can help support health systems deliver better outcomes with limited resources.
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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.
