WIHI - A Podcast from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Date: June 19, 2014 Featuring: Trissa Torres, MD, MSPH, FACPM, Senior Vice President, Institute for Healthcare Improvement D. Clay Ackerly II, MD, MSc, Associate Medical Director, Population Health and Continuing Care, Partners Healthcare; Assistant Chief Medical Officer, Non-Acute Services, Massachusetts General Hospital L. Gordon Moore, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Treo Solutions (a wholly owned subsidiary of 3M) Jennie Chin Hansen, CEO, American Geriatrics Society If you’re wondering why health care quality and clinical leaders have been talking a lot more with their counterparts in finance or IT, look no further than the latest value-based contract they’ve likely just entered into with a payer. Within a hospital, these leaders may be putting their heads together to figure out how to deliver better care and better value for whole populations of patients. How might their data systems, for instance, help them better understand the utilization patterns and needs of everyone they see with Type 2 Diabetes