WIHI - A Podcast from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Date: September 12, 2013 Featuring: Nancy Oriol, MD, Dean of Students, Harvard Medical School; Co-Principal Investigator, Mobile Health Map; Co-Founder, Family Van, Boston, MA Leonel Lacayo, MD, Gastroenterologist, Glenwood Hospital; Co-Founder, Health Hut, Ruston, LA Anthony Vavasis, MD, Director of Medicine, Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, New York City, NY; Co-Principal Investigator, Mobile Health Map; Board Chair, Mobile Health Clinics Association Jennifer Bennet, BA, Executive Director, Family Van and Mobile Health Map Niñon Lewis, MS, Director, Triple Aim Initiatives, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Cambridge, MA   What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you spot a mobile health clinic? Good people, probably volunteering their time, traveling to underserved neighborhoods to offer screenings, health education, and some helpful, friendly guidance on where to go for anything more serious or chronic that should be checked out? If this is your impression, it’s fairly accurate. Exc