Getting Health Care Right

Business leaders know all too well the challenge of finding time to take care of themselves and stay healthy. When your day is scheduled down to the last minute and you’re juggling work meetings, travel and family responsibilities, it’s hard to focus on your personal well-being. That’s where executive health programs can be an advantage.    “The way our program is structured is all in one day,” sa...

Don Maccarone had four negative baseline scans for lung cancer — and then came the fifth scan, which showed a suspicious mass.   “Lung cancer has a horrible reputation, justifiably so,” says Dr. Douglas Adams, a cardiothoracic surgeon with TriHealth and one of Maccarone’s physicians, in this episode of Getting Health Care Right. “But in this circumstance, it’s been detected at a point where there...

When it comes to population health initiatives, nurses and other non-physician frontline caregivers are helping lead the way. It’s these team members who often excel at engaging patients and implementing new treatment models or tools to drive better outcomes and experiences.     As care moves from episodic to proactive, new opportunities and roles arise for these team members to help improve patie...

Health systems across the country, including Cincinnati’s TriHealth, have begun collaborating with payer partners in an effort to reform ineffective payment models. Such partnerships aim to advance population health strategies and incentivize providers for more comprehensive and preventive care.   TriHealth’s partnership with Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Ohio is designed to “put in place m...

One of the central goals of the population health approach is closing gaps in care — but in many cases, this can be easier said than done. Fortunately, intelligent tools and automation technologies are becoming more prevalent in the health care space to help health systems identify and close care gaps more efficiently and effectively.  “Technology augments a lot of the hard work of our physicians...

Accolades have been plentiful for the city of Mason, Ohio, in recent months. Not only was Mason ranked fourth on Fortune’s list of the 2022 Best Places to Live in the U.S., but the city was also ranked as one of the top 10 healthiest employers in Ohio.  Jennifer Heft, assistant city manager for the City of Mason, credits the latter ranking in part to the city’s partnership with TriHealth. “That pa...

Doctors and nurse practitioners both receive significant specialized training for their careers in the medical field — and both are focused on providing high-quality patient care. But some patients are less familiar with the role of nurse practitioners, and misconceptions about their abilities do exist.  “The older population isn’t as used to nurse practitioners and definitely have some guarded qu...

One quality many Cincinnati patients look for in a health care system is an emphasis on personalized resources and localized support. In recent years, TriHealth’s leaders have recognized this increased demand for “tighter connection and more continuity across the board, both at the patient level, as well as behind the scenes with the care team,” according to Terri Hanlon-Bremer, TriHealth’s COO, i...

By now, many people in the health care industry have some familiarity with the strategy of population health — an enhanced approach to health care that aims to improve both quality and cost effectiveness through innovative delivery and payment models. But what does this look like from a patient’s perspective? In this Getting Health Care podcast episode, Terri Hanlon-Bremer, COO of TriHealth, talks...

Patients notice an intangible, positive change in their care when they visit practitioners with a proactive approach to population health, according to Dr. Diane Dolensky, a board-certified internal medicine physician with TriHealth Physician Partners. In this episode of Getting Health Care Right, hosted by Jamie Smith, publisher of Cincinnati Business Courier, Dolensky joins her colleague, Terri...

In this episode of Getting Health Care Right, two health care leaders discuss TriHealth’s population health strategy and integrated behavioral health model — and why these initiatives should matter to area employers. 

Employers both large and small in the Cincinnati market can benefit from more cost-effective health care plans and improved overall health.  TriHealth CEO Mark Clement digs into the fundamentals of population health and the advantages for employers in this episode. 

In this episode of Getting Health Care Right, hosted by Jamie Smith, publisher of Cincinnati Business Courier, TriHealth CEO Mark Clement discusses the fundamental failings of the current health care payment system and how it hurts businesses — as well as what evolving care models may look like. 

In this inaugural episode of Getting Health Care Right, a podcast about the business of health care, Cincinnati Business Courier Publisher Jamie Smith talks with Mark Clement, CEO of TriHealth, about the significant ways in which the pandemic reshaped health care in the United States.