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Podcast: Creating a New Healthcare
Episode: Episode #130: Whole Health – ‘Changing the Conversation’ in Healthcare with Dr. Benjamin Kligler, Executive Director of the Office of Patient Centered Care and Cultural Transformation, Veterans Health Administration
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We open up this podcast talking about a yearning on the part of people for a different type of dialogue, interaction & relationship in the delivery of healthcare. In all of the interviews I’ve conducted over the past 5 years – underneath all of the discussions about value-based payment, reframed clinical and business models, advanced analytics and digital enablement, patient/customer experience, health equity and social determinants of health – underneath all of it is a deep yearning to be understood as a whole person. To have our healthcare be guided by the meaning and context of our lives. To be...