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Podcast: Creating a New Healthcare
Episode: Episode #37 – Making it easier for patients & providers to do the right things – an interview with Kevin Volpp MD, Founding Director of CHIBE
Description: Human behavior is, by far, the single biggest lever we have to impact our health outcomes. Yet, despite the profound impact our behaviors have on health outcomes, as well as on our national & global economic health; we continue to see adherence rates to appropriate treatment and medication taking hover between 40 to 50%! These incredibly low adherence rates exist in chronic issues such as diabetes treatment and blood pressure control; and they also occur even after life-threatening events such as heart attacks. This is, without question, a major health care challenge for patients, providers, payers & employers.  In fact, it’s one of the...