Vital Conversations
Vital Conversations
Podcast Description
Tim Coan of Focus Solutions meets with physician-practice leaders to learn about their business, what they do, and the roles IT and data play in it.
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Content Themes
The podcast covers a range of themes including the modernization of electronic health records (EHRs), home-based primary care for seniors, and operational excellence in healthcare. Episodes feature discussions on topics like Healthie's innovative EHR platform aimed at improving behavioral health and nutrition care, the benefits of home-based medicine with Dr. Chumley, and the importance of process optimization with Kelly Poole, emphasizing practical solutions and insights into real-world healthcare challenges.

On Vital Conversations, Tim Coan sits down with healthcare leaders to talk through the operational challenges they’re dealing with and the decisions that have actually made a difference.
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Most clinicians don’t need more data. They need data that connects to the patients in front of them.
Tim Coan sits down with Dr. Jill Goldenberg, an internal medicine physician, informaticist, and value-based care leader, to talk about what actually works when presenting data to clinicians.
What you’ll learn:
- Why numbers without patient stories are “just numbers”
- The mistake of assuming every clinician understands your data
- How to present financial data without losing your clinical audience
- The documentation learning curve when shifting to value-based care
- Generational differences in how physicians engage with data
Chapters:
- 00:55 Meet Dr. Jill Goldenberg: From hospitalist to informaticist
- 02:52 Speaking two languages: Clinical and data
- 03:35 Why numbers alone miss the mark
- 04:22 Don’t assume every clinician reads the journals
- 06:08 Clinical data vs. financial data: Navigating the tension
- 07:51 What works in data presentation (pictures, graphs, and clear actions)
- 9:23 Value-based care and the data challenge for private practices
- 10:15 The documentation learning curve
- 11:51 Using data prospectively vs. retrospectively
- 13:49 Generational differences among physicians

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