There's a Better Way

Smart Talk on Healthcare & Technology

The American healthcare system is one of the most innovative in the world, but it’s also riddled with complex challenges, such as access to affordable medications, inefficiency and administrative burdens and communications barriers between providers. In this podcast series, host Melanie Marcus, Chief Marketing Officer of Surescripts, sits down with some of the most inspiring leaders in healthcare today for in-depth and personal conversations about the industry’s challenges and opportunities. Each episode presents a new conversation with people who are driving industry innovation through their work and helping to usher in a new era of American healthcare. Through this podcast, you’ll be exposed to new perspectives on stubborn healthcare challenges, how technology can be used to improve care and what the future might hold for an industry in the midst of rapid change.

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October 20, 2022

Community, the Future of Pharmacy and the Best Soda Fountain in the West

This episode’s guest is pharmacist Michele Belcher, 2021–22 president of the National Community Pharmacists Association. Belcher illustrates the realities of owning an independent community pharmacy and how these small stores can make a big impact.

October 6, 2022

Dr. Nele Jessel on Clinician Burnout, the Power of HIT and Why She's an EHR Cheerleader

In this episode, Melanie Marcus speaks with Dr. Nele Jessel, Chief Medical Officer at athenahealth. Jessel is working hard to ensure clinicians can practice “old-fashioned” medicine in high-tech settings.

September 22, 2022

More Is Not Always Better: Making Interoperability Work for Patients & Clinicians

In this episode, Melanie speaks with Sam Lambson, Vice President of Interoperability at Oracle Cerner. Sam’s mantra is to “make care more affordable, accessible and better coordinated.”

September 8, 2022

Innovation, Please: What’s Next and What’s Needed in Specialty Therapy

In this episode, Melanie sits down with Joel Helle, Vice President of Physician Services at CVS Specialty. Hear the unique perspective of someone who’s not only close to specialty medicine professionally, but personally, as well.

August 25, 2022

Healthcare, Tech and Capitol Hill

In this episode, Melanie sits down with Tina Grande, the Executive Vice President for Policy at the Healthcare Leadership Council. During their discussion, Melanie and Tina dig deeper into Tina’s remarkable career at the intersection of healthcare, technology and national policy.

August 11, 2022

Are We There Yet? Advancing Real-World Interoperability

In this episode, Melanie chats with Mariann Yeager, CEO of the Sequoia Project, a nonprofit partnership advancing the exchange of secure, trusted and interoperable health information. Listen to Mariann reflect on the criticality of interoperability and share the latest on ONC’s Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement.

July 28, 2022

How COVID-19 Has Upended Assumptions About Care

In this episode, host Melanie Marcus sits down with Tasha Polster, Vice President for Pharmacy Quality, Compliance and Patient Safety at Walgreens. Hear Tasha’s personal stories and her perspective on the value of innovation, collaboration and partnership during challenging times.

11/28/2022

Say goodbye to unreliable data sources. @KLASresearch asked 20 health systems what they thought of our medication… https://t.co/BILjWCOfJx

11/22/2022

Our CEO began his career as a small-town pharmacist. He knows what happens when medication isn't affordable: The… https://t.co/6qzjeRk9sU

11/21/2022

We’ve heard from some amazing innovators this season on “There’s a Better Way.” And they see big opportunities on t… https://t.co/5z05lbj629

11/14/2022

Meet Lee Barrett: bow-tie aficionado, patient privacy advocate, health IT guru. On our podcast, Barrett explains… https://t.co/1qcBuCA4os

11/10/2022

Surescripts Cecelia Byers shares how automation can reduce the time between a patient's diagnosis & starting a spec… https://t.co/KmZSDAXmsW

11/7/2022

“It’s not a matter of if your organization will be cyberattacked—it’s a matter of when.” — Lee Barrett, Executive D… https://t.co/NVL03Z9qnZ

11/3/2022

Setting the standards for healthcare organizations nationwide is no easy task, but somebody needs to do it. We can… https://t.co/8MTfCXwAdR

11/1/2022

“It almost brought my patient to tears,” She’d been skipping insulin because of costs, but with the click of a but… https://t.co/WE5SWl5QEd

10/31/2022

Time is valuable to all members of a patient’s care team. That’s why tools like CancelRx and RxTransfer are so impo… https://t.co/PCz5ofG9mw

10/31/2022

A study in @AJMC_Journal involving Real-Time Prescription Benefit finds that in more than 98% of prescription order… https://t.co/XsFhGCq9nm