Clinician's Roundtable

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD Guest: David Feldman, PhD Guest: Andrew Lasher, MD During this segment coauthors Dr. David Feldman and Dr. Andrew Lasher, explain how their book, The End-of-Life Handbook, helps patients and families facing life threatening illnesses.

Host: Larry Kaskel, MD Guest: Bill Crounse, MD Imagine monitoring your chronically ill patients while they're at home and you're away from the office. Advances in telemedicine are making this scenario a part of the everyday practice of medicine. Host Dr. Larry Kaskel talks with Microsoft's Senior Director of Worldwide Health, Dr. Bill Crounse, about the latest applications of telemedicine. Dr. Crounse discusses its impact on global health, the need for payers to cover it, and new products and services that promote telemedicine.

Host: Larry Kaskel, MD Guest: Robert Lowes Senior Editor for Medical Economics Magazine, Robert Lowes talks about the large number of HER systems on the market. Should you consider a web-based system or an in-house system? Are there efficient and more cost effective ways to implement an EHR system? Which systems can talk to the local hospital, and should you adopt one that does? Join host Dr. Larry Kaskel to learn the answers to these questions and more.

Host: Larry Kaskel, MD Guest: Robert Lowes Senior Editor for Medical Economics Magazine, Robert Lowes, explains the basics of Electronic health records systems to host Dr. Larry Kaskel. Is it time for your office to jump in? What is the costs? What are the benefits? What is the impact of putting off the inevitable?

Host: Bill Rutenberg, MD Guest: Francois deBrantes The Medical Home has been around for 40 years, “Why are we discussing it again now?” Francois DeBrantes, CEO of Bridges to Excellence, a national not-for-profit designing programs to recognize physician for quality care, addresses this question and many others during his conversation with host Dr. Bill Rutenberg. What is the ‘ideal’ medical home and how will achieving this ideal improve quality and decrease costs to our healthcare system? Join us to find out.

Host: Bill Rutenberg, MD Guest: Francois deBrantes Bridges to Excellence (BTE) is a national not-for-profit organization that designs and implements programs to recognize and reward physicians that deliver high quality care. In talking with BTE’s CEO, Francios de Brantes, host Dr. Bill Rutenberg learns about BTE’s methodology for measuring quality, how physicians can get involved in BTE’s program, how the evaluation process works and where BTE’s program fits into national health policy.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Elie Akl, MD, PhD International medical graduates are a valuable resource to American medicine. What percentage of American physicians was trained elsewhere? Why do they leave their home countries? Internist and epidemiologist Dr. Elie Akl explores the migration of physicians with host Dr. Leslie Lundt.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Elie Akl, MD, PhD What are the effects of educational games on the knowledge, skills, attitude and satisfaction of health care professionals? Internist Dr. Elie Akl recently published a Cochrane Review on Educational Games for Health Professionals. He discusses his work with host Dr. Leslie Lundt.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: George Bifano, DO How do you envision yourself at age 65? Retired? Playing golf? Working full time? Bicycling across the country in less than a week? Psychiatrist Dr. George Bifano broke the record in the Race Across America. He chats with host Dr. Leslie Lundt about his experiences, which have motivated many to increase their own extracurriculars.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Gayle Greene, PhD What is it like to be a patient with insomnia? To be told it’s your fault, to just rela, or to take any one or combination of a myriad of medications? Dr. Gayle Greene weaves together her personal experience with insomnia and the latest sleep science from her book Insomniac with host Dr. Leslie Lundt.