NtC Video Podcasts Archives

NtC 6: If You Want to Ensure Access, Focus on Capacity Management

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Apr 15, 2023 | NtC Video Podcasts

While access to care is one of the key drivers of health equity, capacity management is the driver of access. Organizations that effectively manage capacity better serve patients. Resources are the centerpiece for capacity management. You can only achieve successful...

NtC 5 – Quality and Safety: Two Sides of the Same Coin

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Apr 6, 2023 | NtC Video Podcasts

Remember this old medical joke: the operation was successful, but the patient died? It has become a cliché that often characterizes business operations and military activities. The quip perfectly describes the relationship between quality and safety. A properly...

NtC 4 – Healthcare Quality: I Know It When I See It

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Mar 29, 2023 | NtC Video Podcasts

In a 1964 Supreme Court case, Justice Potter Steward wrote the majority opinion on whether a movie violated Ohio’s pornography laws. Potter wrote, “I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material,” and he went on to say, “but I know it when I see it, and...

NtC 3 – A Hippocratic Code for the 21st Century

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Mar 25, 2023 | NtC Video Podcasts

If Hippocrates lived today, he would put forward a basic set of ethical and behavioral guidelines – a code, if you will – by which healthcare ought to be practiced. Four simple tenets define the code: quality and safety, access, outcomes, and the resulting cost of...

NtC 2: While the World Changes Can Healthcare Keep Up?

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Mar 15, 2023 | NtC Video Podcasts

In 1991 about 40% of the world’s population, or 2 billion people, lived in poverty. In 2022 the world’s population surpassed 8 billion, yet 1.75 billion people, or 25%, lived in poverty. With economic growth comes longer life spans and increasing demand for...

NtC 1 – Navigating the Code: An Introduction

by Barry P Chaiken, MD | Mar 2, 2023 | NtC Video Podcasts

Many books review in painful detail the problems with the U.S. healthcare system, but few suggest incremental, easily implemented, and realistic solutions. It is doubtful that radically changing a $4 trillion, 19% of GDP health system will happen. Just consider how...