Accelerating Health Equity: Flexible Healthcare Access

In this episode of Care Anywhere: The Global Health Workforce Podcast, host Lea Sims welcomes Syl Trepanier, DNP, RN, Chief Nursing Officer for Providence Health and member of the TruMerit Board of Trustees. With responsibility for representing more than 36,000 nurses across a multi-state health system, Syl shares his personal journey from caregiving as…

The accelerator model is undergoing a transformation, and at the center of this change is HealthTech Arkansas, a powerful program that’s redefining the traditional approach by guaranteeing clinical pilots for healthcare startups. As the healthcare system faces a mounting burden from chronic disease (cardiovascular-related costs alone are projected to reach a staggering $1.8 trillion…

Michael Rothman explores the complexities of sepsis identification and management, highlighting the challenges posed by varying definitions and clinical pathways. He discusses the ineffectiveness of current sepsis screening protocols, which often yield high false-positive rates and fail to reduce mortality meaningfully. The episode concludes by questioning the focus on sepsis-specific initiatives and suggesting that more…