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What It Takes to Lead Health Care Through Digital and AI Transformation
As the latest technology transforms how care is delivered, leaders need the capabilities to navigate this moment with clarity and confidence.
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The Implementation Gap: Why Evidence May Fail Without Strong Leaders
Turning evidence into impact requires more than rigorous research—it demands leaders who design studies for real-world implementation, align stakeholders, and bridge the persistent gap between what works in theory and what transforms care in practice.
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How Do We Turn Global Unmet Need into Sustainable Patient Access?
HealthSpark, Episode 14: Tisha Boatman, Executive Vice President of External Affairs at Siemens Healthineers, explores how strategic decisions in health technology and delivery can transform markets and patient lives by expanding sustainable access to high-quality care around the world.
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Becoming an Editor of Our Stories and the Stories of Others
MedEdPearls June 2026: Wise Compassion and the Clinical Narrative
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Can Smarter Payment Design Turn Mental Health Care into Standard Care?
HealthSpark, Episode 13: Sandhya Rao, Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and a practicing primary care physician, explores how innovative care models, thoughtful benefit design, and real-world implementation challenges intersect in the effort to expand access to high-quality and affordable mental health care.
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How Can the Lifesaving Power of Diagnostics Be More Fully Realized?
HealthSpark, Episode 12: Rushdy Ahmad, Director of the Wyss Diagnostics Accelerator at Harvard's Wyss Institute, explores how biomarker-driven diagnostics can transform critical unmet needs into groundbreaking tools that reach patients around the world.
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Practical and Actionable Strategies for High‑Quality Interprofessional Education
MedEdPearls May 2026: Cultivating an Intentional, Evidence‑Driven Culture of Interprofessional Learning
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What if Your Country's Strongest Economic Engine is Health Care Itself?
HealthSpark, Episode 11: Dr. Rifat Atun, Professor of Global Health Systems and Director of the Health System Innovation Lab at Harvard University, examines how rapid population aging, outdated regulations, and workforce constraints are requiring countries to reimagine health as less of a budgetary burden and more as a foundation for economic growth.
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Cinematic Moments That Transform Our Teaching
In this Harvard Macy Institute blog post, ways in which cinema can be intentionally used to deepen reflection, foster empathy, and support professional identity formation in health professions education are discussed.
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If Mental Health is "Covered", Why is Care Still So Hard to Get?
HealthSpark, Episode 10: Bill Frist, physician, former US Senator and Senate Majority Leader, and health care investment and policy leader, examines why policy promises like mental health parity can still fall short in real-world access.
