Patagonia Health regularly interviews experts in the healthcare industry to gain insight into the changing healthcare landscape, the challenges and opportunities providers face, and the future of public health. Click on any one of the links below to read or listen to an interview.
Jolie Rollins and Monique Dever
Sales Engineer and Sales/Marketing Operations Executive, Patagonia Health
What should health organizations include in their RFP? Why should I engage? How could a poor RFP affect my practice? Learn the answers to those questions and more in this expert interview by Patagonia Health.
Komal Sadani
Data Integration Manager, Patagonia Health
Learn about what types of connections are critical for health organizations, avoiding cybersecurity challenges, and more.
Don Sargent
Vice President of Customer Experience, Patagonia Health
Don Sargent shares Patagonia Health’s best practices for implementing an EHR system.
Julia Caplan, MPP, MPH
Program Director, Public Health Institute
Julia Caplan shares California’s Health in All Policies (HiAP) Task Force initiative, the correlation of environmental factors on public health, and the role of data in preventing disease.
Rebecca Williams, MHS, PhD
Research Associate, School of Medicine, UNC-Chapel Hill, Cancer Prevention and Control
Rebecca Williams discusses the research, regulations and challenges of e-cigarettes.
Marni Mason, BSN, MBA
Healthcare Performance Measurement & Improvement Consultant, MarMason Consulting
Marni Mason discusses the importance of data and teamwork for a successful approach to quality improvement efforts in healthcare environments.
Matthew Simon, MA, GISP
Research Associate, NC Institute for Public Health
Matt Simon talks about the benefit of using Collect SMART to simplify community surveys through digital data collection and analysis.
Ross D. Martin, MD, MHA
Program Director, Integrated Care Network, CRISP
Ross Martin shares his insights on why Health Information Exchange is in many ways the reason that Electronic Health Records (EHR) need to exist.
Laurie A. Poulin, CPC
Outpatient Coder for Maine Health/Maine Medical Center
A Coder’s Perspective: Veteran ICD coder, Laurie A. Poulin, shares her perspectives and advice about the transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10.
Dr. Stephanie Bailey
Dean & Director of Public Health Initiatives, College of Health Sciences, TN State University
Dr. Stephanie Bailey talks about the distinction between healthcare, public health and population health.
Jan O’Neill, MPA
Community Coach, County Health Rankings & Roadmaps
Jan O’Neill discusses reenvisioning Public Health and looking to the future.
Kevin Sherin, MD, MPH, MBA
Health Officer & Director of the Florida Department of Health in Orange County
Read Dr. Sherin’s views on how mobile technology can increase reach and reduce cost while cloud computing can make health data secure.
Anna Schenck
Associate Dean for Public Health Practice, UNC Gillings Schools of Global Public Health
Anna Schenck shares the opportunities and challenges for Public Health.
John Graham, PhD
Senior Investigator, NC Institute for Public Health and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Public Health Leadership Program
John Graham stresses the need for providers to more effectively use EHR data to provide them with decision support.
Dr. Susan Zepeda
President/CEO Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky
Dr. Susan Zepeda encourages the use of EHRs for disease surveillance and improved population health.
Robert Pestronk
Executive Director, The National Association of County and City Health Officials
Robert Pestronk encourages local health department leaders to learn new vocabularies and learn the language of business, foundations and communities.
Laura Edwards, RN, MPA
Director, Center for Healthy North Carolina
Laura Edwards shares about non-traditional relationships between the public and private sectors and the Healthy North Carolina program.