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Designing Multimedia Patient Education to Overcome COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy
How can health care systems talk about the issue of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy with their patients? On this episode of Managed Care Cast, Pat Salber, MD, MBA, of The Doctor Weighs In, interviews the developer of interactive, people-centered, multimedia, educational programs for Wolters Kluwer Health.
Addressing vaccine hesitancy, which may take the form of refusing a vaccine or putting oneself in the “wait and see” camp while thinking it over, has never been more urgent as health authorities race to try and vaccinate as much of the population as possible against the virus that causes COVID-19 in 2021.
On this episode of Managed Care Cast, Pat Salber, MD, MBA, of The Doctor Weighs In, discusses education for patients on the topic of vaccine hesitancy and COVID-19. Her guest is Eve Gaus, who directs the development of interactive, people-centered, multimedia, educational programs for Wolters Kluwer Health. The programs are used by health care systems to address questions raised by patients about the vaccines, how they were approved, how they work, and more.
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ACA Dependent Coverage Extension and Young Adults’ Substance-Associated ED Visits
September 15th 2025This study examines the impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on substance-associated emergency department (ED) visits among young adults, revealing reduced alcohol-associated visits but unchanged opioid-associated visits.
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AI in Health Care: Balancing Governance, Innovation, and Trust
September 2nd 2025In this conversation with Reuben Daniel, associate vice president of artificial intelligence at UPMC Health Plan, we dive into how UPMC Health Plan builds trust with providers and members, discuss challenges of scaling AI effectively, and hear about concrete examples of AI's positive impact.
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