Mapping Healthcare is a radio show and podcast where a medic with a map explores ways in which people around the globe make the world of healthcare better and what we can learn from them. The host is a UC Davis pediatrician, medical educator, and researcher who leads healthcare improvement efforts to help people access high-quality healthcare and stay healthy. Episodes wrap up with us learning a little bit about the place our guest lives or works in. Intro and outro music is by an artist from the city or region featured on the episode. All past episodes are archived below. Find Mapping Healthcare on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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5. Reporting and Learning from Medical Adverse Events in JapanFri, 03/07/2025 - 5:30pm | Dr. ShaikhHealthcare environments can be intense. A lot happens, sometimes very fast, and the stakes are high. Hospitals use incident reporting systems to identify and track adverse events and high-risk situations. These systems give healthcare facilities critical insights to prevent or reduce risks to patients. But adverse events in healthcare are underreported worldwide. Shin Ushiro tells us about Japan’s journey to building a national medical adverse event reporting and learning system and how to consider cultural, organizational, and political contexts in developing incident reporting systems in healthcare. |
4. Scoring Patient Experience Goals in Buenos AiresFri, 02/21/2025 - 5:30pm | Dr. ShaikhPlaces selling products and services, whether they are your favorite household goods store or your doctor’s office, want to measure what you think of them. In this episode we talk about PREMs and PROMs — Patient Reported Experience Measures and Patient Reported Outcome Measures. These are surveys that seek patients’ views and opinions on their health and their experiences at clinics and hospitals. Ezequiel García-Elorrio tells us about his experience with understanding patient experience in Argentina and cultural contexts to consider in collecting, interpreting, and using this information. |
3. Keeping Artificial Intelligence Real in BostonFri, 02/07/2025 - 5:30pm | Dr. ShaikhArtificial Intelligence can prioritize which patients to treat based on the severity of their symptoms and their risk of clinically worsening. It can review tests like mammograms 30 times faster than humans and bring down the need for unnecessary biopsies. Wearable technologies can monitor vital signs and symptoms and deliver personalized health recommendations. And AI scribes can document conversations at medical visits and increase clinical efficiency. These advances also bring up issues around trust, liability, privacy, bias, and patient safety. David Bates tells us about the kinds of tasks AI can best help clinicians with and how this is changing the way health care will be delivered going forward. |
2. Big Data for Healthcare in the Big AppleFri, 01/24/2025 - 5:30pm | Dr. ShaikhDespite astounding medical advances there are people all around us who face gaps in accessing the healthcare they need. Children of color are less likely to receive painkillers for appendicitis, fractures, and migraines. Women with dementia get worse medical care than men despite living longer with the condition. And people with disabilities get less preventative care such as blood pressure checks, cholesterol screening, and mammograms. Pamela Abner tells us about how her team at the Mount Sinai Health System in New York City works to collect valid and reliable data that helps them identify and tackle health disparities in their community. |
1. Keeping Kids S.A.F.E. in EnglandFri, 01/10/2025 - 5:30pm | Dr. ShaikhCommunication failures in healthcare can lead to medical errors and patient harm. Hear how huddles moved from the sports field at a college for the deaf and hard of hearing to the world of healthcare. Peter Lachman tells us about S.A.F.E. or Situational Awareness for Everyone, a program that he led for the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health at 50 hospitals across England. The program helped medical teams use huddles to improve their communication with each other and with families of children, and kept patients safe from errors in hospitals. |
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