Publishing Where It Matters: A Candid Conversation

• Paul Barach, MD, MPH THMT Associate Editor; Thomas Jefferson University, Principal at J. Bara Innovation, and Chief Medical Officer, Pegwin https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7906-698X
• Dr. Suhail Chughtai, FRCS, FFLM Clinical Director of Orthopaedics & Trauma, M L Professionals, London, UK, and AI Division Head, United Kingdom Digital Health & Care, UK - THMT Co-Editor-in-Chief https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7639-2833
• Martin Curley, PhD Professor of Innovation at Maynooth University, Director of the Digital Health Ecosystem at the Innovation Value Institute, and a visiting professor at the University of Bath, Ireland - THMT Co-Editor-in-Chief

In a refreshingly open and candid podcast conversation, new Editors-in-Chief of Telehealth and Medicine Today (THMT) sat down to talk honestly about where the journal stands, where it is headed, and why they believe it occupies a genuinely distinct and necessary place in the scholarly landscape. The conversation was a frank dialogue among colleagues who care deeply about the field and want researchers to understand both the journal's purpose and its current realities.

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The Real Economics of Value Based Care

• Erik Johnson Senior Vice President and National Practice Lead, Value Based Care, Optum
• Lyle Berkowitz, MD Founder and Chairman, KeyCare and Editor-in-Chief, THMT

Is value based care truly aligning incentives — or redistributing financial risk across payers, providers, and patients in ways that compress margins and shift burden? Is telehealth a costsaving lever under properly structured risk contracts — or perceived as a margin threat?

At a time when value based care dominates policy rhetoric, this episode moves past theory and into financial reality. This discussion directly examines whether value based care is delivering on its economic promise — or simply reshuffling financial risk across the system.

This episode also addresses the deeper economic tension beneath the surface: Who wins, who loses, and who is subsidizing whom?

Many organizations talk about the power of data but too few really understand the full potential. Utilizing a strategic framework that redefines the roles of collaboration and innovation, see how one organization built competitive differentiators by expanding upon the concept of a data analytics platform to create a data operating system and beyond enterprise analytics to facilitating an ecosystem.