When Everything Feels Urgent

Healthcare organizations are constantly pulled toward whatever feels most urgent.

Oct 1 • Jason Meadows, MD

September 2026

How Do You Build a Safety Culture That Survives Leadership Turnover?

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Sep 24 • Jason Meadows, MD

1:06:33

Healthcare Needs More Improvers. Here’s What I’d Teach Them First.

Healthcare will not improve dramatically if quality improvement remains the domain of a relatively small group of specialists.

Sep 17 • Jason Meadows, MD

1

Lessons From Year One: Leading a Healthcare Learning System

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Sep 10 • Jason Meadows, MD

36:05

Quality and Safety Aren’t the Same Thing

Quality and patient safety are so often paired together that it is easy to assume they are essentially the same discipline.

Sep 3 • Jason Meadows, MD

1

August 2026

Lessons From Year One: Building a Healthcare Learning System

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Aug 27 • Jason Meadows, MD

45:57

Standards as Hypotheses: How We Learn, Improve, and Build Better Healthcare, One Experiment at a Time

What changes when we stop treating standard work as an instruction to obey and start treating it as a claim we are responsible for testing?

Aug 20 • Jason Meadows, MD

Designing High-Velocity Organizations in Healthcare with Dr. Steve Spear

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Aug 13 • Jason Meadows, MD

1:18:21

July 2026

Healthcare Needs a GPS for Life Outside the Hospital with Dr. Joshua Liu

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Jul 30 • Jason Meadows, MD

51:33

Why Healthcare Improvement Gets Stuck in the Sidecar with Ken Segel

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Jul 16 • Jason Meadows, MD

1:06:10

Putting Safety Into the Genome of Healthcare with Dr. Peter Lachman

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Jul 2 • Jason Meadows, MD

1:20:37

June 2026

Why Healthcare Leaders Only See the Tip of the Iceberg with Maria Mentzer

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Jun 18 • Jason Meadows, MD

58:57