Health 2.0: Patricia Salber interview | The Doctor Weighs In

Here’s a short interview with my pal Pat Salber, MD MBA at the Health 2.0 conference in San Francisco in early October. Pat was an Emergency Medicine physician at Kaiser Permanente for 20 years before becoming a Medical Director for Managed Health Care Initiatives at General Motors. She went from there to be Senior Medical Director for Blue Shield of California’s CalPERS Business Unit. She was on the original Leapfrog Board. And now she’s a Founder and Principal of Zolo Health Solutions, a consulting group focused on helping health systems develop workable Accountable Care Organizations. So she’s been around the block, and has deep insights into the valences of constantly emerging health care innovations. Regular C&C readers will also recognize that Pat is a prolific columnist with a breezy style that belies her incisive wit and astute understanding of all things health care.