Join Hosts Elliot Joseph and Rebecca Stewart as they discuss making child birth safer, here and across the country. Learn what hospitals are doing to make sure you and your loved ones stay safe-- and discover new tools to help keep you safer. We will tackle your questions on HealthCare Matters on WTIC News Talk 1080. Or email us at hcmatters@Hhchealth.org. Sponsored by Hartford HealthCare.

Join hosts Elliot Joseph and Rebecca Stewart as they discuss the city of Hartford is it on its way to being a high tech health hub? What does it mean to create a medtech accelerator?  Join experts as we delve into med tech. What does it mean and why it’s the future?  Sponsored by Hartford Healthcare

One of the biggest transformations we have seen over the years is the move toward tele health and telemedicine. In this show, we delve a little deeper where we are, where we have been, and where it’s going. What are the limitations? What are the opportunities? There’s still a lot of unexplored territory. What does telemedicine look like today and what will it look like tomorrow

Join hosts Elliot Joseph and Rebecca Stewart as they discuss what are hospitals doing to keep you safe? Twenty years after the landmark "to err is human study," we delve into patient safety— the remarkable strides made in safety and what you need to know. We will tackle your questions on Healthcare Matters. Sponsored by Hartford Healthcare.

Hosts Elliot Joseph and Rebecca Stewart discuss fixing healthcare. Together, with the nation's experts they’ll delve into plans to "fix health care." what do you think are healthcare's biggest successes? Biggest problems? What can we do to bridge the gap? We will tackle your questions on HealthCare Matters, sponsored by Hartford Healthcare.

Hosts Elliot Joseph and Rebecca Stewart discuss how old prescription drugs cause all sorts of problems. From abuse and addiction to contaminating our water supply and what does it mean to be "RxESPONSIBLE"?

Join hosts Elliot Joseph and Rebecca Stewart as they discuss Puerto Rico. More than a year after the devastating storms, where are we? Why has it been so hard to recover? What is happening with hospitals- and what have we learned? We will tackle your questions on HealthCare Matters.

The issues in health care-- what works, what doesn't and how do we bridge the gap.

Hosts Elliot Joseph and Rebecca Stewart discuss Your Brain! Billions of Neurons Each One Firing About Two Hundred Times Per Second. Billions of Connections Happening at Any Moment and When Just One of Those Connections Is Off, Something Is Wrong. Sponsored by Hartford Healthcare

On the latest episode of HealthCare Matters with Hartford HealthCare, hosts Elliot Joseph and Rebecca Stewart discuss bringing precision medicine to weight loss surgery. Doctors now consider bariatric surgery to be the most effective and durable treatment for obesity. Often an option after individuals have not found success with exercise and dieting. On average, surgery helps most people lose weight and keep it off. What other additional medical benefits are there, for those in which surgery is a succesful weight loss procedure? Even though bariatic surgery works for some, why does it not work for others? What percentage of patients do not benefit from the surgery? What are the benefits and risks of bariatic surgery? What medical and science improvements have been brought to the weight loss surgery field over the past several years?

On This Sunday’s Health Care Matters, Making Every Moment Matter In Healthcare. How The Seemingly Small Moments Can Have The Biggest Impact. Join Hosts Elliot Joseph And Rebecca Stewart For This Important Discussion. We Will Tackle The Toughest Topics And Your Questions On Healthcare Matters This Sunday At 11 A-m On WTIC Newstalk 1080. Or Email Us At Hcmatters-at-hhchealth-dot-org. Sponsored By Hartford Healthcare.

Live Organ donation. What are the profound impacts it can have on a persons life?

Disrupting health care from within. Elliot Joseph delves into the topic of disruption in health care-- and why he doesn't fear disruption, but welcomes it.

On this Sunday’s HealthCare Matters, transforming medical education. The university of Vermont’s Larner College of medicine will become the first U.S. medical school to eliminate lectures from its curriculum in 2019. Join hosts Elliot Joseph and Rebecca Stewart as they welcome Dr. William Jeffries, a dean at the school to discuss what it means to the future of medicine. We will tackle the toughest topics and your questions on healthcare matters this Sunday at 11am on WTIC Newstalk 1080.

Could Big Data Save Your Life? Don't miss world renown analytics expert from MIT, Dr. Dimitris Bertsimas. Big data is everywhere... would you believe it might one day save your life.

On This Sunday’s Health Care Matters, Retail Health: The new healthcare experience. What should healthcare learn from retail? Join hosts Elliot Joseph and Rebecca Stewart as they welcome Gary Weatherford, COO of Go Health Urgent Care, who spent years in customer-focused retail operations. Together we will tackle the toughest topics and your questions on Health Care Matters this Week.

Caring for an aging parent? You are not alone - and there are resources for you and your family. More on this Sunday's edition of "HealthCare Matters,

Nomad Health is mobilizing the healthcare workforce. Part tech company, part healthcare startup, Nomad Health aims to have doctors and nurses become integrated with the freelance economy through its self-described "simple, modern platform," while helping clinics and hospitals fulfill staffing needs. Nomad founder & CEO, Alexi Nazem, MD is the featured guest on this "HealthCare Matters" radio show.

GE is world famous for its technological expertise. Now, GE Healthcare is working with the best clinical organizations in the nation – including Hartford HealthCare – to improve the patient experience. Learn more on what this means for you and your family from GE Healthcare's President and CEO, John Flannery, as he joins Hartford HealthCare CEO Elliot Joseph and co-host Rebecca Stewart for HealthCare Matters,