Most value-based care conversations start with the numbers. Dr. Darren Malinoski starts somewhere else: with how people feel. In the debut episode of Proof of Care, Dr. Brian Silverstein, Chief Population Health Officer at Innovaccer, sits down with Malinoski, a trauma surgeon turned Chief Clinical Transformation Officer, to trace an unusual career and the philosophy behind it.

Malinoski’s insight, refined over 15 years, is that data makes change credible but stories make it happen. He shares how an organ donor mother’s story about her late son’s heart reframed his understanding of what moves clinicians, how he scaled hospital-at-home during the pandemic (with his own mother as one of the first patients), and how a no-tech fix to the patient-transfer conversation lifted consent rates from the 40 to 50% range to 78% in a single month. Along  ...