# Ep. 110 Integrated Healthcare & Minimally Invasive Hysterectomies with Dr. Eve Zaritsky

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Podcast: [BackTable Women's Health](https://stenobird.com/podcast/backtable-women-s-health-5805654)
Published: 2026-03-31T07:00:00+00:00
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Duration seconds: 2919

## Resource

What happens when a fully integrated healthcare system aligns training, data, and access to improve surgical outcomes? In this BackTable OBGYN episode, Dr. Eve Zaritsky joins hosts Dr. Mark Hoffman and Dr. Amy Park to discuss how Kaiser’s integrated health system enables rapid care coordination, large-scale quality improvement, and population-level research using one of the largest US datasets. --- Get the BackTable app https://www.backtable.com/app --- Timestamps 01:17 - Introduction 03:35 - How Kaiser Works07:24 - Research Using Big Data09:19 - Changing Hysterectomy Culture13:36 - Ending Racial Disparities15:22 - Handling Large Uteri17:52 - Vaginal Hysterectomy Trends20:38 - Myomectomy Reintervention Rates24:23 - Shared Decision Making26:30 - Mini Lap Versus Robotic27:41 - Hybrid Extraction Strategy29:08 - Credentialing Robotic Myomectomy30:19 - MIG Referral Pathways32:03 - Fibroids Across Asian Subgroups34:55 - Mentoring Research Pipeline36:44 - Funding Analysts Through GME40:49 - Endometriosis Disparities Findings43:59 - Mentorship Mindset --- More about this episode Dr. Zaritsky describes how a coordinated, system-wide effort transformed hysterectomy care, shifting from 80% open procedures to nearly 90% minimally invasive within five to eight years through focused training, reducing low-volume practice, and tracking system metrics, ultimately decreasing racial disparities once minimally invasive rates exceeded 90%. She also highlights Kaiser-based research on variation in vaginal hysterectomy by service area and surgeon volume, long-term reintervention rates for fibroids across procedures, increasing use of minimally invasive myomectomy, and a JAMA analysis showing differences in fibroid diagnosis among Asian subgroups with the highest rates in South Asians. The e…

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