97: How technology will impact health care over the next decade

November 16th, 2021  |  30 mins 12 secs

tech and ai

Host Rachel Woods sits down with Advisory Board's John League and Nick Cericola to talk about the role of technology in the future of healthcare and what the next decade might look like in the healthcare industry.

96: Why the headlines are wrong about physician shortages

November 9th, 2021  |  33 mins 28 secs

physician landscape

Host Rachel Woods sits down with Advisory Board's Sarah Hostetter and Daniel Kuzmanovich to talk about the misconception that the United States is facing a physician shortage.

95: Best Buy's big move into healthcare

November 2nd, 2021  |  22 mins 14 secs

strategy, technology

Host Rachel Woods sits down with Advisory Board's Miriam Sznycer-Taub to talk about how Best Buy is moving its way into the healthcare world and what that might mean for the healthcare industry.

94: Where CMMI is headed—according to its director

October 26th, 2021  |  40 mins 25 secs

external guests, health policy

Host Rachel Woods sits down with Liz Fowler, director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, to talk about what innovations CMMI has worked on in the past decade and where it's heading in the next.

93: Beyond burnout: Moral exhaustion in the clinical workforce

October 19th, 2021  |  31 mins 8 secs

clinical workforce, external guests

Host Rachel Woods sits down with Cynda Rushton, a Hastings Center Fellow and professor of clinical ethics at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the School of Nursing, to talk about the difficult and potentially unethical decisions physicians have been forced to make amid the delta surge, what role leaders and administrators play in protecting frontline clinicians from those decisions, and what it means for those delivering care.

92: The biggest crisis of 2021 isn't Covid-19—it's nursing shortages

October 12th, 2021  |  32 mins 4 secs

clinical workforce

Host Rachel Woods sits down with Advisory Board CNO Carol Boston-Fleischhauer to talk about the nationwide shortage of nurses and what hospitals can do now to address some of the bigger problems nurses face today.

91: We need to talk about maternal health in America

October 5th, 2021  |  27 mins 12 secs

external guests, health equity

Host Rachel Woods sits down with Callie Chamberlain, co-director of social responsibility at Optum and a trained birth doula, and Advisory Board's equity expert Darby Sullivan, to discuss the dire state of maternal health in America.

90: Aaron Carroll on how clinicians can combat medical misinformation

September 28th, 2021  |  42 mins 46 secs

clinical workforce, external guests

Host Rachel Woods sits down with Dr. Aaron Carroll, author, professor, and Indiana University chief health officer—to talk about how clinicians can combat medical misinformation and how clinicians can adopt good digital citizenship.

89: The unanswered vaccine questions you should be tracking

September 21st, 2021  |  29 mins 53 secs

covid-19

Host Rachel Woods sits down with Advisory Board's Pam Divack and Regina Lohr to talk about some of the questions regarding Covid-19 vaccines that still need to be answered.

88: RWJBarnabas Health's approach to equity: "We tore up the mission statement"

September 14th, 2021  |  46 mins 12 secs

external guests, health equity

Host Rachel Woods sits down with Barry Ostrowsky, president and CEO of RWJBarnabas Health, to talk about the role of social justice in a health care organization and the strategic role health care leaders play in health equity.

87: Digital inequities (and why you shouldn't call it the digital divide)

September 7th, 2021  |  23 mins 15 secs

tech and ai

Host Rachel Woods sits down with Advisory Board's Ty Aderhold to talk about the significant increase in digital investments in the health care sector and what their impact on equity might be.

[Rerun] How ProMedica prioritizes data to address social determinants of health

August 31st, 2021  |  36 mins 21 secs

ProMedica’s Kate Sommerfeld, president of social determinants of health, and Brian Miller, chief medical information officer, talk with Advisory Board’s Rachel Woods about how their system addresses social determinants of health and the essential role that data and analytics play in any population health strategy.