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.

[Rerun] Resilience: Not just a pandemic buzzword—and not the same as engagement

August 24th, 2021  |  38 mins 14 secs

Host Rachel Woods sits down with Advisory Board's Katherine Virkstis and Anne Herleth to talk about what resilience actually means and how clinical leaders should change their approach to resilience amid the Covid-19 epidemic. Plus, Rae asks leadership expert Craig Pirner about how to enable a culture of resilience.

[Rerun] CEO Warner Thomas on 20 years of digital innovation at Ochsner Health

August 17th, 2021  |  38 mins 5 secs

Host Rachel Woods sits down with Warner Thomas, president and CEO of Ochsner Health, to talk about the future of digital health and Ochsner’s long history of investing in the space.

[Rerun] Who's making money in 2021? A look at hospitals and health plans after Covid-19.

August 10th, 2021  |  35 mins 50 secs

Host Rachel Woods sits down with Advisory Board's Natalie Trebes and Christopher Kerns to talk about the financial outlook for health systems and health plans for the rest of 2021 and beyond.

86: The good and the (unintentionally) bad of virtual behavioral health investment

August 3rd, 2021  |  25 mins 14 secs

behavioral health

Host Rachel Woods sits down with Advisory Board's Nick Cericola and Clare Wirth to talk about the potential consequences that could come with the health industry's recent investment in virtual behavioral health.

85: Two big surprises in CMS' 2022 outpatient proposed rule

July 29th, 2021  |  12 mins 41 secs

health policy

Host Rachel Woods sits down with Advisory Board's Heather Bell and Rob Lazerow to dive into the proposed payment rule issued by CMS last week and discuss what the rule means for hospitals, specifically in the realm of price transparency and site of care shifts.

84: How Privia Health is bringing 'agency back to physicians'

July 27th, 2021  |  34 mins 18 secs

external guests, physician landscape

Host Rachel Woods sits down with Mike Flammini, chief business development officer at Privia Health, to talk about the changing physician landscape and the non-hospital players offering new partnerships for today's physicians.

83: In-person or remote work? For healthcare organizations, both.

July 20th, 2021  |  34 mins 16 secs

clinical workforce

Host Rachel Woods sits down with Advisory Board's Miriam Sznycer-Taub and Alex Polyak to discuss how leaders can make a hybrid workplace function effectively.

82: A system of systems: An update on the collaboration between the Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals

July 13th, 2021  |  36 mins 20 secs

external guests, systemness

Host Rachel Woods sits down with Cleveland Clinic Chief of Medical Operations Dr. Robert Wyllie and University Hospitals Chief Operations Officer Dr. Eric Beck to discuss the partnership the two institutions formed during the Covid-19 pandemic and how they're continuing that partnership in the future.

81: How changing demographics will affect the future of healthcare

June 29th, 2021  |  30 mins 8 secs

strategy

Host Rachel Woods sits down with Advisory Board's Nick Cericola to talk about how changing demographics could affect the healthcare industry in the next 10 years.