77: Open Mic: Service members earn a recovery period after a tour of duty. Now clinicians should, too.

June 1st, 2021  |  10 mins 6 secs

clinical workforce

In the final iteration of Radio Advisory’s open mic, Radio Advisory’s own Rae Woods offers her take on how leaders can provide the clinical workforce a meaningful recovery period. After their service in the face of the Covid-19 crisis, Rae offers an analogy to military service.

76: Transparency and surprise billing: The biggest policies coming your way

May 25th, 2021  |  24 mins 34 secs

health policy

Host Rachel Woods sits down with Advisory Board's Rob Lazerow and Heather Bell to talk about how three new policies—hospital price transparency, payer price transparency, and surprise billing—will affect the health care industry.

75: The Covid-19 outlook right now is good. And the media is missing it.

May 18th, 2021  |  30 mins 8 secs

covid-19

Host Rachel Woods sits down with Advisory Board's Brandi Greenberg and Christopher Kerns to talk about the biggest misconceptions about Covid-19 that they've heard in the media and why the Covid-19 outlook is actually good.

74: Open Mic: Health systems can perform better: Covid-19 shows them how.

May 13th, 2021  |  7 mins 41 secs

covid-19, systemness

In the third iteration of Radio Advisory's open mic, Dave Willis, VP of Service Delivery at Advisory Board shares his thoughts on the industry's movement towards systemness – and offers his take on the steps leaders should take next.

73: Nurses Week 2021: How to go beyond "thank you" and help nurses heal

May 11th, 2021  |  31 mins 35 secs

clinical workforce

Host Rachel Woods sits down with nursing experts Karl Whitemarsh and Maddie Langr to celebrate nurses week by talking about what health care leaders can do to make nurses truly feel valued and supported, beyond just thanking them.

72: Open Mic: It's getting harder to justify special privileges for your top donors

May 6th, 2021  |  6 mins 56 secs

In the second episode of Radio Advisory’s open mic, philanthropy expert Nick Cericola shares his thoughts on how hospitals can justify the special privileges they give to top donors, while also pursuing health equity.

71: How CommonSpirit Health is using systemness to drive population health

May 4th, 2021  |  38 mins 9 secs

external guests, systemness

Host Rachel Woods sits down with Dr. Alisahah Cole, system VP of population health innovation and policy at CommonSpirit Health, to talk about how one of the largest not-for-profit health systems in the country uses systemness to drive its population health efforts.

70: Open Mic: A letter to telehealth patients

April 29th, 2021  |  9 mins 44 secs

In the first episode of Radio Advisory’s open mic, telehealth expert John League shares his thoughts on the industry’s progress (or lack of progress) in making telehealth work for all stakeholders.

69: CEO Warner Thomas on 20 years of digital innovation at Ochsner Health

April 27th, 2021  |  42 mins 13 secs

clinical innovation and affordability, external guests

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.

68: Seattle Children's approach to behavioral health

April 20th, 2021  |  41 mins 5 secs

behavioral health, external guests

Host Rachel Woods sits down with a team from Seattle Children's—Ginger Hines, executive director, Sheryl Morelli, medical director and CMO, and Larry Wissow, chair of pediatric psychology and behavioral medicine, to talk about the behavioral health issues children are facing in the wake of the Covid-19 epidemic.

67: An update on the physician landscape, one year later

April 13th, 2021  |  28 mins 9 secs

physician landscape

Host Rachel Woods sits down with Advisory Board's Sarah Hostetter and Daniel Kuzmanovich to look back at how the physician landscape has changed in the past year.

66: There is no playbook: Why we can't compare the pandemic to the Great Recession

April 6th, 2021  |  29 mins 4 secs

covid-19

Host Rachel Woods sits down with Advisory Board's Yulan Egan and Christopher Kerns to talk about why you shouldn't use the 2008-2009 recession as a proxy for the challenges we faced and will continue to face in the wake of the Covid-19 epidemic why we need to throw out the recession playbook entirely.