Abby is a researcher, speaker, and facilitator who helps bring Advisory Board research to life. Her areas of focus include macro healthcare industry trends and behavioral health, and she has a special interest in health system strategy and population health management.
Abby Burns has hosted 17 Episodes.
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201: Value series: What does health system VBC adoption actually look like?
March 26th, 2024 | 26 mins 31 secs
provider strategy and financial outlook, value-based care
To kick off our value series, host Abby Burns invites Advisory Board value-based care experts Clare Wirth and Daniel Kuzmanovich to shed light on how far health systems have actually progressed on the path to value-based care and break down why that journey – and its destination – will look different for every system.
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199: Why can't providers and plans just get along?
March 12th, 2024 | 31 mins 26 secs
In this episode, host Abby Burns invites Advisory Board experts Max Hakanson and Eileen Fennell to get to the bottom of escalating tensions between health plans and providers and give a peek behind the curtain of what their research suggests it will take for the two stakeholders to improve their relationships.
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198: PE firm General Catalyst is buying a hospital — here's our take
March 5th, 2024 | 35 mins 5 secs
industry consolidation, provider strategy and financial outlook
In this episode, host Rachel Woods and co-host Abby Burns bring back Advisory Board health system expert Vidal Seegobin to interpret the news that venture capitalist firm General Catalyst intends to acquire Summa Health. We've long said “no one is buying hospitals” – have we been wrong?
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195: Site-of-care shifts: It's time to go on offense
February 13th, 2024 | 31 mins 46 secs
industry consolidation, provider strategy and financial outlook
In this episode, host Abby Burns invites Advisory Board experts Nick Hula and Sebastian Beckmann to discuss why outpatient sites need to be part of health systems' growth strategies and how they can translate that into operational reality.
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187: ChristianaCare's comprehensive, CFO-approved approach to behavioral healthcare
November 28th, 2023 | 36 mins 19 secs
behavioral health, external guests, service lines
In this episode, guest host Abby Burns invites ChristianaCare's Chief Biopsychosocial Officer, Erin Booker, to discuss how Erin is driving—and making the case for—a comprehensive and holistic behavioral healthcare strategy.