About the show
Radio Advisory is your weekly download on how to untangle healthcare's most pressing challenges, powered by 40 years of Advisory Board research.
Whether it's workforce shortages, industry disruptors, or health equity strategy, we're here to help. Our hosts and seasoned researchers talk with industry experts to equip you with knowledge to confront today’s unanswered questions in healthcare. New episodes drop every Tuesday. | www.advisory.com
Episodes
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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.
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91: We need to talk about maternal health in America
October 5th, 2021 | 27 mins 12 secs
health equity and racism
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.
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90: Aaron Carroll on how clinicians can combat medical misinformation
September 28th, 2021 | 42 mins 46 secs
clinical workforce, covid-19
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.
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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.
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88: RWJBarnabas Health's approach to equity: "We tore up the mission statement"
September 14th, 2021 | 46 mins 12 secs
health equity and racism
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.
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87: Digital inequities (and why you shouldn't call it the digital divide)
September 7th, 2021 | 23 mins 15 secs
technology
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.
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[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.
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[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.
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[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.
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[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.
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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.
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85: Two big surprises in CMS' 2022 outpatient proposed rule
July 29th, 2021 | 12 mins 41 secs
health policy and the biden-harris administration
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.