95: Best Buy's big move into health care

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 health care world and what that might mean for the health care industry.

94: Where CMMI is headed—according to its director

October 26th, 2021  |  40 mins 25 secs

health policy and the biden-harris administration, strategy, value-based care

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

[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.