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

  • Episode 12: Financial impact series: Ambulatory Surgery Centers

    May 14th, 2020  |  18 mins 14 secs
    financial impact

    Continuing “Financial Impact” series on how Covid-19 is impacting the financial health of various players in health care. Megan Director, who has years of experience researching service line strategy joins Rae to talk about the impact COVID-19 is having on Ambulatory Surgery Centers, and why it is different than other parts of the industry.

  • Episode 11: [Quick update] Financial impact series: Hospitals

    May 12th, 2020  |  7 mins 47 secs
    financial impact

    Rachel brings back Christopher Kerns to give a brief update on the financial impact of Covid-19 on hospitals.

  • Episode 10: Financial impact series: Payers

    May 7th, 2020  |  17 mins 53 secs
    financial impact

    Rachel is joined by Rachel Sokol, who leads research specific to health plans at the Advisory Board, to discuss the financial impact that payers and employers are experiencing in the wake of Covid-19.

  • Episode 9: It's Nurses Week. Why this year must be different

    May 5th, 2020  |  21 mins
    clinical workforce

    Rachel is joined by Carol Boston-Fleischhauer, Chief Nursing Officer at Advisory Board about nurses week, and why the typical approach to celebrating nurses fall's short of what's needed…

  • Episode 8: Reopening for business part two: Ambulatory practices

    May 1st, 2020  |  18 mins 59 secs
    covid-19, physician landscape

    Rachel is joined by Daniel Kuzmanovich to talk about how ambulatory practices should think about resuming in-person visits and what steps they will need to take in order to reopen.

  • Episode 7: Financial impact series: Hospitals

    April 30th, 2020  |  12 mins 54 secs
    financial impact

    Rachel looks at the financial impact of Covid-19 on hospitals through the lens of their revenues, operations, and what's ahead beyond the pandemic.

  • Episode 6: Reopening for business? Here's what you need to know

    April 27th, 2020  |  20 mins
    covid-19

    Rachel is joined by Shay Pratt to talk about how hospitals should think about reopening for non-Covid-19 procedures (and where they should start).

  • Episode 5: Are large health systems faring better with Covid-19?

    April 24th, 2020  |  22 mins 3 secs
    consolidation, systemness

    Rachel invites Emily Connelly to discuss the concept of systemness and how large health systems and standalone hospitals are faring with Covid-19.

  • Episode 4: Leading through a crisis

    April 22nd, 2020  |  27 mins 13 secs
    leadership

    Rachel Woods chats with Craig Pirner, an Advisory Board expert on leadership, to unpack what leaders can do to more effectively lead their people and organizations through this stressful and emotional time.

  • Episode 3: The perception of government's role in healthcare

    April 17th, 2020  |  19 mins 3 secs
    health policy and the biden-harris administration

    Rachel and Christopher Kerns discuss how COVID-19 could change the Presidential election in November and the government's role in healthcare beyond it.

  • Episode 2: How COVID-19 is transforming telehealth now and in the future

    April 15th, 2020  |  32 mins 58 secs
    technology

    Rachel Woods consults with Advisory Board's go-to technology and telehealth expert John League to understand how the COVID-19 virus has changed how providers and patients are using telehealth today, and what he thinks telehealth’s tomorrow might look like.

  • Episode 1: Ramping up hospital capacity in the COVID-19 era

    April 10th, 2020  |  17 mins 16 secs
    covid-19

    Rachel (Rae) sits down for a candid conversation with Advisory Board's COVID-19 expert, Christopher Kerns. They discuss the challenges surrounding ramping up hospital capacity, and what leaders need to be thinking about in the next two weeks – and over the next two years.