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

  • 180: Tom Lawry on why AI has a PR problem

    October 10th, 2023  |  34 mins 16 secs
    technology

    Microsoft's former head of AI, now managing director of Second Century Tech, Tom Lawry returns to Radio Advisory to discuss the buzz, fears, and opportunities around truly transformational generative AI technologies.

  • 179: Future-proofing healthcare requires a tech-enabled workforce

    October 3rd, 2023  |  28 mins 14 secs
    clinical workforce, technology

    In this episode, host Rachel Woods invites Advisory Board experts Allyson Paiewonsky and Jordan Peterson to discuss what organizations are getting wrong about technology, and why it has potential to sustainably alleviate the workforce crisis in the long term.

  • 178: What the industry is (still) getting wrong about value-based care

    September 26th, 2023  |  29 mins 27 secs
    value-based care

    In this episode, host Rachel Woods invites Advisory Board value-based care expert Daniel Kuzmanovich and Optum Advisory Service's SVP of value-based care, Erik Johnson, to discuss the mindset shifts they think leaders should be making when pursuing a sustainable value-based care strategy.

  • 177: Advancing equity in a world of innovation for some, costs for all: Live from the 2023 Clinical Innovation Summit

    September 19th, 2023  |  52 mins 32 secs
    health equity and racism

    In this episode, live from Advisory Board's 2023 Clinical Innovation Summit, host Rachel (Rae) Woods invites Maia Laing, SVP of Health Equity for UnitedHealth Group, and Michael Mejia, Advisory Board's director of life sciences research, to discuss how leaders can think about deploying, designing, and financing new clinical innovations in an equitable way.

  • 176: Test, fail, and test again: Morgan Health's approach to employer costs

    September 12th, 2023  |  38 mins 54 secs

    In this episode, host Rachel Woods invites Advisory Board payer expert Max Hakanson and Morgan Health innovation lead Rivka Friedman to discuss what employers can do to rein in healthcare costs, both for themselves and their employees.

  • From the See You Now podcast: Reckoning with Racism (Part 1)

    September 5th, 2023  |  55 mins 38 secs

    This episode comes from See You Now, a podcast that shines a light on the real people changing the status quo in health. Host Shawna Butler, RN MBA and co-host Lucinda Canty, PhD, CNM, FACNM, speak with Cheryl Peterson, MSN, RN about the American Nursing Association’s work in creating antiracist practices and policies in the nursing profession.

  • [Rerun] Senior Care (Part 2): The rapid growth of Medicare Advantage

    August 29th, 2023  |  35 mins 21 secs

    In this encore episode, host Rachel Woods invites senior care expert Aaron Hill and health plan expert Max Hakanson to discuss the rise of Medicare Advantage and how to gauge its success for cross-industry stakeholders.

  • [Rerun] The dire state of hospital finances (Part 1: Hospital of the Future series)

    August 22nd, 2023  |  31 mins 37 secs

    This week, we are revisiting an episode from November 2022. In the episode, Host Rachel Woods invites healthcare business experts Monica Westhead, Aaron Mauck, and Colin Gelbaugh to discuss hospitals' current financial struggles, how this could impact the health care industry, and strategies for reigning in costs.

  • 175: We need to talk about maternal health in America [Bonus content]

    August 15th, 2023  |  41 mins 14 secs
    behavioral health, health equity and racism

    This week Radio Advisory is featuring an encore of "We need to talk about maternal health in America," recorded in Oct. 2021. Advisory Board health equity expert Darby Sullivan and women's health expert Gaby Marmolejos also give an update on why maternal and women's health outcomes have only gotten worse since this episode first aired.

  • 174: Quest's vision for genomics at scale

    August 8th, 2023  |  34 mins 26 secs

    In this episode, guest host and Advisory Board executive partner Devin Airey invites Mark Gardner, the SVP of Genomic Medicine and Oncology at Quest Diagnostics, and Dan Edelstein, President and CEO of Haystack Oncology, to discuss their vision for genomics and how they are thinking about addressing stakeholder concerns.

  • 173: 4 ways to prevent a physician shortage [Bonus content]

    August 1st, 2023  |  30 mins 46 secs
    clinical workforce, physician landscape

    In this encore edition of 4 ways to prevent a physician shortage, host Rachel Woods talks with Advisory Board Experts Daniel Kuzmanovich and Sebastian Beckmann about the threats and realities of a physician shortage. Following their discussion, experts Eliza Dailey and Sydney Moondra give an update on how the physician shortage, and the prevalence of Advanced practice providers (APPs), have changed since the episode originally aired in May 2022.

  • 172: Build a value-based enterprise: Live from 2023 Value-Based Care Summit

    July 25th, 2023  |  50 mins 49 secs
    value-based care

    In this episode, live from Advisory Board’s 2023 Value-Based Care Summit, host Rachel (Rae) Woods invites Rob Mayer, senior vice president and GM of Optum Insight Clinical Solutions; Laurie Sicaeros, Chief Strategy Officer at Memorial Care Health System; and Rushika Fernandopulle, Co-Founder and Former CEO of Iora Health, to discuss exactly what it takes to build a successful value-based enterprise and what defines success.