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

  • 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.

  • 171: Data privacy in the wake of Dobbs

    July 18th, 2023  |  23 mins 8 secs
    consumer data and privacy

    In part three of Radio Advisory’s series on consumer data, host Rachel (Rae) Woods invites Advisory Board experts Ty Aderhold and John League to discuss how conversations around data privacy, particularly with reproductive data, have shifted in the wake of the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Supreme Court decision.

  • 170: Data privacy and the FTC: Who is working to protect your data?

    July 11th, 2023  |  26 mins 38 secs
    consumer data and privacy

    In part two of Radio Advisory’s consumer data series, host Rachel (Rae) woods invites Advisory Board experts Ty Aderhold, Sara Zargham, and Paul Trigonoplos to discuss what you need to know about the FTC’s recent actions to regulate consumer data sharing and what this means for data privacy.

  • 169: Innovative or invasive? How consumer data is changing healthcare

    July 4th, 2023  |  28 mins 33 secs
    consumer data and privacy

    In part one of Radio Advisory’s new series on consumer data, host Rachel (Rae) woods invites Advisory Board experts Solomon Banjo and Ty Aderhold to discuss how healthcare stakeholders should be thinking about the opportunities and threats associated with the rising use of consumer data.

  • 168: Having the tech isn't enough: the future of clinical decision making

    June 27th, 2023  |  30 mins 51 secs
    technology

    Guest host and Advisory Board life sciences expert Solomon Banjo invites his colleague Amanda Okaka and Optum’s Senior Vice President of Clinical Innovation Dr. Kevin Larson to discuss their predictions for the future of clinical decision making and how organizations can integrate new innovations into clinician workflow.

  • 167: How nervous should we be about high-cost drugs?

    June 20th, 2023  |  24 mins 5 secs

    In this episode, host Rachel Woods invites Advisory Board pharmacy experts Gina Lohr and Chloe Bakst to discuss how industry stakeholders are thinking about the rise of high-cost drugs.

  • 166: Employer series: The role of employers in value-based care

    June 13th, 2023  |  20 mins 1 sec
    value-based care

    In this episode, host Rachel Woods invites Advisory Board experts Daniel Kuzmanovich and Sophia Hurr to discuss the opportunities and challenges of value-based care for the employer market.

  • 165: Employer series: Is the cost of employer-sponsored insurance unsustainable?

    June 6th, 2023  |  21 mins 7 secs

    Guest host and Advisory Board Vice President and spokesperson Aaron Mauck invites health plan experts Sally Kim and Max Hakanson to discuss the state of and challenges around affordability in the employer market.

  • Encore: Revisiting our conversation on building ethical AI systems

    May 30th, 2023  |  37 mins 32 secs

    In this encore of our award-winning episode from Fall 2022, host Rachel Woods talks with thought leader and best selling author Tom Lawry – former director of AI for Microsoft – on how racial bias creeps into AI and what we all can do to create anti-racist intelligent systems.

  • 164: Boston Medical Center's path to sustainability (and how they're funding it)

    May 23rd, 2023  |  21 mins 5 secs

    In this episode, guest host and Advisory Board environmental sustainability expert Miles Cottier talks with Bob Biggio, Senior Vice President of Facilities & Support Services at Boston Medical Center, about creating solutions for long-term cost savings that improve efficiency while reducing their environmental footprint.

  • 163: How consolidation and corporate ownership are reshaping the healthcare industry

    May 16th, 2023  |  26 mins 45 secs
    consolidation, disruption, strategy

    In this episode, host Rachel Woods invites Advisory Board experts Paul Trigonoplos and Eliza Dailey to discuss their research on integration and consolidation in the healthcare industry, and how different stakeholders are thinking about diversification.

  • 162: Addressing the workforce crisis: Insights from University Hospitals' leaders

    May 9th, 2023  |  39 mins 58 secs
    clinical workforce

    Host Rachel Woods invites Advisory Board's Chief Nursing Officer, Carol Boston, and two leaders from University Hospitals – Chief Quality & Clinical Transformation Officer, Peter Pronovost, and Chief Nursing Executive, Michelle Hereford - to discuss the complexity of grappling with the nursing shortage and its systemwide implications.