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Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for Insiders
Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for Insiders views healthcare transformation through the lens of prominent leaders across the industry. Through intimate one-on-one discussions with executives, policy advisors, and other “insiders,” each episode dives deep into the pressing challenges that come with changing how we care for people. Hear the unique perspectives of these industry leaders to get a better understanding of what is happening today, the challenges across the healthcare ecosystem, and how…
Episodes
Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for InsidersThe Retailers are Coming (Part 2): CVS Health’s Chief Strategy & Business Development Officer
In the United States, 85% of the population resides within 10 miles of a CVS Pharmacy. Through continued growth and expansion since its founding as a health…
Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for InsidersThe Retailers are Coming: Walgreens CMO On the Future of Community Care
Since its first store opened in 1901, Walgreens has been embracing innovation in the retail pharmacy space, fueling its expansion to become a neighborhood…
Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for InsidersDigital Health Hype Vs. Reality: How KLAS Cuts Through With the Voice of the Customer
Investments in digital health hit an all-time high in 2020, only to surpass the new record within the first six month of 2021. Needless to say, there’s never…
Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for InsidersA Market-Driven or Policy-Driven Approach to Health IT Innovation? ONC’s Deputy National Coordinator on the Path Forward
The accelerated pace of innovation in digital health, record-breaking investments in the sector and even some of the technology developed to navigate the…
Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for InsidersWhen Consolidation Isn’t About Pricing Leverage: How Ballad Health Merged Two Systems to Reduce Costs and Reinvent Rural Healthcare
In the United States, more than 90% of the landmass is rural. And in rural communities from coast to coast, the challenges in delivering healthcare can be very…
Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for InsidersAledade Founder & CEO Farzad Mostashari: Preserving the Autonomy of Independent Practices to Drive Real Value in Healthcare
Dr. Farzad Mostashari’s extensive resume doesn’t fully convey the true value he brings to reimagining healthcare. He’s the former National Coordinator for…
Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for InsidersHealth Care vs. Sick Care: SCAN Health CEO Dr. Sachin Jain on Fixing the System
Dr. Sachin Jain says he got a silent education about healthcare and medicine around the dinner table from his father, an anesthesiologist and pioneer in pain…
Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for InsidersCare @Home: A Fast Start to a Long Journey, According to Texas Health’s Chief Experience Officer, Winjie Miao
Improving patient experience has been a driving focus for Winjie Miao during her twenty year career at Texas Health Resources, where she’s now senior executive…
Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for InsidersJPM Recap: The Healthcare Industry’s Annual Checkup with Strata CEO, Dan Michelson
Last year tested nearly every aspect of the healthcare system, making the 2021 J.P. Morgan Health Care Conference like none other in its 39-year history. But…
Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for InsidersThe Payer Perspective on COVID, Value Based Care and More with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts’ Chief Commercial Officer, Patrick Gilligan
Before the term Value Based Care existed, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA) unveiled one of the nation’s first risk-based payment models – its…
Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for InsidersElections Have Consequences: Harvard’s John McDonough Reflects on ‘Decision 2020’ and the Implications to US Healthcare
As someone who has been in the middle of healthcare policy and reform in the U.S. for decades, John McDonough has a unique perspective on how the rapidly…
Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for InsidersOptumInsight CEO Robert Musslewhite’s Journey from Building a High-Growth Startup to Acquiring Them
Robert Musslewhite has viewed healthcare innovation and the lifecycle of a healthcare services company from nearly every angle over the past two decades. He…
Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for InsidersCommonSpirit’s Lloyd Dean and Rich Roth on Solving Inequities through Innovation
CommonSpirit Health created one of the largest health systems in the nation by merging Dignity Health and Catholic Health Initiatives in early 2019. It now…
Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for InsidersThe Culture Of Risk at UPMC: President of UPMC Enterprises, Tal Heppenstall, Explains
Tal Heppenstall has a dual role at UPMC. He’s been treasurer of the $21 billion dollar health care provider and insurer since 2003, where he’s responsible for…
Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for InsidersAgile Operations: COVID-19 Forces a New Reality for Healthcare Finance, According to Michael Allen, CFO at OSF Healthcare
Michael Allen has unique expertise in healthcare finance. He’s been chief financial officer at four different health systems and is national chairman of the…
Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for InsidersExploring the Technical Impacts of COVID-19 with Cedars-Sinai CIO, Darren Dworkin
Cedars-Sinai is a nonprofit academic healthcare organization that serves the diverse Los Angeles community through more than 40 locations, 4,500 physicians and…
Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for InsidersNavigating a Post-Covid Path to the New Normal with Gist Healthcare CEO, Chas Roades
Over the course of nearly 20 years as Chief Research Officer at The Advisory Board Company, Chas Roades became a trusted advisor for CEOs, leadership teams and…
Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for InsidersBeating Covid with the GPO Network Effect: Vizient CEO Byron Jobe Talks Data, Supply Chain Demands and Lasting Changes to the Health System
As the healthcare industry’s largest group purchasing organization (GPO), Vizient manages more than $100 billion in spend for more than half of the nation’s…
Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for InsidersCovid-19, Regulatory Changes and Election Implications: An Inside Look with Premier’s SVP of Public Affairs
This special episode of Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for Insiders puts listeners “in the room” for LRVHealth’s annual planning meeting where the firm and its…
Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for InsidersThe Critical Role of Safety Net Health Systems with Boston Medical Center CEO, Kate Walsh
There’s one major difference between Boston Medical Center (BMC) and the other outstanding health systems in Boston. While being a major part of a city and…
Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for InsidersJP Morgan Healthcare Recap: Live with Dan Michelson, CEO at Strata Decision Technology
Dan Michelson’s recap of the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference in Becker’s Hospital Review has become a must-read over the past few years – whether you attend…
Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for InsidersHow Does Providence Lead Healthcare Innovation After 161 Years? Hear From CEO Dr. Rod Hochman and Chief Digital Officer Aaron Martin
In 1856, the Sisters of Providence began establishing hospitals, schools and orphanages across the Northwest, and that humble beginning planted the seed of…
Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for InsidersFocusing On Unified Care at Beth Israel Lahey Health
Dr. Kevin Tabb fell into medicine through his training as a medic in the Israel Defense Forces, and after medical school and a five year residency, he soon…
Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for InsidersHealthcare is Hard: A Year of Learning From Industry Leaders
The Healthcare is Hard podcast exists for a single purpose – to help listeners get inside the minds of people who understand the complexities of the health…
Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for InsidersLeading the Shift Towards Value-Based Care with Atrius Health CEO Dr. Steve Strongwater
Atrius Health is way ahead of the curve when it comes to risk-based reimbursement models. With 715 doctors providing care to approximately 745,000 patients…
Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for InsidersDesigning Care Around the Consumer: A Personal Journey for AdventHealth CEO, Terry Shaw
When Terry Shaw’s wife was the victim of a car accident in 2016, it completely changed his outlook on care delivery. Even as president and CEO of AdventHealth…
Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for InsidersInnovation Institute CEO Joe Randolph Shares How to Build a Sustainable Model for Creating New Ideas
In this episode, Keith Figlioli of LRV Health sits down with Joe Randolph, president and CEO of the Innovation Institute, a highly successful joint effort…
Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for InsidersResponding to Hurricane Katrina Showed Karen DeSalvo the Role Social Determinants Play in Healthcare
Hurricane Katrina was an extremely destructive and deadly storm that shut down communities along the Gulf Coast for months and even years. While the scope and…
Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for InsidersTapping Into The Collective Knowledge of Leading Health Systems with HMA’s Gary Bisbee
Twenty years ago, no one really understood how to run an integrated health system. That’s because no executives at the time grew up in, or were trained to lead…
Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for InsidersHear How Allina Insiders Penny Wheeler, MD, and Ric Magnuson Prioritize “Whole Person Care”
Prioritizing “Whole Person Care,” putting human relationships first and considering all dimensions of a person’s health is part of the fabric at Allina Health…
Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for InsidersCreating Disciplined Innovation In Healthcare with Baystate Health CEO Mark Keroack
Mark Keroack, MD, MPH, has been in and around the healthcare industry for most of his life – long before he became President and CEO of Baystate Health, a…
Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for InsidersWhat Is IHI’s “Triple Aim?” Founders Don Berwick, Maureen Bisognano Lay Out Campaign for Change
Don Berwick and Maureen Bisognano lived and breathed different sides of the healthcare industry before starting the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)…
Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for InsidersInsider Susan DeVore on Reducing Waste and the Path to Alternative Payments in Healthcare
Susan DeVore has been in and around the healthcare industry for most of her life – long before she became president and CEO of Premier Inc., a company that…
Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for InsidersInsider Glenn Steele’s Take on Redefining Value, Aligning Providers and Payers, and Driving Innovation
Changing our complex healthcare system from within is a difficult proposition, but one that Glenn Steele, MD, has embraced in multiple capacities over a…
Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for InsidersInsider Bert Zimmerli Shares Intermountain’s Innovation Imperative with the Healthcare is Hard Podcast
There’s only one health system in the country that has an “Aa1” rating from Moody’s Investors Service – it’s Intermountain Healthcare. Hear Intermountain’s CFO…