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Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for Insiders — 93 episodes
Healthcare's Biggest AI Opportunity Isn't Clinical. It's Consumer. A Conversation with CVS Health
The Pediatric Innovation Playbook: How Dayton Children’s Evaluates AI, ROI and Scale
Designing Digital Change for Scale: Sutter Health’s Laura Wilt on AI, Leadership and the Human Side of Transformation
Why Healthcare Leadership Is Harder Than Ever: Cedars-Sinai’s Tom Priselac on Culture, Change and Cost
A Giant Leap for Healthcare: Dr. Bob Wachter on AI, Clinical Workflows and the Patient-Doctor Relationship
From Pilots to Production: Boston Children’s John Brownstein on the Next Phase of AI in Healthcare
DC’s Ambitious Plans for Modernizing Health Tech: U.S. DOGE Service Administrator & CMS Strategic Advisor, Amy Gleason
Glimmers of Nonpartisan Progress: Decoding ACCESS, TEMPO and the Latest Government Healthcare Initiatives
340B Unpacked for the Holidays: Policy, Controversy, and Impact
The Big Beautiful Maze of Health Policy and Innovation
Lessons from Public Sector Leadership: Former CMS Administrator and FDA Commissioner, Dr. Mark McClellan
Emerging Technologies (Part 3): Microsoft’s Chief Architect for Health on the Saga of Interoperability and AI
Emerging Technologies (Part 2): Past, Present & Future of Healthcare Interoperability with HTD Health's Brendan Keeler
Emerging Technologies (Part 1): Inside Perspectives from Epic’s Seth Hain
How a Tech-Minded CEO Sees the Future: CareFirst’s Brian D. Pieninck on Medicare, Medicaid & the AI-Driven Inflection Point in Healthcare
Medicaid Uncovered: Decoding the System
Where Medicare Stands—And Where It’s Headed with Aetna’s Dr. Ali Khan
Opportunities in Oncology (Part 3): Getting Deep Into Patient Care with Mass General Brigham’s Head of Radiation Oncology
Opportunities in Oncology (Part 2): Balancing Cutting-Edge Research and Community Care
Opportunities in Oncology (Part 1): The Intersection of Clinical Care, Business and Policy
Election Implications (Part 4): Forecasting For Healthcare As The Second Trump Administration Takes Shape
Election Implications (Part 3): JP Morgan’s Read on Trump 2.0 and What’s Next for Healthcare
Election Implications (Part 2): This Wall Street Analyst Agrees, “Healthcare is Hard”
Election Implications (Part 1): Angst, Uncertainty and an Urge for Calm from Maverick Health Policy’s Julie Barnes
What’s the Difference Between Innovation and Performance Improvement?
Help or Harm? How CHAI is Mitigating the Risk of AI in Healthcare
Live from DHIS East: Mass General Brigham CIO, Christopher Coburn
Reinventing Pharmacy (Part 3): Optum Rx CEO, Dr. Patrick Conway, Brings the PBM, Provider and Payer POV
Reinventing Pharmacy (Part 2): Dr. Troyen Brennan Disputes the False Narrative of Good vs. Bad Actors
Reinventing Pharmacy: Mark Cuban Says Trust Is Missing Across Healthcare. Here’s What He’s Doing About It
Is Innovation Stuck in Healthcare? Two Brothers Get to The Bottom of It
Putting Trust at the Center of Healthcare Transformation: Press Ganey CEO, Pat Ryan
Deciphering the New Normal (Part 4): Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts’ Chief Strategy Officer, Sukanya Soderland
Deciphering the New Normal (Part 3): Humana’s Chief Strategy & Corporate Development Officer, Dr. Vishal Agrawal
Deciphering the New Normal (Part 2): CommonSpirit’s Chief Strategy Officer, Sheri Shapiro
Deciphering The New Normal With OhioHealth’s Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer, Michael Krouse
Not Just a Side Gig: Government Contracting Takes Commitment, Says Booz Allen Hamilton COO, Kristine Martin Anderson
Is AI Policy a Bigger Undertaking Than Meaningful Use? Kristen McGovern Thinks So
AI Hype vs. Reality: A Conversation With Nuance (Microsoft) CSO, Peter Durlach
Scaling Up (Part 2). How Dr. Rasu Shrestha is Steering AI & Innovation After the Megamerger that Created Advocate Health
Follow the Money: Harvard Professor & MedPAC Chair, Michael Chernew, Illuminates the Causes & Consequences of Healthcare Spending
The Healthcare Data Goldrush (Part 2): Chief Information & Digital Officer at Hartford Healthcare, Joel Vengco
Scaling up. Scott Powder Talks About the Merger of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health to Build One of the Nation’s Largest Health Systems
The Healthcare Data Goldrush: Leavitt Partners’ Ryan Howells & IMO’s Dale Sanders Lay Out A Guide for Prospectors
Why Health Systems with Data-Driven Strategies will be the Ones to Survive Turbulent Times: A Conversation with Vizient’s John Becker
Providence’s Sara Vaezy Tells the Tale of Two Health Systems: Fixing Fundamentals While Focusing on Innovation
Former Department of Defense Leader Interprets the Real Cyber Risks in Healthcare
Amazon, One Medical and the Acquisitions Moving Healthcare: Walmart’s Former SVP of Health, Marcus Osborne, Weighs In
Peering Inside Home Health and VBC with Clinician, Investor, Operator and Public Servant, Dr. Julian Harris
Mayo’s John Halamka on AI, ML and the Government’s Role in Digital Health’s Future
You Can’t Improve If You Don’t Measure: IHI CEO Dr. Kedar Mate Talks Care Quality
The Surgeon & Economics PhD Leading Medicare: Dr. Meena Seshamani
Google Cloud’s Aashima Gupta on Big Tech’s Platform Play in Healthcare
Mona Siddiqui on Humana’s Evolution to a Healthcare Company
Amazon Web Services’ Phoebe Yang on Bringing Digital Transformation to Health System Boards
The Biggest Surprise at JPM 2022 Is What Wasn’t Being Discussed: COVID
Size Doesn’t Matter: Innovation Happens Everywhere, Says Anthem’s Bryony Winn
The Retailers are Coming (Part 3): Walmart’s Chief Medical Officer
The Retailers are Coming (Part 2): CVS Health’s Chief Strategy & Business Development Officer
The Retailers are Coming: Walgreens CMO On the Future of Community Care
Digital Health Hype Vs. Reality: How KLAS Cuts Through With the Voice of the Customer
A Market-Driven or Policy-Driven Approach to Health IT Innovation? ONC’s Deputy National Coordinator on the Path Forward
When Consolidation Isn’t About Pricing Leverage: How Ballad Health Merged Two Systems to Reduce Costs and Reinvent Rural Healthcare
Aledade Founder & CEO Farzad Mostashari: Preserving the Autonomy of Independent Practices to Drive Real Value in Healthcare
Health Care vs. Sick Care: SCAN Health CEO Dr. Sachin Jain on Fixing the System
Care @Home: A Fast Start to a Long Journey, According to Texas Health’s Chief Experience Officer, Winjie Miao
JPM Recap: The Healthcare Industry’s Annual Checkup with Strata CEO, Dan Michelson
The Payer Perspective on COVID, Value Based Care and More with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts’ Chief Commercial Officer, Patrick Gilligan
Elections Have Consequences: Harvard’s John McDonough Reflects on ‘Decision 2020’ and the Implications to US Healthcare
OptumInsight CEO Robert Musslewhite’s Journey from Building a High-Growth Startup to Acquiring Them
CommonSpirit’s Lloyd Dean and Rich Roth on Solving Inequities through Innovation
The Culture Of Risk at UPMC: President of UPMC Enterprises, Tal Heppenstall, Explains
Agile Operations: COVID-19 Forces a New Reality for Healthcare Finance, According to Michael Allen, CFO at OSF Healthcare
Exploring the Technical Impacts of COVID-19 with Cedars-Sinai CIO, Darren Dworkin
Navigating a Post-Covid Path to the New Normal with Gist Healthcare CEO, Chas Roades
Beating Covid with the GPO Network Effect: Vizient CEO Byron Jobe Talks Data, Supply Chain Demands and Lasting Changes to the Health System
Covid-19, Regulatory Changes and Election Implications: An Inside Look with Premier’s SVP of Public Affairs
The Critical Role of Safety Net Health Systems with Boston Medical Center CEO, Kate Walsh
JP Morgan Healthcare Recap: Live with Dan Michelson, CEO at Strata Decision Technology
How Does Providence Lead Healthcare Innovation After 161 Years? Hear From CEO Dr. Rod Hochman and Chief Digital Officer Aaron Martin
Focusing On Unified Care at Beth Israel Lahey Health
Healthcare is Hard: A Year of Learning From Industry Leaders
Leading the Shift Towards Value-Based Care with Atrius Health CEO Dr. Steve Strongwater
Designing Care Around the Consumer: A Personal Journey for AdventHealth CEO, Terry Shaw
Innovation Institute CEO Joe Randolph Shares How to Build a Sustainable Model for Creating New Ideas
Responding to Hurricane Katrina Showed Karen DeSalvo the Role Social Determinants Play in Healthcare
Tapping Into The Collective Knowledge of Leading Health Systems with HMA’s Gary Bisbee
Hear How Allina Insiders Penny Wheeler, MD, and Ric Magnuson Prioritize “Whole Person Care”
Creating Disciplined Innovation In Healthcare with Baystate Health CEO Mark Keroack
What Is IHI’s “Triple Aim?” Founders Don Berwick, Maureen Bisognano Lay Out Campaign for Change
Insider Susan DeVore on Reducing Waste and the Path to Alternative Payments in Healthcare
Insider Glenn Steele’s Take on Redefining Value, Aligning Providers and Payers, and Driving Innovation
Insider Bert Zimmerli Shares Intermountain’s Innovation Imperative with the Healthcare is Hard Podcast