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Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for Insiders — 89 episodes

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A Giant Leap for Healthcare: Dr. Bob Wachter on AI, Clinical Workflows and the Patient-Doctor Relationship

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From Pilots to Production: Boston Children’s John Brownstein on the Next Phase of AI in Healthcare

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DC’s Ambitious Plans for Modernizing Health Tech: U.S. DOGE Service Administrator & CMS Strategic Advisor, Amy Gleason

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Glimmers of Nonpartisan Progress: Decoding ACCESS, TEMPO and the Latest Government Healthcare Initiatives

5

340B Unpacked for the Holidays: Policy, Controversy, and Impact

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The Big Beautiful Maze of Health Policy and Innovation

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Lessons from Public Sector Leadership: Former CMS Administrator and FDA Commissioner, Dr. Mark McClellan

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Emerging Technologies (Part 3): Microsoft’s Chief Architect for Health on the Saga of Interoperability and AI

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Emerging Technologies (Part 2): Past, Present & Future of Healthcare Interoperability with HTD Health's Brendan Keeler

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Emerging Technologies (Part 1): Inside Perspectives from Epic’s Seth Hain

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How a Tech-Minded CEO Sees the Future: CareFirst’s Brian D. Pieninck on Medicare, Medicaid & the AI-Driven Inflection Point in Healthcare

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Medicaid Uncovered: Decoding the System

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Where Medicare Stands—And Where It’s Headed with Aetna’s Dr. Ali Khan

14

Opportunities in Oncology (Part 3): Getting Deep Into Patient Care with Mass General Brigham’s Head of Radiation Oncology

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Opportunities in Oncology (Part 2): Balancing Cutting-Edge Research and Community Care

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Opportunities in Oncology (Part 1): The Intersection of Clinical Care, Business and Policy

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Election Implications (Part 4): Forecasting For Healthcare As The Second Trump Administration Takes Shape

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Election Implications (Part 3): JP Morgan’s Read on Trump 2.0 and What’s Next for Healthcare

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Election Implications (Part 2): This Wall Street Analyst Agrees, “Healthcare is Hard”

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Election Implications (Part 1): Angst, Uncertainty and an Urge for Calm from Maverick Health Policy’s Julie Barnes

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What’s the Difference Between Innovation and Performance Improvement?

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Help or Harm? How CHAI is Mitigating the Risk of AI in Healthcare

23

Live from DHIS East: Mass General Brigham CIO, Christopher Coburn

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Reinventing Pharmacy (Part 3): Optum Rx CEO, Dr. Patrick Conway, Brings the PBM, Provider and Payer POV

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Reinventing Pharmacy (Part 2): Dr. Troyen Brennan Disputes the False Narrative of Good vs. Bad Actors

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Reinventing Pharmacy: Mark Cuban Says Trust Is Missing Across Healthcare. Here’s What He’s Doing About It

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Is Innovation Stuck in Healthcare? Two Brothers Get to The Bottom of It

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Putting Trust at the Center of Healthcare Transformation: Press Ganey CEO, Pat Ryan

29

Deciphering the New Normal (Part 4): Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts’ Chief Strategy Officer, Sukanya Soderland

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Deciphering the New Normal (Part 3): Humana’s Chief Strategy & Corporate Development Officer, Dr. Vishal Agrawal

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Deciphering the New Normal (Part 2): CommonSpirit’s Chief Strategy Officer, Sheri Shapiro

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Deciphering The New Normal With OhioHealth’s Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer, Michael Krouse

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Not Just a Side Gig: Government Contracting Takes Commitment, Says Booz Allen Hamilton COO, Kristine Martin Anderson

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Is AI Policy a Bigger Undertaking Than Meaningful Use? Kristen McGovern Thinks So

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AI Hype vs. Reality: A Conversation With Nuance (Microsoft) CSO, Peter Durlach

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Scaling Up (Part 2). How Dr. Rasu Shrestha is Steering AI & Innovation After the Megamerger that Created Advocate Health

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Follow the Money: Harvard Professor & MedPAC Chair, Michael Chernew, Illuminates the Causes & Consequences of Healthcare Spending

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The Healthcare Data Goldrush (Part 2): Chief Information & Digital Officer at Hartford Healthcare, Joel Vengco

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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

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The Healthcare Data Goldrush: Leavitt Partners’ Ryan Howells & IMO’s Dale Sanders Lay Out A Guide for Prospectors

41

Why Health Systems with Data-Driven Strategies will be the Ones to Survive Turbulent Times: A Conversation with Vizient’s John Becker

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Providence’s Sara Vaezy Tells the Tale of Two Health Systems: Fixing Fundamentals While Focusing on Innovation

43

Former Department of Defense Leader Interprets the Real Cyber Risks in Healthcare

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Amazon, One Medical and the Acquisitions Moving Healthcare: Walmart’s Former SVP of Health, Marcus Osborne, Weighs In

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Peering Inside Home Health and VBC with Clinician, Investor, Operator and Public Servant, Dr. Julian Harris

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Mayo’s John Halamka on AI, ML and the Government’s Role in Digital Health’s Future

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You Can’t Improve If You Don’t Measure: IHI CEO Dr. Kedar Mate Talks Care Quality

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The Surgeon & Economics PhD Leading Medicare: Dr. Meena Seshamani

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Google Cloud’s Aashima Gupta on Big Tech’s Platform Play in Healthcare

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Mona Siddiqui on Humana’s Evolution to a Healthcare Company

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Amazon Web Services’ Phoebe Yang on Bringing Digital Transformation to Health System Boards

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The Biggest Surprise at JPM 2022 Is What Wasn’t Being Discussed: COVID

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Size Doesn’t Matter: Innovation Happens Everywhere, Says Anthem’s Bryony Winn

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The Retailers are Coming (Part 3): Walmart’s Chief Medical Officer

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The Retailers are Coming (Part 2): CVS Health’s Chief Strategy & Business Development Officer

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The Retailers are Coming: Walgreens CMO On the Future of Community Care

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Digital Health Hype Vs. Reality: How KLAS Cuts Through With the Voice of the Customer

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A Market-Driven or Policy-Driven Approach to Health IT Innovation? ONC’s Deputy National Coordinator on the Path Forward

59

When Consolidation Isn’t About Pricing Leverage: How Ballad Health Merged Two Systems to Reduce Costs and Reinvent Rural Healthcare

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Aledade Founder & CEO Farzad Mostashari: Preserving the Autonomy of Independent Practices to Drive Real Value in Healthcare

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Health Care vs. Sick Care: SCAN Health CEO Dr. Sachin Jain on Fixing the System

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Care @Home: A Fast Start to a Long Journey, According to Texas Health’s Chief Experience Officer, Winjie Miao

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JPM Recap: The Healthcare Industry’s Annual Checkup with Strata CEO, Dan Michelson

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The Payer Perspective on COVID, Value Based Care and More with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts’ Chief Commercial Officer, Patrick Gilligan

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Elections Have Consequences: Harvard’s John McDonough Reflects on ‘Decision 2020’ and the Implications to US Healthcare

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OptumInsight CEO Robert Musslewhite’s Journey from Building a High-Growth Startup to Acquiring Them

67

CommonSpirit’s Lloyd Dean and Rich Roth on Solving Inequities through Innovation

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The Culture Of Risk at UPMC: President of UPMC Enterprises, Tal Heppenstall, Explains

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Agile Operations: COVID-19 Forces a New Reality for Healthcare Finance, According to Michael Allen, CFO at OSF Healthcare

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Exploring the Technical Impacts of COVID-19 with Cedars-Sinai CIO, Darren Dworkin

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Navigating a Post-Covid Path to the New Normal with Gist Healthcare CEO, Chas Roades

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Beating Covid with the GPO Network Effect: Vizient CEO Byron Jobe Talks Data, Supply Chain Demands and Lasting Changes to the Health System

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Covid-19, Regulatory Changes and Election Implications: An Inside Look with Premier’s SVP of Public Affairs

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The Critical Role of Safety Net Health Systems with Boston Medical Center CEO, Kate Walsh

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JP Morgan Healthcare Recap: Live with Dan Michelson, CEO at Strata Decision Technology

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How Does Providence Lead Healthcare Innovation After 161 Years? Hear From CEO Dr. Rod Hochman and Chief Digital Officer Aaron Martin

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Focusing On Unified Care at Beth Israel Lahey Health

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Healthcare is Hard: A Year of Learning From Industry Leaders

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Leading the Shift Towards Value-Based Care with Atrius Health CEO Dr. Steve Strongwater

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Designing Care Around the Consumer: A Personal Journey for AdventHealth CEO, Terry Shaw

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Innovation Institute CEO Joe Randolph Shares How to Build a Sustainable Model for Creating New Ideas

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Responding to Hurricane Katrina Showed Karen DeSalvo the Role Social Determinants Play in Healthcare

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Tapping Into The Collective Knowledge of Leading Health Systems with HMA’s Gary Bisbee

84

Hear How Allina Insiders Penny Wheeler, MD, and Ric Magnuson Prioritize “Whole Person Care”

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Creating Disciplined Innovation In Healthcare with Baystate Health CEO Mark Keroack

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What Is IHI’s “Triple Aim?” Founders Don Berwick, Maureen Bisognano Lay Out Campaign for Change

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Insider Susan DeVore on Reducing Waste and the Path to Alternative Payments in Healthcare

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Insider Glenn Steele’s Take on Redefining Value, Aligning Providers and Payers, and Driving Innovation

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Insider Bert Zimmerli Shares Intermountain’s Innovation Imperative with the Healthcare is Hard Podcast