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Radio Advisory — 320 episodes

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298: Battle of the bots? Separating AI hype from value in revenue cycle

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297: Consumerism still hasn’t caught on in healthcare. Will it ever?

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296: The real value of price transparency, and how leaders should engage

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295: How to keep patients on Medicaid amid looming cuts

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On the ground at ViVE 2026: Takeaways on AI and scale

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294: Live from ViVE: How payers can reduce friction when the rules change

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293: The state of AMCs in 2026, and what leaders should watch next

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292: Inside the new employer menu of cost-control strategies

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291: If you build it, will they buy it? The new rules for proving value in life sciences

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290: How data‑savvy strategic planners will define the next era of health system growth

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289: What are health systems doing in 2026? Results from our survey are in.

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288: Health policy update: VBC, site-neutral payments, and 340B

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287: Infusion revenues are under threat: What to watch and how to prepare

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286: A Medicare Advantage reset — and what comes next

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285: How Rush University Medical Center is closing the 'death gap'

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284: Why all providers should be watching what’s happening in pediatrics

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283: A candid conversation: Physicians on the front lines of GLP‑1 care

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282: What CEOs need to know in 2026 (Part 2)

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281: What CEOs need to know in 2026 (Part 1)

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What’s ahead on Radio Advisory in 2026

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280: The questions Advisory Board is asking in 2026

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279: ‘Food as medicine’: What it is, why it matters, and how to do it right

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278: Dr. Emily Oster on fighting misinformation and rebuilding trust in healthcare

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277: Patient distrust is costing you. Here’s how to rebuild it.

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276: The AI gold rush is changing how humans (and clinicians) make decisions

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275: Why (and how) you should prioritize veterans' health

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274: The nurse engagement tactic leaders may be missing

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273: MaineHealth isn’t just surviving against the odds — it’s thriving

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272: How leaders need to rethink their approach to philanthropy

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271: Inside Ochsner Health's strategy for successful VBC

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270: Service line snapshot: What every health leader needs to know

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269: The government shutdown, and what rural executives need to know before Nov. 5

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268: Create an ambulatory care network that’s smarter — not just bigger

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267: Care variation reduction: A $100B opportunity

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266: Your EHR can do more for you. Here’s how.

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265: A quick look at what's happening with vaccines

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264: Research funding is being slashed. What’s the real industry impact?

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[Encore] How hospitals and post-acute providers can rebuild their relationships (and why they need to)

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[Encore] Hospitals are at capacity. What can we actually do about it?

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[Encore] The $400M referral problem (and steps to fixing it)

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263: What 130+ healthcare leaders are saying about Trump’s big, beautiful bill

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262: The price of policy: How tariffs are reshaping purchasing

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261: Maven Clinic on how holistic women's health is the key to reducing cost and engaging employees

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260: What does progress in behavioral healthcare look like? Three leaders weigh in

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259: Our expensive new normal: why traditional drug cost controls are obsolete

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258: The ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill Act’: What’s changing, who’s affected, and what to do now

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257: Paul Markovich on new builds, breakups, and bold healthcare bets

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256: How you can prepare for the financial impacts of Trump-era policies

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255: Is healthcare really recession-proof?

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254: Stop searching for the “perfect” AI product and do this instead

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253: A new way to measure patient access

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252: Contain, extract, recover: Inside the Ardent Health cyberattack

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251: Former HHS leaders weigh in on navigating Trump 2.0 (and answer your questions)

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250: VBC success is possible. Here's how Advocate Health does it.

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[Encore] The changing tide of Medicare Advantage

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249: What is 340B, and why is it in the hot seat

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248: Drugs, surgeries, and shortages: the state of obesity care in 2025

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247: How hospitals and post-acute providers can rebuild their relationships (and why they need to)

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246: Plans have trust and cost problems. Here's how to manage both.

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245: Headcount might not explain your labor challenges. What will?

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244: What’s happened in Washington (so far) and what policy changes we’re bracing for

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243: What’s now and what’s next in value-based care

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242: How you should rethink your life sciences-health system partnerships

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241: When disaster strikes: Evacuating Unicoi hospital

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240: Hospitals are at capacity. What can we actually do about it?

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239: UNC Health: The care variation reduction story you need to hear

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238: Is your ambulatory strategy stuck in 2015?

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237: “Being digital”: How to assess health systems’ digital maturity

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236: What CEOs need to know in 2025 (Part 2)

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235: What CEOs need to know in 2025 (Part 1)

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234: A preview of Advisory Board’s 2025 research

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This year on Radio Advisory...

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233: Your digital strategy needs more than “change management”

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232: The rise of ICHRAs: Why some employers are turning to the individual market

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231: Big deal, little deal, or no deal? A 2024 health policy retrospective

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230: Elections results are in: What healthcare leaders need to know

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229: Live from HLTH: What Can’t GLP-1s Do?

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228: Avoiding ‘pilot purgatory’ in remote patient monitoring

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227: The changing tide of Medicare Advantage

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226: It’s time to double down on operational excellence: Live from Advisory Board’s Strategy Summit

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225: Patients are back – so why aren't hospital margins?

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224: The $400M referral problem (and steps to fixing it)

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223: What would it take for home-based care to take off? With Medically Home's Dr. Matt Richards

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[Encore] What the industry is (still) getting wrong about value-based care

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222: It's not just GLP-1s; here's what comprehensive weight management looks like

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221: How will health system growth look different in 2025 and beyond?

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220: Why AI in healthcare is more than just ChatGPT

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219: The business case for going green

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218: [Encore + bonus content] Site-of-care shifts: It's time to go on offense

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[Encore] Test, fail, and test again: Morgan Health's approach to employer costs

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[Encore] Why can't providers and plans just get along?

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217: How to make innovation real: Live from Advisory Board's Clinical Innovation Summit

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216: Why providers and employers need to focus on women's health "beyond the bikini"

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215: Why Walmart and other retailers are exiting primary care delivery and why it matters

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Behind the scenes: Our journey to four years, 1M downloads

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214: Is Governance the answer to AI integration? Duke says yes.

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213: Radio Advisory Live: Why "value" doesn't have to be zero sum, with Stacey Richter

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212: Lessons from the C-Suite: Google's Chief Health Officer Dr. Karen DeSalvo on healthcare's cognitive industrial revolution

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211: Pursuing financial sustainability in cell and gene therapy delivery

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210: How you approach precision medicine matters—for some patients more than others

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209: Predicting what oncology will look like in 2030

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208: Authors Jim and Bob Rebitzer ask, "Why can't healthcare be better and cheaper?" (Live from The Players 2024 Championship)

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207: Nurses Week 2024: Build care teams, not assembly lines

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206: 24th Secretary of HHS Alex Azar shares his vision on healthcare transformation

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205: Live from ViVE 2024: Four leaders on how technology is redefining clinical work

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204: Unveiling "Bespoke Care": Healthcare's tailored future

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203: Value series: Is the future of VBC in specialty care? Zing Health & Strive Health say yes.

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202: Value series: Why CenterWell (and Humana) is going all in on senior care

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201: Value series: What does health system VBC adoption actually look like?

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200: Why 2024 is a make-or-break year for corporate medical groups

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199: Why can't providers and plans just get along?

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198: PE firm General Catalyst is buying a hospital — here's our take

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197: Lessons from the C-Suite: Demystifying generative AI with Dr. John Halamka, President of Mayo Clinic Platform

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196: The future of surgery (no, it's not just robots)

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195: Site-of-care shifts: It's time to go on offense

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194: The patients are not all right: Unpacking the quality crisis with The Joint Commission's Dr. David Baker

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193: Is health system growth still possible?

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192: What CEOs need to know in 2024 (Part 2)

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191: What CEOs need to know in 2024 (Part 1)

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190: Behind the scenes with Rae & AskAdvisory

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189: A preview of Advisory Board's 2024 research

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188: The business case for investing in women's health

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187: ChristianaCare's comprehensive, CFO-approved approach to behavioral healthcare

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186: The new era of drugs is now

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185: AI adoption: why you can't afford to "wait and see"

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184: Coverage whiplash: the headache of Medicaid redeterminations and how to respond

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183: John Muir Health and Optum reflect on what makes their partnership work

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182: Should your partnership strategy go global?

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181: Does healthcare's approach to obesity harm patients?

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180: Tom Lawry on why AI has a PR problem

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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174: Quest's vision for genomics at scale

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

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

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171: Data privacy in the wake of Dobbs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Encore: Revisiting our conversation on building ethical AI systems

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

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

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

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161: Unwavering purpose, the creation of Ballad Health

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160: What navigating complexity can tell us about leadership

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159: Ozempic, Wegovy, and our questions on weight management drugs

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158: Advisory Board's spokespersons reflect on moments that changed healthcare

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157: Allyship in Action (Part 2): What leaders want allies to know

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156: Allyship in Action (Part 1): Beyond Leaning In with Melanie Ho

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155: Nursing homes are closing (and you should be paying attention)

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154: The behavioral health crisis won't change (unless we do)

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153: Why health systems should take action on climate change

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152: The global workforce crisis (and possible solutions)

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151: Making vendor-provider partnerships work

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150: Senior Care (Part 2): The rapid growth of Medicare Advantage

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149: Senior Care (Part 1): Specialized primary care for an aging population

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148: The promise (and perils) of physician autonomy

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147: Pursuing growth in today's financial landscape

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146: Part 2: What CEOs need to know in 2023

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145: Part 1: What CEOs need to know in 2023

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144: What's on our radar for 2023

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143: A new path for a sustainable financial future (Part 2: Hospital of the Future series)

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142: The dire state of hospital finances (Part 1: Hospital of the Future series)

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141: Building better digital consumer experiences

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140: A gamified conversation on next generation clinical products (Live from the 2022 Service Line Summit)

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139: The rise of the payvider

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138: Microsoft's head of AI on building ethical systems

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137: What you need to know about quiet quitting

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136: The ripple effects of Alzheimer's research fraud

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135: Henry Ford Health on nursing shortages and the real supply chain issue

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134: Can Mark Cuban solve our drug cost problems?

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133: Healthcare disruptors: How afraid of Amazon should you be?

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132: Healthcare disruptors: Best Buy's big move into healthcare [Bonus content]

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131: Healthcare disruptors: Why Walgreens wants to partner—not compete

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130: Healthcare disruptors: Don't discount retailers

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129: It's 2022, stop using these phrases

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128: Cancer and Covid-19: What we still don't know about the pandemic effect

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127: How health insurers are reinventing themselves

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126: [Bonus content] Commercial risk is possible—here's how

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125: It's not the great resignation, it's the great realignment

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124: The decisions shaping the future of healthcare

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123: Is private equity healthcare's bad guy?

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122: The 5 root causes of behavioral health inequity

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121: Researchers react: Roe is overturned

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120: Open Mic: The latest IPPS proposal could be a game-changer for health equity

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119: How health leaders can address climate change

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118: Commercial risk is possible—here's how

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117: 4 ways to prevent a physician shortage

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116: The ripple effects of overturning Roe v. Wade

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115: How nurses (and nursing) make a difference

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114: The evolving world of clinical evidence

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113: What it will take to get to meaningful risk

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112: Defining digital transformation beyond buzzwords

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111: Beyond Covid-19: What Stop the Spread can teach us about all health challenges

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110: Site-of-care shift is a global (and accelerating) trend

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109: Senior care: Why the next 10 years are critical

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108: Supporting RNs by changing the structure of nursing

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107: Health policies we're watching in 2022

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106: Two years later: What surprised us most about Covid-19

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105: How do we define value? Here's what we learned from our cross-industry summit.

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104: How physician partnership is changing

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103: What an equitable organization looks like and how yours can get there

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102: Which country performed best against Covid-19?

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101: Redefining the physician landscape

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[Rerun] How changing demographics will affect the future of healthcare

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[Rerun] Seattle Children's approach to behavioral health

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[Rerun] Why you have to embrace telework (and how to get it right)

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100: Omicron—what it means for healthcare policy

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99: Part 2: What healthcare CEOs need to know in 2022

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98: Part 1: What healthcare CEOs need to know in 2022

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97: How technology will impact health care over the next decade

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96: Why the headlines are wrong about physician shortages

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95: Best Buy's big move into healthcare

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94: Where CMMI is headed—according to its director

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93: Beyond burnout: Moral exhaustion in the clinical workforce

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92: The biggest crisis of 2021 isn't Covid-19—it's nursing shortages

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91: We need to talk about maternal health in America

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90: Aaron Carroll on how clinicians can combat medical misinformation

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89: The unanswered vaccine questions you should be tracking

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88: RWJBarnabas Health's approach to equity: "We tore up the mission statement"

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87: Digital inequities (and why you shouldn't call it the digital divide)

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[Rerun] How ProMedica prioritizes data to address social determinants of health

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[Rerun] Resilience: Not just a pandemic buzzword—and not the same as engagement

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[Rerun] CEO Warner Thomas on 20 years of digital innovation at Ochsner Health

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[Rerun] Who's making money in 2021? A look at hospitals and health plans after Covid-19.

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86: The good and the (unintentionally) bad of virtual behavioral health investment

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85: Two big surprises in CMS' 2022 outpatient proposed rule

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84: How Privia Health is bringing 'agency back to physicians'

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83: In-person or remote work? For healthcare organizations, both.

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82: A system of systems: An update on the collaboration between the Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals

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81: How changing demographics will affect the future of healthcare

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80: Whitman-Walker's commitment to vulnerable communities is more than just a mission statement

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79: Why racism is (still) a healthcare issue

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78: Who's making money in 2021? A look at hospitals and health plans after Covid-19.

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77: Open Mic: Service members earn a recovery period after a tour of duty. Now clinicians should, too.

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76: Transparency and surprise billing: The biggest policies coming your way

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75: The Covid-19 outlook right now is good. And the media is missing it.

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74: Open Mic: Health systems can perform better: Covid-19 shows them how.

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73: Nurses Week 2021: How to go beyond "thank you" and help nurses heal

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72: Open Mic: It's getting harder to justify special privileges for your top donors

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71: How CommonSpirit Health is using systemness to drive population health

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70: Open Mic: A letter to telehealth patients

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69: CEO Warner Thomas on 20 years of digital innovation at Ochsner Health

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68: Seattle Children's approach to behavioral health

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67: An update on the physician landscape, one year later

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66: There is no playbook: Why we can't compare the pandemic to the Great Recession

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65: Your organization likely doesn't have enough women leaders—here's how to fix that

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64: Why Contessa's CEO believes hospital at home benefits everyone (including hospitals)

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63: Vaccine hunters, shoppers, avoiders (oh my!)

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62: How Parkland is vaccinating Dallas County—and reducing health inequity

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61: Resilience: Not just a pandemic buzzword—and not the same as engagement

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60: When disruptors fail to disrupt: Lessons from Amazon's venture with Haven Healthcare

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59: Why you have to embrace telework (and how to get it right)

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58: Political hype or practical change? Health policy under a unified government

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57: What will volumes look like in 2021?

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56: Vaccinating the globe, the ultimate systemness challenge

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55: Biden's plan for fighting Covid-19

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54: The votes are (finally) in—what the results in Georgia mean for healthcare

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53: What will healthcare look like in 2021?

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52: Your role in vaccine distribution (and why it's harder than you think)

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51: Covid-19 vaccines are coming. Are you ready?

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50: How Covid should—and shouldn't—change your 2021 strategic plan

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49: When competitors unite—lessons from Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals

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48: The dire state of rural healthcare

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47: The dawn of the Biden Era

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46: The fall surge: Covid-19 and rural America

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45: Practice medicine or parent?: A workforce in crisis

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44: The healthcare issues on the ballot this year

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43: The right questions to ask about the future of value-based care

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42: How you can address inherent racial bias

280

41: Why workforce diversity should be a top priority for your organization

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40: Wearables: Disruption or distraction?

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39: The digital health landscape is changing fast—are you ready?

283

38: How ProMedica prioritizes data to address social determinants of health

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37: Marc Harrison on Intermountain's approach to health equity

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36: How Marc Harrison sees the healthcare landscape changing post-Covid-19

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35: Zeke Emanuel on the path to a vaccine (and why it's much harder than you think)

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34: A message from NYC—"remain vigilant"

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33: Are mega systems the future?

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32: Are independent physicians going extinct? Not so fast.

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31: What the price transparency ruling means for providers

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30: People are leaving their homes, so why are they still avoiding care?

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29: The volume outlook for 2020

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28: An overdue conversation about Covid-19 and nursing homes

294

27: Supporting transgender patients amid rollback of protections

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26: Leadership series #5: Embracing vulnerability

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25: An authentic approach to health equity

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24: Leadership series #4: Teamwork during a crisis

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23: How behavioral health in the US is affected by Covid-19

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22: Leadership series #3: Choosing empathy

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21: Digital health and disruption in the Covid-19 era

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20: Leadership series #2: Stress and emotional resilience

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19: Why racism is a healthcare issue

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18: A global perspective on Covid-19

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17: Leadership series #1: Leading in uncertain times

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16: How will Covid-19 impact the perception of the industry?

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15: Financial impact series: Physician groups

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14: The suddenly strategic imperatives of supply chain

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13: IPPS just dropped. Here is what you need to know.

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12: Financial impact series: Ambulatory Surgery Centers

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11: [Quick update] Financial impact series: Hospitals

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10: Financial impact series: Payers

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9: It's Nurses Week. Why this year must be different

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8: Reopening for business part two: Ambulatory practices

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7: Financial impact series: Hospitals

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6: Reopening for business? Here's what you need to know

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5: Are large health systems faring better with Covid-19?

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4: Leading through a crisis

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3: The perception of government's role in healthcare

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2: How COVID-19 is transforming telehealth now and in the future

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1: Ramping up hospital capacity in the COVID-19 era