

Radio Advisory
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A top podcast for healthcare leaders, with over one million downloads, Radio Advisory is your weekly download on how to untangle the industry's most pressing challenges to help leaders like you make the best business decisions for your organization.
From unpacking major trends in care delivery—like site-of-care shifts and the rise of high-cost drugs—to demystifying stakeholder dynamics, to shining a spotlight on priorities that may get overlooked, 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
From unpacking major trends in care delivery—like site-of-care shifts and the rise of high-cost drugs—to demystifying stakeholder dynamics, to shining a spotlight on priorities that may get overlooked, 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
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Jan 24, 2023 • 24min
147: Pursuing growth in today's financial landscape
Factors like labor, supply costs, and rising costs of capital are making it harder than ever for leaders to develop and implement growth strategies and are showing no signs of letting up anytime soon. In this episode, Rachel (Rae) Woods invites healthcare strategy experts Colin Gelbaugh and Vidal Seegobin to discuss how health systems' growth strategies have shifted and what leaders can do to improve their organizations' trajectories, even if you're only in survival mode right now.
Links:
4 health system growth archetypes
'The most difficult year': Why hospital finances are so strained
Ep. 142: The dire state of hospital finances (Part 1: Hospital of the Future series)
Ep. 143: A new path for a sustainable financial future (Part 2: Hospital of the Future series)
Learn how healthcare competition is transforming (www.advisory.com/healthcarecompetition)

Jan 17, 2023 • 35min
146: Part 2: What CEOs need to know in 2023
In the last Radio Advisory episode host Rachel (Rae) Woods spoke with executive strategy experts Natalie Trebes and Aaron Mauck about the immediate challenges (and opportunities) facing healthcare leaders in 2023. In this episode, Rae continues that conversation with Natalie and Aaron by looking beyond this year to understand where leaders need to focus their attention on longer-term industry challenges – like growing competition, behavioral health infrastructure, and finding success in value-based care.
Links:
Ep. 145: Part 1: What CEOs need to know in 2023
Ep. 142: The dire state of hospital finances (Part 1: Hospital of the Future series)
Ep. 143: A new path for a sustainable financial future (Part 2: Hospital of the Future series)
The outlook for healthcare in 2023
Build a winning workforce strategy
Learn how healthcare competition is transforming (www.advisory.com/healthcarecompetition)

Jan 10, 2023 • 28min
145: Part 1: What CEOs need to know in 2023
Healthcare leaders are entering the new year with an unusually high number of short-term crises – things like rising costs, increased competition, and staffing shortages. So where should you be focusing your attention in 2023? In this episode host Rachel (Rae) Woods talks with executive strategy experts Natalie Trebes and Aaron Mauck about the complexities of today’s market and what should be on a leaders' radar for 2023.
This episode is the first of a two-part series. Tune in next week when Rae brings Natalie and Aaron back to discuss what leaders can do today to shape the future of healthcare beyond 2023.
Links:
Ep. 142: The dire state of hospital finances (Part 1: Hospital of the Future series)
Ep. 143: A new path for a sustainable financial future (Part 2: Hospital of the Future series)
The outlook for healthcare in 2023
Build a winning workforce strategy
Learn how healthcare competition is transforming (www.advisory.com/healthcarecompetition)

Dec 13, 2022 • 28min
144: What's on our radar for 2023
Every day it seems like there is a new challenge in the healthcare industry that requires immediate attention, making agenda and goal setting for the new year an even more difficult task. To help you decipher the signal from the noise host Rachel (Rae) Woods hands the microphone over to Advisory Board experts who will share the big questions on their radar in 2023 and the hypotheses that they plan to test.
Topics include:
(1:43) Shaping the new era of value-based care
(5:50) Addressing the behavioral health crisis
(8:54) Balancing care innovation and accessibility
(13:38) Investing in the technology-enabled workforce
(16:48) Competing on women's health
(20:04) Forecasting the impact of industry diversification
Links:
Healthcare in 2022: An industry under pressure
Ep. 124: The decisions shaping the future of healthcare
PS: This is the final episode of 2022. A BIG thank you to all our guests who came on Radio Advisory this year to share their knowledge and insights and to the team behind the scenes who make this all happen. We made this special video to show our appreciation. New episodes will drop on January 10th, until then, have a happy and healthy new year.
As we emerge from the global pandemic, healthcare is restructuring. What decisions should you be making, and what do you need to know to make them? Explore the state of the healthcare industry and its outlook for next year by visiting advisory.com/HealthCare2023.

Dec 6, 2022 • 28min
143: A new path for a sustainable financial future (Part 2: Hospital of the Future series)
In Part 1 of Radio Advisory's Hospital of the Future series, host Rachel (Rae) Woods invited experts to discuss cost-cutting strategies for hospitals facing financial hardships. But what if there are no more costs to cut? In Part 2 of the series, Rae invites Optum Executive Vice President Dr. Jim Bonnette to discuss the sustainability of modern-day hospitals and why scaling down might be the best strategy for a stable future.
Links:
Ep. 142: The dire state of hospital finances (Part 1: Hospital of the Future series)
Our Strategy playlist
Our Financial Impact playlist
As we emerge from the global pandemic, healthcare is restructuring. What decisions should you be making, and what do you need to know to make them? Explore the state of the healthcare industry and its outlook for next year by visiting advisory.com/HealthCare2023.
Advisory Board is a subsidiary of Optum. All Advisory Board research, expert perspectives, and recommendations remain independent.

Nov 29, 2022 • 30min
142: The dire state of hospital finances (Part 1: Hospital of the Future series)
The majority of hospitals are predicted to have negative margins in 2022, marking the worst year financially for hospitals since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. In Part 1 of Radio Advisory's Hospital of the Future series, host Rachel (Rae) Woods invites Advisory Board experts Monica Westhead, Colin Gelbaugh, and Aaron Mauck to discuss why factors like workforce shortages, post-acute financial instability, and growing competition are contributing to this troubling financial landscape and how hospitals are tackling these problems.
Links:
'The most difficult year': Why hospital finances are so strained
Our Financial Impact playlist
As we emerge from the global pandemic, healthcare is restructuring. What decisions should you be making, and what do you need to know to make them? Explore the state of the healthcare industry and its outlook for next year by visiting advisory.com/HealthCare2023.

Nov 15, 2022 • 34min
141: Building better digital consumer experiences
Healthcare typically lags behind other industries when it comes to digital transformation. However, growing competition in the field means a solid digital consumer experience is becoming more crucial for organizations. In this episode, Rachel (Rae) Woods invites digital health experts Jordan Angers and Ty Aderhold to discuss what healthcare leaders need to consider when revamping their digital consumer strategy and how to ensure that patients who could benefit most from digital health aren’t being left behind.
You will also want to stay tuned after their conversation because Rae has analysis of the midterm elections and what the results could mean for healthcare.
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Ep. 21: Digital health and disruption in the Covid-19 era
2022 midterms: These healthcare initiatives passed on state ballots
As we emerge from the global pandemic, healthcare is restructuring. What decisions should you be making, and what do you need to know to make them? Explore the state of the healthcare industry and its outlook for next year by visiting advisory.com/HealthCare2023.

Nov 8, 2022 • 55min
140: A gamified conversation on next generation clinical products (Live from the 2022 Service Line Summit)
In this episode, Radio Advisory is LIVE at Advisory Board’s 2022 Service Line Summit in St. Louis. Host Rachel Woods invites Advisory Board expert Fanta Cherif, Optum Rx senior director of pipeline and drug surveillance Bill Dreitlein, and Pear Therapeutics chief medical officer and head of development Dr. Yuri Marcich to have a gamified conversation about disruptive clinical products and how organizations can prepare for and embrace next-generation diagnostics and therapeutics.
Links:
Q&A: Why a disruptive therapy is more consequential than an innovative one
Disruptive therapeutics and diagnostics cheat sheets
3 disruptive behavioral health therapeutics—and what they mean for health equity
As we emerge from the global pandemic, healthcare is restructuring. What decisions should you be making, and what do you need to know to make them? Explore the state of the healthcare industry and its outlook for next year by visiting advisory.com/HealthCare2023.
Advisory Board is a subsidiary of Optum. All Advisory Board research, expert perspectives, and recommendations remain independent.

Nov 1, 2022 • 24min
139: The rise of the payvider
More and more health plans are shifting away from their traditional “risk aggregator” roles and ushering in a new era of payer-provider relationships. In this episode, Rachel (Rae) Woods invites health plan, workforce and value-based care experts Mallory Kirby, Eliza Dailey, and Katie Everts to explain payvider relationships, why they’re becoming more common, and how to determine if becoming a payvider partnership is feasible for your organization.
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Ep. 127: How health insurers are reinventing themselves
As we emerge from the global pandemic, healthcare is restructuring. What decisions should you be making, and what do you need to know to make them? Explore the state of the healthcare industry and its outlook for next year by visiting advisory.com/HealthCare2023.

Oct 25, 2022 • 37min
138: Microsoft's head of AI on building ethical systems
Equity is top of mind for health leaders—but revelations about bias in artificial intelligence is giving increasing cause for concern. In this episode host Rachel (Rae) Woods invites Microsoft’s Director for Artificial Intelligence Tom Lawry to discuss how bias creeps into AI. Together, they discuss the ethical principles leaders can adopt to ensure AI is used responsibly, and what we can all do to make intelligent systems more equitable.
Tom Lawry is the author of Hacking Healthcare, which details lessons learned from AI’s role during global pandemic and how to apply this knowledge to healthcare's other big challenges – including inequity.
Links:
[Tom's book] Hacking Healthcare: How AI and the Intelligence Revolution Will Reboot an Ailing System
AI in healthcare
What does the future of AI in cancer care look like? Here are 3 global start-ups that we're watching to decide.
Prep for a new era of AI and analytics: 5 insights from Advisory Board's 2022 AI and analytics survey
Ep. 103: What an equitable organization looks like and how yours can get there
Our Technology playlist
Our Health Equity and Racism playlist
As we emerge from the global pandemic, healthcare is restructuring. What decisions should you be making, and what do you need to know to make them? Explore the state of the healthcare industry and its outlook for next year by visiting advisory.com/HealthCare2023.


