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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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Jul 27, 2021 • 34min
84: How Privia Health is bringing 'agency back to physicians'
A lot has changed in the health care space over the past year and a half, but not all of it has been related to the Covid-19 pandemic. In this episode, Rae sits down with Mike Flammini, chief business development officer at Privia Health, to talk about the changing physician landscape and the non-hospital players offering new partnerships for today's physicians.
Links:
AMA has a headline-grabbing number about physician practices. (But be wary of misinterpreting it.)
Physicians want partners, not bosses
How physician practices are thinking about acquisition in today’s financial landscape
Equip your rising executives with the leadership and business skills they need to navigate the complexity of health care, solve difficult challenges and achieve breakthrough performance. Learn more about the Advisory Board Fellowship.

Jul 20, 2021 • 34min
83: In-person or remote work? For healthcare organizations, both.
For nearly a year and a half, many people have been working remotely, and as many eye a return to the workplace, leaders are now faced with the choice of either operating like they did pre-Covid, or implementing a hybrid workplace model. In this episode, Rae sits down with Advisory Board's Miriam Sznycer-Taub and Alex Polyak to discuss how leaders can make a hybrid workplace function effectively.
Links:
How a 5 minute pulse survey can drastically boost your Covid-19 workforce strategy
How increased demand and use of telehealth will impact facility needs
Your Organization’s Approach to Remote Work Considerations
Equip your rising executives with the leadership and business skills they need to navigate the complexity of health care, solve difficult challenges and achieve breakthrough performance. Learn more about the Advisory Board Fellowship.

Jul 13, 2021 • 36min
82: A system of systems: An update on the collaboration between the Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals
This episode is sponsored by Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals. Advisory Board experts developed this podcast episode independently and objectively.
At the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals partnered together help combat the pandemic. In this episode, Rae sits down with Cleveland Clinic Chief of Medical Operations Dr. Robert Wyllie and University Hospitals Chief Operations Officer Dr. Eric Beck to dive deeper into the partnership the two institutions formed and discuss how they're continuing that partnership in the future.
This episode is sponsored by Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals, Advisory Board member organizations. Representatives of both institutions helped select the topics and issues addressed. Advisory Board experts developed the podcast, maintained final editorial approval, and conducted the underlying research independently and objectively. Advisory Board does not endorse any company, organization, product or brand mentioned herein. To learn more, view Advisory Board's editorial guidelines.
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Stronger Together White Paper
STRONGER TOGETHER: University Hospitals and Cleveland Clinic – COVID-19 Observations, Lessons Learned, Partnership and Roadmap for the Future
Ep. 49: When competitors unite—lessons from Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals

Jun 29, 2021 • 30min
81: How changing demographics will affect the future of healthcare
As we come towards the end of the Covid-19 pandemic, it's time to start looking at how the pandemic, alongside other big market forces, will shape healthcare in the future. In this episode, Rae sits down with Advisory Board's Nick Cericola to talk about how changing demographics could affect the healthcare industry in the next 10 years—and why younger generations have the potential to change healthcare in the most surprising ways.

Jun 22, 2021 • 25min
80: Whitman-Walker's commitment to vulnerable communities is more than just a mission statement
Whitman-Walker Health has served Washington, D.C. for over 40 years, with a focus on its underserved and often marginalized communities. In this episode of Radio Advisory, Rae sits down with Advisory Board's Matt Cornner to discuss his conversation with the CEO of Whitman-Walker, Naseema Shafi, including how she approaches health equity in Washington, D.C.'s vulnerable communities.
Links:
Advisory Board Fellowship
The Executive's Role in Fostering Resilient, Adaptive Leaders
3 ways to foster resilient, adaptive physician leaders
Equip your rising executives with the leadership and business skills they need to navigate the complexity of health care, solve difficult challenges and achieve breakthrough performance. Learn more about the Advisory Board Fellowship.

Jun 15, 2021 • 39min
79: Why racism is (still) a healthcare issue
A year ago, Radio Advisory premiered an episode detailing why racism is a major issue in the healthcare industry—so what has the healthcare industry done in the past year? In this episode, Rae sits down with Advisory Board's Karl Whitemarsh, Micha'le Simmons, and Darby Sullivan to take a look at where the healthcare industry stands in its effort to combat racism and improve equity and how far the industry has left to go.
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The CEO's Role in Advancing Health Equity
Maturity model for reducing health disparities
The Case for Cultural Humility
7 excuses for not making health equity a priority in word and action
Advancing equity for your workforce, patients, and community
Radio Advisory Playlist: Health equity and racism episodes

Jun 8, 2021 • 35min
78: Who's making money in 2021? A look at hospitals and health plans after Covid-19.
The Covid-19 pandemic has shaken the health care industry over the past year, but what can health systems and health plans expect financially going forward? In this episode, Rae sits down with Advisory Board's Natalie Trebes and Christopher Kerns to talk about the financial outlook for health systems and health plans for the rest of 2021 and beyond.
Links:
Provider financial outlook: Continued volume recovery—but modest gains in margins and huge variability across the board
Radio Advisory Playlist: Financial Impact episodes

Jun 1, 2021 • 10min
77: Open Mic: Service members earn a recovery period after a tour of duty. Now clinicians should, too.
In the final iteration of Radio Advisory’s open mic, Radio Advisory’s own Rae Woods offers her take on how leaders can provide the clinical workforce a meaningful recovery period. After their service in the face of the Covid-19 crisis, Rae offers an analogy to military service.
In order to prevent long-term supply challenges, leaders may need to make supply problem worse before it can get better. That means literally giving doctors and nurses time to step back, access tools to heal and treat their trauma, and ultimately return to the workforce.
Read Rae's piece in the Harvard Business Review (HBR.org)
Links:
Three strategies to build baseline emotional support
How Ochsner Health's structured debriefs promote recovery during a crisis
Recovery: It's time for the physician workforce to heal
Your two-pronged approach to addressing—and preventing—physician burnout
Equip your rising executives with the leadership and business skills they need to navigate the complexity of health care, solve difficult challenges and achieve breakthrough performance. Learn more about the Advisory Board Fellowship.

May 25, 2021 • 25min
76: Transparency and surprise billing: The biggest policies coming your way
This episode was recorded on May 20, 2021.
As Covid-19 begins to slow down in the United States, the health care world is starting to refocus on some of the issues that permeated the space before the pandemic. In this episode, Rae sits down with Advisory Board's Rob Lazerow and Heather Bell to talk about how three new policies—hospital price transparency, payer price transparency, and surprise billing—will affect the health care industry.
Links:
The New Hospital Price Transparency Rule
The No Surprises Act
Our take: How hospitals are (and aren't) responding to the price transparency rule
Why Transparency on Medical Prices Could Actually Make Them Go Higher | The New York Times
Check out the latest research and insights from Advisory Board
Executive Insights (Issue 1 | Spring 2021)

May 18, 2021 • 30min
75: The Covid-19 outlook right now is good. And the media is missing it.
Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, there has been a lot of misinformation out there—from misunderstood scientific facts to outright conspiracy theories. In this episode, Rae sits down with Advisory Board's Brandi Greenberg and Christopher Kerns to talk about the biggest misconceptions about Covid-19 that they've heard in the media and why the Covid-19 outlook is actually good.
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The 6 biggest Covid-related myths we've seen, busted
Check out the latest research and insights from Advisory Board
Executive Insights (Issue 1 | Spring 2021)


