Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for Insiders
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Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for Insiders views healthcare transformation through the lens of prominent leaders across the industry. Through intimate one-on-one discussions with executives, policy advisors, and other “insiders,” each episode dives deep into the pressing challenges that come with changing how we care for people. Hear the unique perspectives of these industry leaders to get a better understanding of what is happening today, the challenges across the healthcare ecosystem, and how innovation is really shaping the future of healthcare delivery.
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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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Sep 18, 2025 |
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Emerging Technologies (Part 2): Past, Present & Future of Healthcare Interoperability with HTD Health's Brendan Keeler
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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Emerging Technologies (Part 1): Inside Perspectives from Epic’s Seth Hain
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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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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Jun 19, 2025 |
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Medicaid Uncovered: Decoding the System
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May 15, 2025 |
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Where Medicare Stands—And Where It’s Headed with Aetna’s Dr. Ali Khan
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Opportunities in Oncology (Part 3): Getting Deep Into Patient Care with Mass General Brigham’s Head of Radiation Oncology
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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Opportunities in Oncology (Part 2): Balancing Cutting-Edge Research and Community Care
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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Opportunities in Oncology (Part 1): The Intersection of Clinical Care, Business and Policy
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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Election Implications (Part 4): Forecasting For Healthcare As The Second Trump Administration Takes Shape
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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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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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Election Implications (Part 2): This Wall Street Analyst Agrees, “Healthcare is Hard”
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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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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Sep 26, 2024 |
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What’s the Difference Between Innovation and Performance Improvement?
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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Help or Harm? How CHAI is Mitigating the Risk of AI in Healthcare
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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Live from DHIS East: Mass General Brigham CIO, Christopher Coburn
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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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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May 23, 2024 |
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Reinventing Pharmacy (Part 2): Dr. Troyen Brennan Disputes the False Narrative of Good vs. Bad Actors
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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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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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Is Innovation Stuck in Healthcare? Two Brothers Get to The Bottom of It
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Putting Trust at the Center of Healthcare Transformation: Press Ganey CEO, Pat Ryan
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Deciphering the New Normal (Part 4): Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts’ Chief Strategy Officer, Sukanya Soderland
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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Deciphering the New Normal (Part 3): Humana’s Chief Strategy & Corporate Development Officer, Dr. Vishal Agrawal
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Deciphering the New Normal (Part 2): CommonSpirit’s Chief Strategy Officer, Sheri Shapiro
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Deciphering The New Normal With OhioHealth’s Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer, Michael Krouse
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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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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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Is AI Policy a Bigger Undertaking Than Meaningful Use? Kristen McGovern Thinks So
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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AI Hype vs. Reality: A Conversation With Nuance (Microsoft) CSO, Peter Durlach
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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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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May 11, 2023 |
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Follow the Money: Harvard Professor & MedPAC Chair, Michael Chernew, Illuminates the Causes & Consequences of Healthcare Spending
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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The Healthcare Data Goldrush (Part 2): Chief Information & Digital Officer at Hartford Healthcare, Joel Vengco
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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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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Feb 16, 2023 |
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The Healthcare Data Goldrush: Leavitt Partners’ Ryan Howells & IMO’s Dale Sanders Lay Out A Guide for Prospectors
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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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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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Providence’s Sara Vaezy Tells the Tale of Two Health Systems: Fixing Fundamentals While Focusing on Innovation
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Former Department of Defense Leader Interprets the Real Cyber Risks in Healthcare
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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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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Sep 15, 2022 |
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Peering Inside Home Health and VBC with Clinician, Investor, Operator and Public Servant, Dr. Julian Harris
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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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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Jul 14, 2022 |
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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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Jun 16, 2022 |
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The Surgeon & Economics PhD Leading Medicare: Dr. Meena Seshamani
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May 19, 2022 |
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Google Cloud’s Aashima Gupta on Big Tech’s Platform Play in Healthcare
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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Mona Siddiqui on Humana’s Evolution to a Healthcare Company
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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Amazon Web Services’ Phoebe Yang on Bringing Digital Transformation to Health System Boards
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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The Biggest Surprise at JPM 2022 Is What Wasn’t Being Discussed: COVID
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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Size Doesn’t Matter: Innovation Happens Everywhere, Says Anthem’s Bryony Winn
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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The Retailers are Coming (Part 3): Walmart’s Chief Medical Officer
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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The Retailers are Coming (Part 2): CVS Health’s Chief Strategy & Business Development Officer
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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The Retailers are Coming: Walgreens CMO On the Future of Community Care
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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Digital Health Hype Vs. Reality: How KLAS Cuts Through With the Voice of the Customer
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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A Market-Driven or Policy-Driven Approach to Health IT Innovation? ONC’s Deputy National Coordinator on the Path Forward
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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When Consolidation Isn’t About Pricing Leverage: How Ballad Health Merged Two Systems to Reduce Costs and Reinvent Rural Healthcare
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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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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May 13, 2021 |
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Health Care vs. Sick Care: SCAN Health CEO Dr. Sachin Jain on Fixing the System
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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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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Mar 18, 2021 |
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JPM Recap: The Healthcare Industry’s Annual Checkup with Strata CEO, Dan Michelson
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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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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Jan 14, 2021 |
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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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Dec 03, 2020 |
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OptumInsight CEO Robert Musslewhite’s Journey from Building a High-Growth Startup to Acquiring Them
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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CommonSpirit’s Lloyd Dean and Rich Roth on Solving Inequities through Innovation
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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The Culture Of Risk at UPMC: President of UPMC Enterprises, Tal Heppenstall, Explains
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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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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Aug 13, 2020 |
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Exploring the Technical Impacts of COVID-19 with Cedars-Sinai CIO, Darren Dworkin
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Jul 16, 2020 |
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Navigating a Post-Covid Path to the New Normal with Gist Healthcare CEO, Chas Roades
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Jun 11, 2020 |
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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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May 15, 2020 |
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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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Apr 30, 2020 |
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The Critical Role of Safety Net Health Systems with Boston Medical Center CEO, Kate Walsh
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Mar 20, 2020 |
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JP Morgan Healthcare Recap: Live with Dan Michelson, CEO at Strata Decision Technology
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Feb 14, 2020 |
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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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Jan 10, 2020 |
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Focusing On Unified Care at Beth Israel Lahey Health
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Dec 12, 2019 |
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Healthcare is Hard: A Year of Learning From Industry Leaders
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Nov 21, 2019 |
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Leading the Shift Towards Value-Based Care with Atrius Health CEO Dr. Steve Strongwater
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Oct 10, 2019 |
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Designing Care Around the Consumer: A Personal Journey for AdventHealth CEO, Terry Shaw
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Sep 12, 2019 |
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Innovation Institute CEO Joe Randolph Shares How to Build a Sustainable Model for Creating New Ideas
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Jul 19, 2019 |
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Responding to Hurricane Katrina Showed Karen DeSalvo the Role Social Determinants Play in Healthcare
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Jun 13, 2019 |
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Tapping Into The Collective Knowledge of Leading Health Systems with HMA’s Gary Bisbee
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May 10, 2019 |
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Hear How Allina Insiders Penny Wheeler, MD, and Ric Magnuson Prioritize “Whole Person Care”
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Apr 12, 2019 |
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Creating Disciplined Innovation In Healthcare with Baystate Health CEO Mark Keroack
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Mar 15, 2019 |
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What Is IHI’s “Triple Aim?” Founders Don Berwick, Maureen Bisognano Lay Out Campaign for Change
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Feb 14, 2019 |
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Insider Susan DeVore on Reducing Waste and the Path to Alternative Payments in Healthcare
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Jan 18, 2019 |
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Insider Glenn Steele’s Take on Redefining Value, Aligning Providers and Payers, and Driving Innovation
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Dec 13, 2018 |
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Insider Bert Zimmerli Shares Intermountain’s Innovation Imperative with the Healthcare is Hard Podcast
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Nov 09, 2018 |