AdventHealth is redesigning its systems to be more longitudinal, holistic and effective at cultivating patient engagement early in the care journey.

This entails rethinking front-end primary care, as well as care delivered in the home.

David Banks, group CEO of AdventHealth’s primary health division and chief strategy officer, goes in-depth about this approach to advancing care delivery through a comprehensive, whole-person lens.

Banks also explains how AdventHealth has engaged its primary care physicians in the transformation.

Limited resources shouldn't stop healthcare organizations from investing in facilities as care demands shift, infrastructure ages and environmental sustainability takes hold. In this episode of Healthcare Insider, we explore how to balance facility investments with other pressing demands facing healthcare leaders. Join industry experts Mark Kenneday, director of market strategy and development for healthcare at Gordian, and Charles Clay, director of support and ancillary services at Sutter Health, as they discuss:

• Why prioritizing facility investment is crucial, even with budget constraints
• Strategies to communicate the risk of inaction to financial stakeholders
• Practical advice for balancing ROI and mitigating risk

Many hospitals and health systems have aging infrastructure, which presents challenges as the industry invests in environmental sustainability initiatives.

In order to effectively establish a sustainability program, it's essential for healthcare leaders to critically evaluate their facilities portfolio.

Mark Kenneday, director of market strategy and development for healthcare at Gordian, lays out how to successfully build a sustainability program at healthcare organizations, including key considerations to make when considering facilities investments.

Many health systems are optimizing specialty pharmacy operations as a strategy to improve patient care and drive margin growth. 

In this episode of Healthcare Insider, Cardinal Health’s Laura McIntire-Hansel, director of revenue cycle development, and Michael D. Brown, vice president of managed services, explore strategies for navigating complexities in the specialty pharmacy arena, such as getting authorization from insurers or connecting patients with treatment affordability programs.

They discuss a solution, remote claims adjudication, to free up pharmacists' time and improve patient care.

Listen to learn how health systems can better support their specialty pharmacies. 

Workforce shortages remain a top concern for healthcare organizations. In order to meet patient demand, providers need to focus on new and innovative approaches.

Leora Westbrook, president of workforce strategy and optimization at AMN Healthcare, explains the key tenets of a successful and effective workforce management strategy, including the important role of data and predictive modeling.

Westbrook also shares examples from healthcare organizations seeing lower turnover and cost savings with their workforce optimization initiatives.

Amid growing pressure for healthcare organizations to embrace environmental sustainability, addressing emissions directly from facilities is key, with data showing it makes up about 17% of the industry’s carbon footprint. In this new podcast episode, Mark Kenneday, director of market strategy and development for healthcare at Gordian, explains how healthcare organizations can begin their environmental sustainability journey today. Tune into the podcast where he shares:

• Common misconceptions and barriers to reducing your organization’s carbon footprint
• How to assess the feasibility and determine the ROI of starting sustainability projects
• Real-word examples from hospitals and health systems practicing sustainability

Amid fierce competition, healthcare organizations must embrace new methods for sourcing and engaging top candidates.

The latest episode of Healthcare Insider features David Ellis, head of healthcare sales, North America, at LinkedIn, joining us to discuss hiring in the face of clinical talent shortages and the ways in which LinkedIn supports healthcare professionals and talent leaders. 

Ellis shares insights on job search and engagement activity among the nearly 8 million U.S. healthcare professionals using LinkedIn, closing out with a real-world success story from Christus Health.

For more information, please visit LinkedIn.com/modernhealth.

Most technology innovation in healthcare has so far focused on clinical decision-making, overlooking operational functions. As a result, hospitals and health systems still face inefficiencies and waste, leading to financial constraints, poor patient health outcomes and high staff turnover. In this podcast, featuring Rom Eizenberg, the chief revenue officer of Kontakt.io, we discuss how healthcare providers can leverage technology to unlock the patient journey — and everything else — to achieve operational efficiency. Eizenberg will share why understanding how patients navigate the health system is fundamental to true transformation and the role of technology in realizing this goal. 

Direct sourcing has emerged as an effective staffing solution for hospitals and health systems as they continue to face labor shortages, competition for talent, and financial pressures. 

In this podcast, Richey Brownfield, vice president of enterprise solutions at AMN Healthcare, describes: 

• The key tenants to successful implementation of direct sourcing
• How to integrate direct sourcing into your organization’s current workforce management strategy
• Common challenges providers face when building out their direct sourcing solution and how to overcome them.