Modern Healthcare's Healthcare Insider Podcast

Automation and artificial intelligence can help healthcare organizations navigate staffing shortages while maximizing financial outcomes – if personnel are trained and skilled appropriately.

In this episode of Healthcare Insider, Susan Gurzynski-Wells, director of product management at HealthStream, discusses opportunities for AI to be leveraged in revenue cycle management, along with strategies for ensuring the workforce is prepared to use these technologies most effectively.

She also shares critical insights about operationalizing AI in revenue cycle management, ensuring the smooth integration of new tools, and helping the next generation of professionals achieve their career aspirations.

Innovations in technology have enabled the creation of point-of-care ultrasound, which allows clinicians to gather images at the first patient assessment, improving care quality by reducing wait times for diagnosis.

Despite the benefits of point-of-care ultrasound, wide-scale adoption hasn't been achieved, with many providers still using traditional standards of care — for example, the chest x-ray for lung assessment.

In this episode, Dr. Davinder Ramsingh, vice president of clinical research and product development at Butterfly Network, shares:

• The main barriers to widespread adoption of point-of-care ultrasound.
• Clinical specialties that would benefit the most from point-of-care ultrasound including improvements to quality scores and patient experience.
• Strategies to successfully adopt point-of-care ultrasound at your organization.

This podcast includes forward-looking statements regarding Butterfly Network's standalone educational app, ScanLab, that is not yet available but will be coming soon to Butterfly users in the United States.

There is an ongoing war for talent in healthcare. Employees are reassessing how, where and how they work. In order to withstand the changing nature and uncertainty of today's workforce, healthcare leaders must be agile.

In this podcast episode, John Rothwell, senior vice president of enterprise and strategic solutions at AMN Healthcare, describes how healthcare organizations can create a workforce management strategy that responds to evolving demands.

He also shares the important role of technology and partners to establish a workforce strategy.

The healthcare supply chain continues to face repercussions from the COVID-19 pandemic, with shortages of vital raw materials leading to disruptions in pharmaceuticals and other essential products.

In this episode, Jon Pruitt, senior vice president of CHC Supply Trust, joins the podcast to explain innovative practices community hospitals should implement to respond to supply chain concerns, emphasizing the importance of partnerships with distributors, group purchasing organizations and internal stakeholders.

Pruitt is responsible for overseeing a comprehensive supply chain management strategy for Community Hospital Corporation, which partners with hospitals to help them remain community-operated and governed.

Nationwide, hospitals and health systems continue to face serious staffing shortages, severely impacting patient care and the bottom line.

In this installment of Healthcare Insider, Dr. James Swift, chief executive officer of Pediatrix Medical Group, shares the key considerations for providers as they work to rebuild the physician workforce including how to leverage partnerships with medical groups and non-physician staff.

The episode also uncovers strategies to improve the continuum of care.

Despite the healthcare industry implementing value-based payment models for well over a decade, healthcare providers and payers still face challenges in the execution and expansion of pay-for-performance programs.

In this episode of Healthcare Insider, Kevin Coloton, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Curation Health, and Dr. Matt Lambert, Chief Medical Officer of Curation Health, share practical tips for providers and payers to be successful in value-based care wherever they are in their journey – whether that be starting a value-based care program from the ground up or how to expand current efforts.

Coloton and Lambert also describe the common pitfalls to avoid as healthcare organizations continue on their value-based care path such as investing in a myriad of technology solutions in an effort to maximize insights from data.

Over the last year, leading health systems are reporting negative financial results, largely due to rising expenses, shifting market dynamics and deteriorating payer mix. To respond, health systems must create opportunities for sustainable financial growth.

In this episode, Richard Bajner, partner and payer and provider leader of Guidehouse, explains the framework healthcare leaders should be applying to improve financial resilience. He also shares how leaders can balance short-term budget constraints while at the same time addressing larger macro trends.

As community hospitals across the country face inflation, rising costs and labor shortages, now is the time to implement innovative delivery models for long-term sustainability.

Jim Kendrick, president and CEO of Community Hospital Corporation, shares how partnerships, enhanced staff training, and the Hospital at Home care model can improve the outlook for community hospitals.

Kendrick also explains how the Rural Emergency Hospital designation impacts community hospitals and the trade-offs to consider.

Too often, hospital leaders view IT simply as a business function.

But IT can meaningfully help organizations meet strategic business goals if leveraged appropriately, argues Brian Doerr, senior vice president of information technology and security and privacy officer at Community Hospital Corporation.

In this podcast episode, Doerr explains why community hospitals and other providers should take an enterprise approach to IT, laying out a proven roadmap hospitals can adopt to begin their journey.

Doerr also provides real-world examples from community hospitals that have transformed their IT and seen meaningful improvements.