Modern Healthcare's Healthcare Insider Podcast

In this episode, Dr. Friedland discusses a recent surge of RSV, respiratory syncytial virus, how it affects the older population and what this means for healthcare providers across the U.S.

In this conversation, Leah Quartano Bowling, vice president for insurance and healthcare at Hitachi Solutions, offers strategies for harnessing the data necessary to deliver on value-based care contracts and shares how these insights can help shape provider incentives.

As medicine continues advancing and patient expectations evolve, the home is increasingly viewed as an optimal care setting. The many benefits of care in the home include that it increases convenience, minimizes access barriers, strengthens patient relationships, enables greater visibility into social determinants of health, and reduces the cost of care.

In this episode, Dr. Andrew Agwunobi, President of Humana's Home Solutions Business, discusses strategies for integrating home care into more seamless care delivery for patients. Dr. Agwunobi covers how the nursing shortage has impacted staffing for these services as well as what he envisions for the future of home health.

Healthcare today is data driven with the proliferation of electronic medical records and digital tools. Leveraging the cloud is an effective approach for healthcare organizations to unlock the power of data.

In this podcast episode, Logan Song, enterprise cloud director and chief cloud architect of Dito, explains the key functions of the cloud and how it can aid healthcare providers with better data collection, analysis and security.

He also shares examples from a healthcare system currently benefiting from using the cloud.

The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic reverberated across our nation's healthcare system, overwhelming providers and taking a toll on their financial sustainability. Add to that skyrocketing inflation, rising interest rates and the high cost of labor, it's no surprise healthcare leaders are burning the midnight oil to find ways to improve margins and rebuild their organizations' financial stability. In this episode, Roger Weems, vice president and national market leader for advisory services at Premier, Inc., discusses how the company is helping providers solve their complex challenges and drive business forward through a holistic approach to margin improvement. Utilizing PINC AI™ technology and PINC AI™ clinical, financial, operational and supply chain data, healthcare organizations can tackle expense reduction and tap new sources of revenue to improve margins while continuing to deliver high-quality care.

The healthcare sector is a major contributor to the climate crisis, with studies showing the industry accounts for about 8.5% of total U.S. carbon emissions. Efforts to address climate change fall into the ESG framework, which stands for environment, social and governance.

Over the last several months, Randy Oostra, CEO of ProMedica, a health and well-being company based in Toldeo, Ohio, has participated in the Healthcare Insider podcast to call for a new care delivery model.

In this episode, Oostra shares why addressing climate change is a critical component to creating a new healthcare delivery model, explaining the business case for healthcare leaders as well as the impacts extreme weather events are having on vulnerable communities. Oostra also dives into how ProMedica's ESG strategy is guiding their work in this area.

*Editor's note: This episode was recorded before Modern Healthcare Custom Media's ESG Summit: The New Imperative event.

Most hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers spend a significant amount of time and resources on securing contracts with anesthesia providers to help them provide essential patient care.

Shortages of anesthesia providers and higher healthcare costs overall make hiring internally, contracting, or re-contracting with an anesthesia group a costly endeavor. Despite these challenges, there is due diligence both facilities and anesthesia providers can conduct in advance of negotiations to save money and create long-lasting partnerships.

In this episode of Healthcare Insider, Dr. Josh Miller, physician managing director for Surgical Directions, shares thoughtful hiring tactics a hospital or ASC should deploy to make sure the anesthesiology group meets their unique needs and expectations. Miller also discusses the common challenges that come up when solidifying a contract and how to address them for long term success.

The No Surprises Act is intended to protect patients from surprise medical bills. But North American Partners in Anesthesia (NAPA) is raising alarm bells, worried it will worsen the nation's critical clinician shortage and harm access to care.

In this episode of Healthcare Insider, Dr. John Di Capua, NAPA CEO, and Victor Zamora, NAPA Senior Vice President of Revenue Cycle Management, explain how the Independent Dispute Resolution (IDR) process in the No Surprises Act slows down — or even reduces payments — for providers, incentivizing early retirements and adding excessive administrative burdens to already complex billing systems.

Di Capua and Zamora explain why healthcare facilities across the country should be concerned by this policy.

They also share thoughts on how to address these challenges through training programs, greater efficiency and culture.

Randy Oostra, CEO of ProMedica, a health and well-being company based in Toldeo, Ohio, joined the Healthcare Insider podcast a few months ago calling for a new model of care delivery and what it will take to get there.

Now, we are continuing the conversation. In this latest episode, Randy Oostra highlights the first and most important pillar of this new delivery model: universal access to care.

Specifically, Oostra explains key policy changes that can be made to significantly increase access to primary and behavioral health services for rural and low-income populations. He also dives into the importance of addressing social determinants of health and how the work in this area needs to evolve.

Stay tuned for the third episode with Randy Oostra in a few months where he will share the importance of addressing the climate crisis and investing in ESG.

There is a global shift to decentralize healthcare — meeting patients where they are to receive the care they need.

In this new episode of Healthcare Insider, Ron Emerson, Global Healthcare Lead at Zoom, and Ron Strachan, the Principal of Optimize Health IT and CIO Advisor for Zoom, explain the benefits to decentralizing healthcare, diving into the most recent research showing its ability to lower costs and improve overall health outcomes.

Emerson and Strachan also explore key considerations to keep in mind as the industry shifts to decentralized healthcare including how it will impact clinical teams and cybersecurity.