The Pediatric Innovation Playbook: How Dayton Children’s Evaluates AI, ROI and Scale
J.D. Whitlock’s path to becoming a health system CIO began in the U.S. Air Force, where he served in a variety of healthcare management role...
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Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for Insiders will view healthcare transformation through the lens of prominent leaders across our industry. Through intimate one-on-one discussions with executi...
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Designing Digital Change for Scale: Sutter Health’s Laura Wilt on AI, Leadership and the Human Side of Transformation
Growing up on a farm in rural Missouri, and even through college, a career in healthcare was never in the forefront of Laura Wilt’s mind. Sh...
Why Healthcare Leadership Is Harder Than Ever: Cedars-Sinai’s Tom Priselac on Culture, Change and Cost
Cedars-Sinai has evolved from a community hospital to a major academic health system with an international reputation for quality care, comm...
A Giant Leap for Healthcare: Dr. Bob Wachter on AI, Clinical Workflows and the Patient-Doctor Relationship
Dr. Bob Wachter describes his career as the result of “what happens when a political science major becomes an academic physician.” Rather th...
From Pilots to Production: Boston Children’s John Brownstein on the Next Phase of AI in Healthcare
Dr. John Brownstein has been on the leading edge of digital health since medical school, where he was drawn to epidemiology because of the o...
DC’s Ambitious Plans for Modernizing Health Tech: U.S. DOGE Service Administrator & CMS Strategic Advisor, Amy Gleason
The daughter of a hospital administrator, Amy Gleason never considered a career in the public sector – she went straight into healthcare. As...
Glimmers of Nonpartisan Progress: Decoding ACCESS, TEMPO and the Latest Government Healthcare Initiatives
After three decades working to deliver easy, fast and cost-effective patient experiences through technology, Ryan Howells is more optimistic...
340B Unpacked for the Holidays: Policy, Controversy, and Impact
Sitting at the intersection of healthcare policy, hospital finance, and patient access, the 340B drug discount program is a hot button issue...
The Big Beautiful Maze of Health Policy and Innovation
From being at the center of some of the most significant shifts in U.S. healthcare policy over the past two decades, Liz Fowler can offer va...
Lessons from Public Sector Leadership: Former CMS Administrator and FDA Commissioner, Dr. Mark McClellan
Dr. Mark McClellan has served as a Member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medic...
Emerging Technologies (Part 3): Microsoft’s Chief Architect for Health on the Saga of Interoperability and AI
Dr. Josh Mandel says his first love was software. But on a whim, while studying computer science and software engineering at MIT, he took a...
Emerging Technologies (Part 2): Past, Present & Future of Healthcare Interoperability with HTD Health's Brendan Keeler
Brendan Keeler’s path into healthcare interoperability has been anything but straightforward. After early stints implementing Epic in the U....
Emerging Technologies (Part 1): Inside Perspectives from Epic’s Seth Hain
Seth Hain has spent two decades at Epic, watching the electronic health record evolve from digital filing cabinet to care-delivery platform....
How a Tech-Minded CEO Sees the Future: CareFirst’s Brian D. Pieninck on Medicare, Medicaid & the AI-Driven Inflection Point in Healthcare
Brian D. Pieninck didn’t take a conventional path to healthcare leadership. He started his career as an 18-year-old IT contractor and spent...
Medicaid Uncovered: Decoding the System
Kody Kinsley has been called many things—operator, innovator, Medicaid “nerd”—but above all, he’s a fierce advocate for the health and well-...
Where Medicare Stands—And Where It’s Headed with Aetna’s Dr. Ali Khan
Dr. Ali Khan has spent his career at the intersection of medicine, public policy, and value-based care. He’s also been at the forefront of s...
Opportunities in Oncology (Part 3): Getting Deep Into Patient Care with Mass General Brigham’s Head of Radiation Oncology
The first two episodes in this Healthcare is Hard podcast series on “Opportunities in Oncology” explored the relationship between academic m...
Opportunities in Oncology (Part 2): Balancing Cutting-Edge Research and Community Care
Dr. Harlan Levine began his career practicing internal medicine but soon moved into business leadership roles at national healthcare organiz...
Opportunities in Oncology (Part 1): The Intersection of Clinical Care, Business and Policy
There’s been a massive gap in oncology where people who have been responsible for a dramatic increase in the standard of care have lacked a...
Election Implications (Part 4): Forecasting For Healthcare As The Second Trump Administration Takes Shape
Elements of the new Trump administration are coming into focus as announcements of key healthcare appointments and nominations provide indic...