System Logic

Executive Summary: In this special news edition of the System Logic Podcast, host Jason Lee and co-host Jared Steele unpack the dramatic resurgence of healthcare mergers, acquisitions, and strategic divestitures in 2026. The conversation evaluates how multi-billion-dollar cross-market consolidations, regional geographic expansions, and asset pruning directly reshape back-office operations, health...

Executive Summary: Live from the AAPCP Annual Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, host Jason Lee and Simpliphy colleague Dan Iliff interview Marley Nacey, Compensation Leader at Sentara Healthcare, to break down the complexities of physician and advanced practice provider (APP) compensation architecture. The discussion highlights the critical need to educate providers on total cash compensation ov...

Executive Summary: In this live episode from the AAPCP conference in Nashville, host Jason Lee and co-host Dan Iliff talk with Kevin Birnbaum, Vice President at Coker. The panel discusses how healthcare groups can cultivate systematic trust through data transparency, manage the steep organizational hurdles of shifting advanced practice providers to productivity-based contracts, and strategically c...

Executive Summary: Live from the AAPCP conference in Nashville, host Jason Lee and co-host Dan Iliff sit down with Rachel Strittmatter, Director of Physician Compensation Programs at The Ohio State University. The panel explores the operational mechanics of managing a faculty and clinician footprint of over 2,000 providers, designing standardized baseline frameworks via innovative Clinical Value U...

Executive Summary: Live from the AAPCP conference in Nashville, host Jason Lee and co-host Dan Iliff welcome Mike Gizzi, Chief Transformation Officer at Suburban Health Organization (SHO). The panel discusses the operational mechanics of managing a multi-state network of 31 independent hospitals , deploying advanced population health reporting structures , and overcoming resource constraints to ex...

Executive Summary: In this special roundtable edition of the System Logic Podcast broadcast from the AAPCP conference in Nashville, host Jason Lee sits down with industry leaders Jamaal Campbell (Hallmark Healthcare Solutions) and Jack Liu (Procare Portal). The conversation explores the shifting infrastructure of physician compensation, the risks of artificial intelligence, and how healthcare netw...

Executive Summary: In this episode, host Jason Lee sits down with Dr. Eric Wascome from FMOL Health System to discuss his journey from a hospitalist physician to a clinical informaticist. The conversation explores how healthcare organizations can leverage structured EHR data, specialized routing algorithms, and ambient AI tools to reduce clinician cognitive load and optimize hospital operations. K...

Executive Summary: Paige Brogan joins host Jason Lee to evaluate the operational successes, data-sharing barriers, and medium-term outlook of California's ambitious CalAIM initiative. Drawing on five years of hands-on program implementation, Brogan outlines how structured proxy metrics like emergency department reduction validate the model, while forecasting how changing federal work requireme...

Executive Summary: In this live episode of System Logic recorded at the AAPCP Annual Conference in Nashville, host Jason Lee sits down with Brian Newell, board member of the American Association of Provider Compensation Professionals (AAPCP). The discussion addresses the acute change-management and operational hurdles health systems face when integrating disparate physician groups, highlighting ho...

Executive Summary: Host Jason Lee sits down with Tom Rossi, Vice President of Executive Search at Jackson Physician Search, to dissect the structural evolution of clinical leadership and medical staff planning. The episode provides enterprise-level strategies for navigating the severe provider shortage, establishing operational balance via the Triad leadership model, and cultivating organizational...

Executive Summary: In this episode, host Jason Lee sits down with Dr. John Nelson, co-founder of the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) and a foundational pioneer of the hospitalist model. Dr. Nelson discusses the historical evolution of hospital-focused internal medicine, the systemic shifts that forced the separation of inpatient and outpatient care, and the critical operational metrics that def...

Executive Summary: In this episode of the System Logic podcast, host Jason Lee sits down with healthcare industry expert Jared Steel of Simpliphy to discuss his professional journey spanning operations management, health informatics, and management consulting. The conversation explores how these foundational disciplines intersect to solve complex operational challenges and details the strategic ge...

Executive Summary: In this episode of the System Logic podcast, host Jason Lee connects with Allison Pullins, healthcare technologist, former Chief Strategy Officer at MD Ranger, and former VP of Product at ECG Management Consultants. Pullins discusses the critical need to elevate "back office" administration to core infrastructure while detailing strategies for executing transparent, va...

Executive Summary: In this episode of the System Logic podcast, host Jason Lee connects with Dr. Francis Kong, a former clinician turned cross-disciplinary educator, video game designer, and community leader. Dr. Kong details how his non-traditional path leverages a singular core operational anchor—education—to synthesize complex industry models, offering enterprise healthcare leaders a blueprint...

Welcome to the System Logic Podcast. Here we will be exploring the intersection of healthcare and technology. This introduction provides a glimpse into the systems and stories that we'll be discussing this season.