The Health System CXO Podcast

Highlights from the conversation: Pete’s background and career journey (2:17) External versus internal C suite hires (6:34) What’s different about the CEO position (8:46) BSW’s new strategic direction (10:48) How the pandemic has affected health care leadership (14:30) BSW’s 10-year mission (22:45) Succession planning (24:20) Pete’s dream table (34:00) Welcome to the Health System CXO Podcast, spo...

Highlights from the conversation: Angela’s role and how she got there (0:30) Key factors that shortened the time frame of creating the vaccine (9:44) Global collaboration across the scientific community (14:29) Moving forward with the lessons gleaned (18:48) The behavioral side of light speed (24:51) How to think about well-being in a stressed workforce (30:59) Anegla’s personal background (36:15)...

Highlights from the conversation: Heather’s background and career journey (2:38) Defining “well-being” (7:51) How ChristianaCare brought joy back to work (9:27) Orchestrating strategy as a chief wellness officer (11:42) What constitutes an organizational culture of well-being (13:40) Bottoms-up things that have worked in a local environment (17:58) Curating well-being based on gender and ethnic di...

Topics in this conversation include:  The early forces that impacted Tom’s interest in healthcare (2:49)   Primary factors influencing healthcare workers to remain with an organization (6:16) The power of a nudge to momentum building career roles (12:11) Why women physicians are burning out at higher rates than their male counterparts (13:55) Defining trust and how to cultivate it with patients an...

Highlights from the conversation: Mia’s career journey (2:50) Building a diverse board (7:32) The Break into the Boardroom program (12:39) The power of cultivating talent in rising leaders (15:08) In-demand qualities for executive leaders (21:49) Retaining talent in “the great resignation” (27:10) Mia’s ideal table (32:50) Welcome to the Health System CXO Podcast, sponsored by The Health Managemen...

Highlights from the conversation: Dan’s background and career journey (3:35) Managing benefits from an employee perspective (10:13) Allocating Avalere Health’s first investment (12:13) How Dan shapes his core team (14:34) Avalere’s current undertakings (18:00) The Kaiser partnership (22:11) Adopting models you're not directly involved in (25:12) Success measuring metric (27:26) Patient afford...

In this year-end recap, Renee DeSilva highlights some of the key topics of The Table throughout 2021 as well as where episodes will focus in 2022. Health equity, the current challenges of health systems, and leadership characteristics were all themes this past year and Renee looks forward to discussing these topics further along with practical steps that health systems can take to make progress in...

Topics in this conversation include:  Andrew shares successful methods from non-healthcare boards as they search for new members for their board with the goal of creating diverse, functional, effective boards. 3:44 Organizations are focusing on board diversity but in order to create this type of diversity, organizations will have to change how and where they look for board members. 12:09 Andrew di...

Highlights from this episode include:  Anjali shares about her experience working with the Obama administration as an Entrepreneur in Residence with the FDA doing several 6-month appointments as well as serving as a Senior Technology Advisor. 2:00 Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is a tool that has widely been used for marketing strategies, but Anjeli shows how Mytonomy has expanded the use...

Highlights in this conversation include:  Mike shares about his past successes and what brought him into the healthcare arena. 1:40 Mike provides insight into the process of coming up with Xealth and the trials and struggles they worked through to bring Xealth to the market. 3:07 The use of Xealth is already making an impact on people's lives and Mike shares positive outcomes that are being s...

Highlights from the conversation include:  Sarah explains why she chose to focus on mental health, diversity and inclusion, advocacy, and philanthropy as key focuses when she became CEO of Sutter Health. 5:31 Sarah discusses how health equity is not treating everyone the same, but focusing on producing the same, equitable outcomes for every person. 12:25 California was able to greatly improve its...

Topics in this conversation include:  Aneesh explains why he was chosen by President Obama to be the first Chief Technology officer and the goals that he had while in that position. 5:27 Aneesh discusses how transitioning to value-based care will drive interoperability among healthcare systems, providing higher quality, more connected care for patients. 16:00 There are handshakes and handoffs betw...

Highlights of this conversation:  Judy shares her predictions for the future of healthcare, incorporating the electronic health record into how doctors will make patient-facing decisions based on actual, current data. 2:01 Judy discusses the ways that Epic's Cosmos can benefit both clinicians and patients in the care that they provide and receive, specifically sharing examples that occurred d...

Topics in this conversation include:  While burnout is a common phrase even among healthcare students, organizations can design their culture for joy, healing, and passion in caring for others. 8:57 Sonia shares about the "Big E Experience" which involves designing experiences for everyone within an organization, starting with those who work for the organization as that is where true cha...

Topics in this conversation include:  Healthcare has been stuck in a system of record transaction model during episodes of care versus more of a system of engagement model that is continuous. 2:00 Mike describes League and the platform solution that they bring to the healthcare space, bringing consumer-centric digital transformation to the industry. 8:38 Mike shares about his background, including...

Topics in this conversation include:  Stephen explains Inova's focus on people, excellence, and becoming a true system and how they will continue to focus all of their future transformation on these three key areas. 4:22 Inova is investing in physical infrastructure as well as virtual capabilities, making accommodations that will help them succeed in world-class, flexible care which will allo...

Topics in this conversation include:  Florian discusses his international background and experience with healthcare and cost which has impacted his vision and philosophy for Cedar, describes Cedar as a company to those who come from the international world with no understanding of the US healthcare payment model, and shares the experience for his wife that launched his vision for Cedar. 1:58 Price...

Highlights in this conversation include:  Gene tells of personal experiences from his childhood with the best and worst of healthcare as well as how accidentally sitting in on an orientation for hospital management impacted his career in healthcare. 2:08 Geo-mapping allowed Atrium to specifically help not only zip codes but areas within zip codes that were being most affected by COVID and eliminat...

In this episode, Erickajoy Daniels, SVP and Chief DE&I Officer, Advocate Aurora Health, joins Renee at The Table. They explore how Advocate Aurora has made an organization-wide commitment to equity-like leveraging its spending power through supplier diversity to benefit the community and engaging all team members, from providers to the executive suite. Welcome to the Health System CXO Podcast,...

Highlights in this conversation include:  Brian discusses why tremendous growth is occurring in private equity (PE) investments as well as how this is impacting healthcare, specifically investments into pharma-related and specialized services. 2:19 Successful partnerships often focus on alignment of values, vision, strategy, and process. 9:24 A CEO's success is determined by the team that the...

Later, they discuss Dr. Ryu's evolving journey as a leader and how his unique intersection of identities – Gen X, Asian American, from a multigenerational household – impact his approach. Dr. Ryu explains his nonlinear career path and how being exposed to communities different than his suburban upbringing impacted his career and his desire to bring better value and health to the communities t...

Carl Armato, CEO of Novant Health in Winston-Salem is our guest in this episode of The Academy Table. Carl shares his journey into healthcare and details how he has created a culture of equity, diversity, and inclusion at Novant Health. We discuss how Carl embeds this focus into every aspect of their organization and how this has allowed them to improve overall health outcomes across the board. Ca...

Terry Myerson shares about his introduction to technology, the internet, and Microsoft (2:25)   The three-dimensional filter Terry uses for evaluating and filtering data importance (5:46) Why vision is key for dealing with competition and leading a team (7:11) Terry describes how he began with Truveta and the company vision (9:07) Input on why the healthcare industry has been behind the curve with...

In this first episode of The Academy Table, host Renee DeSilva interviews Dr. Mary Jo Cagle, chief operating officer of Cone Health in Greensboro, NC. Together, they delve into the topics of diversity, women in the workplace, healing from discrimination, and Dr. Cagle's future.  Dr. Cagle's transition from owning her own practice to administrative leadership medicine (4:54)  Work-life ba...

The Academy Table is a podcast that serves up real conversations and an occasional good debate on issues impacting healthcare. The Table will feature the best healthcare leaders and thinkers – many of whom you will know, and some who we will introduce you to for the first time. Our intention is to broaden who is at the table, to amplify important voices and perspectives with the potential to move...