Vizient's podcast channels are dedicated to critical issues you face: health care strategy, performance improvement and of course, patient care. Whether your work is focused on the here and now at the patient's bedside or looking toward the future and your organization's long-term health, our podcasts feature subject matter experts from the Vizient/Sg2 teams and your colleagues across the membership. Subscribe to our channels on Apple podcasts, Google podcasts, Spotify and Stitcher and new episodes will come right to your phone, tablet or computer every week.
Crosswinds Podcast
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Will Ferniany, CEO University of Alabama at Birmingham Health System (Part 2)
Tom Robertson, Executive Director of the Vizient Research Institute and Will Ferniany, CEO of the UAB Health System return to discuss a possible role for genomics in reducing health inequities, the shortage of mental health resources, Will’s thoughts on national investments in public health and educat...
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Will Ferniany, CEO University of Alabama at Birmingham Health System (Part 1)
Tom Robertson, Executive Director of the Vizient Research Institute sits down with Will Ferniany, CEO of the UAB Health System to discuss virtual patient encounters (before and after COVID) and their impact on ambulatory facility capacity, Will’s thoughts on the unique challenges facing rural health c...
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Marna Borgstrom, CEO Yale New Haven Health (Part 2)
Tom Robertson, Executive Director of the Vizient Research Institute, sits down with Yale New Haven Health’s CEO, Marna Borgstrom, for a second time. Tom and Marna shift gears to discuss macroeconomic issues affecting the affordability of health care for middle class households.
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Knowledge on the Go Podcast
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One of the most compelling lessons Marcia Baker learned from a recent Vizient High Reliability and Sustainability Benchmarking Study is that “variation hides issues.” She and her colleague Sandy Cox have worked to uncover those issues and, in Sandy’s words, “Fix the problem.” On this podcast, Marcia a...
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Well-being: Leading your staff during a crisis – Part 2
The Coronavirus pandemic has taken a toll on hospitals and clinicians across the country. As the surge persists, staff stressors increase, and the relentless pressure compounds the seriousness of the problem. This episode reveals how Rush University Medical Center’s Strategic Communications department...
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Well-being: Leading your staff during a crisis – Part 1
The Coronavirus pandemic has taken a toll on clinicians across the country. As the surge persists, staff stressors increase, and the relentless pressure compounds the seriousness of the problem. This episode reveals how a new Chief Medical Officer at Loyola Medical Center helped his staff and himself...
Modern Practice Podcast
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Vaccine hesitancy among health care workers – Part 3
On this episode, we continue our discussion on the reasons and remedies for COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among the health care staff.
Guest speakers:
Michele Andrasik, PhD, EdM, MS, MA
Senior Staff Scientist
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
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Vaccine hesitancy among health care workers – Part 2
Health care workers can be hesitant to take the COVID vaccines for a number of reasons. To address this challenge, organizations can take a number of approaches, from vaccine mandates to incentive payments, yet these tactics may not really address the strong, even deep-seated, concerns staff members m...
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Vaccine hesitancy among health care workers – Part 1
For a variety of reasons, from concerns about side effects to lack of trust of societal institutions, many health care workers are hesitant about taking COVID vaccinations. In this episode, Tom discusses this hesitancy with two leading experts in the health care field to examine why this response is o...
Sg2 Perspectives Podcast
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In larger health systems, finance and strategy teams tend to speak different languages and work more in parallel than in tandem. In this week’s episode of Sg2 Perspectives, Yale New Haven Health’s CFO Vincent Tammaro and CSO Matthew Comerford discuss how their two teams partner to drive strategic plan...
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How did the COVID-19 pandemic affect children, as well as the health systems that serve them? This week on Sg2 Perspectives, we discuss the perceived impacts vs the reality with Raphe Schwartz, Chief Strategy Officer at Children’s Hospital Colorado, and Sean O’Leary, MD, infectious disease specialist ...
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From Disrupter to Partner: Privia Health and Health First
This week on Sg2 Perspectives we discuss a new approach to a common challenge: physician alignment. Health First needed a new physician alignment mechanism, and Privia Health’s expertise in technology and value-based care made them the ideal partner. Partnering is never easy, but Drew Rector, Chief St...
VentureSprout Podcast
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Gyant and Intermountain Healthcare – Part 2
Adapting principles from the gaming industry, Gyant has created a digital platform to create better patient experiences, improve workflow and reduce costs. Join us as we continue our discussion about this powerful front door software and the benefits health care organizations can derive from partnerin...
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Gyant and Intermountain Healthcare – Part 1
On this episode, we explore the partnership between Vizient member Intermountain Healthcare and Gyant, a digital front door software for hospitals and health systems to create better patient experiences, improve workflow and reduce costs.
Guest speakers:
Michael Phillip...
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AristaMD and Stanford Health Care – Part 2
Tip Kim, Chief Market Development Officer at Stanford Health Care, describes the value of e-consults in this way: “What we found was … the primary care physician had a pretty good bead on what should be done, but that additional consult … really empowered the physician to do more for [the] patient.” O...
VerifiedRx Podcast
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The Drug Supply Chain Security Act: The road to patient safety
The Drug Supply Chain Security Act was enacted in 2013 to protect patients from counterfeit, stolen or contaminated medications. It allows for the detection and removal of these drugs from the marketplace. In this podcast, we explore how frontline pharmacy staff can support compliance.
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Rattlesnakes, copperheads, cottonmouths, oh my! The antivenins for crotalid envenomation
Summertime means snakebite time, and with it comes the critical decisions pharmacists and clinicians are faced with when choosing antivenins. In this episode, we will look at the differences and similarities between the two latest antivenins for snakebites.
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Expedited drug reviews in the time of COVID-19 (Part 2)
The Coronavirus pandemic has put a spotlight on drug supply and the approval process for new medications. In this episode, we will define the different expedited drug approval processes, and take a closer look at how successful these programs are in identifying drug efficacy.
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