NEJM Catalyst Leadership Podcast

How can policy makers and health care leaders ensure affordable, equitable access to GLP-1 medications while managing their substantial budget impact on the health system?

How can the partnership and collaboration of multiple health care organizations attack the challenges of rural health care?

This discussion highlights the importance of recognizing that everyone can engage in leading within their roles, while also addressing the crucial skills of followership and the need for clarity in leadership roles to foster effective teamwork and improve patient outcomes.

How hospitals are facilitating knowledge sharing and accelerating the implementation of value-based health care with the Value Catalyst Community.

What are the key health care policy challenges and opportunities on the horizon for 2025, and how might recent election outcomes shape these discussions?

Family caregivers of acutely ill patients are critical members of the care team. How can health care professionals better support these care partners?

How can employers provide health insurance coverage that's both high quality and affordable?

A health care CEO's most important responsibility is to maintain the sacredness of the patient-clinician relationship and ensure that interaction is as valuable for both the physician and the patient as possible.

What competencies are needed in the boardroom to advance the mission of creating healthier communities? How do health care system governance boards make these changes?

A checklist of leadership skills for building trust through transparency, actions, and consistency that apply to health care mergers as well as day-to-day health care leadership.

Innovative examples of overcoming challenges in rural health care access caused by distance, weather, clinician shortages, and other reasons, by connecting with patients virtually and locally.

Value-based care frees up health care organizations to go upstream and invest in the health and well-being of their community members.

In strategic partnerships with others focused on improving costs and efficiencies, a health system needs to continue to be the right side of the brain, looking for the opportunities, not doing the routine tasks.

We need to redesign the care delivery model in a way that allows physicians to be the good doctors they are while still providing patients with full access to care.

Everyone in health care can integrate Mangomoments into their daily practice.

Sustainable, forward-looking health care systems need to provide community-based care while managing risk-based economic models and populations.

The bar is not set for high-performing health care systems. It's moving, with many opportunities to improve beyond inconsistent greatness. Transformation involves changes in mindsets, culture, and processes, along with a particular approach to care delivery.

With core outcome measures set for ICHOM, the next step is maintaining focus on implementation.

A six-component model for including gig workers as valued members of the health care team.

How Kaiser Permanente became the first carbon-neutral health system and the eighth-largest user of solar energy in the United States.

The external and internal factors necessary for population health management in the transformation to value-based care.

With health care in crisis, switching to value-based care is a necessary disruption that organizations and nations must take.

The purpose of health care systems is not just to cure illness. To make a dent, they must be part of their communities, addressing inequities in care.

When it comes to PROMs, there's a difference between measuring something important to patients' treatments versus important to their lives.

Health cannot be achieved unless health care also addresses mental health and social care.

Health care does not begin when someone walks in the door of their doctor's office, but when they search online for videos and articles and then act on that information — whether good or bad.

From generators to digital medicine, Ochsner has bolstered its processes to be ready for the worst.

A directional approach from The Joint Commission on three key areas of health care quality improvement.

How creating a short TV show with health care leadership captured the attention of staff at Vanderbilt far more than written communication.

The Chief Medical Officer for DaVita Kidney Care discusses how the organization is addressing health inequities in the kidney disease population.

The CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts describes his work in making population-based contracts a norm in the state and what still needs to be done to improve health care affordability and access.

The Senior Vice President and Senior Associate Dean for Health Equity and Inclusive Excellence for Vanderbilt Medical Center discusses the development of their Racial Equity Plan.

Intellectual disabilities affect 1–3% of the U.S. population. The Executive Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer for Prisma Health discusses how health care redesign should factor in this population to reduce the health disparities they face.

How Priority Health focuses on social determinants of health to meet its members' unique needs.

The CEO for Texas Health Resources says that “learning has to be done quickly” and describes what his organization has done to meet the needs of their patients and staff.

Hurdles faced by a Chinese American breaking into the C-suite sphere of U.S. health care leadership dominated by white men, the adapting of different cultural values, and advice for younger generations aspiring to the C-suite.

The former CEO of Memorial Hermann Health System, who began his career in nursing, traces the history of the nursing shortage back to the 1970s and offers a selection of solutions for its current iteration, focusing on short-, medium-, and long-term tactics.

If we don't have equity, we don't have quality, says the CMO of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Physicians are responsible for making patients feel safe and secure, whether that's in-person or via a screen.

“It never entered my mind that my gender would be a limiting factor for me,” says the President and CEO of Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center.

“I don't think we can ever look at health care delivery, quality and safety, transformation and work, without having equity at the forefront of everything that we do,” says Eric Wei, MD, MBA, Senior Vice President and Chief Quality Officer for NYC Health + Hospitals.

How the Alternative Quality Contract strives to promote a system that produces health outcomes, not just health care.

The CMO of Montefiore Medical Center explores what they got right during the height of the pandemic — including playing music — and how to apply those learnings in the future.

How the Apollo Hospitals Group handled the intense spike of Covid-19 cases in India, and what they've learned from the thousands of families they've treated.

Missing important points of view around the C-suite table hurts the organization and the clinical outcomes they are attempting to achieve, says Ron Williams, former chairman and CEO of Aetna.

Naming the challenges and crowdsourcing the strategic plan are two ways Oregon Health & Science University is tackling the ongoing challenges from 2020.

The Chief Medical Officer and Chief Innovation Officer for Sheba Medical Center discusses how Israel was able to keep its case mortality rate low.

It's not about blaming others, it's about doing our part to address the inequities and unjust reality we see in health care, says the CEO of Hennepin Healthcare.

Burnout in nursing began long before the Covid-19 pandemic. What will health care leaders learn from the past months to make sure this problem doesn't continue into the future?

UF Health Jacksonville's CEO describes the safety-net hospital's hurricane mindset for sustained Covid-19 pandemic response and leadership efforts such as receiving the vaccine first.

What can health systems and their public health partners execute on now to accelerate and amplify vaccination efforts?