Modern Healthcare Online regularly conducts interviews with the industry’s movers and shakers. In our exclusive executive interview podcasts, hear what they have to say about the events shaping healthcare.
For more information on the Executive Interview podcast series, please contact Editor David Burda at 312-649-5439 or dburda@crain.com.
August 31, 2009 In an exclusive podcast interview, Modern Healthcare Editor David Burda talks with Duane Erwin, president and CEO of the Aspirus health system, based in Wausau, Wis. Erwin discusses hospital-physician relations at Aspirus, including how doctors have been incorporated into the organization's governance structure. ... FULL STORY
August 04, 2009 Interviewed by Modern Healthcare reporter Jean DerGurahian, Delnor Community Hospital, Geneva, Ill., executives discuss Lean methodologies that they say have helped the facility find cost savings, improve processes and increase satisfaction. Tom Wright, president and CEO, and Jim Kearns, chief information officer, say that organizational changes like Lean will become... ... FULL STORY
June 11, 2009 In an exclusive interview, Modern Healthcare reporter Andis Robeznieks talks with Sir Bruce Keogh, medical director of the United Kingdom's National Health Service. Keogh discusses some issues to consider as the U.S. pursues healthcare reform, and offers some advice to young physicians. ... FULL STORY
January 19, 2009 In an exclusive podcast interview, Modern Healthcare Editor David Burda talks with Chip Kahn, president of the Federation of American Hospitals in Washington, about the chances for healthcare reform under the Obama administration and the new Congress. The interview was conducted on Jan. 5, 2009, at Modern Healthcare's offices in Chicago. ... FULL STORY
November 24, 2008 In an exclusive podcast interview, Modern Healthcare Editor David Burda talks with Peter Bastone, president and chief executive officer of Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, Calif., about how the economic crisis is changing his hospital’s investment portfolio and ability to attract donations. The interview was conducted on Nov. 20, 2008, at Modern Healthcare's... ... FULL STORY
November 03, 2008 In an exclusive interview, Modern Healthcare reporter Melanie Evans talks with Roger Deshaies, chief financial officer of Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, Vt. Deshaies discusses unpaid medical expenses involving patients that have private medical insurance. ... FULL STORY
September 02, 2008 Service Employees International Union President Andy Stern is interviewed by Modern Healthcare reporter Gregg Blesch at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis/St. Paul. “Everybody likes competition until they lose,” Stern said. ... FULL STORY
By TRANSCRIPT AVAILABLE July 07, 2008 In an exclusive podcast interview, Molly Sandvig, executive director of Physician Hospitals of America, tells Modern Healthcare reporter Jessica Zigmond why provisions banning or restricting physician ownership of hospitals keep finding their way into proposed federal legislation and what the PHA is doing to keep those provisions from becoming federal law. The interview... ... FULL STORY
By TRANSCRIPT AVAILABLE June 23, 2008 In an exclusive podcast interview, Richard Clarke, president and chief executive officer of the Healthcare Financial Management Association, tells Modern Healthcare reporter Melanie Evans about why his membership is pushing for a fundamental restructuring of the way healthcare is paid for in the U.S. The interview was conducted on June 18 at Modern Healthcare’s... ... FULL STORY
By TRANSCRIPT AVAILABLE June 02, 2008 In an exclusive podcast interview, Stephen Farber, chairman and chief executive officer of Connance, a start-up financial services company backed by Tenet Healthcare Corp. and others, tells Modern Healthcare reporter Vince Galloro about the sophisticated tools hospital billing offices need to manage the bad-debt exposure created by the growing ranks of patients who pay... ... FULL STORY
By TRANSCRIPT AVAILABLE May 12, 2008 In an exclusive podcast interview with Modern Healthcare senior editors, HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt discusses his views on what it will take to transform healthcare into what he calls a true economic system. Leavitt also answers tough questions about Medicare’s pay-for-performance initiatives, physician-owned specialty hospitals, the adoption of information technology... ... FULL STORY
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February 05, 2008 In an exclusive interview with Modern Healthcare and Modern Physician Editor David Burda, physician Mark Chassin, the new president of the Joint Commission, talks about how his background as a health regulator will shape his agenda as head of the nation’s largest healthcare accrediting body. Chassin also discusses the Joint... ... FULL STORY
By TRANSCRIPT AVAILABLE January 28, 2008 The Chicago-based Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education evaluates and accredits more than 8,000 medical residency programs in the U.S. Physician Thomas Nasca became the ACGME’s chief executive officer last fall following the retirement of physician David Leach as executive director. In a Jan. 23 interview with Modern... ... FULL STORY
By TRANSCRIPT AVAILABLE December 11, 2007 Signature Hospital Corp. operates four hospitals, but it intends to expand strategically in a market dominated by national for-profit hospital chains. ... FULL STORY
By TRANSCRIPT AVAILABLE November 19, 2007 Tenet Healthcare Corp. embarked on an ambitious plan to drastically reduce its portfolio of hospitals. How far has it gone? ... FULL STORY
By TRANSCRIPT AVAILABLE November 05, 2007 Strict limits resident duty hours may limit the flexibility needed to teach the next generation of doctors, says the head of the AAMC ... FULL STORY
By TRANSCRIPT AVAILABLE October 22, 2007 In an Oct. 15, 2007, interview with Modern Healthcare reporters Melanie Evans and Andis Robeznieks, physician Justin Starren, director of the biomedical informatics research center, and Cathy McCarty, interim director of the center for human genetics, both at the Marshfield (Wis.) Clinic, discuss how external certification of a home-grown EMR system gives it credibility. ... FULL STORY
By TRANSCRIPT AVAILABLE October 10, 2007 Acting CMS Administrator Kerry Weems outlines his views on transparency and recent Medicare payment issues in a podcast interview with Modern Healthcare's Managing Editor Neil McLaughlin and Assistant Managing Editor/Op-Ed Todd Sloane. ... FULL STORY
By TRANSCRIPT AVAILABLE October 02, 2007 John Hammergren, McKesson Corp.’s top executive, shares the lessons his company learned from having two computers with confidential patient data on them stolen from its offices.Interviewed by Modern Healthcare Editor David Burda on Oct. 1, 2007. ... FULL STORY
By TRANSCRIPT AVAILABLE August 27, 2007 George Halvorson, interviewed by Modern Healthcare Managing Editor Neil McLaughlin, on Aug. 16, 2007. ... FULL STORY
By TRANSCRIPT AVAILABLE August 13, 2007 Denis Cortese, president and CEO, Mayo Clinic, interviewed by Modern Healthcare Editor David Burda on Aug. 1, 2007. ... FULL STORY
By TRANSCRIPT AVAILABLE March 13, 2007 Interviewed by Managing Editor Neil McLaughlin on March 9, 2007, at Modern Healthcare in Chicago. ... FULL STORY
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