Scott Becker - 7 Stories Highlighting Health System Financial Challenges

In this episode, Ryan Spalding, Consulting Partner at Era Group, joins the podcast to share how hospitals and health systems can uncover savings in non-labor expenses through forensic cost reviews, smarter vendor negotiations, and a strategic approach to cost optimization that supports reinvestment in patient care. Learn more here. https://usc.eragroup.com/beckers-healthcare/

This episode recorded live at the 10th Annual Health IT + Digital Health + RCM Annual Meeting features James Solava, Medical Director of Clinical Informatics at Allegany Health Network, who discusses the transformative role of AI in healthcare. He shares how AI scribes and chatbots have become game changers for day-to-day clinical operations, improving efficiency and patient access. Solava also highlights the importance of telehealth expansion, cybersecurity, and offers key advice for healthcare leaders navigating the digital future.

In this episode, Scott Becker breaks down seven key stories that illustrate the growing financial and operational pressures facing hospitals and health systems today.

In this episode, Mike Fancher, Division Vice President for Kindred Hospitals Coastal Region, shares strategies for improving ICU to long-term acute care transitions, addressing compounding capacity challenges, and emphasizing proactive processes, transparency, and stronger collaboration among hospitals, LTACs, and payers to boost efficiency and outcomes.This episode is sponsored by ScionHealth.

In this episode, Nick Wilson of Philips Ambulatory Monitoring and Diagnostics and Darren Batara of a leading academic medical center share how health systems can elevate cardiac care through interoperability, operational AI, and strong clinical partnerships that keep patients and clinicians at the center of innovation.This episode is sponsored by Philips.

This episode features Teresa Ash, Director of System Operations for Digital Health at UC Health, who shares how her team is using AI to improve patient flow and operational efficiency while balancing innovation with governance, strategy, and process improvement across the health system.

This episode features Radha Savitala, CEO of Tenor Health Foundation, who shares how her organization is reopening closed hospitals and redefining sustainable, community-focused healthcare. She discusses the challenges facing hospital M&A, lessons from Pennsylvania’s distressed markets, and Tenor’s mission to preserve vital local care.

In this episode, David Harding, Senior Vice President of Pipeline Product Management at Exact Sciences, discusses a new survey of healthcare executives on multi-cancer early detection. He shares insights on system readiness, patient demand, and the barriers health systems face in adopting this transformative approach to cancer screening.This episode is sponsored by Exact Sciences.

In this episode, Yaw Fellin, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Clinical Decision Support and Provider Solutions, Wolters Kluwer Health discusses how clinical intelligence and AI are transforming care delivery, the importance of transparency, expert oversight, and governance in trustworthy AI adoption, and how organizations can experiment responsibly to improve outcomes and clinician support.This episode is sponsored by Wolters Kluwer.

In this episode, Jim Jacobs, President and CEO of MediQuant, joins the podcast to discuss how hospitals can streamline their IT environments through application rationalization. He explains how this approach reduces cyber risk, cuts costs, and supports smarter decision-making, while sharing insights on managing cultural change and adopting a responsible approach to AI.This episode is sponsored by MediQuant.