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The Strategist: August 6, 2026

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Podcast | Strategy CatalystThe Strategist in Brief: August 6, 2026

This week, our quarterly What's Next Digest offers four predictions on payer mix headwinds, 340B claims-data mandates, AI-enabled cyberattacks, and OpenEvidence's health system expansion.

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Strategy CatalystNews Flashes: August 8, 2026

A quick roundup of recent headlines for health system strategists.

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Designed for strategy executives and their teams, this podcast delivers insider perspectives from the health system executives making strategic decisions and driving clinical and financial impact.

Podcast | Strategy CatalystCare Model Engineering at Advocate Health: A Product Lens on How Care Gets Built

Advocate Health's CSO on care model engineering — designing care with a product lens, building on reusable architecture, setting a 100,000-patient pilot minimum, and how a 10-month first build became a new product launch every three to four weeks.

Podcast | Strategy CatalystPriority Fog: The Gap Between Access Ambition and Execution

THMA-Tegria research finds 82% of systems call access a strategic pillar but most have trouble executing. We unpack the finance gap, post-acute blind spots, and the governance structures that separate progress from priority fog.

Podcast | Strategy CatalystHow St. Charles Turned Clinical Quality into Payer Leverage: From Seven MA Payers to One

St. Charles Health System — a four-hospital not-for-profit and sole major provider in Central Oregon — terminated six MA contracts, negotiated instant cancer treatment authorization, and built a CFO-CCO partnership model other systems can learn from.

Podcast | Strategy CatalystThe Case for Not Merging: UW Health's Joint Operating Agreement with UPH-Meriter

We dig into how the JOA with UnityPoint-Meriter helped UW Health address capacity constraints, delay a major capital build by years, and create a shared patient flow system.

Podcast | Strategy CatalystService Line Disruptors 2026: Pay-Viders, PE, and the Threat You're Not Watching

Pay-viders, PE, and distributors are all shifting strategy. In this episode, we break down which threats to watch and how to respond, service line by service line.

Podcast | Strategy CatalystThe Midlife Spend: Memorial Hermann on Partnering with MIDI Health for Women's Health

In this episode, Memorial Hermann walks us through the business case for investing in women's health, why they partnered with digital health start-up MIDI Health to address the gap in menopause care.