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The Strategist: September 17, 2026

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Podcast | Strategy CatalystThe Strategist in Brief: September 17, 2026

This week's episode covers how strategy teams use generative AI, physician alignment strategies, CEO tenure benchmarks, and Johnson & Johnson's new 340B claims data requirement.

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Strategist | Strategy CatalystFive themes on physician alignment as a lever for growth

Health systems are facing pressure from rising costs for hospital-based specialties and competition from private equity.

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Strategist | Strategy CatalystGraphic of the Week: How long do healthcare CEOs last?

A CEO's departure often reopens questions an organization thought were settled.

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Strategist | Strategy CatalystNews Flashes, Top Reads, and Numbers: September 17, 2026

A quick roundup of recent headlines, our top reads of the week, and numbers in the news.

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Tune into monthly episodes of "The Strategy Catalyst Dispatch"

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 CatalystInside Oura's Counsel Health Integration: Consumer AI and the Front Door to Care

Oura's CMO on the company's Counsel Health partnership, why the care experience runs on messaging instead of video, and what consumer AI adoption actually looks like from inside a wearable company.

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 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.