A Rondo podcast
The HealthcareHandoff.
Conversations with the people who run, pay for and build healthcare. On where care breaks, and how we fix it.
With Tom Hittinger and Chris Giardina, MD, PhDHealthcare doesn't break in the operating room. It breaks in the handoff.
Between the hospital and what comes next, patients wait, beds stay full, and families are left on hold.
Each episode is a short conversation with one expert about one problem in the space. Less about Rondo, more about how they see it.
First conversations
8 conversations · 15 minutes each
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One patient. Five conversations. Still no discharge.
Jesse Tamplen, MSW, MHA, LCSW, FASHIVP Acute Care Transitions, John Muir Health
The hidden work behind one complex discharge, from skilled nursing to long-term acute care.
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Why healthcare data still doesn't move
Trip HoferCEO, Redox; former CEO, Optum Behavioral; former CEO, AbleTo
A decade of interoperability, and why a referral packet still travels by fax.
- Coming soon
Value-based care's blind spot
Marissa LeeValue-based care, formerly VillageMD
Why the 30 days after discharge decide whether value-based care works.
- Coming soon
Nurses at the center: better healthcare handoffs
Brian Weirich, DHAChief Nursing Officer, Microsoft Health
Why nurses sit at the center of every handoff, and how to give them their time back.
- Coming soon
The payer's view of the handoff
Mark Leenay, MDFormer Chief Medical Officer, UnitedHealth
What a poorly run transition costs, and who ends up paying for it.
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Throughput at a top health system
Corinne EhretsmanFormer VP of Administration, Cleveland Clinic
What great throughput looks like day to day, and home as the handoff people forget.
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The infrastructure under healthcare AI
Steve GatelyNVIDIA; formerly IBM and Intel
What healthcare AI runs on, and why it matters most where care changes hands.
- Coming soon
What we're building
Tom Hittinger and Chris Giardina, MD, PhDCEO and co-founder; Head of Clinical, Rondo
Pulling insights and actions forward, so hospital teams act at admission, not on the day a patient is ready to leave.
More conversations on the way.
Health system, payer, nursing and post-acute leaders, on where care breaks and how we fix it.
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Your hosts
Tom HittingerCEO and co-founder, Rondo
Chris Giardina, MD, PhDHead of Clinical, Rondo