Pioneering Change: The Role of Innovation (ft. Jason Hill)

**SPEAKER_1** (0:02)
Welcome to DGTL Voices where health care and life science leaders explore the real work behind transformation. This podcast is about people, leadership and the conversations that move health care forward. Now your host, Ed Marx.

**Edward Marx** (0:18)
Welcome to another edition of DGTL Voices. Thanks for listening and watching. We know that you have a lot of different choices. I consume a lot of media, and I'm sure Dr. Jason Hill does as well. And the fact that you're spending time with us is awesome. So thanks for doing that, and we'll make it worth your while. Because again, I have a great guest here, Dr. Jason Hill. Jason, welcome to DGTL Voices.

**Jason Hill** (0:37)
Ed, thanks so much for having me. Great to be here.

**Edward Marx** (0:39)
It's going to be so much fun because not only do you do great work, but you're just a good human, and that's my favorite type of people. And it makes for interesting friendships and conversation. So we'll jump right in. And I just was thinking, Jason, how far back we go. I know we've both been around the industry for a little bit, and we've interacted. But more formally, in the past year or so, we got a chance to be on the same stage together and do different things, and it's been a lot of fun. I'm like, dang, Jason's such an interesting guy. I just have to have him on DGTL Voices, so here we are. But Jason, the most important thing everyone is anxiously waiting to hear the answer to is what songs are in your playlist? What kind of music do you like to listen to?

**Jason Hill** (1:18)
Okay, yeah, that's great. So a thing about me you may not know is I'm a huge Christian hip hop fan, which is somewhat of a pretty narrow genre. And I really like two of my favorite bands in that space are Toby Mack, who is just an amazing Christian artist that spans a wide variety of different genres and Capitol Kings, which is a group of hip hop artists out of Washington, DC that do a lot of hip hop and electronic mix-ups for Christian. And that's actually literally what's on my playlist behind me right now.

**Edward Marx** (1:54)
That's awesome. I do not know Capitol Kings. I will look them up, but I'm a huge DC. Talk fan.

**Jason Hill** (2:00)
Oh my God. DC. Talk. I love DC. Talk. I grew up, that's my formative years, Ed. No lie.

**Edward Marx** (2:07)
Oh my gosh. I didn't know that. That is so funny. And yeah, Toby Mack, of course, for those listeners, watchers, Toby Mack is one of the three founders of DC. Talk. Game changers back in the day, right? Because no one in Christian music was sort of the traditional gospel-y type stuff, which is good. It's great. And worship, of course. But all of a sudden, they had these three guys who, like, yeah, came out of the DC area as well. And they were bringing in new styles, new flavor, and they were crossing generations. They were crossing genres. Yeah. It's just so many different things and great songs. And my favorite is still The Hard Way.

**Jason Hill** (2:47)
It's called The Hard Way. Yes, I would say Jesus Freak is probably my favorite, but yes, it's a hard way. It's amazing. I love it. Yeah.

**Edward Marx** (2:55)
They had so many profound, the lyrics. Yeah, it's super foundational for me as well. So we'll drop DC Talk in the links as well, for those who want to go retro. That's really cool. What about life message and mantra? Are there sort of words that you live by?

**Jason Hill** (3:08)
You know, I think it's just generally be a good person. I know it sounds very general, but I think like a lot of work in business as well as in life and health care, it's very easy to, you know, some might think that it's hard to lose track of mission and health care. I would argue that it's easy to lose track of mission and health care. And if you're not really focused on the fact that you're there to care for people and to provide benefit to them in sometimes the most difficult times of their life, whether that's five steps removed as a informaticist or at the bedside guiding them through their last breath as a doctor, like those things are things that we, or even as a husband and father being able to lead and guide my family, just being a good person in Christ-centered is something that's really important to me. Not to turn this into a religious podcast, guys, but that's something I view.