Leadership
Jonathan Bush on founding Zus Health, lessons from athenahealth and hospital cafeteria food
The outspoken veteran CEO discussed a range of topics from leaving athenahealth to the misguided metrics of patient experience.
Mental/Behavioral Health
The opportunities and challenges of tele-behavioral health
Telehealth usage has leveled off across medicine broadly, but for mental health it continues to be a lifeline for patients in underserved areas. For this trend to continue post COVID, a few roadblocks need to be cleared.
Affordability
Community health centers need more than just federal funding
Nearly half of community health centers operate in negative margins. Federal funds have helped but are not enough to support business functions such as accounting HR, legal, IT, and operations. But their survival is critical to the communities that need them, and their success can have a major impact.
Leadership
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Medical Breakthroughs
Multi-omics, proteomics and more: Precision medicine tools beyond genomics
As health care organizations ramp up investments in genomics, some are going a step further by looking at multi-omics, proteomics and other “omics” that can believe will be used for even more precise precision medicine.
Innovations in Care
Can health care executives solve the homeless problem? An interview with SCAN CEO Sachin Jain
Jain discusses why homelessness is actually a health care crisis, SCAN Group’s efforts to address the problem with Medicare Advantage and prospective payment models, the eureka moment that led to building a medical practice for homeless seniors, and more.
Affordability
Biden’s actions on health care pricing keep the issue in focus
The Biden administration has kept lowering health care costs as a priority via executive order on prescription drug pricing and a proposed rule that would increase the fine hospitals pay for not publishing pricing information online. Here’s a break down of the two actions.
Leadership
Gawande nominated for Biden administration role; Baylor Scott & White CEO stepping down
In the latest Health Care Executives on the Move, we monitor career changes across the payer, provider, life sciences, government and tech worlds in June and July.
Health Equity
Placing a value on diversity to advance health equity
In this Confab Leaderships series installment, executives discuss the new mindset required to advance health equity to emerge from the pandemic with a more resilient health care system.
Medical Breakthroughs
Can genomics and precision medicine initiatives deliver in the post-COVID world?
COVID has driven consumer interest in genomics. Health systems are upping investments in precision medicine. Thirty years from the start of the Human Genome Project, can these breakthroughs find their way into clinical care?
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Creating a culture of diversity and inclusion
In this Health Evolution Confab Leaderships Series video installment, Mandy Cohen, MD, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services and Lloyd Dean, CEO of CommonSpirit Health, share strategies on how to create a culture of inclusion and manage executives who don't recognize the value of diversity.
"When I was first running our department, my leadership team was not diverse. It required us making leadership changes to make room for folks from diverse backgrounds, which means I had to actually ask a couple of senior people to not be part of that leadership team anymore in order to bring on leaders that reflect the communities we serve."
Mandy Cohen, MD, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.
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