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Innovator CEO profile: Clarify Health’s Jean Drouin
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Drouin discusses the company’s origin story, the accomplishments he’s most proud of as CEO and serving as a Switzerland between health plans, health systems and life sciences organizations.
Consumerism
The most important lesson health care CEOs should learn from retail: An interview with Walgreens Boots Alliance CEO Roz Brewer
Brewer discusses her commitment to inclusion how she thinks about culture, what the future holds for retail health care, and more.
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Innovator CEO profile: Omada Health’s Sean Duffy
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Duffy discusses Omada’s recent $196 million funding round, the accomplishment he is most proud of as a CEO, his advice for other innovators and more.
Leadership
Health Evolution CEO Reading List
Chief executives of providers, payers and life sciences organizations can look to this frequently updated list for articles and resources about health care and leadership.
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Nuance CEO Mark Benjamin: AI is about ‘people caring for people‘
Benjamin discusses the grand vision for leveraging artificial intelligence to connect the dots across the health care ecosystem, his advice for other CEOs about deploying AI technologies, how the pandemic and crises of 2020-2022 changed him as a leader, and more.
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InstaMed and J.P. Morgan's Bill Marvin: Leveraging payment advancements can improve patient experience
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Marvin discusses what the company has learned from tracking payment trends for more than a decade, how the last 2.5 years have been its strongest to date, his advice for other CEOs and more.
Consumerism
Update: Health Evolution Summit 2022 agenda
Here are the overarching themes, latest programmatic additions to the Summit’s CEOs, policymakers and thought leaders convening this year as well as the security protocols to expect in Laguna.
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Innovator CEO Profile: AliveCor’s Priya Abani
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Abani discusses the company’s origin story, it’s expansion toward a global provider of cardiac solutions, her advice to other CEOs and more.
Mental/Behavioral Health
Health Evolution expands Forum with new initiatives, partners and Fellows
The Forum, a cross-industry collaboration of more than 200 CEOs and other health care leaders, adds behavioral health to its ongoing work on new models of care, next-generation IT, and health equity.
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Innovator CEO Profile: Enlace Health’s Bill Nordmark
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Nordmark discusses the inspiration that drives Enlace Health, the hardest challenges he has overcome, advice for other innovator CEOs and more.
Health System Resilience
Top 10 Health Evolution articles 2021
Here are the executive interviews, stories, questions and ideas that resonated most with readers during the last 12 months.
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WellSky CEO Bill Miller on health-at-home models of care
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Miller discusses the momentum, capital and innovation being driven into new models of care delivery, what the space needs to scale, and his ambitions for where it will all be three to five years into the future.
Health Equity
Cross-industry coalition of health care organizations sign Health Equity Pledge to address disparities
Signatories of the Pledge, created by Health Evolution Forum Fellows, are committing to collect, stratify, and review data about race, ethnicity, language and sex across top metrics and share that information to inform best practices.
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Innovator CEO profile: SomaLogic’s Roy Smythe
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In this Innovation Lab interview series, Smythe discusses SomaLogic’s origin story, the potential of proteomics for precision health, what’s next for the company and more.
Health Equity
Health Equity Roadmap: How CEOs can take a methodical approach to addressing health disparities
Health Evolution Forum Fellows participating in the Work Group on Leveraging Data to Improve Health Equity have created a new guide outlining actionable steps that health care CEOs can take to advance health equity on an enterprise level.
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Innovator CEO profile: Ontrak’s Jonathan Mayhew
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In this Innovation Lab interview series, Mayhew discusses the company’s origin story, developing machine learning and predictive analytics for behavioral health, and more.
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Innovator CEO Profile: Innovaccer’s Abhinav Shashank
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In this Innovation Lab interview series, Shashank discusses the company’s early origins in data sharing for academic research, the coming ‘advent of health care singularity,’ and how it demands we bring patient data into a single view for health care, in much the way Salesforce does for sales professionals or Google does for Maps.
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Innovator CEO profile: AKASA’s Malinka Walaliyadde
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In this Innovation Lab interview series, Walaliyadde discusses what working on health care investments at Andreessen Horowitz taught him about building balance with his own health care tech company.
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Change Healthcare CEO Neil de Crescenzo: ‘Leaders are incorporating broad societal changes into their strategies’
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de Crescenzo discusses the need for personalization in health care, incorporating health equity into the culture and community, and value-based care.
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2021 WellSky Outlook Report
Executives developing strategies for an era of evolving consumer preferences can harness data and technology to accelerate transformation and lower costs via new models of care.
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Innovator CEO profile: ExactCare Pharmacy's Dale Wollschleger
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In this Innovation Lab interview series, Wollschleger shares his unique perspective as a pharmacist and innovator about what’s happening in the space, how the company serves as a specialist for medications, overcoming the challenges of scaling, and more.
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Career accomplishments that make startup CEOs proud
In this Health Evolution Innovation Lab series, founders and chief executives of emerging companies share what aspects of being an innovator they take the most pride in, from building great teams and developing people to their full potential to taking on challenges that might appear impossible.
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Innovator CEO Profile: NextHealth Technologies’ Peter Everett
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In this Innovation Lab interview series, Everett discusses the company’s leadership transition, its secret sauce for driving behavior change, serving three masters as CEO, and more.
Health Equity
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.
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Innovator CEO profile: WISE Healthcare’s Sajid Ahmed
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In this Innovation Lab interview series, Ahmed discusses expanding the business by more than 100 percent in 2020, why his team consists of workflow engineers, scaling from one to 34 sites in less than six weeks for a client, and more.
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Innovator CEO profile: Beacon Healthcare Systems’ Ken Stockman
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In this Innovation Lab interview series, Stockman discusses leveraging appeals and grievances data as a payer report card, embracing data science and why founding a company can be akin to engaging in battle.
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Innovator CEO profile: Signify Health’s Kyle Armbrester
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In this Innovation Lab interview series, Armbrester discusses the Company’s reach into nearly 1.5 million homes, having an annual R&D budget of $100 million, what he’s expecting in 2021, and more.
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5 innovator CEOs reveal the hardest challenges they have overcome
In this Innovation Lab series, founders and CEOs discuss obstacles they encountered, from pushing one’s own personal boundaries to gaining a foothold in the market at the right time.
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Innovator CEO Profile: Freespira’s Dean Sawyer
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In this Innovation Lab interview series, Sawyer discusses the company’s digital therapeutic that addresses the underlying physiological cause of anxiety disorders like panic attacks and PTSD.
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Innovator CEO profile: HealthSparq’s Mark Menton
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In this Innovation Lab interview series, Menton discusses the recent acquisition by Kyruus, the company’s roots in cost transparency, what it has in store for the next 18-24 months and more.
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Innovator CEO profile: HEALTH[at]SCALE's Zeeshan Syed
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In this Innovation Lab interview series, Syed discusses the company’s ‘precision care delivery’ model, demonstrating industry-leading results in reducing costs of care, identifying patients at risk for adverse events, and more.
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Innovator CEO profile: Apervita’s Kevin Hutchinson
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In this Innovation Lab interview series, Hutchinson explains why value-based care tools are now ready for wider use, the work needed to improve digital quality measures, his predictions for 2021, and more.
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Health care innovators on 2021: New consumer expectations, value-based care and quality measures
In this Health Evolution Innovation Lab series, chief executives of innovative companies say they are anticipating 2020 challenges persisting into the year ahead as well as advancements in overarching health care trends.
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Innovator founder profile: Tagnos’ Neeraj Bhavani
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In this Innovation Lab interview series, Bhavani discusses becoming a patient journey AI company, surviving a long sales cycle, and why trying to raise money with PowerPoint slides is a terrible idea for entrepreneurs.
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Innovator CEO Profile: Vida Health’s Stephanie Tilenius
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In this Health Evolution Innovation Lab interview series, Tilenius discusses how time spent at large technology companies influences her work at Vida Health, what to expect in the next 18-24 months, her advice to other entrepreneurs and more.
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Innovator CEO profile: Wellframe’s Jacob Sattelmair
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In this Innovation Lab interview series, Sattelmair discusses the unique challenges Wellframe is helping payers address, what to expect from the company in the next 18-24 months, the hardest challenge he has overcome and more.
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6 innovator CEOs share insights that steer their careers
From the Health Evolution Innovation Lab, chief executives discuss what they have learned through their work and how it informs innovation strategies, company culture and more.
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Innovator CEO Profile: Health Here’s Ryan Wells
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In this Health Evolution Innovation Lab interview series, Health Here CEO Ryan Wells walks through his most difficult challenges, advice for other CEOs, and how mountaineering lessons apply to health care.
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Innovator CEO profile: HealthLevel’s Parag Paranjpe
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In this Innovation Lab interview series, Paranjpe discusses the inspiration fueling the company, what to expect in the payer-provider continuum and his advice to other CEOs and founders.
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Innovator CEO profile: mPulse Mobile’s Chris Nicholson
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In the Health Evolution Innovation Lab interview series, Nicholson discusses Conversational AI, challenges he and the company have overcome, and his advice for other innovators and executives.
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CEO Innovator Profile: Socially Determined’s Trenor Williams
In the Health Evolution Innovation Lab interview series, Williams discusses the need for CEOs to view social determinants analytics as a proactive enterprise strategy that can’t be accomplished alone.
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COVID-19 Innovation Guide: Returning to the next normal
This report, powered by Providence, is the first in a three-part series designed to help health care executives navigate innovation in the era of COVID-19. The guide examines four foundational attributes of the next normal: Resuming Operations & Care Delivery, Managing Trust & Safety, Examining Technology & Digital Innovation Opportunities, and Advancing New Business & Payment Models.
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Innovator CEO profile: Higi’s Jeff Bennett
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In the Health Evolution Innovation Lab interview series, the veteran investor and startup executive explains how the company is looking to disrupt the need for in-person diagnostics to strengthen the doctor-patient relationship, what personalized medicine means to him, and the omnichannel future of patient engagement.
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CEO Innovator Profile: Lark Health’s Julia Hu
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In the Health Evolution Innovation Lab interview series, Hu discusses the growing role of AI in virtual care delivery, what CEOs should understand about virtual chronic care, and what to expect from the company in the future.
Leadership
On Demand: 2020 Pandemic Response Virtual Gathering
Listen to this on-demand recording of the Pandemic Response: A Public-Private Call to Action featuring federal and state government officials, leading health care provider, payer and life science CEOs who shared insights and best practices for preparedness, mitigation, education and communication.
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Next-Generation IT
On Demand: The 2020 AI-ML Virtual Gathering
Listen to this on-demand recording of the 2020 AI-ML Health Evolution Virtual Gathering.
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Outlook on Redefining Network Boundaries Report
Traditional solutions, like higher deductibles, have not managed to improve outcomes or bend the cost curve. At the same time, consumer passivity is coming to an end. The market needs a major overhaul.
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Outlook on Addressing Social Isolation and Loneliness Report
Social isolation and loneliness are emerging social health problems and are also the strongest predictor of health care dissatisfaction. And while the terms are often used together, it’s important to understand the difference.
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Outlook on Risk-Sharing for High-Cost, Complex Patients Report
Five percent of health care users represent half the costs, one percent consume a quarter. Players determined to curb health care’s ever-increasing expenses and effectively manage these high-cost, complex patients desperately need a new strategy.
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Briefing Room Report: Strategies for Succeeding with AI
After decades of being considered futuristic, artificial intelligence (AI) is getting real in health care for customer experience, care management and cost competencies, among other use cases.
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Teladoc Health CEO Jason Gorevic on the new model of whole-person virtual care
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Gorevic discusses what’s been working that can be built upon, the evolving role of virtual visits in primary care, challenges that CEOs should expect and more.
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Outlook on Advancing Connected Health for Seniors Report
As 10,000 boomers a day turn 65, telehealth will become an important enabling technology, bringing care into homes and the community, for consumers in need of convenient access to care—seniors.
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2018 CEO Briefing Room-Making a Productive Board-CEO Relationship Report
As CEOs work to accelerate transformative change in the face of new sources of disruption – such as digital health, the shift to value-based care, and the rise of consumerism – they need more from their boards than just governance. Boards are also feeling the pressure to evolve their game as the requirements for success are changing.
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2018 CEO Briefing Room-Thinking Like a Retailer Report
Every day, the retail market selects winners and losers based on a single criterium – how well are they serving the consumer? Retailers make it their mission to win over consumers in the face of complex challenges of evolving consumer expectations and a rapidly transforming market landscape. Winners are those who adapt to navigate the next big challenge.
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