Tom Sullivan
EVP & Editor-in-Chief of Digital Content
Value-based Care
Why CEOs should leverage value-based payments to increase resilience
The first in a three-part series focusing on actions CEOs can lead to advance new models of care delivery by leveraging alternative payments to increase value and resilience.
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AI & ML
The future of care delivery: Managing the entire patient
Transforming into a human-centered and value-based system will require new technology toolkits, using the right data appropriately, better coordinating care and, ultimately, keeping innovative work alive.
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COVID
The case for a COVID-19 human challenge: An interview with VBI Vaccines CEO Jeff Baxter
Administering a trial vaccine on 400-500 people and then exposing them to COVID-19 would present obstacles and ethical questions, Baxter said, but it could accelerate the process enough that he would be willing to participate as a patient.
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AI & ML
CEOs discuss reshaping the global health care supply chain
GE Healthcare’s Kieran Murphy, Thermo Fisher’s Marc Casper, Cardinal Health’s current chief executive Mike Kaufmann and former Chairman and CEO George Barrett share insights about mobilizing quickly, forming partnerships, protecting the workforce and assessing readiness for distributing a vaccine.
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Leadership
Health Evolution builds Work Groups to advance health equity
The Forum initiatives will leverage data to reduce disparities, create scalable models for social determinants and increase diversity in health care organizations.
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AI & ML
A glimpse into the ICU of the future
The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the power of virtualizing intensive care units with AI, smart devices, and even a consumerism mindset. Emma Fauss, CEO of Medical Informatics Corp. and Roberta Schwartz, Houston Methodist EVP and Chief Innovation Officer, share insights about transforming the ICU.
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Leadership
How CEOs are reimagining budgets amid COVID-19
Chief executives of Massachusetts General Physician Organization, UCLA Hospital System and Yale New Haven Health outline strategies for examining infrastructure cost-savings opportunities and continuing IT investments to reshape their clinical footprint in preparation for the next pandemic.
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Leadership
Health Evolution creates Next Generation IT Work Groups to reduce costs, ease burnout, improve experience and outcomes
Forum initiatives will disseminate best practices for CEOs partnering with technology innovators on governance, digital health experience and automation.
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Leadership
Health Evolution develops workgroups to address new models of care delivery
Forum groups to focus on value-based payments, reinventing primary care, and advancing chronic care.
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Social Determinants
Addressing racism as a social determinant of health
Executives discuss the importance of taking the lead in tackling inequities within their organizations and communities.
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COVID
How COVID-19 has health care ‘reinventing’ innovation for therapeutics
Private-public partnerships have emerged, R&D is on the rise, progress is being made, now the industry needs real-world evidence.
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Consumerism
How dotcom era developments can help shape the future of health care
Dusting off old advancements made during the dotcom boom and bust at the turn of the century illustrates that focusing on infrastructure to engage consumers drives impactful change — and there’s no time like COVID-19 to rethink the system.
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Consumerism
Home-based health care is experiencing a ‘pivot moment’
Whether the acceleration of virtual visits, telehealth, remote monitoring and digital tools ultimately prove successful will be judged upon access, cost and quality.
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Leadership
Top 10 articles of 2020 — so far
It’s not just COVID-19. Several articles related to the pandemic are on our list, of course, but others are insights about leadership, top priorities for the next 3-5 years, establishing an information sharing public utility service intended to last 100 years, and more.
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Technology
Health Evolution announces Innovation Lab
The new content offerings will help provider, payer and life science CEOs connect with innovators to understand how emerging technologies can be applied to established business problems.
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COVID
CEOs explain how to help physician practices navigate the COVID-19 crisis
AMA’s Patrice Harris, athenahealth’s Bob Segert, ChristianaCare’s Janice Nevin and Marshfield Clinic’s Susan Turney share insights for surviving the pandemic.
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AI & ML
5 data lessons of COVID-19
The pandemic has illustrated the challenges and opportunities the U.S. health care system is facing during emergency situations, and moving into the future.
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COVID
Value-based payments: The case for moving away from fee-for-service as COVID-19 strains hospitals’ revenue
Adam Boehler, Susan Dentzer and Andy Slavitt discuss how taking on risk now can both bolster profitability and improve the health system for everyone.
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Leadership
Health Evolution establishes Forum to accelerate transformation with cross-industry collaboration
The Health Evolution Forum will address unprecedented COVID-19 challenges, next-generation IT and health assurance to rebuild the system into a modern and resilient industry.
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Leadership
Health debt: The next crisis for CEOs to anticipate
With people delaying care and avoiding the ER, providers will face a wave of complex patients as delivering care becoming more expensive because of COVID-19 — all while hospitals are operating on declining revenue.
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AI & ML
CEOs share leadership advice for COVID-19 crisis
Chief executives can employ strategies and tactics beyond leadership basics to successfully emerge from the pandemic. Ideally, into a better health care system.
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Leadership
As U.S. states reopen amid COVID-19, rural health faces unique challenges: An interview with Hendrick CEO Brad Holland
With elective care volumes down and few COVID patients to offset declining revenue, Holland explains what the Texas system is planning as the state reopens in phases.
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COVID
CEOs, policymakers discuss path out of COVID-19 crisis
Duke’s Mark McClellan, LabCorp’s Dave King, New York Health Commissioner Howard Zucker and Walgreens’ Rick Gates share insights about reopening safely, anticipating additional surges and the post-pandemic new normal.
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AI & ML
The Health Evolution CEO Guide to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Health Care
This guide takes a strategic approach to AI in digital transformation and overall enterprise strategy.
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AI & ML
How AI is reshaping patient engagement for consumerism in the post-COVID-19 future
Providence and Whiterabbit executives explain how each is applying artificial intelligence to engage patients — and are laying a foundation for the consumer-centric future beyond COVID-19.
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Technology
Amwell CEO Roy Schoenberg: Telehealth could be used to ‘load-balance clinicians’ in emergencies
Schoenberg says COVID-19 highlights the need for a federal telehealth infrastructure to enable clinicians in one region to contribute to other areas without physically being there.
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Leadership
CEOs share early COVID-19 lessons learned to prepare for the next outbreak
At our Health Evolution virtual gathering about the pandemic, insights and ideas came to light about what health care executives can learn from COVID to shape a better future.
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Leadership
COVID-19’s toll on America’s mental health: An interview with Ginger CEO Russell Glass
Glass discusses what CEOs should understand about the stress and anxiety the pandemic is causing for their workforce.
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Leadership
Scott Gottlieb, Mark McClellan publish road map to national COVID-19 recovery
The American Enterprise Institute report outlines steps that government and healthcare leaders need to take today to ensure America safely moves beyond physical distancing.
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Consumerism
COVID-19 response signals an immediate shift in the future of care delivery — if it lasts
The crisis has already forced U.S. policy makers and health care executives to focus on the most important life and death decisions and recognize which aspects of the system needed to change immediately, then adjust accordingly.
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Leadership
COVID-19: ICU bed shortages will create an ethical dilemma
A doctor in Switzerland, which as of Thursday had 160 ICU beds left, explains what the country is grappling with on the pandemic’s front lines.
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AI & ML
Health Evolution to host webcasts on COVID-19, AI&ML
The virtual gatherings are scheduled to take place in the mornings of April 1 and 2, 2020.
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AI & ML
Health Evolution postpones Summit because of COVID-19
We will now be hosting virtual gatherings on pandemic response and artificial intelligence during the previously scheduled Health Evolution Summit time.
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AI & ML
Why value-based care is a ‘red herring’: An interview with Iora Health CEO Rushika Fernandopulle
The provider discusses where the industry really is in the transition to value, why what Netflix did to Blockbuster could happen in health care, and the only thing that will ultimately drive new business models.
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Leadership
Turning a business risk into ‘thinking bigger about innovation’: An interview with Ochsner CEO Warner Thomas
Thomas discusses how acquisitions made after Hurricane Katrina got the enterprise to make changes that lead to it forging innovative partnerships with Apple and GE.
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Leadership
CEOs, top executives share best leadership advice they ever received
Be mindful of where to allocate energy, decide what you can and cannot do and be ready for personal worst-case scenarios — those are just some pieces of advice CEOs and executives say stuck with them over time.
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Consumerism
Innovating care delivery with ‘radical common sense’: An interview with CareMore CEO Sachin Jain
Jain discusses new models contrarian to equal care for all, emerging hospital at home services, and his top strategic priorities for the next three to five years.
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Technology
The Commons Project: Building a ‘public trust’ for health data sharing
Nonprofit to release free open source app at the Health Evolution Summit that enables information exchange akin to Apple Health Records for Android users — and that’s just the beginning of its vision.
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Social Determinants
Moving from ‘heads in beds’ to population health: An interview with Premier CEO Susan DeVore
DeVore discusses the changing mindset required to transform health care.
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Leadership
What we have planned at the Health Evolution Confab of Women ChangeMakers
The daylong Confab in Laguna Niguel, California, on March 31, 2020 will bring together thought leaders to discuss grand societal challenges, leading through adversity, accelerating diversity and more.
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AI & ML
What to expect at the Health Evolution Executive Briefing: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
CEOs and AI experts will share insights about use cases and metrics, culture change, talent management, risks and more.
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Leadership
Building a community-based academic medical center: An interview with Cedars Sinai CEO Tom Priselac
Priselac discusses key elements of success in the once-controversial expansion of the non-profit Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and how it changed him as a leader.
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AI & ML
Reality check on care access, cost, quality: An interview with BCBS Louisiana CEO Steve Udvarhelyi
Three of the industry’s hardest problems illustrate just how slowly change happens in the real world.
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New Entrants
CEOs talk top priorities for the next 3-5 years
From AI to value-based payments, health care executives discuss their most critical action items.
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AI & ML
AI is here and it's time to change: CEOs must adapt in the new age
Implementing AI is all about change management and top executives are already identifying three key areas of focus.
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Leadership
Q&A: Nancy Schlichting
Schlichting looks back on building a new breed of hospital – one focused on health and wellbeing with a spa, organic garden, culinary wellness, and more despite competitor’s public criticism.
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Social Determinants
BCBS Rhode Island’s joint venture with primary care: An interview with CEO Kim Keck
The payer joined forces with Oak Street Health approximately a year ago to offer personalized care service. Keck explains why it took the risk and how the partnership is already making a difference.
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Leadership
Rural health care in the age of CVS and Walmart: An interview with Marshfield Clinic CEO Susan Turney
Turney discusses how she went from practicing physician to a CEO, the biggest risk she has ever taken, returning to her rural health care roots and the threat that CVS-Aetna and Walmart pose.
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Consumerism
Leading an enterprise pivot toward consumer-centered care: An interview with AdventHealth CEO Terry Shaw
Health Evolution Editor-in-Chief Tom Sullivan spoke with Terry Shaw about what AdventHealth has achieved in the first year-and-a-half of the transition to patient-centric care, the public promises it is working on for its patient population and more.
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Social Determinants
Health care’s role in improving the local economy: An interview with Carilion Clinic CEO Nancy Howell Agee
Agee discusses how becoming an integrated delivery network set the stage for Carilion’s partnership and initiatives to transform the Roanoke, Virginia region into an innovation corridor.
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Technology
Health care’s bipartisan religious movement: An interview with Aneesh Chopra
The first U.S. CTO on what has changed since he worked in Washington, what still has not moved fast enough and his career journey.
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Consumerism
The data-driven vision: An interview with ChristianaCare CEO Janice Nevin
Nevin on access, affordability, digital transformation and the organization’s evolution of core values.
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Consumerism
Q&A: Steve Klasko
Klasko, President and CEO of Thomas Jefferson University and Thomas Jefferson Health, discusses the biggest risk he ever took, what he learned from former Apple and Pepsi CEO John Sculley, and the new math of health care.
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Leadership
Q&A: David Shulkin
Former VA Secretary discusses public service, lessons he learned at the department, and why he wrote a new book.
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