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. To advance thinking on the challenges and opportunities to address social isolation and loneliness, we gathered top executives from payer, provider, innovator and investor organizations for the Outlook on Investing in Aging to Address Social Isolation at the 2019 Health Evolution Summit.

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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. To advance risk-sharing for complex patients, progressive health care executives put their heads together in the recent Outlook on Risk Sharing for High-Cost, Complex Patients at the 2019 Health Evolution Summit.

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Health Evolution, with the support of Echo Health Ventures and Humana, convened its annual Corporate Venture Group (CVG) meeting in April 2019. A key outcome was the development of strawman Health Evolution CVC Performance Indices leveraging insights and viewpoints of CVG participants.

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. Smart payers, providers, and life sciences organizations, in fact, are looking across industries to learn from companies that have already implemented AI to reap impressive results.

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Confab conversations bring together candid and honest perspectives in addressing key societal issues. 2019 discussions yielded insights in 6 key areas of where impact can be made.

Summit conversations inspire forward-thinking ideas and scalable solutions to improve health and health care for us all. 2019 discussions focused on 6 major forces driving friction in the industry.

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. As nearly $5.8 billion in venture capital dollars flowed across the US last year in support of digital health companies such as Outcome Health ($500 million) and Peloton Interactive ($325 million) – marking the biggest funding year to date – health care leaders still face the challenge of getting these technologies to be integrated as one component of an overall system of care which needs to be process driven, comprehensive and designed with the senior at the center. Despite a proliferation of health care technology and a growing demand from senior consumers and their caregivers to age-in-place, senior adoption of connected health.

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