The 2019 Annual Forum of the HealthCare Executive Group (HCEG) took place on September 9th through the 11th at the Commonwealth Hotel in Boston, MA. In this 31st forum, healthcare leaders and other champions of healthcare system transformation had the opportunity to share their insight, ideas and information on key healthcare topics. Current investment trends, new business models needed to accommodate an increasingly consumer-focused marketplace, the imperative to decrease administrative costs, healthcare’s huge cost control problem, and other current challenges, issues, and opportunities of today’s uncertain healthcare environment were key themes.
Mabel Jong, principle at MJC Communications, LLC and professional on-camera interviewer, panel moderator and award-winning journalist with over two decades of experience specializing in healthcare and business news production interviewed a dozen healthcare leaders participating in HCEG’s Annual Forum. This blog post presents a number of these interviews.
For more information on HCEG’s 2019 Annual Forum including forum content, speaker presentations, and video interviews with forum speakers and attendees, visit this page.
Where Venture Capitalists are Focusing Their Healthcare Investments
Ricardo Johnson, Senior Director – Healthworx, at CareFirst BCBS – shares insight on healthcare innovation and the types of investments corporate venture capital groups and private equity firms are making in health plans and risk-bearing payer/provider partnerships. Ricardo provides an overview of what he sees as key areas of focus for investment and where more investment is needed.
Differentiating Business Models to Serve High-Risk, Poly-Chronic Patients
Ian Laird, National VP of Growth of DaVita Health Solutions, shares insight on value-based care, the unique needs of small patient populations that represent 40 to 50% of the total cost of care for a typical medical practice and the need for modern medical practices to accommodate differentiated business models.
Healthcare Innovation and the Importance of ‘Getting Out of Our Own Way’
Dr. Jason Woo, MD, Founder of Learning Core Leadership Through Service, shares insight on the various mindsets that help or hinder healthcare executives as they transform their organizations. Dr. Woo notes that positive growth in healthcare has lagged that of most other industries and that healthcare still has the same problems now as it did 30 years ago.
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Importance of Data & Analytics as Foundational Capabilities in Today’s Healthcare Organization
Sara Stevens, VP of Healthcare Economics & Analytics Ops at Capital District Physicians’ Health Plan, shares her insight on the foundational nature of ‘Data & Analytics” – ranked #1 on the 2019 HCEG Top 10 list – in the highly regulated healthcare industry.
Taking Administrative Costs Out of the Healthcare Ecosystem
David Querusio, CTO of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care shares insight on how recent hospital and provider group mergers may be taking administrative costs out of the system, the importance of developing and providing a ‘platform’, and strategic innovations taking place in the healthcare value chain on both the payer and provider side.
Healthcare’s Huge Cost Control Problem
Niall Brennan of the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) conveyed insight into HCCI’s cutting-edge research to help people understand why healthcare spending is the way it is, the geographic variation in how healthcare money gets spent nationally, and how the ongoing consolidation of healthcare markets can result in less competition and less flexibility for negotiations between providers, payers and employer groups.
Extracting Waste in Healthcare: An Imperative for Today’s Healthcare Leaders
Bruce Jones, CIO of Excellus BCBS, shares his take on the need for healthcare leaders to look at every single process and figure out what the waste is in those processes and the need to take out that waste with new technologies like robotics process automation and artificial intelligence. Bruce also talks about the need for the healthcare industry to adopt more quality processes like Lean Six Sigma.
Remaining Focused in Disrupted Healthcare Environment
Mariya Filipova, VP Innovation at Anthem, relates how to remain focused while dealing with all of the changes rapidly transforming healthcare. And how creative collaborations between formerly competitive organizations are coming together to improve outcomes and reduce costs. Mariaya also shares insight on the process of managing patient consent and provider credentialing as examples.
Transportation as a Key Benefit for Medicaid & Medicare Beneficiaries
Megan Callahan, VP Healthcare at Lyft, shares her take on Lyft’s experience providing non-emergency medical transportation to Medicaid and Medicare beneficiaries; how NEMT saves time and improves outcomes but also increases independence and happiness of those who utilize this increasingly common non-medical benefit.
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Sheri Johnson, AVP of Member Enrollment & Billing at UCare, an independent, non-profit health plan providing coverage and services across Minnesota and western Wisconsin on the importance of always striving to ensure the best member and patient experience, leveraging readily available member/patient data, and being open to creating or entering partnerships with others whose mission is complimentary toward improving healthcare outcomes and lower costs while sustaining longevity.
The HealthCare Executive Group and Its Evolution Over the Years
Richard Lungen, Managing Member of Leverage Health and HCEG board member shares his take on what makes the HealthCare Executive Group and its long-running annual forum different than other healthcare conferences, how it’s participants have changed over the years to include not only health plans but health systems, various types of providers, investors and other diverse organization.
Healthcare Leaders Leverage the HealthCare Executive Group
In addition to our Annual Forum, the HealthCare Executive Group offers periodic Executive Leadership Roundtables, live presentations, webinars, regular blog posts, and other original and curated content to support the information and networking needs of today’s healthcare leaders. Our next events include the following:
Executive Leadership Roundtable at 2019 HLTH Forum
On Wednesday, October 30th, 2019 at 12:00PM to 3:00PM ET, the HealthCare Executive Group , in collaboration with the Center for Healthcare Innovation (CHI), International Association of Innovation Professionals (IAOIP), and Workgroup Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) will present “Flying the Plane While Building the Plane: Do You Have What It Takes to Pilot the Transformation of Healthcare?”
Learn more about and register for this free event – with lunch included – today!
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Session at 2019 AHIP Consumer Experience & Digital Health Forum
HCEG will be presenting a session at the upcoming AHIP Consumer Experience & Digital Health Forum in Chicago on December 10-11, 2019, at the Swissotel. The session titled “Outlook 2020: Top 10 Challenges, Issues, and Opportunities as Identified by Healthcare Executives” will expound on the 2020 HCEG Top 10 and related information shared by participants of HCEG’s recent 2019 Annual Forum.
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