Value-based Payment (and Value-based Care Reform) has ranked among HCEG’s Top 10 list of challenges, issues, and opportunities each of the last 10 years that HCEG’s Top 10 list has been published; a clear indication healthcare leaders realize that the move to payment for outcomes (value) vs. volume (FFS) is inevitable. It’s clear that value-based relationships & reimbursement is important to health plans, health systems and provider organizations. But year after year, shared-risk, value-based healthcare appears to be just around the corner. Why so slow? How can healthcare leaders championing the transformation of America’s healthcare system finally begin to realize the value of value-based payment?
In fact, the majority of respondents to the 2019 Industry Pulse Research Survey indicate that value-based relationships including both upside and downside shared risk still appears to be three to five years off.
If what’s apparently widely thought, then why is the move by health plans, health systems, and healthcare providers to value-based reimbursement perpetually stuck at being three to five years away from adopting shared-risk value-based contracts?
Speeding the Move to Value-Based Relationships & Reimbursement
On Wednesday, September 11th, the HealthCare Executive Group is presenting a special Executive Leadership Roundtable as part of their 31st Annual Forum. This interactive roundtable event open to everyone who’s in Boston on September 11th – there’s no charge to join other healthcare leaders from across the country to learn about value-based care and meet others facing similar challenges. To be clear, this special ELR event is open to everyone.
Participants of this special ELR will benefit from:
Interactive discussion between attendees and speakers on what the movement to value means
Learning about the top challenges and opportunities in transitioning from payment for volume
Why healthcare organizations are hesitant to provide value-based care and thoughts on overcoming them
Understanding realistic next steps healthcare leaders can take to make real progress in the move to value
Recent successes in new payment models and lessons-learned
A look at cross-industry partnerships in the movement to value-based care reimbursement
This will be a rare opportunity for Healthcare Champions who gather in Boston on September 11th to learn more about value-based payment and care opportunities and to interact with speakers and other participants on a meaningful basis.
The $64,000 Question (Or the $64B+ Question?) – Always 3 to 5 Years Away
Why is the move by health plans, health systems, and healthcare providers to value-based reimbursement perpetually stuck at being three to five years away from adopting shared-risk value-based contracts?
To learn how to advance value-based care, join us at the Hotel Commonwealth for our September Executive Leadership Roundtable event -Value-Based Relationships & Reimbursement: How can Industry Collaborate to Speed the Move to Value? -and learn from the following session leaders and ELR participants:
Panelists Sharing Insight on Value-Based Relationships & Reimbursement
Join Others to Learn About Value-based Care in Boston on September 11, 2019
Be a part of this unique, no-cost learning and networking opportunity on the last day of the HealthCare Executive Group’s 31st Annual Forum. Breakfast is included and registration is required.
Ongoing uncertainty, the need to digitally transform operations, and external disruption are three of many challenges, issues, and opportunities facing today’s healthcare leaders. So how can healthcare executives find the information, collaboration, and networking opportunities, both in-person and virtual, to stay on top of things? Indeed, professional associations, many healthcare conferences and digital channels such as LinkedIn, newsletters, blog posts, and Twitter can be an effective way for healthcare leadership to quickly and cost-effectively advance their initiatives and programs.
The HealthCare Executive Group (HCEG) has existed over 30 years to help those championing the transformation of healthcare better understand the challenges, issues, and opportunities facing they face and to facilitate connections with others facing similar concerns. This post shares insight from a long-term member of the HealthCare Executive Group on how HCEG has differentiated itself from the noise, vendor sales pressure and overbearing crowds so common in today’s conferences and digital channels.
How the HealthCare Executive Group Supports Healthcare Champions
Can you tell us a little bit about yourself and your association with the HealthCare Executive Group?
I am Eric Decker, Chief Information Officer at Independent Health, a regional payer headquartered outside of Buffalo, NY. I have been a member of HCEG since 2015 and became a board member of HCEG in 2018.
Why did you join the HealthCare Executive Group?
I was promoted to CIO in early 2015, and being a ‘first-time’ CIO, I was looking for associations where I could meet and network with other healthcare executives at organizations similar to Independent Health. HCEG had been recommended to me by another CIO, and I was really happy with the networking opportunities and content provided at their annual forum.
What do you think makes the HealthCare Executive Group different than other healthcare associations and leadership organizations like HIMSS, CHIME, FACHE, etc?
The relatively small setting of the annual forum distinguishes HCEG from larger associations’ events. There is only one concurrent track, and the break times allow me to reconnect with peers who I had met at previous forum events, as well as make new connections.
How does HCEG solicit input from its members as to what content, events, and services they’d like HCEG to provide to them?
Well, HCEG’s annual Top 10 list of challenges, issues, and opportunities is certainly the prime example of how it solicits specific information from its members. Not too many organizations drive all of their event planning and content development based on the sole input of its members.
What unique networking opportunities and experiences does the HealthCare Executive Group offer?
HCEG offers more than the usual networking mixers. The extracurricular activities at the Annual Forum and the Executive Leadership Roundtables are very conducive to getting to know other healthcare professionals in a relaxed environment. Too many times the crowds, noise and commercial distractions get in the way of truly forming a meaningful relationship that lasts beyond the networking event itself.
What about the HealthCare Executive Group makes it different than other associations and organizations supporting healthcare leaders?
HCEG’s Annual Forum and Executive Leadership Roundtable events are a ‘safe space’ for healthcare executives to learn, discuss and inform – free from the distractions of large events and without vendors pushing sales pitches. I’m better able to gain perspective on challenges, issues, and potential opportunities.
HCEG events are very informal yet supportive. The friendliness and flexibility of their event and administrative staff was impressive. HCEG helps its members forge meaningful relationships that last long after any single event ends. Industry media that may share comments out of context are not allowed.
Nowadays, there are lots of ways to stay connected and communicate with peers and other business associates. How does HCEG support member connections and information exchange?
A single conference event over two or three days once or twice a year is not enough to keep up with challenges, issues, and opportunities in today’s fast-paced, uncertain healthcare environment.
HCEG provides a nice mix of in-person, physical gatherings throughout the year and also well-coordinated of virtual, digital channels to help stay informed and connected. And offers its members events, opportunities and support to share and acquire information and expertise outside of a single, transactional event.
HCEG’s develops its yearly Top 10 list during their Annual Forum. What can you share about the Annual Forum and the HCEG Top 10 list?
HCEG’s Annual Forum reinforced the information that I know and filled in some of the blanks I was not completely aware of. It has a good mix of sessions that presented a variety of perspectives. I was somewhat surprised by the candor and willingness to the panelists to engage with the audience.
The HCEG Top 10 provides a good overview of what’s happening in the industry. It helped me get a sense of what others are thinking and helped validate – and invalidate – some of my thoughts and assumptions.
Meet Eric and Other Healthcare Champions at HCEG’s 31st Annual Forum
The 31st Annual Forum of the HealthCare Executive Group takes place September 9th – 11th in Boston. Come join Eric Decker and other champions focusing on the healthcare and digital innovation necessary to transform the healthcare system in the United States. Interact with your healthcare peers, learn more about how others are addressing similar challenges, issues, and opportunities, and create new relationships to advance your company-focused and personal missions.
Over the 30+ years that the HealthCare Executive Group (HCEG) was created to support healthcare executives, many of the popular conferences, forums, and events attended by healthcare industry participants have grown and morphed into spectacles hard to imagine back in the late 80’s.
Crowds numbering in the 1000’s and 10’s of 1000’s are packed into mammoth venues.
100’s of sessions – sometimes spread over 15 to 20 ‘tracks’ – cover nearly every topic under the sun.
Big-name keynote speakers are touted as ready to share insight to transform lives, inspire action and grow companies.
Super-star speakers receive top billing and surely a huge portion of the increasingly costly registration fees – but often fall short and disappoint.
Over the top vendor exhibits staffed with dozens of salespeople vie for attendees attention.
Box lunches, if you’re lucky. Or standing in line for a sandwich from a kiosk.
In short, many of today’s healthcare conferences provide too much of the wrong stuff and not enough of the good stuff. And the Annual Forum presented by the HealthCare Executive Group is specifically designed and developed to provide what other healthcare conference events don’t.
Timely Topics Presented in a Cohesive Fashion for Healthcare Executives
The keynotes and sessions at HCEG’s Annual Forum’s are presented and moderated by executives and others actively working in the healthcare industry. Executives that recognize the value of collaborating with like-minded individuals to solve challenges, deal with similar issues, and leverage opportunities together. Accordingly, session themes and topics are based on the current challenges, issues, and opportunities identified by health plan, health system, and healthcare providers – not the exhibitors and others aiming to sell products and services.
Healthcare Industry Leaders Addressing Today’s Challenges vs. Coin-Operated Speakers
Speakers at our annual forum are well-established, well-known leaders currently working in the healthcare industry. They won’t be selling anything except great insight on the challenges, issues, and opportunities facing today’s healthcare leadership. In today’s uncertain and increasingly volatile healthcare industry it’s critical to get unbiased insight.
Some of the Speakers at HealthCare Executive Group’s 2018 and 2017 Annual Forums:
David Shulkin, former Secretary of the Veterans Administration and Chief Innovation Officer of Sanford Health
Karen DeSalvo, Assistant Secretary for Health at U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Andy Slavitt, former Acting CMS Administrator and current leader of Townhall Ventures
Craig E. Samitt, MD, MBA, President & CEO of BCBS of Minnesota
Brandon Cady, President & CEO of Anthem/AIM Specialty Health
Kyle Rolfing, Co-Founder & President of Bright Health
Tony Miller, Co-Founder & CEO of Bind on Demand Health
Dan Buettner, National Geographic Fellow, NY Times Best Selling Author
Intimate, Manageable Environment Supporting Quality Information Exchange
Unlike many conferences, HCEG’s Annual Forum takes place in a venue selected for maximizing attendees comfort, access, and interaction. Seating arrangements, ingress, and egress are thoughtfully laid out in an intimate and accessible manner. Crowded and impersonal are two words NOT associated with HCEG’s Annual Forum’s.
Healthcare Leaders vs. Every Other Role Under the Sun
HCEG limits participation in its Annual Forum to healthcare executives and leadership serving health plans, health systems, and provider organizations. The majority of attendees reside in the C-suite and all registrations are screened. Media, vendors of any sort, and ‘all-comers’ willing to pay the registration fee are not allowed.
Sales Free Environment vs. Vendor Exhibits & Booth Barkers
You won’t find any vendor exhibits and salespeople at HCEG’s Annual Forum. And while some HCEG sponsor partners may participate in the forum, they do so in a passive, consultative fashion. Sales pitches and vendor marketing materials are not allowed.
Exceptional Food & Drink vs. Box Lunches & Waiting in Line for Coffee
Great content and insightful speakers alone do not make a conference worthwhile. Accordingly, HCEG places a lot of thought and effort into providing breakfast, lunch, dinner, and refreshments throughout the day. Exceptional food and drink combined with a comfortable environment go a long way in supporting the exchange of information and ideas
Networking Events at 2019 HealthCare Executive Group Annual Forum
All of the above aspects of HCEG’s Annual Forum are intended to support new introductions and grow existing relationships between forum attendees. Keynotes from industry leaders help set the context. Then informative sessions help flesh out – and flush out – the challenges, issues, and opportunities, facing healthcare executives. And informal, entertaining – yet structured – opportunities to interact are provided.
For this year’s forum, participants will enjoy two unique events:
Note: This special networking event is located directly across the street from the annual forum venue and is included with 2019 Annual Forum registration at no additional cost on a first-come, first-served basis.
IBM Watson Experience Center
Another unique event at this year’s annual forum is small group tours of the IBM Watson Experience Center. The tour includes an open discussion of technology applications in healthcare. Transportation to and from the forum venue and the IBM Watson Experience Center will be provided.
Join Other Healthcare Leaders in Boston on September 9th
Come join other healthcare executives and industry leaders in Boston on September 9th-11th and be a part of a manageable, information-packed event. In addition to the keynotes, sessions, Top 10 ranking, and special networking events noted above, we’ve got some additional sessions and uncommon healthcare conference surprises in store. Contact Juliana Ruiz if you have any questions.
The 2019 Annual Forum of the HealthCare Executive Group (HCEG) takes place in HCEG’s birthplace – Boston, Massachusetts – on September 9th. Just over 30 years ago, a group of healthcare executives created the Managed Care Executive Group (MCEG), a ‘user group’ to share their ideas, ‘Best Practices’ and lessons learned. These healthcare leaders recognized the value of collaborating with like-minded individuals to solve challenges, deal with similar issues, and leverage opportunities together. Fast forward about 20 years and the Managed Care Executive Group became the HealthCare Executive Group. And in less than two months, the HealthCare Executive Group returns to its birthplace in Boston for its 31st Annual Forum!
Our annual forum planning team is pleased to share that the 2019 Annual Forum is shaping up to be one of our best forums ever. Three keynotes from prominent healthcare industry leaders with interactive sessions set in an intimate venue provide insight, ideas, and actionable information. The development of the 2020 HCEG Top 10 list enables all forum participants to have a role in identifying and ranking the challenges, issues, and opportunities they’re facing in today’s uncertain and rapidly transforming healthcare industry. And two unique networking events offer the opportunity for attendees to grow and expand their professional and personal networks.
Keynotes by Healthcare Industry Leaders
The DC Landscape: Policy Poised to Impact Health Plans in the Near Term
Matt Eyles, President & CEO of America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), will open the forum with an overview of the legislative and political landscape in Washington, D.C. Attendees will gain insights to help them:
Cut through the noise in the upcoming election year
Learn which policies may directly impact healthcare businesses and members in the next year
Explore top-of-mind issues including the future of Medicare and the ACA, as well as bipartisan agreements to reduce the price of prescription drugs
Consider new ways to keep costs down and simplify the healthcare system for members
Knowledge is Power: Cost Transparency as a Shared Strength and Responsibility
Niall Brennan, former Chief Data Officer at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and current President & CEO of Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI), shares insight into how healthcare organizations collaborate to enable best-in-class data sets to provide greater value through transparency. Niall will share how:
to understand cost and utilization trends in the commercially insured population
to delve into the issue of cost variation in the US market and how it impacts the transparency movement at the regulatory level
HCCI and health plans work together to share de-identified cost and outcome data, help their members navigate cost more easily and drive improvement in quality and value with robust analytics
healthcare plans, health systems, provider organizations AND members, patients, and consumers can both benefit from and help fuel the transparency mission
The Changing Landscape and the Politics of Healthcare
While unable to share confirmed details about the keynote speaker, HCEG is working with two Massachusetts healthcare industry leaders with the expectation one or both of them will share their valued perspective on the changing landscape and political uncertainties impacting the healthcare industry. This keynote address will take place over dinner on the second day of the 2019 Annual Forum. We’re hopeful the schedule of the speaker we’re working with supports their ability to share their insight unique and ideas with the healthcare executive attendees of our 2019 Annual Forum.
Interactive Sessions
This year’s Annual Forum includes eight presentations/panelist sessions addressing challenges, issues, and opportunities facing today’s healthcare leaders. HCEG sessions aim to enable significant interaction opportunities for our annual speakers, panelists, attendees, and all others involved to be able to network and share their respective thoughts and needs. A few of the sessions we’re developing to promote information exchange and networking opportunities include:
Digital Transformation: How Novel Technologies are Making a Tangible Impact
Panelists will present and discuss use cases of disruptive digital health innovation and attendees will…
Hear first-hand examples of how technology successfully integrates into organizational workflow
Learn of short and long-term impacts on their business, relationships with other stakeholders, and consumers.
Better understand which technologies foster engagement between health care stakeholders
Be able to assess the impact of disruptive digital health innovation on consumers, patients, outcomes, and costs
Beyond the Trend: Follow the Money to Identify Technologies Defining the Future of Healthcare
This panel of experts discusses the merger and acquisitions (M&A) landscape with a focus on technology investment. Attendees will…
Gain insight into which advancements investors are betting on and why
What’s driving the investment community toward M&A, and how the right technology factors into the decision to invest in a business or not
Learn about top technologies poised to meaningfully support healthcare payment and delivery transformation in the next 3 years
Developing a Collaborative Approach to Address the Opioid Crisis
In this panel, experts discuss the current state of the opioid crisis and explore collaborative strategies for better managing the current opioid crisis:
Strategies in play today that aim to prevent and treat opioid abuse including progress to-date and lessons learned during their implementation
Next steps to move the needle in a positive direction including which efforts are making the most impact
How healthcare organizations can collaborate to mitigate the opioid epidemic on a local and national level
Quizzify: So, You Think You Know Healthcare?
An interactive, fun, and compelling ‘Quizzify session’ led by Al Lewis, President of Quizzify, will help forum participants learn just how much they DO NOT KNOW about healthy behavior. This live quiz simulates an approach many employers are using to teach employees how to make healthier decisions and spend healthcare dollars more wisely. We think this will be an enlightening session.
2020 HCEG Top 10: Voting and Ranking
Over the last decade, a highlight of the HealthCare Executive Group’s annual forum is the development of the HCEG Top 10 list of challenges, issues, and opportunities currently faced by healthcare executives. Starting with a list of 25-30 items identified by HCEG members and sponsor partners, forum participants interact with each other to identify the top 10 challenges, issues and opportunities facing their organizations. After interactive discussion in roundtable format over lunch, forum participants rank the items to create the 2020 HCEG Top 10 list.
Networking Events at 2019 HealthCare Executive Group Annual Forum
Beyond the content presented at HCEG’s Annual Forum, our event aims to support new introductions and grow existing relationships between healthcare executives. Keynotes from industry leaders help set the context. Then informative sessions help flesh out – and flush out – the challenges, issues, and opportunities, facing healthcare executives. Some fun and structured opportunity to interact can go a long way.
And participants of the HealthCare Executive Group’s 2019 Annual Forum will enjoy two events providing support for meeting new people, sharing your knowledge, expanding your network, and perhaps rekindling stale relationships. Indeed you’ll meet new people, learn a lot, eat well, and experience new entertainment.
Note: This special networking event is located directly across the street from the annual forum venue and is included with 2019 Annual Forum registration at no additional cost on a first-come, first-served basis.
IBM Watson Experience Center
Another unique event at this year’s annual forum is small group tours of the IBM Watson Experience Center. The tour includes an open discussion of technology applications in healthcare. Transportation to and from the forum venue and the IBM Watson Experience Center will be provided.
The HealthCare Executive Group’s Annual Forum is unlike any other healthcare conference event. In fact, our annual forum is pretty much the opposite of other healthcare events:
Intimate and Accessible vs. Impersonal and Crowded
The venue, sessions, and seating are all designed for maximum attendee comfort and interaction. Moreover, HCEG’s annual forum includes unique networking events so forum participants can expand their network and create meaningful relationships.
Participating in our Annual Forum can truly advance attendees professional and personal goals.
Healthcare Industry Leaders Addressing Today’s Challenges vs. Coin-Operated Speakers
Speakers at our annual forum are well-established, well-known healthcare industry leaders. They won’t be selling anything except great insight on the challenges, issues, and opportunities facing today’s healthcare leadership. In today’s uncertain and increasingly volatile healthcare industry it’s critical to get unbiased insight.
Some of the Speakers at HealthCare Executive Group’s 2018 and 2017 Annual Forums:
David Shulkin, former Secretary of the Veterans Administration and Chief Innovation Officer of Sanford Health
Karen DeSalvo, Assistant Secretary for Health at U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Andy Slavitt, former Acting CMS Administrator and current leader of Townhall Ventures
Craig E. Samitt, MD, MBA, President & CEO of BCBS of Minnesota
Brandon Cady, President & CEO of Anthem/AIM Specialty Health
Kyle Rolfing, Co-Founder & President of Bright Health
Tony Miller, Co-Founder & CEO of Bind on Demand Health
Dan Buettner, National Geographic Fellow, NY Times Best Selling Author
Healthcare Executives & Leaders vs. Every Other Role Under the Sun
Participation in HCEG’s Annual Forum is limited to healthcare executives and leadership serving health plans, health systems, and provider organizations. The majority of attendees reside in the C-suite and all registrations are screened. Media, unscreened vendors of any sort, and ‘all-comers’ willing to pay the small registration fee are not allowed.
No 3rd Party Pitches vs. Vendor Salespeople and Booth Barkers
You won’t find any vendor exhibits at HCEG’s Annual Forum. And HCEG sponsor partners participate in the forum in a passive, consultative fashion. No sales pitches or vendor marketing materials are allowed.
Relaxing Venue with Great Food & Drink vs. Box Lunches and Waiting in Line for Coffee
Great content and insightful speakers alone do not make a conference worthwhile. Accordingly, HCEG places a lot of thought and effort into selecting an accessible venue. Our annual forum offers a comfortable environment supporting the exchange of information and ideas. Excellent food, drink, and refreshment is always available to forum participants.
Join Other Healthcare Leaders in Boston on September 9th
Come join other healthcare executives and industry leaders in Boston on September 9th-11th and be a part of a manageable, information-packed event. In addition to the keynotes, sessions, Top 10 ranking, and special networking events noted above, we’ve got some additional sessions and uncommon healthcare conference surprises in store. Contact Juliana Ruiz if you require any assistance.
The HealthCare Executive Group (HCEG) is a professional association chartered to convene and support executive leaders of health plans, health systems, and provider organizations. Since the HealthCare Executive Group’sinception over 30 years ago, HCEG has offered membership to organizations providing direct insurance benefits and/or direct health services to groups or individuals, either as stand-alone entities or as subsidiaries under a commercial entity. Anoffid starting today, we’re announcing two new individual membership options for healthcare executives and leaders: Individual Membership and Alumni Membership. HCEG is retaining the existing Organizational Membership option for healthcare organizations preferring that option.
New Membership Options in HealthCare Executive Group
These two new membership options provide a pathway for more people to become part of the HealthCare Executive Group on a cost-efficient basis.
Individual Membership
Alumni Membership
Candidates are executives from Payer/Provider Membership eligible organizations.
Past HCEG members who are unaffiliated with vendor organizations. Vendors provide products and services to HCEG member candidate organizations to better serve individuals.
For a very reasonable investment, healthcare executives and others leading the transformation of the healthcare industry can obtain benefits that can provide outsized returns on that small investment – only $99 dollars for a limited time!
Why Healthcare Leaders Should Join the HealthCare Executive Group
Individual Membership and Alumni Membership offer a variety of benefits all year round: Professional Networking & Relationships, In-Person/Live Events, Professional Development Opportunities, Resources, Research & News, and discounts to popular healthcare conferences.
Throughout the year, members can leverage HCEG’s platform, content, events, professional development, and networking opportunities to help them optimize their time, stay up to date on industry issues, enhance leadership skills, and obtain valuable resources to share with their staff and help transform their healthcare organization.
Professional Networking & Relationships for Healthcare Executives
Our members have unparalleled, year-round networking opportunities centered upon a calendar of events and content identified and defined by HCEG members and updated throughout the year via input and research from members and sponsor partners. Our mission and focus are to provide the platform, channels, content and on-going support for convening and connecting our members with their peers, industry thought leaders, and other resources critical to the transformation of the healthcare industry.
In-Person/Live Events for Healthcare Leaders Transforming Healthcare
HCEG offers its members various opportunities to connect with peers and other industry leaders in live, face-to-face venues throughout the year. These events are typically free to HCEG members or are discounted based on HCEG membership.
Executive Leadership Roundtables
Our quarterly Executive Leadership Roundtables(ELR) are bundled with popular healthcare conferences like the AHIP Institute and HLTH Forum. These ELR’s are intimate, participatory opportunities to learn from prominent industry thought-leaders, share ideas and obtain advice and real-world experience from others.
HCEG Annual Forum
As an Individual Member or Alumni Member, you’ll receive discounted registration to our Annual Forum held in September of each year. Our Annual Forum is our marquee event and includes not only prominent keynote speakers but also unique extracurricular networking opportunities. Check out thisrecap of the 2018 Annual Forumcelebrating HCEG’s 30-Year Anniversary.
Individual & Alumni Member Discount to 2019 Annual Forum
After registering as an Individual Member or an Alumni Member and paying the membership fee, new members receive a discount code (via pop-up window and email) to HCEG’s 2019 Annual Forum. This code can be used immediately or at a future date.
Also, and you’re hearing this for the first time here, HCEG members attending our 2019 Annual Forum in Boston, MA on September 9th through 11th will enjoy a very unique, uncommon extracurricular networking event. For more information on what this event includes, contact us.
Thought-Leadership & Professional Development Opportunities for Healthcare Executives
In addition to quarterly ELR’s, our Annual Forum, and partner events, HCEG also offers our members various opportunities for participating in webinars, research surveys, blog posts, and other knowledge sharing channels.
Webinars & Online Discussion Group Opportunities for Healthcare Executives
In addition to attending HCEG’s monthly Webinar-Series events, HCEG members have the opportunity to help define webinars and serve as panelists. In addition, HCEG hosts period online discussions and encourages member participation as an important way for members to demonstrate their thought leadership and grow their network.
Research Surveys for Healthcare Executives & Thought-Leaders
HCEG Top 10 List
Members participate in defining and ranking the HCEG Top 10 List of Challenges, Issues, & Opportunities during HCEG’s Annual Forum. HCEG members, staff and partners then expound on this list and it serves as the basis for content programming going forward.
Industry Pulse
The Industry Pulse research survey is based on the HCEG Top 10 and administered in a partnership between HCEG and sponsor partner Change Healthcare. The 9th Annual Industry Pulse was just released last week and promises to be a source of many reviews, discussion, and elaboration over the coming months and year.
Knowledge Creation, Content Sharing & Promotion for Healthcare Executives
Our members enjoy the opportunity to share information, insight, and ideas with each other and the industry at large via various HCEG channels including our blog, bi-weekly eNewsletter, and social channels. In addition, HCEG promotes certain member insight and content to amplify member content on best practices, new ideas, breaking news, and key advancements.
Become a HealthCare Executive Group Member Today
As uncertainty continues its grip on healthcare in the United States and new digital technologies advance digital transformation opportunities, it’s more important than ever for healthcare leaders to stay abreast of important industry trends, challenges, and opportunities.
Value Well Beyond Conferences, Webinars, & Content
Individual membership in the HealthCare Executive Group is a very cost-effective way for healthcare leaders to reduce uncertainty, stay up to date on changes within their field, and help to transform their organizations.
Special Discount on HCEG Individual Membership
As an additional incentive to join HCEG as an individual, we’re offering a $50 discount off the regular $149 per year rate for a limited time. Use KickoffPromo to expand your knowledge and grow your professional network for only $99!
This second week of October is U.S. National HealthIT Week – a time for celebrating the essential role that health information technology plays in transforming health and healthcare in care in the United States. This week – and all year long – the HealthCare Executive Group (HCEG) actively focuses on the mission of National HealthIT Week:
To promote the exchange of information, ideas, opinions, and experiences among healthcare executives and senior leader to apply and transform innovation and technology in healthcare.
Our mission – established 30 years ago – clearly aligns with that of the U.S. National HealthIT Week. We’re pleased to partner with HIMSS in celebrating U.S. National HealthIT Week during our 30th Anniversary!
How HCEG Helps Transform Healthcare in the United States
The primary ways in which HCEG advances its mission is via our Annual Forum, our HCEG Top 10 list, the Industry Pulse research survey based on the HCEG Top 10, periodic Executive Leadership Roundtables (ELR), webinars and content – original and curated – from our members, sponsor partners, and industry thought leaders.
The HCEG Annual Forum
Last month, our 2018 Annual Forum celebrated the 30th Anniversary of the HealthCare Executive Group. Nationally-recognized healthcare thought leaders such as Andy Slavitt, former Acting CMS Administrator and current leader of Town Hall Ventures, Dr. David J Shulkin, MD, former Secretary of the Veterans Administration and current Chief Innovation Officer of Sanford Health, and Dan Buettner, National Geographic Fellow, NY Times bestselling author and principal at the Blue Zones Project were several of the healthcare leaders sharing their insight and ideas.
Note: The 2019 HCEG Annual Forum will be held in Boston, MA in September. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive additional information on this event and other content of possible interest to healthcare leaders
The 2019 HCEG Top 10 List
HCEG makes a unique contribution to the healthcare industry via the HCEG Top 10 list. Now in its 10th year, the 2019 HCEG Top 10 list identifies the challenges, issues, and opportunities facing healthcare executives and healthcare industry leaders. You can learn more about the 2019 HCEG Top 10 and hear what industry media and healthcare thought leaders have to say about specific items on the HCEG Top 10 list here.
The Industry Pulse Research Survey – Launched During NHITWeek
In addition to guiding HCEG’s overall thought-leadership, content development, and knowledge exchange initiatives throughout the year, the 2019 HCEG Top 10 list serve as the basis for The Industry Pulse, a research survey co-sponsored by HCEG and our sponsor partner Change Healthcare. You can learn more about The Industry Pulse here including results of the 2018 Industry Pulse.
As part of NHITWeek, HCEG and sponsor partner Change Healthcare are pleased to announce the opening of the 2019 Industry Pulse Research Survey. We urge all healthcare executives, thought leaders and others involved in transforming health and healthcare in care in the United States to complete this survey. Responses are strictly confidential and used for research purposes only. We don’t share information with third parties and individuals completing the survey receive a copy of the results if desired.
Executive Leadership Roundtables
HLTH.CO: HCEG Members Remain After ELR to Continue Discussion
Convening healthcare executives and thought leaders for meaningful discussion and interaction is a key part of HCEG’s mission. Our roundtables support opportunity for intimate discussion and sharing of insight and ideas. Scheduling these roundtables in conjunction with major healthcare industry events maximizes attendee value and minimizes overhead.
So far in 2018, we’ve hosted the following roundtables with another event scheduled for this coming December:
2018 HLTH.CO Future of Healthcare Forum – May 9, 2018 – Las Vegas, NV
2018 Blue Zones of Happiness – September 14, 2018 – Minneapolis, MN
Next Executive Roundtable at AHIP Consumer Experience & Digital Health Forum
Join Healthcare Leaders This December in Nashville
Our next roundtable event is planned for Thursday, December 13th, 2018 at 1:30 pm CT – the final day of the 2018 AHIP Consumer Experience & Digital Forum in Nashville, TN. In keeping with AHIP’s customer experience and digital health theme, HCEG will convene a panel of thought leaders in an open discussion on two of our 2019 HCEG Top 10 issues:
#2 – Total Consumer Health
#5 – The Digital Healthcare Organization
This ELR builds upon insight shared during the forum with discussion centered on the integration of consumer health and digital healthcare organizations. We’ll focus on the commonalities and differences of these two closely ranked items. And participants will all have an opportunity to interact with panelists.
This ELR is open to all AHIP attendees free of charge and lunch is served. Registration for the event will open next week and subscribers to our eNewsletter will be kept informed.
HCEG Webinar Series Events & Special Presentations
Additionally, HCEG members and sponsor partners also host live webinar events every other month. Information on previously hosted webinars – most including full recordings and presentation materials – can be found here.
Special Presentations & Networking Opportunities
Our members advance HCEG’s mission by attending and presenting at healthcare conferences and other gatherings throughout the year. They share information on HCEG’s Top 10, The Industry Pulse and other insight of value to those transforming healthcare. A sample of these include:
AAPAN Innovations Forum – January 2018
Health Plan Alliance – February 2018
HIMSS Conference & Expo – March 2018
UnitedAg Annual Meeting & Conference – March 2018
WEDI Annual Spring Conference – May 2018
AHIP Institute & Expo – June 2018
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On the 2018 HCEG Top 10 list, Clinical and Data Analytics, Value-based Payments and The Engaged Digital Consumer were ranked #1, #3 and #10 respectively by health plan, health system and healthcare provider executives who participated in identifying and ranking the 2018 HCEG Top 10. It seems fair to say that these three topics are front and center on the mind of executives and thought leaders in the healthcare industry.
Leverage Your AHIP Event & Nashville Connection
If you’re attending AHIP’s 2017 Consumer Experience & Digital Health Forum in Nashville or if you’re a healthcare leader in Nashville the afternoon of Thursday, December 7th, consider joining other healthcare executives and thought leaders at our Executive Leadership Roundtable. A panel of prominent healthcare leaders will meet at Nashville’s Center for Medical Interoperability at 1:00pm CT to accelerate the seamless exchange of information to improve healthcare for all by exploring emerging and high-priority healthcare opportunities at the intersection of population health, value based care, and the engaged digital consumer.
Join Healthcare Leaders & Forum Attendees in a Boardroom-like Setting
HCEG Executive Leadership Roundtable events are held in an intimate, informal and free-flowing setting where the free exchange of ideas, questions and comments are encouraged. This roundtable event will be moderated by Dr. David Diloreto with three distinguished panelists sharing their unique perspective and insight:
Dr. David Diloreto
Ben Leedle
Ferris Taylor
David Gallegos
Senior VP of Healthcare-Population Health at General Electric
President & CEO at Blue Zones and former President & CEO of Healthways
HCEG Board Chair and COO/Consultant at Arches Health Plan
Senior VP of Consulting Services at Change Healthcare
Timely Topics for Healthcare Leaders
A timely and valuable set of topics – with a special focus on Social Determinants and Clinical Data Impacting Population Health – are planned for panelists and attendees:
Innovative strategies health plans, health systems and provider organizations are using to reduce downstream spending while improving overall health outcomes by addressing social determinants of health.
How state-of-the-art data and technologies and opening new opportunities to move consumer health forward.
Opportunities to work with community leaders to identify the factors having the most influence on individual health and quality of life.
Considerations for tailoring specific approaches and investment to address the needs of health plan members and healthcare patients in their communities.
How ground-level community stakeholders can guide health plans and health systems to where funding creates the most effective SDOH improvements.
Extend the Value of Your AHIP Consumer Experience & Digital Health Forum Attendance
In addition to the value described above, this Executive Leadership Roundtable event will include a tour of the Center for Medical Interoperability, lunch and the opportunity for professional networking with roundtable panelists and participants. The Center for Medical Interoperability is a ten-minute ride from the AHIP Consumer Experience & Digital Health Forum being held at the Music City Center in Nashville, TN.
Reserve Your Seat Today!
Attendance at the roundtable is free for current and former HCEG members, attendees of the AHIP Consumer Experience & Digital Health Forum and local healthcare executives. If you have any questions, please contact us.
To be sure, the Healthcare Executive Group (HCEG) isn’t on the same plane as these healthcare research firms listed above. The Healthcare Executive Group doesn’t have sales people balancing objective analysis with the need to generate revenue to keep the doors open. HCEG is a relatively small (by design), membership-based organization of mid-market healthcare executives in a national network who gather together physically and virtually throughout the year to learn from each other as they navigate the strategic and tactical issues facing they face as health plan and health system leaders. The concept is really quite simple and powerful:
HCEG’s mission is to promote healthcare innovation, to provide innovative knowledge support and to help sustain the development of life-long relationships through real-life and virtual relationships.
For almost 30 years, the Healthcare Executive Group has served as a channel for the open exchange of ideas, providing content, channels and opportunities for collaboration, and ongoing support for transformational dialogue among its members. The HCEG Top 10 List helps focus and drive this content development, member dialogue and knowledge exchange.
What’s the HCEG Top 10 List?
While each HCEG member and the healthcare organizations they represent are unique, all face common opportunities, issues and challenges. Technology, healthcare reform initiatives and innovation opportunities are moving quickly. The longevity of our member companies and our members own livelihood depends on their ability to identify and sufficiently address opportunities, issues and challenges; as they are presented; and as quickly as possible.
The HCEG Top 10 represents the top 10 opportunities, issues and challenges that HCEG members – health plan and health system executives at the forefront of healthcare reform – collectively identify as the most important and urgent to address over the following year. Our members consider the Top 10 items as having significant and lasting impact in the way health plan members, healthcare consumers and patients all become engaged, digital consumers and responsible healthcare stakeholders.
How is the HCEG Top 10 List Developed?
About two months in advance of HCEG’s Annual Forum, an initial list of approximately 25-30 opportunities, challenges and issues are identified by HCEG members via a survey process.
Then a set of questions intended to refine and clarify each of the 25 – 30 items are defined. These questions are intended to help members better understand each item and encourage well-measured responses. To the greatest degree possible, the questions for each topic are designed to elicit discrete, standardized responses; common industry terminology and pick lists of potential responses are used wherever possible.
These topics and their supporting questions are then entered into a survey tool and shared with all HCEG members. At the HCEG Annual Forum, members review and discuss each topic and associated questions. A series of rankings take place to winnow the list down to the Top 10 items. Members have the opportunity to question each item, each other and to rank each item publically or privately. At the end of the second day of the Annual Forum, the new Top 10 List is formally defined and shared with all forum participants and other HCEG members who may not be in attendance at the Annual Forum.
How is the HCEG Top 10 List used?
The HCEG Top 10 List is used for two general purposes, each of which are intended to address the so-called Triple Aim of Healthcare.
1. Content Development & Programming
The HCEG Top 10 list serves as the basis for HCEG’s ongoing content development and educational programming opportunities throughout the year. Each of the Top 10 items is explored at various levels of depth and breadth throughout the year and delivered to HCEG members via various mechanisms and channels including:
In addition to guiding the overall thought-leadership, content development, and knowledge exchange initiatives throughout the year, HCEG’s Top 10 Priorities, Issues & Challenges list serves as the basis for The Industry Pulse– a national, industry-wide survey where healthcare leaders across the nation are invited to participate in additional research to backdrop and contrast their perspectives against the items on the Top 10 list.
The Industry Pulse research survey is designed to gather additional insight on priorities and challenges facing healthcare industry constituents across the country and provide stakeholders across the healthcare spectrum real-world, actionable insight into near term obstacles and opportunities. Combined, the HCEG Top 10 list and The Industry Pulse encourage continuous and evolving dialog on the main issues and concerns facing member organizations.
The 2018 HCEG Top 10 List
Our 2017 Annual Forum will be held on September 18 – 20th in Nashville, TN at the Thompson Hotel and the 2018 HCEG Top 10 list will be developed during this three day forum. Developing the latest HCEG Top 10 List is an exciting part of our Annual Forum and we expect lively and thought-provoking discussion experienced in previous forums.
For more information on the Annual Forum including how to register and be a part of defining the 2018 HCEG Top 10 List, see this page.
The Annual Forum hosted by the Healthcare Executive Group (HCEG) is the Goldilocks of Healthcare Gatherings. It’s not too big like the HIMSS Conference and the AHIP Institute. It’s not too small and too narrowly focused like so many of the single topic, function-specific events taking place all over the United States on any given week of the year. HCEG’s Annual Forum is a well-crafted gathering covering an agenda presented by credible industry leaders to a manageable group of attendees in an intimate and comfortable setting. HCEG’s Annual Forum is Just Right.
The 2017 HCEG Annual Forum – It’s Just Right!
This year’s Annual Forum takes place in what’s arguably the Healthcare Capital of the United States: Nashville, TN! Healthcare executives and thought leaders representing health plans, health systems, provider organizations and physicians – along with a select set of healthcare vendors – will gather at the Thompson Hotel Nashville on September 18th through the 20th to participate in this Just Right event.
Here’s a sneak peek at the topics, speakers and valuable activities planned for the 2017 Annual Forum in Nashville. (*Sessions and Presenters Subject to Change)
Certain Topics in an Uncertain Healthcare Environment
Based on the HCEG Top 10 and recent survey’s completed by healthcare executives and others, HCEG board members have identified the following topics that will be addressed in various sessions during the forum:
Value-Based Relationships leading to Payer/Provider Integration
Precision Medicine and Behavioral Health Aspects of Substance Abuse/Opioids
Leading Edge Technology / Disease Management / Population Health
Technology Innovation and M&A Market Trends
Total Consumer Health
Harnessing Digital Health Technologies
Keynote Speakers
A number of well known AND well qualified individuals will be presenting at the Annual Forum and participating in various panels. While speaker arrangements are still be finalized, attendees can expect the following roles and industry focus to be represented:
CEO of well known, nationwide health and wellness company
Chief Marketing Officer of a Fortune 50 technology company
Former executive director of national healthcare association
Former leading official from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CEO of large multi-state healthplan
Chief Medical Officer of large BCBS licensee
President of national health care intelligence and policy consultancy
Evening Receptions
Besides the wonderful breakfasts and lunches catered each day of the forum, and the plentiful snacks and drinks available each day of the forum, a few other special events – all fueled with great food, drink and conversation – are part of the Annual Forum.
Sunday Evening: Meet and Greet at The Thompson Hotel
Payer/Provider Memberships: Candidates are organizations that provide direct insurance benefits (policies, financial, administrative services and other risk-bearing and ASO services) and/or direct health services (medical, dental, vision, etc.) to groups or individuals, either as stand-alone entities or as a subsidiary under a commercial entity.
Individual Membership: Candidates are executives from Payer/Provider Membership eligible organizations.
Alumni Membership: Past HCEG members who are unaffiliated with vendor organizations. Vendors provide products and services to HCEG member candidate organizations to better serve individuals.
For information on becoming an HCEG sponsor partner, see this information and/or contact us.
Speeding the Move to Value-Based Relationships & Reimbursement
