Leadership Conversations

The pharma industry came together under extraordinary circumstances to develop a vaccine for Covid-19. Biotech and AI will play a major role in what’s to come next.

Vaccine distribution is a huge challenge both clinically and in terms of supply, logistics, storage, and misinformation.

Four strategies from Texas Health Resources’ Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for becoming a high-value health care system.

With conflicting information across all levels, strong communication creates trust and support within a health system.

“Covid, in a children’s hospital, really is a whole different beast,” says Larry Hollier, MD, Surgeon-in-Chief at Texas Children’s Hospital.

Quality and safety is a powerful, established system that providers can leverage to advance equity in health care.

Providence’s EVP and Chief Clinical Officer discusses how her organization navigated the last several months to get back to pre-pandemic volumes.

Covid-19 has not been fee-for-service’s most shining moment. Health policy economist Michael Chernew discusses building a better payment model for the future.

The CEO of the new Cleveland Clinic London discusses how he is helping to confidently integrate care in the UK despite the challenges of a pandemic.

The President of UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals discusses the important role of an academic medical center in deciphering the constantly changing data on the pandemic, its effects on children, and how to keep them safe.

Lord Ara Darzi offers firsthand background and insights on the successful implementation of the London stroke initiative, which, through a profound restructuring of care design pathways, led to improved clinical outcomes at lower costs.

In times of crisis, you learn a lot more about an organization than you otherwise would. The Regional President of OptumCare discusses the large organization’s goal to become fully value based and how the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted its care providers in terms of payment models and other aspects of...

Health care safety, for both patients and caregivers, is having a tremendous moment during the Covid-19 pandemic. But to establish that safety, there must first be trust.

How Intermountain Healthcare empowers employees to become problem solvers and implement, with their local teams, ideas for continuous improvement.

Twenty years of research and effort has established patient safety as a core health care responsibility, but new approaches suggest a need for expansion of ways to define the terminology, the scope of the challenge, and the implementation of models for success.

Health care organizations need to understand not just what work is needed for transitioning to value-based care, but also how to organize and resource the work.

Massachusetts’ Public Health Commissioner discusses the need to break down barriers within organizations and between public- and private-sector health organizations to achieve better care and health equity for patients and populations.

Health care leaders must recognize that change comes quickly, says the CEO of Mayo Clinic, and from places they might not expect: technology, data, and consumerism. He also stresses the need to chip away at administrative and clerical burdens so that staff can focus on the tasks they truly enjoy.

The CEO of SSM Health notes that the organization is not just in the care delivery business and discusses an approach that involves the complex integration of elements beyond hospitals and physician practices to include home care and hospice, pharmacy benefit management, a generic drug company, a health plan, a...

Dartmouth-Hitchcock, a rural health system, serves patient populations over three states (and disparate payment models) but has been developing a regional model of care that strengthens local access to services for lower-acuity patients, while limiting the academic medical center to high-acuity patients.

A physician and researcher in China for the Covid-19 pandemic, Ewelina Biskup, MD, MPH, discusses that experience, and calls for a big data collection and analysis effort to address the many unanswered questions about the virus.

An orthopedic surgeon from Italy’s hard-hit Lombardy region discusses how he and his community have been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, and shares lessons learned.

An orthopedist was one of an army of medical professionals called into the quarantine zone around Wuhan, China. He describes his role in treating patients with Covid-19 for more than a month, from the peak period of 10,000 new cases a day, to March 23, 2020, with no new confirmed...

George Diaz, MD, Medical Director for Antimicrobial Stewardship at Providence Regional Medical Center Everett in Washington state, describes the preparation, real-time decision-making, and implementation of a telehealth program to protect patients and staff alike.

How Mayo Clinic created and disseminated an enterprise-wide Covid-19 care delivery plan through existing resources and real-time updates and adaptations.