Members sharing best practices from their operational, clinical, supply chain and pharmaceutical initiatives has been foundational to HealthTrust’s DNA throughout most of its existence. And, the upcoming HealthTrust University Conference has historically been the event where much of that knowledge sharing and networking takes place.
Beginning in 2017, HealthTrust launched a new, more intimate format for this type of member engagement through its Collaborative Summits. These immersive think-tank experiences enable members to come together to discuss real-world challenges on topics such as multimodal pain management, acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patient management, robotics, sepsis, wound care and staffing—just a few of the summits offered over the last seven years.
Earlier this year, the Clinical Services Team hosted the Nursing Workforce 2.0 Collaborative Summit. And, during the HTU event in Orlando, the Pharmacy Services Team will host a 340B Collaborative Summit. A key component of these events is that members leave with customized action plans to enable discussion and ultimately implementation once they are back at home.
Executive Advisory Summit
The latest offering in our summit series was an Executive Advisory Summit that was held in early May. HealthTrust hosted executives from 16 leading health systems who joined together in Phoenix, Arizona, to focus on key healthcare topics that included: the future of artificial intelligence (AI) in care transformation, cybersecurity, private equity’s role in healthcare, and a session I led on the procedural shift in care from hospitals to ambulatory sites and what it means for healthcare operators.
Headlining other sessions over the three-day Executive Advisory Summit were:
- Akshay Pottathil (Intelligence Research Institute) spoke on the transformative potential of AI as healthcare evolves.
- Michael Schlossser, M.D., MBA, (HCA Healthcare) shared the organization’s approach to leveraging and creating technology to help care teams achieve better patient outcomes.
- Brian Tanquilut (Jefferies LLC) spoke about private equity’s presence in healthcare services.
- Paul Connelly (Brighton Park Capital; formerly HCA Healthcare) chaired a panel discussing cybersecurity risk assessment and how to recover quickly should a hack penetrate a health system’s defenses. Panelists included: Patrice Bordon (Community Health Systems); Richard Skoba (Aon Cyber Solutions); Christopher Pendergast (Henry Schein); and Lisa Sotto (Andrews Kurth LLP).
My team and I look forward to seeing many of you at the HealthTrust University Conference in Orlando in August.
I encourage you to take advantage of the education sessions featuring member and internal subject matter experts, as well as physicians who are part of the HealthTrust Physician Advisor Network. Make sure to stop by the HealthTrust Village in the exhibit hall to meet many of the HealthTrust experts in person. In the meantime, be well.
John Young, M.D., MBA, FACHE
Chief Medical Officer, HealthTrust Performance Group
Executive Publisher & Editor-at-large, The Source magazine
Share your biggest organizational challenge that could benefit from a collaboration of colleagues and related experts. We are currently evaluating topics for our next collaborative summit, so email clinical.services@healthtrustpg.com with your suggestions.
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