Health Care
How to Elevate Your Health Care Customer Experience for Engaged Consumers
Health care consumers now expect the same type of seamless experience they get from Amazon and Uber
Sponsored by West Monroe Partners Outside forcesfrom consumerism to health care reform, to digital evolutionhave created a marketplace where individual consumers are more engaged than ever before in purchasing insurance and managing their health and wellness. For health care organizations operating in this evolving marketplace, success and competitiveness is not just about being the best….
How to Get Ahead of Employer Health Care Costs to Effectively Manage Risk and Control Costs
Sponsored by The Partners Group How can we look at an employee population and figure out not just who has cost a lot, but who has the capacity to cost a lot? Once we identify the high risk members, what can we do to help prevent their health issues from escalating into the high-cost category?…
The Health Care Fix
How value-based medicine can help businesses and workers move away from a harmful, wasteful system.
When Dr. Jorge Garcia, associate director of the residency program at Swedish Family Medicine, talks to his young residents about the dysfunctional way most health care is paid for in the United States, he tells them to imagine a patient who comes in with a cancer in her right arm. In the operating room, the…
2012 Outstanding Health Care Executive: Rick Cooper, CEO of The Everett Clinic
Rick Cooper CEO, The Everett Clinic As The Everett Clinic’s CEO for the past 27 years, Rick Cooper has seen the physician group practice become a major health care provider for Snohomish County, with nearly 300 doctors, more than 2,000 staff members and eight locations serving about 290,000 patients. Cooper takes the long view on…
Arivale: Gut Check (and More)!
Leroy Hoods startup uses data from your blood, your genes and your digestive tract to coach you toward better health awareness.
The Seattle startup Arivale wants to make you feel better, but dont call it a health care business. CEO and cofounder Clayton Lewis, a board member of Harborview Medical Center and a former venture capitalist, says Arivale sells wellness, a category distinctly different from health care. For $4,000 a year, customers get recommendations on how…
The 2016 Leaders in Health Care Awards: Outstanding Achievement in Health Care Delivery
Winner: CHI Franciscan Health Care Transformation Services Team; Silver Award: Pacific Medical Centers (PacMed)
WINNERCHI Franciscan Health Care Transformation Services TeamTacoma Challenging the status quo of health care delivery is what the CHI Franciscan Health Care team likes to do. Led by Matt Levi, director of Virtual Health Services, and Lana Adzhigirey, Care Transformation Progam manager, the team plays a critical role in implementing modern technological initiatives at CHI…
The 2016 Leaders in Health Care Awards: Outstanding Achievement in Community Outreach
Winner: Julia Colson, Seattle/King County Clinic; Silver Award: Swedish Community Specialty Clinic Dental Program
WINNERJulia ColsonProject Director, Seattle/King County Clinic, Seattle For the past several years, Julia Colson has helped bring free dental, vision and medical care to nearly 8,000 people in a safe and respectful environment. She is the project director for Seattle/King County Clinic, a large-scale, volunteer-driven free clinic event that has taken place at KeyArena during…
The 2016 Leaders in Health Care Awards: Outstanding Achievement in Delivery of Digital Health
Winner: David Baker, University of Washington; Silver Award: HealthSparq
WINNERDavid BakerProfessor of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle Designing a whole new world of proteins to address 21st-century problems in biomedicine, energy and technology is all in a days work for David Baker. Baker, who is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Sciences, is leading a team of…
The 2016 Leaders in Health Care Awards: Outstanding Medical Director/Chief Medical Officer
Winner: Mark Adams, M.D., CHI Franciscan; Silver Award: Joanne Roberts, Providence Regional Medical Center, Everett
WINNERMark Adams, M.D.Chief Medical Officer, CHI Franciscan, Tacoma Mark Adams is a change agent. He has been the catalyst for transforming the way CHI Franciscan delivers health care improving patient access to care and advancing patient outcomes through innovative tools. He led the creation of CHI Franciscans Health and Informatics Department in 2013 and managed…
The 2016 Leaders in Health Care Awards: Outstanding Medical Group Executive
Winner: Anita Geving, The Polyclinic; Silver Award: Sundeep Malik, M.D., Physicians Anesthesia Service, Seattle
WINNERAnita GevingCOO, The Polyclinic, Seattle Since joining The Polyclinic in 2001, Anita Geving has helped transform the company into the leading independent, multispecialty medical practice in the Puget Sound region. The clinic has grown from 83 physicians and 425 staff members in 2001 to more than 200 physicians and advanced practice clinicians today, along with…
The 2016 Leaders in Health Care Awards: Outstanding Health Care Executive Outside Puget Sound Region
Winner: Thomas Martin, Lincoln Hospital, Davenport; Silver Award: Rand Wortman, Providence Health & Services, Richland
WINNERThomas MartinCEO, Lincoln Hospital, Davenport Thomas Martin, former CEO and superintendent of Lincoln County Hospital, has increased access to health care throughout his community and continues to remain an important advocate for rural health care and critical access hospitals all across the state. Martin promotes quality and access bringing essential health care services to people…
Leaders in Health Care Awards 2016: Lifetime Achievement
Rich Umbdenstock, Former President and CEO, American Hospital Association
For the past 40 years his entire career Rich Umbdenstock has been leading change in a field where he says doing the extraordinary is the ordinary. Along the way, he has helped to improve the quality and safety of health care for Americans. As leader of the American Hospital Association, which serves more than 5,000…
Arivale: Gut Check (and More)!
The Seattle startup Arivale wants to make you feel better, but dont call it a health care business. CEO and cofounder Clayton Lewis, a board member of Harborview Medical Center and a former venture capitalist, says Arivale sells wellness, a category distinctly different from health care. For $4,000 a year, customers get recommendations on how…