Chair File: Sharing Innovative Ideas and Strategies to Advance Health

Jul 10, 2023 - 10:23 AM by
John Haupert, Chair, American Hospital Association
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Assessing the impact of artificial intelligence on health care delivery, managing workforce challenges, addressing environmental sustainability, improving the health care consumer experience: All these topics and more will be highlighted at the AHA Leadership Summit, July 16–18 in Seattle.

This year’s lineup of speakers and session topics is incredible. Leaders from hospitals and health systems — including Advocate Health Care, Carilion Clinic, CommonSpirit Health, Henry Ford Health, Intermountain Healthcare, Mayo Clinic, Northwell Health, Northwestern Medicine, Providence and many other organizations — will share innovative practices for addressing financial sustainability, workforce resilience, health equity, digital transformation, patient safety and other key issues. Several sessions also will focus on the future of rural health care.

Other notable content at AHA’s Leadership Summit focused on health care innovation includes:

  • A plenary session about the future of health care innovation, including the potential impact of generative AI.
  • Sessions with nontraditional providers and disruptors, like Amazon and Walgreens, on their near-term plans for health care, including working with hospitals.
  • An interactive Q&A session on health care governance.
  • Breakout sessions on environmental sustainability and on climate change and health equity.
  • Sessions on strategic investing to fund health care innovation, including how hospitals and health systems can work with and engage with startups for impact.

You can stay connected on what’s happening at Summit by following @ahahospitals on social media channels and reading news coverage in AHA Today and AHA Market Scan.

AHA’s Leadership Summit brings together a diverse and exciting array of health care executives, clinicians, trustees and many other experts in the field. I look forward to seeing many of you next week in Seattle to listen, learn and discuss innovative approaches for leading our field forward.

Let’s continue sharing innovative ideas and effective strategies as we work together to advance health in America now and in the future.

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