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Hear how leaders in the health care strategy have leveraged critical skills to advance their careers. Learn important considerations for pursuing an advanced degree in health care management, and the essential groundwork for competency-driven advancement. Understand several relevant competency models, those that focus on strategists' skills, those that are critical to exceptional innovative leadership.

A successful approach to board engagement included a series of learning and listening sessions over several months, allowing board members to gain a basic understanding or choose to deep dive into key topics. These sessions, in lieu of a more traditional board retreat, provided a review of the competitive landscape through the lenses of business metrics and patient outcomes, as well as philanthropy, research funding, and reputation.

Facing increasing high-deductible health plan enrollment and a consolidating market, Emory Healthcare's leadership team needed to understand how their patients make healthcare decisions and the role that price played in where they went for care. To do this, Emory carried out in-depth customer focused work and price benchmarking to understand its relative position and the role of price in consumer choice.

Hear about the beautiful, symbiotic relationship when population health management teams with marketing to uncover the true benefit of their programs. Learn how marketers must be able to leverage their CRM data and reporting to provide true business intelligence for their service line and population health teams to make timely decisions about program management is invaluable.

Today, hip and knee replacement represents nearly half of all inpatient orthopedic service line volumes nationally. Over the next several years, Sg2 predicts aggressive outpatient procedural shifts that leave traditional inpatient providers feeling financially vulnerable and strategically stalled. Innovative organizations such as Unity Point are leveraging this trend to differentiate their program regionally and on a national scale.

Findings from recent research among U.S. health care leaders suggests that facilitating change management initiatives within an organization requires significant leadership and team building competencies. In this session, facilitators will present a number of existing change models and then introduce one new change theory to be applied during the use of an active simulation model, resulting in the needed buy in for change from key stakeholders and team members.

Patient referrals are often a piece of paper with a specialist's name and phone number on them, which leaves patients with the burden of navigating the referral and coordinating their own care. This session will present novel ways to standardize referral management, provider data management, and patient access across a health system's multiple patient access points in order to improve the patient experience, increase patient conversion and retention, and fully leverage the clinical expertise within a network.

How to apply Consumer Product Goods (CPG) tools and concepts to improve business development and planning as consumerism becomes more influential in healthcare decision-making. We will also discuss some of the necessary competencies and culture aspects needed to help you create a more data driven organization. Key takeaways will include few free tools to support your efforts.

Imagine utilizing predictive analytics and interactive mapping to identify unsaturated market areas full of unmet patient demand, overlay ideal payer mix projections, and forecasting future financial success. Healthcare providers can now create predictive, neighborhood level strategic plans for optimization of urgent, FEDs, primary/specialty care practices and even micro-hospitals.

Learn how to transform your town hall sessions to engage your employees in the strategic direction of your organization, help staff understand the "why" and garner CEO support for two-way communication. Dayton Children's employees attended quarterly town hall sessions for staff that weren't interactive, or engaging, and therefore, they weren't well attended.

The Surgeon General's report called addiction "a bigger health problem than cancer." This is a call to arms for every hospital in the nation. The heroin epidemic is decimating whole generations. The crisis is bringing clinical, financial, operational and messaging challenges to health systems everywhere. Three experts have joined together to bring you insights from ground zero of this epidemic.

Leverage the revenue producing results from your marketing efforts to support and grow marketing budgets and change the way your organization thinks about marketing. Hear how other industries and SCL Health is changing the role of marketing from supporting lines of business to being considered their own profit center. Learn how to build a return on investment performance process to improve/create strategies and more effective implementations with robust measurement practices.

This case study will examine a year of data and include reports on internal marketing efforts to Reid Health's 2500 employees, as well as external marketing efforts within Reid's designated service area and beyond, by targeting prospects throughout Indiana and Ohio.