Innovation

A revolution of emerging technologies is now a part of everyday life. Learn insights behind this vast space and how to apply digital technologies to your brand and patient experience.
Learn how one community health system in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is modeling its innovation initiatives after a highly effective startup culture to capture new ideas, validate them, and take them to market.
Hear how SVHS built a strategy-execution platform to convert a great strategy into effective implementation. Participants will also learn a theory and method to build execution into strategy for their organizations to use.
Featuring a case study of Cook Children's Health Care System, this session will explore how analytics can enhance multiple business initiatives from market planning to donor acquisition to achieving social goals.
Learn how Metro Health was challenged by its board of directors to demonstrate commitment to both the financial and physical well-being of patients.
Gundersen Health System is using an online consumer panel to make and validate marketing decisions. As hospital and health system leaders and marketers, we must evolve to meet the expectations of the engaged healthcare consumer. But how? Many of us have adjusted our business models or made changes…
How to utilize data to improve organizational decision making. Today, the volume of raw data a healthcare organization collects can be overwhelming. In fact, it is estimated that 90 percent of all the data in existence today was created in the last two years. The challenge for healthcare…
At the 2016 Thought Leader Forum held at SHSMD's annual conference, a diverse panel of health care professionals shared their insights and perspectives on change leadership.
This summary report provides insights into new ways to address health care strategy possibilities and innovations.