This episode recorded live at the Becker’s 16th Annual Meeting features Dr. Ricky Choi, Strategic Medical Advisor at Xealth, Head of Digital Health at Samsung Electronics, and Associate Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, who explores how health systems…
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Jeffrey Flaks, president and CEO of Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare, has spent 22 years at the system watching the industry talk itself out of change. He has seen the headwinds used as excuses, the risks of going first cited as reasons…
Janie Thompson has stepped down from her role as COO of Menorah Medical Center in Overland Park, Kan. The hospital is part of Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare. “After more than seven years in hospital leadership with HCA, I’m putting healthcare…
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