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We are PUMPED to share the big learnings from Union Healthcare Insight's inaugural member summit in DC last week! We do not do conferences and meetings...at least the way you usually think about them in business. We believe the "aha" value for executives and their teams come when sharp insight and tough messages meet real-talk debate... and fun. ~20 executives and investors joined us for discussion you won't find anywhere else. We talked about the way a handful of companies are "creating their own weather" (cough...a Minnesota-based insurer) and what to do about it if you provide care to their members, compete with or sell to them, and event want to be acquire by them. We made it real by exploring the Change Healthcare hack. Was it unavoidable? What's the next "single point of failure" in healthcare? Are we just victims or is there something managers can do differently? Check out everything we learned below. More importantly, join us for our West Coast event in LA this January! #healthcare #executive #investor #uhg #different #insights #healthcareinnovation

We're so pleased to share that last week's inaugural, in-person (!!) East Coast Insight Summit in Washington, D.C., was a success! Nearly 20 executives across provider organizations, health plans, investors, and health services companies joined the big day. Our summits are no-quote, confidential events. It's part of our meeting philosophy; more on that in an upcoming post. But, we can share that, of all the industry issues and ideas we worked through across the day, the topic that drew the liveliest discussion was that of vertical consolidation. A few key takeaways: * It's not easy to get clarity on the strategic objectives that animate today's big healthcare publics. But it's worth delving into, because the biggest corporate players are so huge at this point that they're ‘making their own weather’ in the market. - As healthcare players diversify, you have to step way back to see the picture of how activities are crossing traditional industry sector lines. Check out the blog post for a graphic about how this is happening. - To make sense of what big players are doing, try our 'portfolio, flywheel, platform’ frame. (Again, check out the graphic in the blog post.) Enjoy the writeup--and reach out if you're interested in joining one of our future events! #management #markets #future #healthcare #strategy #verticalintegration #verticalconsolidation https://lnkd.in/gNY6a3d5

Join us next week for the final webinar of our Capital Planning Webinar Series, featuring two health center leaders who share their planning and financing processes, lessons learned, and pitfalls to avoid. https://ow.ly/sveW50Um1eb

Check out the Visit Atlanta page to learn about everything "The City in the Forest" has to offer and to start planning your Accelerating Health Equity Conference experience! https://ow.ly/rPut50TVC0L #HealthEquityConf

With the US presidential election around the corner, James Douglas, Fund Manager of the Polar Capital Global Healthcare Trust, discusses the possible outcomes and their different impacts on the sector 👉 https://lnkd.in/eFcRDwhP He also looks at the secular tailwinds within #Healthcare and explores key growth drivers for the next 18 months, citing new product cycles and #EmergingMarkets, as well as #ArtificialIntelligence and #MachineLearning as exciting areas of opportunity.

I'm very excited to announce that World Class Health has raised $8M in seed funding. Many thanks to our investors and believers including our lead AlleyCorp as well as LifeX Ventures, Joyance Partners, Cooley LLP, City Light Capital, Vivek Garipalli and Munjal Shah. We aim to empower employees and their families to overcome geographic, financial, and informational barriers to accessing top 1% care around the world. To date, our Global Concierge Health Benefit and Center of Excellence network have resulted in exceptional outcomes including an industry-leading 1.6% readmission rate and a 90+ NPS across thousands of patients while delivering up to 50-70% cost savings on covered procedures. We know that healthcare is increasingly unaffordable for patients and employers, that transparency into quality is poor, and that access can be challenging due to narrow networks and long wait times. World Class Health addresses all of these challenges. Our mission is our name. https://lnkd.in/dtK48CVU

More than one million Victorians will benefit through the formation of the new Bayside Health (working title) – a voluntary merger between Peninsula Health, Alfred Health, and Kooweerup Regional Health. Peninsula Health chief executive Helen Cooper said the merger, which will come into effect from 1 January 2026, is an important step in improving health outcomes for the local community. “The complementary nature of the three health services means we will be able to provide the full spectrum of care for the 1.1 million people we’ll serve through this network,” Ms Cooper said. Find out more about this voluntary merger, link in comments.

Innovation and collaboration are key to shaping the future of healthcare. Check out the latest conversation with David M. Cordani and John Chambers for valuable insights. #WeAreTheCignaGroup #CignaWest #CignaHealthcare

Innovation and collaboration are key to shaping the future of healthcare. Check out the latest conversation with David M. Cordani and John Chambers for valuable insights. #WeAreTheCignaGroup

In 2021, we all saw Medtech and digital health valuations exploding and plenty of massive rounds of funding. We also saw the market correct, seeing an estimated 25% decrease in valuations across the industry. As a founder: - How do you protect yourself from these painful corrections? - How do you raise capital in the wake of those corrections? - How does this affect who you choose to pitch and partner with? You need to ask yourself these tough questions to ensure that you’re generating real value for stakeholders throughout the investment and exit processes. The market is constantly shifting, but these lessons will always serve you well. This is a great panel to rewatch now that you have some hindsight and have seen how things have played out in recent years. Watch the full panel, Creating Stakeholder Value from Investment to Exit, on our website.