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2/18 WCHQ Webinar: Reinventing Health Care: Inside Out or Outside In?
WCHQ Assembly
February 18, 2020
WEBINAR ONLY
10 am – 12:30 PM
“Reinventing Health Care: Inside Out or Outside In?”
Featuring:
Craig Samitt, MD, MBA President/CEO, BCBS, MN
Thomas Van Gilder, MD, JD, MPH Walmart
WCHQ is excited to bring together two recognized thought leaders to provide their perspectives on who will be influencing health care access, payment and policy over the next few years. Both presenters are focused on improving access and increasing the affordability of health care, which aligns with WCHQ’s Board-approved initiative to accelerate the value of health care in Wisconsin.
As President/CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield Minnesota, Craig Samitt, MD, MBA, has the expertise and the passion to change how health care is delivered.
In an interview with Managed Care in May 2019, Samitt suggested, “We should be more like Costco. The other organization that I think we need to be like is Netflix. Netflix became beholden to their supply chain. So, they got into a new part of the supply chain. I’m talking about creating their own content. So, if we’re beholden to content providers, so to speak—the deliverers of care that are reaping all the benefits of the industry, or not changing—and we want better content, we may need to get into the content business.”
Samitt has asserted that if health care is unwilling to reinvent itself, “someone will come along and reinvent us from the outside in.”
The second speaker is Thomas Van Gilder, MD, JD, MPH. Dr. Van Gilder is currently Chief Medical and Analytics Officer for Walmart Health and Wellness. He is leading and developing a clinical organization that spans primary care, dental, optical, hearing, behavioral health, and pharmacy services. He is also leading a growing clinical analytics group that supports existing pharmacies and clinics as well as new and innovative health offerings.
Van Gilder will describe Walmart’s future plans after recently opening a health care “super center” in Georgia that is described as the world’s largest retailer that offers a wide range of key health services under one roof.
For more information contact Mary Kay Fahey at WCHQ.
