American Hospital Association August 16, 2018
This is the CEO that health care needs
Disruptive CEOs are strategic, innovative, customer-focused and passionate – which does not necessarily jibe with climbing the traditional hierarchy to the C-suite, Modern Healthcare reports. The changing field demands leaders with clinical, management and people skills, such as famed surgeon, author and Amazon/Chase/Berkshire Hathaway health venture CEO Atul Gawande, the publication says, or, someone with retail savvy who could make patients loyal and happy, such as Starbucks’ former CEO Howard Schultz.
Another example is Rod Hochman, M.D., current CEO of Providence Health & Services, the publication says. Hochman recruited an Amazon executive to build digital engagement with Providence’s consumers, and it’s worked. This kind of thinking will be par for the course...
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