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  The COVID-19 pandemic greatly accelerated the adoption of digital health technologies, advancing the industry by years of progress in just a matter of months. The Nashville Health Care Council’s recent panel discussion, “A New Wave of Health Care Investment in Nashville,” explored the dramatic shifts occurring in the ecosystem and how top investors are tapping into the latest trends to shape the future of health care.     Guest speakers included Adam Boehler,…

Episode 5: Challenging Healthcare Inequity Dr. Quincy Byrdsong shares three key strategies healthcare professionals can use to address racial and gender inequity. It’s widely known that Black Americans are treated differently when receiving healthcare, but that inequity has roots that extend far beyond the doctor’s office and into the very foundations of our healthcare system. In…

Episode 4: Many Healthcare Models in Many Ways Kathleen Schaum and Dr. Kosali Simon explain how different healthcare payment models throughout history have impacted costs and patient outcomes.  Most payers and providers agree that our current system needs reform, but it’s difficult to know what that reform should look like. And in the past, even…

Leadership Health Care (LHC), an initiative of the Nashville Health Care Council, announces the appointment of its 2021–2022 board of directors, effective as of July 1, 2021. Andrea Cleeton, vice president, operations improvement, LifePoint Health, has been named board chair, and, Drake Jarman, regional vice president, CarePayment, will serve as board vice chair. “I look…

Episode 3: Many Healthcare Models in Many Ways Nicole Cottrill and Michael Burcham examine the ways healthcare business models have evolved throughout history. Dolly Parton’s family famously paid the doctor who delivered her with a bag of cornmeal. And until recent years, transactions like this were not uncommon, as medicine was primarily practiced by independent…

Episode 2: Unwrapped: The American People and Government Funded Care Dr. Melinda Buntin and Nancy-Ann DeParle take a look back at some of the biggest moments in America’s healthcare history and offer predictions about the future of our healthcare system. 60 percent of Americans today say that health insurance is the responsibility of the federal…

Episode 1: The Pandemic Economy  Dr. Naomi Rogers, professor of the history of medicine in the section of the history of medicine and the program in the history of science and medicine at Yale University, and Nick Diamond, advisor and legal academic discuss some of the similarities between COVID-19 and the 1918 pandemic, along with…

Leadership Health Care (LHC), an initiative of the Nashville Health Care Council created to nurture the talent of Nashville’s emerging health care leaders, has announced its 2020 award winners in the categories of Health Care Emerging Leader of the Year, Ambassador of the Year and Supporting Organization of the Year. The awards were announced at…