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Sustaining hospitals and health systems and positioning them for success moving forward is a chief focus of Navigating a New Reality: Health Care Leaders Confront the Future, a three-day virtual conference, Sept. 14-16, sponsored by the AHA Center for Health Innovation and the .

The conference will bring together prominent leaders in strategy and innovation from health care and beyond to share unique perspectives, lessons learned, solution-oriented thinking, and plans for the future. The program features expert-led educational sessions on topics designed to drive the field forward through recovery, rebuilding and reimagining care delivery, such as:

• • Financial implications
  • Strategic planning for future business models
  • Clinical innovations and new care models including those that address equity
  • The patient experience of virtual care and digital engagement
  • Workforce considerations including burnout, resiliency and reinvented roles
  • Consumer perceptions and communications strategies
     
• A line up of powerful speakers, including health care executives, physicians, futurists, and authors including keynotes:
   
  • Confronting the Dual Pandemics: Vitality and Resilience of Communities
    Mia Birdsong, activist and author, How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
     
  • Innovating to Meet the Greatest Global Challenge in Generations
    Keller Rinaudo, founder and CEO of Zipline, robotics and health care innovator
     
  • Navigating the 2020 Election amid COVID-19
    David Wasserman, political analyst, The Cook Political Report
     
  • The Impact of COVID-19 and the Outlook for the Future
    Ian Morrison, PhD, health care futurist and author
     
  • The Future of Virtual Health – The “At Home” Hospital
    Scott C. Rissmiller, M.D., executive vice president and chief physician executive, Atrium Health
    Jhaymee Tynan, assistant vice president, integration, Atrium Health
     
• Interactive experiences including peer-to-peer networking and Q&A in the virtual networking lounge and exhibit hall 
   
• Session recordings available for 90 days post-conference     

Attendees of the conference can expect to:

• Gain practical tools for achieving peak operational and clinical performance, while improving value and affordability.
• Understand what the latest developments in Washington in an election year mean for hospitals and their communities.
• Revitalize leadership and address cultural shifts resulting from the pandemic.
• Strengthen the hospital’s capacity to deliver value-based care through strategic partnerships and collaborations.
• Engage clinical talent and enhance care delivery through innovative workforce solutions.
• Explore how virtual health technologies are improving access to care.

Navigating a New Reality offers an unparalleled opportunity to learn and share with leaders facing the new health care reality.

Please visit our conference webpage for more information.