/ en Sat, 26 Apr 2025 01:33:58 -0500 Tue, 11 Feb 20 15:12:32 -0600 /news/headline/2020-02-11-minnesota-association-names-president-and-ceo <p>The Minnesota Hospital Association recently <a href="https://www.mnhospitals.org/newsroom/news/id/2299/dr-rahul-koranne-named-new-minnesota-hospital-association-president-and-ceo">named</a> as its president and CEO Rahul Koranne, M.D., who has served as senior vice president of medical affairs and chief medical officer for the association since 2015. He succeeds Lawrence Massa, who retired in September and <a href="/news/headline/2019-11-25-obituary-former-minnesota-hospital-association-ceo-lawrence-lorry-massa">died</a> Nov. 22. Koranne has 20 years of health care experience spanning the continuum of care. </p> <p>“Rahul’s experience includes leadership in both a large health system and one of Minnesota’s smallest critical access hospitals,” said MHA Board Chair Sara Criger, senior vice president, Allina Health, and president, Mercy Hospital and United Hospital. “In addition, Rahul brings the leadership qualities the board of directors was seeking as well as a deep commitment to our mission of improving the health of Minnesotans. He will accelerate the association’s strong collaboration with other health care stakeholders in Minnesota.” <br />  </p> Tue, 11 Feb 2020 15:12:32 -0600 C-Suite Hires /news/headline/2020-01-24-kansas-hospital-association-announces-next-president-ceo <p>The Kansas Hospital Association has <a href="https://www.kha-net.org/Communications/MediaReleases/Chad-Austin-selected-as-next-KHA-President-and-CEO_155790.aspx">selected </a>as its next president and CEO Chad Austin, who currently serves as executive vice president and will assume the new role in September. “Chad Austin has a tremendous knowledge and understanding of Kansas hospitals no matter their size or geographical location,” said KHA President and CEO Tom Bell, who plans to <a href="/news/headline/2020-01-06-kansas-hospital-leader-retire">retire </a>Sept. 1. “He already has a stellar record of serving those hospitals in many capacities, and he will continue that exceptional service as president and CEO.” Since joining KHA in 1999, Austin has served as senior vice president of government relations and managed the association’s data-related activities, rural health and critical access hospital issues.</p> Fri, 24 Jan 2020 14:30:28 -0600 C-Suite Hires /aha-center-health-innovation-market-scan/2020-01-14-alphabets-verily-walgreens-hire-new-clinical .field_featured_image { position: absolute; overflow: hidden; clip: rect(0 0 0 0); height: 1px; width: 1px; margin: -1px; padding: 0; border: 0; } .featured-image{ position: absolute; overflow: hidden; clip: rect(0 0 0 0); height: 1px; width: 1px; margin: -1px; padding: 0; border: 0; } <div class="container row"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-8"> <p><img alt="Alphabet’s Verily, Walgreens Hire New Clinical Leaders stock. Puzzle with each piece an executive and the final person being placed into the puzzle." data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="6ca96312-5c05-439c-a47e-4b53a4eeb4bc" src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/ms_011420_item2_new_hires_190_955639.jpg" width="190" height="127" class="align-right">Two major players working to disrupt health rang in the new year by hiring prominent leaders to head their clinical operations.</p> <p><a href="https://abc.xyz/" target="_blank">Alphabet</a>, the parent company of <a href="https://verily.com/" target="_blank">Verily Life Sciences</a> (formerly Google Life Sciences), has hired Vindell Washington, M.D., formerly of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, to serve as chief clinical officer. Washington previously served as the national coordinator for health IT at ONC from August 2016 to January 2017, <a href="https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/tech/alphabet-s-verily-nabs-health-it-policy-leader-vindell-washington-as-its-new-chief-clinical" target="_blank">Fierce Healthcare reports</a>. Washington also worked at the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System in Baton Rouge, La., leaving as president of its medical group. Verily also recently hired <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepak-ahuja-9532b69" target="_blank">Deepak Ahuja</a>, a former Tesla executive who helped take the company public, as its chief financial officer.</p> <p><a href="https://www.walgreens.com/businesssolutions/home/home.jsp?o=acs" target="_blank">Walgreens</a>, meanwhile, has <a href="https://www.healthexec.com/topics/leadership/walgreens-hires-new-chief-medical-officer" target="_blank">hired Kevin Ban, M.D., as its chief medical officer</a>. Ban, who has more than 20 years of clinical experience, held the same position at athenahealth. At Walgreens, Ban will oversee Walgreens’ clinical programs, patient safety and health care information systems.</p> <p>Ban joins Walgreens as the company works to reconfigure its clinical services, including building partnerships with <a href="https://www.jennycraig.com/" target="_blank">Jenny Craig</a> and <a href="https://www.labcorp.com/" target="_blank">LabCorp</a> to offer meal-planning services and lab testing at its stores.</p> </div> <div class="col-md-4"> <p><a href="/center" title="Visit the AHA Center for Health Innovation landing page."><img alt="AHA Center for Health Innovation logo" data-entity- data-entity-uuid="7ade6b12-de98-4d0b-965f-a7c99d9463c5" src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/logo-aha-innovation-center-color-sm.jpg" type="file" class="align-center"></a></p> <a href="/center/form/innovation-subscription"><img alt data-entity-type data-entity-uuid src="/sites/default/files/2019-04/Market_Scan_Call_Out_360x300.png"></a></div> </div> </div> Tue, 14 Jan 2020 08:30:18 -0600 C-Suite Hires /news/headline/2019-11-11-health-care-strategy-society-announces-2020-leadership <p>The AHA’s Society for Health Care Strategy & Market Development has chosen as its 2020 President-elect Jennifer Weiss Wilkerson, vice president and chief strategy officer for Sheppard Pratt Health System in Baltimore. Weiss Wilkerson will become president of SHSMD in 2021. Holly Sullivan, senior director of strategic marketing for Spectrum Health in Grand Rapids, Mich., will serve as SHSMD president in 2020. The society also elected two new board members. The AHA professional membership group serves health care strategists. For more on the elections, click <a href="https://www.shsmd.org/aboutus/news/2020-board-of-directors">here</a>.</p> Mon, 11 Nov 2019 14:31:19 -0600 C-Suite Hires /aha-center-health-innovation-market-scan/2018-12-11-lyft-focuses-growth-new-vp-health-care-hire .field_featured_image { position: absolute; overflow: hidden; clip: rect(0 0 0 0); height: 1px; width: 1px; margin: -1px; padding: 0; border: 0; } .featured-image{ position: absolute; overflow: hidden; clip: rect(0 0 0 0); height: 1px; width: 1px; margin: -1px; padding: 0; border: 0; } <div class="container row"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-8"> <p><img alt="Megan Callahan profile picture" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="7ca425c2-9ba9-4eb3-be63-1af7c56fce44" src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/ms_121118_item2_lyft_callahan_190.jpg" width="190" height="127" class="align-right">Megan Callahan, who has a strong background in health information technology, has been hired by the ride-provider Lyft to boost its mission of helping customers get to their medical appointments. Callahan worked most recently as chief strategy officer for the revenue cycle-management firm Change Healthcare and before that as senior vice president of corporate strategy and business development at McKesson.</p> <p>What types of changes Callahan will bring to Lyft remain to be seen, but the company and its chief rival Uber have been quickly integrating their services into health care. Lyft says it’s working with thousands of health care organizations and notes that 3.6 million people can’t get the care they need each year because they lack transportation. In March, Lyft began a partnership with Allscripts to provide nonemergency transportation for people who need to get to medical appointments. That same month, Uber launched its <a href="https://www.uber.com/newsroom/uber-health/" tareget="_blank">Uber Health app</a>, which is a text-based phone service that doesn’t require a smartphone to use.</p> <p>Elsewhere, <a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20180907.685440/full/" target="_blank">a Health Affairs blog</a> notes that CareMore Health, a subsidiary of Anthem Inc., has used Lyft to improve the patient experience and lower costs. In 2017, CareMore provided 28,000 Lyft rides to patients at a cost 39 percent less than non-Lyft rides.</p> </div> <div class="col-md-4"> <div class="external-link spacer"><a class="btn btn-wide btn-primary" href="/center/form/innovation-subscription" title="Click on this button to subscribe to the AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan weekly newsletter.">Subscribe to Market Scan.<sup><i class="fa fa-external-link fa-fw"><span class="sr-only">this is an external link</span></i></sup></a></div> <p><a href="/type/aha-center-health-innovation-market-scan" title="Read more Market Scan articles."><img alt="Market Scan logo" class="align-center" data-entity- data-entity-type="file" src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/market- scan-logo.jpg" uuid="31df76fd-ac54-49e1-8e7d-dd92814e202c"></a></p> <p><a href="/center" title="Visit the AHA Center for Health Innovation landing page."><img alt="AHA Center for Health Innovation logo" data-entity- data-entity-uuid="7ade6b12-de98-4d0b-965f-a7c99d9463c5" src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/logo-aha-innovation-center-color-sm.jpg" type="file"></a></p> </div> </div> </div> Tue, 11 Dec 2018 08:04:43 -0600 C-Suite Hires