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Disruptive innovators take root at the bottom of the market and relentlessly move upmarket. Whether truly disruptive or more incremental, rarely before has the "dare to innovate" challenge been more prominent in healthcare. Action-forward leaders are prioritizing innovation and consumerism strategies. Learn about the hundreds of zigzag innovators advancing retail, digital and consumer solutions.

In this session, attendees will see how we did just that for South Nassau Communities Hospital, a not-for-profit hospital on Long Island. They will gain first-hand insights on merging big data with hospital data and client-specific research to predict market trends, increase market share and provide patient value.

Hear how leaders in the health care strategy have leveraged critical skills to advance their careers. Learn important considerations for pursuing an advanced degree in health care management, and the essential groundwork for competency-driven advancement. Understand several relevant competency models, those that focus on strategists' skills, those that are critical to exceptional innovative leadership.

A successful approach to board engagement included a series of learning and listening sessions over several months, allowing board members to gain a basic understanding or choose to deep dive into key topics. These sessions, in lieu of a more traditional board retreat, provided a review of the competitive landscape through the lenses of business metrics and patient outcomes, as well as philanthropy, research funding, and reputation.

Facing increasing high-deductible health plan enrollment and a consolidating market, Emory Healthcare's leadership team needed to understand how their patients make healthcare decisions and the role that price played in where they went for care. To do this, Emory carried out in-depth customer focused work and price benchmarking to understand its relative position and the role of price in consumer choice.

After a diagnosis of breast cancer, individuals are faced with several life-changing decisions about how to navigate treatment decisions, which are best made by an engaged and well-informed patient. Using proprietary software designed to collect patient inputs via a mobile device and marry those inputs with tiered decision-making algorithms, the Mayo Clinic breast cancer decision-support tool is changing the way breast cancer patients — and their providers — approach treatment.

Participate in a panel discussion with marketing professionals from three rural hospitals to understand why you don't need the extensive resources of the big urban hospitals to create successful marketing campaigns. All three hospitals faced competition from and outmigration to larger systems within driving distance. Listen to the three case studies of each hospital, presented by the marketing professionals whose clear knowledge of their community, matched with innovative ideas, led to strong marketing ROIs.