Director, Strategy and Business Intelligence, Detroit Economic Growth Corp. Virginia Sabia Wilkinson is the director of strategy and business intelligence for the Detroit Economic Growth Corp. (DEGC). In this role, Wilkinson facilitates both internal and external thought partnering for multi-disciplinary …
Continue ReadingCategory Archives: HealthForward
Connie Chang
Managing Director, Fast Forward Medical Innovation Connie Chang is the managing director of Fast Forward Medical Innovation (FFMI). She helped form and launch the FFMI team, a unit of the University of Michigan Medical School’s Office of Research. FFMI helps …
Continue ReadingJeffrey Thompson
Executive Advisor and CEO Emeritus, Gundersen Health System Jeffrey Thompson is the executive advisor and CEO emeritus at Gundersen Health System. Thompson is a trained pediatric intensivist and neonatologist. He previously served as CEO and executive vice president for the …
Continue ReadingHealth Experts: Employers Must Take Larger Role to Rein in Rising Drug Costs
Overall health care costs for businesses continue to rise at an unsustainable rate and one of the main drivers is the proliferation of specialty drugs, high-cost medications that treat complex conditions.
Continue ReadingWorld Congress 13th Annual Rewarding Health Behaviors Forum Recap
Jonathan So, senior director of health care initiatives at the Detroit Regional Chamber, presented at the World Congress’s 13th Annual Rewarding Health Behaviors Forum on Feb. 7 – 8.
Continue ReadingDetroit’s Next Opportunity: A Premier Destination for Health Care Innovation, Investment
With high-quality hospitals, world-renowned programs and nationally recognized research universities and medical schools, the Detroit region is a premier location for innovators, investors and entrepreneurs who want to lead the health care industry.
Continue ReadingHealthForward Event Focused on Bridging the Gaps Between Purchasers and Providers
HealthForward’s Employer-Provider Collaborations Luncheon, held on Wednesday, Nov. 9 in partnership with the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG), focused on bridging the gaps between purchasers and providers of health care and find common goals, metrics, and processes. Attendees included representatives from large self-funded purchasers, hospital and provider executives, and other key health care stakeholders.
Continue ReadingMystified by Millennials?
Millennial employees – the largest generation in U.S. history – can be confounding to their Gen X and baby boomer colleagues and managers. What resonates with older colleagues can be meaningless to millennials. Some difference are due to life stage, while others are unique to the age cohort. Either way, millennials are currently 35 percent of the 20-65 workforce, and poised to become 50 percent in the next 10 years.*
Continue ReadingEmployers as Agents of Change to Make America Healthier
For many Americans, adopting a healthy lifestyle can be a challenge, especially when results are not immediate. Unfortunately, the cumulative effects of an unhealthy lifestyle can often result in a chronic disease, which can be hard to reverse.
Continue ReadingHow Much Should a Knee Replacement Cost?
It is easier to find instructions on how to perform a knee replacement than it is to find the price you’d pay for it. Transparency has become the new hotness in health care, as a solution to the problem of pricing variation, having a procedure cost $200 at one location and $5,000 at another for the exact same thing.
Continue Reading
