Executive of the year: McKesson CEO John H. Hammergren
John Hammergren, the president and CEO of the McKesson Corporation, has been named the 2016 Dean’s Council Executive of the Year.
John Hammergren, the president and CEO of the McKesson Corporation, has been named the 2016 Dean’s Council Executive of the Year.
Bioscientists, technologists and health care experts talked about current health care challenges and the opportunities to redefine and resolve them at the 2015 Symposium on Innovation in the Health Sector, hosted by the W. P. Carey School’s Health Sector Supply Chain Research Consortium.
Brent James, chief quality officer and executive director at the Intermountain Institute for Healthcare Leadership, gives of examples of how to deliver better health care, cheaper at the 2015 Mark McKenna Health Care Management Lecture, hosted by the Health Sector Supply Chain Research Consortium.
The United States has come to a fork in the road regarding its spending on health care – it can choose a route of fewer benefits and less affordability, or choose a route of making the system work better and more efficiently. These are the important policy choices facing both the public and private sectors, said Dr. David Blumenthal, president of The Commonwealth Fund, who delivered the 2014 Mark McKenna Health Care Management Lecture recently at the W. P. Carey School of Business.
Trust — or the lack of trust — between suppliers and providers is an issue that has increasingly strained the health sector supply chain. “The recent healthcare policy changes have put increasing pressure on all stakeholders in the health sector supply chain,” explains Natalia Wilson, co-director of the Health Sector Supply Chain Research Consortium at the W. P. Carey School of Business. “Money is tighter, quality expectations are higher. Suppliers and providers see that they have to work together. But how?”
Elizabeth Bierbower has a front row seat to the fundamental changes occurring in American health care. Speaking at the Economic Club of Phoenix recently, Bierbower, who is the president of the employer group segment for health insurance provider Humana, posed this question: Is the health care industry in America at an inflection point?