Episode 19
The future of healthcare
How Jefferson Health transformed itself into a nimble, tech-enabled organization in record time.
Transcript
Nearly everyone is in agreement that healthcare is an industry that desperately needs transformative change. But the legacy technologies, interrelationships between providers and mayors, and other systemic issues typically keep such transformation from happening.
One exception is Jefferson Health, which has transformed itself dramatically in dozens of ways in an extremely brief period of time, embracing various emerging technologies and reinventing the way they approach training clinicians and delivering care.
My guest today is Dr. Stephen Klasko, CEO of Jefferson Health and one of Fast Company's most creative people.
In this discussion we dig into how he went about transforming Jefferson into a nimble, tech enabled organization, how he managed to drive culture change so quickly to make these initiatives stick, and get into a number of fascinating, counter-intuitive initiatives he’s spearheaded to facilitate that change.