Insights
Walking away from the American Health Law Association’s annual conference, I’m feeling energized from (re)connecting with friends and colleagues, inspired by the complex and transformational work being done throughout the country to drive healthcare into the future, and mildly concerned for all my current, past, and prospective clients about the challenges that lie ahead if they are not prepared.
It would be easy to be overwhelmed by all of the headline-worthy insights shared at the conference this week. Notable themes included the following:
The list could go on for pages, but the point is change and challenges are underway. My single biggest takeaway from the conference is this: make sure your house is in order, proactively. It’s the only way you will achieve your business goals. Those with a defensive approach will never catch up.
If I were in the driver’s seat of a healthcare company, I would be pulling together my executive leadership team and the following questions would be among those at the top of my list:
To all of the healthcare attorneys, strategists, and leaders I connected with and learned from at the conference, thank you. For those of you who were not with us, know that there is an army of champions – inside healthcare organizations and external partners (lawyers, consultants, and experts) – all working to make healthcare better for everyone.
We would like to thank Magi Curtis for providing insight and expertise that greatly assisted this research.
Magi Curtis is an Executive Vice President and leads J.S. Held’s Healthcare Sector Services. She has spent her career in healthcare, in both the policy and business sides of the industry. She has guided some of the nation’s leading health systems and provider-based organizations as they navigated enterprise level change management initiatives, strategic partnerships and post-merger integration, strategic positioning, government relations and significant issue campaigns, crisis events, and internal and external engagement efforts. She has also worked closely with the founders of emerging healthcare companies to scale their business and establish operational structures to maximize productivity and enable growth. Prior to joining J.S. Held, Magi was a partner at a top national healthcare consulting firm. Magi also worked in Washington, D.C. in health policy as a staffer in the U.S. Senate, at Navigant Consulting, and the Children’s Hospital Association.
Magi can be reached at [email protected] or +1 615-626-0023.
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