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Highlights Monday in National Harbor, Maryland, included a panel discussion on attaining financial sustainability in healthcare, insights from an HHS policy leader, the annual HFMA keynote and more.
June 8, 2026
Vitalic Health session looks at how technology can drive a better system
Business model reform should come first:
The healthcare business model is the root lever to drive needed change, panelists said.
“Healthcare providers respond to incentives very well,” said Dennis Dahlen, CFO of Mayo Clinic.
Thus, business model reform must precede operational or tech fixes, since optimizing a broken incentive structure simply would exacerbate the problems.
Implementation of new technology also should shift. Technology is underperforming due to fragmentation, with blocked data and isolated applications.
“We’ve all been deploying technology in silos,” said Jeremy Friese, founder and CEO of Humata Health. “Until we deploy the technology across silos and solve the interoperability problem as well as our silo problem, it’ll continue to be a cost driver rather than a cost saver that we can [use to] put money back into the ecosystem.”
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