Morning Keynote Panel: Meeting the Moment: Delivering Behavioral and Mental Health Services
The US mental and behavioral health environment has reached a moment that requires major disruption and transformation in order to remedy enduring problems. The Opioid Crisis along with the Covid 19 pandemic prompted an increased need for care creating a health delivery landscape ripe for change. Innovations in payment models, telehealth and wellness apps, coordination of care, and de-stigmatization, paired with addressing disparities in access, equity, and quality of care are evolving. This panel will discuss the common barriers in behavioral and mental health care and how industry is innovating to overcome these challenges during a nation-wide mental health crisis.
Women’s health has been in the spotlight this year due to major policy decisions. While these shifts have garnered public attention, women’s health has steadily intrigued venture capitalists, healthcare entrepreneurs, and large employers. As women’s labor participation rates gradually return to pre-pandemic levels, employers are investing heavily in female-specific benefits to recruit and retain their female workers. As the concept of women’s health shifts beyond traditional medical services and begins to encompass working environment, childcare, and fertility and reproductive access, the business landscape is shifting in tandem. This panel will discuss how women’s health has become a major focus for business, and what’s being done to innovate and provide women’s health services in an increasingly complex U.S. healthcare and policy landscape.
Panel 1B: Technology and Analytics and the Creation of Value in Healthcare
Increasing use of technology and data analytics create improvement opportunities in healthcare. Unfortunately, many efforts fail to achieve their full potential. In this panel we will explore how technology and analytics can enable improved clinical and operational outcomes, as well as how leading organizations are successfully implementing these approaches.
Managing Director, Digital Health Research at Advisory Board
11:00 AM 11:10 AM
Break
11:10 AM 12:00 PM
Concurrent Panel Session 2
Panel 2A: The Quest for Value Creation through M&A in the Healthcare Industry
The healthcare industry is undergoing significant adjustments in the face of changing economic, cultural, and socio-political factors. Companies and healthcare systems continue to develop innovative ways to generate value while addressing pressing local and global health issues. Recent acquisitions and de-mergers by major pharmaceutical, biotech and life science companies as well as healthcare systems, highlight the industry’s effort to boost innovation, accelerate product development, and drive growth, while addressing community health issues through restructuring strategies. Simultaneously, healthcare organizations continue to face pressures regarding anti-competition concerns, novel drug pricing legislation as well as health equity and value-based care strategies. This panel will discuss how increased oversight of the healthcare industry mergers and restructures may change current practice and impact an industry attempting to move toward value.
Panel 2B: Entrepreneurship and Health Equity – How Innovation Can Drive Change
Entrepreneurship in healthcare is booming, partly due to the challenges faced as a result of COVID-19 and the opportunities enabled for digital health. As capital flows into startups and sectors focused on leveraging the expansion of telehealth and digital health services the term health equity is often articulated in organizational business plans. This concept is not new, but what is new is how “health equity” is used in communications, promotions, and dialogues with consumers and investors. This panel will discuss how businesses are aligning themselves with the concept of health equity, how consumers can intelligently advance the mission of health equity, and if real-change in the health equity space is being realized by this increased focus.
UNC Healthcare Case Competition – Final Presentations
3:00 PM 4:30 PM
Conference Reception
UNC Center for the Business of Health
The Center for the Business of Health is a multidisciplinary initiative that brings together resources and expertise from across UNC and our region to create knowledge, prepare business leaders, and launch important discussions around the business of healthcare.
Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise
The Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise is a nonpartisan business policy think tank affiliated with the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School. Founded in 1985, the nonprofit institute facilitates collaboration between the private, public and nonprofit sectors to build a greater understanding of how entrepreneurship, economic development and global commerce can work for the public good. It leverages best-in-class research to develop market-based solutions to today’s most complex economic challenges; in doing so, the Kenan Institute aims to better the lives of people in North Carolina, across the country and around the world.
The UNC Kenan-Flagler Healthcare Club is a student-run organization with a mission is to give MBA students pursuing a variety of functional roles the education, networking opportunities and job-finding skills they need to succeed in the healthcare industry.
