Fall 2022 | Volume 11 | Number 4

In Every Issue

Editor's Letter

The President's Desk

The Philosopher's Corner

Affidavit: Healthcare and the Law

Downloading Success

CyberVitals

Feature Articles

Recovering and Thriving Post-Pandemic - Part 6A: Behavioral Health


Weaponizing Gratitude


Wharton Around the Globe: WGHV Partners with Kasha, Inc. to Improve Access to Health and Personal Care Products for Women in Africa


Women's Health and Wellness Moves to the Forefront of Investment: Seven Tips to Navigate the Legal Pandemonium in the Post-Roe World


Tapping the Potential of Healthcare's Workforce Crisis - Part 2

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Shifting the Care Model: How AI-Driven Proactive Care is Saving Lives, Lowering Costs, and Changing How We Treat Patients


Healthcare in the Home

In Upcoming Issues

Recovering and Thriving Post-Pandemic - Part 6B


Governance Refresh for the Future

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Editor's Letter

This is the last issue of 2022, and it represents a milestone in its publication tenure and support of the mission and goals of the WHCMAA. I would like to express gratitude to Jeff Voigt, WG’85 for his unwavering support and vision with regard to the need for and benefit of having a WHCMAA newsletter. And many thanks as well to Sylvia Tara, WG’05, PhD, and Hareesh Nair, WG’08 for their help with the launch of the publication in 2012. (Remember the 10 pm ET planning meetings on Saturdays, with me on the East Coast, Sylvia on the West Coast, and Hareesh in Singapore?) 

 

We continue to “Celebrate the Past and Embrace the Future.”

 

  • While the healthcare arena has changed dramatically over the years, one thing will always stand the test of time. That’s the candid advice, perspectives, and motivators that drive alumni in their healthcare careers as well as their personal lives. Those insights are published each quarter in the long-standing column, “The Philosopher’s Corner.” Although it was created on a lark, it’s consistently remained in the top three articles read each quarter, year in and year out. For those who are WHCMAA members, you may access a complimentary copy of The Philosopher’s Corner via our website. For those who are not, you can purchase the eBook on Amazon.


  • The 10-year WHQ anniversary monthly webinar series (free to WHCMAA members!) continues to offer important and timely coverage of the many issues and challenges of the day, like the topics discussed thus far, which span the healthcare landscape:


  1. On Caregiving: What’s Hard, What’s Helping, and the Post-COVID Opportunities for Support
  2. Mental Health Innovation for Covid-Era Post-Traumatic Growth
  3. Should I Stay or Should I Let It Go? Accelerating (Provider) Partnerships in a Pandemic
  4. The Science of Addressing Addictive Behaviors
  5. Chasing My Cure: Lessons about Life, Business, and Medicine from Chasing Cures for Castleman, COVID, and Beyond
  6. Maternity Care and Technology: Why Collaboration Is Key in Moving the Needle
  7. FemTech Comes out of the Shadows: Growth Opportunities for 2025 and the Future of Gender Specific Healthcare
  8. The Power of Gratitude


 

Register now for the October 26 presentation on "Shifting the Care Model: How AI-Driven Proactive Care is Saving Lives, Lowering Costs, and Changing How We Treat Patients" by Dr. Kira Radinsky, CEO of Diagnostic Robotics.

 

We’re excited about the November 4th Alumni Healthcare Conference. This is the first one to be experienced in-person since the pandemic began in 2020 and has been organized by John Winkelman, WG'80 and Bryan Bushick, MD, WG'89. This year’s theme is “Where to From Here: Consequences for Leaders, Caregivers, and Patients.” Register now to attend what promises to be another outstanding experience made even better by being able to see old friends, make new ones, and network. And there will be the inaugural showing of the video “Celebrating the Past....Embracing the Future.”


"No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world."

~John Keating

 



Z. Colette Edwards, WG’84, MD’85

Managing Editor

Contact Colette at: colette@accessinsightmd.com



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In Every Issue
The President's Desk

Contributor: Heather Aspras, WG’08


As I enter into the second year of my term as President of the WHCMAA, it makes me reflect on everything the organization has accomplished over the past year. We had happy hours in Philadelphia, New York, and Boston over the summer for WHCMAA members, program alumni, and students. We’re still in the midst of a phenomenal webinar series to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Wharton Healthcare Quarterly. And in a few short weeks, we’ll be hosting our first in-person alumni conference since the pandemic started. Read more.

The Philosopher’s Corner

This eclectic standing column features insightful musings, words of wisdom, life lessons, and stepping-stones to business success. This month's philosopher is John Winkelman, WG'80, retired President of Winkelman Associates, Inc., an independent healthcare consulting firm he founded in 2009. Read more.

Affidavit: Healthcare and the Law - Healthcare, Privacy, and Abortion Coverage Post Dobbs

Contributors: Samantha Dalmass and Alison Rosenblum


As the country continues to grapple with the overwhelmingly broad implications of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs, new issues and questions are certain to arise for employers and companies with offices or employees in both abortion-restrictive states and states continuing to protect abortion access.  Read more.

Downloading Success: How to (One Day) Become a CEO 

Contributors: Roy Hawkins, Jr., FACHE and Paul Bohne


Future healthcare CEOs – especially those in the not-for-profit arena – must "hunger to do work that makes a genuine, tangible difference in the world," write management experts Sally Blount and Paul Leinwand in Harvard Business Review. "Many worry that most jobs (and the ones they may be in today) won’t allow them to do so. They see [the CEO role] as a destination for creating real change."


This article outlines the numerous skills and qualities that an aspiring healthcare CEO, must learn and develop over time. Read more.

CyberVitals: Healthcare Cybersecurity Is More than HIPAA 

Contributor: Vidya Murthy, WEMBA’42 


The post-Roe ecosystem has brought light to the bias often designed into many healthcare solutions. Monetizing data has become a de facto strategy in big tech, but it ends up disproportionately impacting certain populations. While many are aware of bias in clinical practices, this shows up in insurance bias against minority communities or facial recognition at borders. As healthcare leaders, it is our responsibility to sufficiently consider the strategy and tactics employed in growing business to ensure they align with keeping the patient’s safety and care in front and center. Read more.

Feature Articles

Recovering and Thriving Post-Pandemic - Part 6A: Behavioral Health 

Contributors: Wren Keber, Lisa Soroka, and Z. Colette Edwards, WG’84 MD’85


In this sixth article in our series, we begin focusing on behavioral health (BH) services. The inextricable connection between physical and mental health is increasingly being acknowledged. This evolution presents an opportunity to improve health outcomes key to increasing quality and patient experience and driving down the total cost of care. External factors such as legislative changes, investment in expanded access, increased demand, limited provider supply, and a historically fragmented market create a “perfect storm” of challenges and opportunities for innovation. Read more

Weaponizing Gratitude

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Contributor: Linda Roszak Burton, ACC, BBC, BS


Throughout this WHQ series on gratitude, we’ve shared existing research on the powerful benefits that result from a cultivated and sustained practice of gratitude. So, when the term “weaponizing gratitude” started showing up on various media platforms and educational forums, the content illustrated just how damaging the statement “just be grateful” can be to the recipient of the message, while providing a glimpse at the mindset of the messenger. Read more

Wharton Around the Globe: WGHV Partners with Kasha, Inc. to Improve Access to Health and Personal Care Products for Women in Africa



Contributors: Meghna Dasgupta, Jasmine Zhang, WG’23, and Ava Chang, WG’23


Earlier this year, a team of Wharton students, including Meghna Dasgupta (WG’23), Shubha Jain (WG’23), Moshe Lavi (WG’23), Dolapo Salawu (WG’23), Deva Saxena (WG’23), and Jasmine Zhang (WG’23) had the opportunity to be involved in a pro bono consulting project at the intersection of women’s health and technology. The WGHV team partnered with Kasha Inc., an e-commerce platform focusing on women’s health care products and pharmaceuticals, to build out a geographical expansion strategy. Read more. 





Women's Health and Wellness Moves to the Forefront of Investment: Seven Tips to Navigate the Pandemonium in the Post-Roe World

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Contributor: Delphine O'Rourke, JD


The women’s health sector continues to experience an unprecedented increase in investment. Rather than chilling investor interest, the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization - which overturned Roe v. Wade and 50 years of women’s right to access abortion - has only accelerated investor interest.  We offer seven tips for companies and investors to make sense of the legal madness ignited by Dobbs and continue thriving in one of the hottest healthcare sectors. Read more







Tapping the Potential of Healthcare's Workforce Crisis - Part 2



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Contributor: Carey H. Gallagher


In the last two editions of The Wharton Healthcare Quarterly, we proposed that the workforce crisis represents an “unignorable moment” — a critical point that is public, irreversible, systemic, and challenges the identity of an organization or a field. We shared our approach to deep listening needed to drive reasoned action, what we call “listening in.” One dynamic feature of leading an organization is the constant push and pull between factors that are essentially important to advancing mission and strategy. In Barry Johnson's book, Polarity Management, Identifying and Managing Unsolvable Problems, he named these sets of factors “polarities,” identifying them as not problems to solve, but rather dilemmas to manage. Read more. 

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