BOSTON SUMMIT AGENDA

Where Innovation, Digital Health, & Technology Meet

Monday, May 19, 2025
8:45 AM - 8:55 AM

We are beyond thrilled to be back in 2025! This year's Summit is going to rock. Hear from the Healthcare Innovation Summits Director as he outlines the day of awesomeness and how to get the most out of your Summit experience.
 

 
8:55 AM - 9:00 AM

In this fast-paced, 5-minute session, learn key  strategies for driving impactful changes at your organization.
 

 
9:00 AM - 9:05 AM

Hear from Healthcare Innovation's Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland as he provides a critical update on the healthcare landscape. Reporting for nearly 35 years in healthcare, Mark has covered every aspect of the US Healthcare industry, from federal and state healthcare policy, to operational issues across the industry, to quality improvement, to strategic information technology issues.
 

 
9:05 AM - 9:25 AM

Join us as we spotlight an IT team local to the Healthcare Innovation Summit. Learn about what innovative strategies they have implemented and what their goals are for 2025 and beyond.
 

 
9:40 AM - 10:15 AM

As the purchasers and payers of healthcare are demanding that patient care organizations deliver more cost-effective and higher-quality care than ever before, and consumers begin to demand better patient and family experiences, CIOs, CMIOs, CTOs, and other health IT leaders are joining together with other senior patient care organization leaders to rethink how care will be delivered in the future—and they’re focusing on digital health as a broad frame for their ambitions. Find out how nationally recognized leaders are reframing what technology and patient care delivery will look like—and are moving towards a new vision of care delivery.
 

 
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM

 Industry Partner Spotlights feature engaging, passionate speakers whose talks expose new ideas in healthcare that are supported by concrete evidence and are relevant to current and future industry trends. Presentations will explore novel and counterintuitive approaches to solving the many complex problems facing our health system.
 

10:30 AM - 11:10 AM
 
 
11:10 AM - 11:40 AM
 

 

 

 

11:40 AM - 12:15 PM

With the threat landscape continuing to intensify over time, what are some of the leading-edge strategies that forward-thinking health IT leaders are engaging in around cybersecurity? A panel of experts and industry leaders will discuss advanced strategies and techniques, and the growing list of vulnerabilities that patient care organizations are facing these days.
 

 
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
 
 
1:15 PM - 1:20 PM

Hear from a healthcare analyst on what they are hearing in the market and reporting on.

 

 
1:20 PM - 1:55 PM

Advanced data analytics is becoming essential to success for patient care organizations of all kinds. Find out what the leading edge is in advanced analytics, especially in artificial intelligence and machine learning—at a time of rapid development and leapfrogging innovation.

 

 
1:55 PM - 2:10 PM

Industry Partner Spotlights feature engaging, passionate speakers whose talks expose new ideas in healthcare that are supported by concrete evidence and are relevant to current and future industry trends. Presentations will explore novel and counterintuitive approaches to solving the many complex problems facing our health system.
 

 
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM

Join us as we spotlight an IT team local to the Healthcare Innovation Summit. Learn about what innovative strategies they have implemented and what their goals are for 2025 and beyond.
 

 
2:30 PM - 2:35 PM

In this fast-paced, 5-minute session, learn key  strategies for driving impactful changes at your organization.
 

 
2:35 PM - 2:55 PM

How will hospitals, health systems, medical groups, and health plans work together to birth the connected healthcare system of the future? Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland will sit down with Denny Brennan, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium, who will share with the audience the broad efforts that MHDC is involved in right now in order to help lead healthcare delivery in Massachusetts forward into a future of improved health equity, engagement, quality, cost, and effectiveness. They will discuss the data science and analytics, data standardization and data exchange, and interoperability initiatives that MHDC is involved in statewide.
 

 
2:55 PM - 3:00 PM

In this fast-paced, 5-minute session, learn key  strategies for driving impactful changes at your organization.
 

 
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
 
 
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
 
 
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

 For years, the idea of “patient engagement” was seen as something soft, even “sweet,” a “nice-to-have” element that inspired discussion inside hospitals and health systems; no longer. What’s clear to the leaders of all the pioneering health systems nationwide, is this: engaging patients and families, and innovating around the patient experience, is becoming a critical success factor in securing ongoing market presence and market share growth, as patients and their families become more knowledgeable and empowered than ever. Indeed, the smartest leaders in the smartest patient care organizations, are creating comprehensive digital health “homes” for their patients and families, as they work to continuously engage them. Find out what the pioneers are doing in this fast-moving and dynamic area of healthcare operations.

 
4:30 PM - 5:15 PM