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The Institute for Value-Based Medicine event hosted by The American Journal of Managed Care (AJMC) in Nashville, Tennessee, on August 22, 2024, spotlighted various perspectives on specialty value-based care and explored how innovation and entrepreneurship can help adapt to the evolving health care landscape.1 Presented by AJMC and Tennessee Oncology, the event featured Katherine Baker, MD, MMHC; Samyukta Mullangi, MD, MBA; and Leah Owens, DNP, RN, BMTCN, OCN, as cochairs, with sessions on leveraging entrepreneurship and innovation to transform specialty value-based care delivery.
Health Care Leaders Emphasize Importance of Innovation, Collaboration
Baker moderated a discussion with 3 health care leaders in Nashville: Fahad Tahir, MAS, MBA, FACHE, president and CEO of Ascension Saint Thomas; Alex Jahangir, MD, MMHC, senior vice president, associate chief medical officer, and orthopedic surgeon at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC); and medical oncologist Natalie Dickson, MD, MMHC, FASCO, FACP, president and CEO at Tennessee Oncology.
Each leader shared how their organization approaches innovation and entrepreneurship in the value-based care space. Tahir emphasized Ascension Saint Thomas’s commitment to advancing health care delivery and fostering collaboration, explaining that the organization actively seeks out like-minded physician partners and health plans to challenge traditional health care delivery methods and reduce costs through cross-disciplinary innovation.