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Speaking Engagements

David Johnson is the Founder and CEO of 4sight Health, a thought leadership and advisory company working at the intersection of healthcare strategy, economics, innovation and capital formation. He has been a featured speaker at Fairview Health System, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Cain Brothers, Studer Group and the Arnold P. Gold Foundation, to name a few. He is the author of two books, Market vs. Medicine: America’s Epis Fight for Better, Affordable Healthcare and The Customer Revolution in Healthcare: Delivering Kinder, Smarter, Affordable Care for All (McGraw-Hill, September 2019).

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More Appearances
Fairview Health System
Cain Brothers Client Summit
Clinical Lab 2.0
University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy
Healthcare Facilities Forum, American Institute of Architects, CA
The Florida Council of 100
Institute of Healthcare Executives and Suppliers
Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
Healthcare Collaborative / Association Forum
MATTER (Chicago-based healthcare incubator)
Arnold P. Gold Foundation
Healthcare Financial Management Association
Huron Consulting / Studer Group Client Conferences
Advantia Health
Hoag Orthopedic Institute
Catholic Health System Association
Institute of Healthcare Executives & Suppliers
Advocate Health System - Little Company of Mary
Becker’s Healthcare IT and Revenue Cycle Conference
Council of Pharmacy Executives & Suppliers
Governors’ Health Policy Advisors Institute
TMC Platinum Conference (India) and HIMSS17
The Executive War College - Lab Directors

Type of Audiences

Major Health Systems
Managers Up to Board of Directors
Healthcare Associations
Clinicians
Diagnostics
Business Organizations
Policy Groups
Medical School Leadership
Clinical Lab Directors
Architects
"David W. Johnson offers a penetrating analysis of today’s crisis, and tells us exactly what needs to be done to liberate our innovative potential for better patient care.”"
Toby Cosgrove MD,
Executive Advisor, Former CEO & President, Cleveland Clinic
"David Johnson pushes the provocative boundaries of our industry’s reality in ways that bring new thinking into sharp focus. His undying effort to help leaders see the long game and take action is exactly the wake-up call we need. To successfully create and manage consumer-centric ‘health’, our system will need the start-up and incumbent organizations Johnson highlights in more ways than we can even appreciate!"
Julie Murchinson,
CEO, Health Evolution
"We have an obligation as healthcare leaders to deliver less expensive care with better outcomes. In “The Customer Revolution in Healthcare,” Dave Johnson boldly calls us out for failing to meet that obligation. He’s right, and it’s time for us to act boldly to make care more affordable for the people who depend on us for their health."
Marc A. Harrison, MD,
President & CEO, Intermountain Healthcare

Popular Speech Topics for Audiences

Today's Customer Revolution in Healthcare: Delivering Kinder, Smarter, Affordable Care for All

Johnson outlines how innovative organizations fight through industry conditions, understand the forces pushing the customer forward, and lead the charge toward revolutionary healthcare. Dave lays out a path for the healthcare industry and audiences to create revolutionary change in their organizations.

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Liberated Data Saves Lives™

Data capabilities and the industry’s attitude toward data are necessary forces in today’s healthcare transformation. Johnson believes that to change the focus to customers, we must tear down the silos in the current system and liberate data, for better care and customer decision making.

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Eve of Disruption

American healthcare is experiencing an “eve of disruption” of unprecedented scale and will never be the same. Between December 3rd and 7th, 2017, four blockbuster transaction announcements (Aetna-CVS, Advocate-Aurora, Dignity-CHI, UnitedHealth-Divita) rocked the healthcare industry. Others followed in rapid fashion. Major healthcare payers, providers and retailers signaled their intention to reconfigure business models to compete effectively in the post-reform marketplace.

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"Healthcare innovators desperately want to simplify health, bring care closer to the community and transform the future. The Customer Revolution in Healthcare is a roadmap for that journey."
Amy Compton-Phillips MD,
EVP & Chief Clinical Officer, Providence St Joseph Health
"Policy is the lever that controls healthcare markets. In The Customer Revolution in Healthcare, Dave Johnson calls on us to move that lever in a new direction to encourage market-based reforms that will better serve the needs of patients."
David Durenberger,
Former Senator of Minnesota (R)
"Dave is clearly at the forefront of the impending customer revolution in our industry. His latest book is refreshing, laying out ideas to help for-profit and non-profits health systems redesign our business models. Dave highlights how we need to focus on outpatient care and medical research that identifies the population health needs of our communities."
Michael Ugwueke,
President & CEO, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare
"David W. Johnson offers a penetrating analysis of today’s crisis, and tells us exactly what needs to be done to liberate our innovative potential for better patient care.”"
Toby Cosgrove MD,
Executive Advisor, Former CEO & President, Cleveland Clinic
"These aren't preachy or puritanical prognostications of where healthcare should go, but a leading thinker giving a deep analysis of the forces at work that will drive and shape the healthcare of the future."
Paul Kusserow,
President & CEO, Amedisys
"Healthcare is at yet another inflection point. As Dave Johnson so clearly lays out, innovation in care delivery, information technology and payments can revolutionize our healthcare economy. At the center of it all, Dave’s book appropriately argues that empowering the relationship between the patient and the provider is what we need to focus on to “fix” healthcare in the U.S."
Robert J. Fraiman, Jr.,
President, Cain Brothers, a division of KeyBanc Capital Markets
"As the former Governor of Utah, head of HHS and founder of Leavitt Partners, I know what works and what doesn't work in the public and private healthcare sectors. Dave Johnson gets it too. The Customer Revolution in Healthcare is calling you to meet him at the intersection of market-based reforms and appropriate public policy."
Mike Leavitt,
Former Governor of Utah (R), EPA & HHS, Leavitt Parters
"With deep understanding and appreciation for the underlying economics and politics, Dave Johnson describes the transformation happening now in health care: From full-risk contracting to lean hospitals, sophisticated employers and retail health care, Dave paints an optimistic future of a dynamic, efficient, customer-focused health care ecosystem."
Robert Hanson,
Dartmouth Institute
"Few understand health care dysfunction as well as Dave Johnson, so his description of a customer-driven revolution is a wonderful blend of vision, insight, realism, and optimism. It helps outline a positive path forward for all the major stakeholders in healthcare."
Thomas H. Lee MD,
Chief Medical Officer, Press Ganey