Zeke Emanuel Speaking Topics

• Megatrends: What the Future Holds for Healthcare in Crisis

  American healthcare is changing more rapidly now than it has in decades. What will our healthcare system look like 5,10 years from now? How will it impact your audience? In this talk, Dr. Zeke Emanuel will outline the nine megatrends he believes will characterize the changing landscape of American healthcare over the next decade: 1) merging of payers and providers—amplifying value-based payments 2) reducing upcoding and other gaming of medicare advantage 3) ever more automation 4) hospital closures and concentration 5) transformation of remote patient monitoring into remote patient management 6) expansion of comprehensive primary care 7) mental health parity 8) improved maternity and newborn care and 9) enhancing critical non-health care services. There are few people better positioned to project the future of American health care than Dr. Emanuel — and he will draw on his vast experience as a practicing physician, researcher, policymaker, as well as his discussions with thousands of leaders in the health sector to help audiences understand what’s coming next in the healthcare system.

• Why I Want to Live at 75

  Taking his controversial essay in The Atlantic, “Why I Hope to Die at 75," as a starting point, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel will explain why he wants to live to 75. He will question conventional wisdom about aging and dying and will push audience members to define for themselves what makes a life meaningful.

• Health Care Reform and the Future of American Medicine

  In this presentation, Dr. Zeke Emanuel describes the pressing need for health care reform, the key innovations in the Affordable Care Act, and how they are likely to impact the actual delivery of care. From improving efficiency with "inter-operable" electronic health records to restructuring care delivery to improve outcomes and lower cost, Dr. Emanuel will provide an insider's view of the vision driving health care reform, the challenges looming, and how the future of American medicine will impact you.

• Wellness and Longevity

  There is an enormous Wellness-Industrial Complex. There are three problems with these wellness and longevity authors, newsletters, internet gurus and Tik Tok influencers. While some of whom have a great insights, many are making crazy, unsubstantiated recommendations. Many wellness commentators have enormous conflicts of interest. Finally there is just too much information so for the average person who wants to be healthy it is hard to differentiate fact from fiction and make suitable adjustments in life.

  Wellness is not really complex. It entails 6 simple things, and you don’t have to do them perfectly to get the enormous benefits.

• AI and Healthcare

  AI will help in focal areas. But AI cannot fix the health care system’s problems—the problem of lack of universal coverage, reasonable costs, uniformly high quality care, equity, and greater satisfaction of patients and clinicians. These problems result from 3 structural defects built into the foundations of the health system such as fragmentation of coverage and payment. Until these problems are addressed the system will continue to deteriorate.

• Delivering Healthcare of the Future: The 12 Transformational Practices of Highly Effective Medical Organizations

  Physicians and hospitals are always being asked to transform their care, to embrace the triple aim and provide more patient-centric, high –quality care. But what does this mean? How can physician practices and hospital systems become higher-value providers? After studying approximately 20 successfully transformed, high-performing medical organizations, including both innovative medical organizations and new companies, Dr. Zeke Emanuel delineates 12 key practices necessary for transformation. and These practices range from changing how patients are scheduled, registered, and roomed, to incorporating behavioral health services, palliative care, community-based interventions, and lifestyle interventions with standard primary care. Through engaging case studies of patients and medical organizations, Dr. Emanuel illustrates how these transformational practices can be effectively implemented. Recognizing that no medical organization can implement 12 practices simultaneously, Dr. Emanuel separates the transformational practices into three tiers of differing priority. Using this model, Dr. Emanuel shows how, through the implementation of these 12 practices, a provider or practice can transform to deliver consistently high-quality, low-cost care. Dr. Emanuel also address on the growing field of virtual medicine. Taking a contrarian perspective, he argues that virtual medicine should not be a central component to a medical organizations’ transformational strategy. Remote monitoring, virtual visits, and other technologies are unlikely to be an effective way to improve quality and lower costs, especially for high-cost patients with chronic conditions. The applicability of the 12 transformational practices extends beyond use by only providers and health systems. Through case studies, Dr. Emanuel shows that these same practices may also be used by patients to find high-performing physicians and practices for their own personal care.

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