3rd Thursday Healthcare CEO Executives Group
UPCOMING MEETING
May 21, 2026: via ZOOM: 8:45 AM to 11:45 AM
How Do You Identify (and Prioritize) Your Emerging Opportunities?
What was your approach the last time you figured it was time to take a gamble and invest in:
– Developing a new product or service?
– Integrating AI or making major changes to your workflows?
– Or one of dozens of possibilities?
Then, how did you prioritize them, to select which one/s to invest in first?
During our Members’ Only Discussion, we’ll discuss “Emerging Opportunities” that you’ve considered, researched, prioritized, and launched – or decided to hold off on. We’ll be particularly interested in hearing your approach to identifying emerging opportunities, then what metrics you used to assess and prioritize them based on their likely ROI.
We’ll also discuss What Else Is Keeping You Up Nights?
Marcee Chmait is the leader of Emerging Opportunities and New Ventures for City of Hope, a national “Top 10” cancer research and treatment organization, renowned for its 100+ year legacy of medical excellence. Marcee brings to the system-wide Innovation Office her expertise in identifying innovative opportunities, forging strategic partnerships and commercializing incubated solutions. These skills, and more, were sharpened in Providence’s Digital Innovation Group, SCAN Health Plan, SpendWell, eBenx, and HealthAllies before joining City of Hope.
Upcoming Session Dates
2026: JAN 15 FEB 19 MAR 19 APR 16 MAY 21 JUN 18 JUL 16 AUG 20 SEPT 17 OCT 15 NOV 19 DEC 17
Our Third Thursday Healthcare Round Table typically meets on the third Thursday of each month (with possible combined sessions on alternative dates).
Monthly meetings are held via Zoom with occasional In-Person events.
Past Meeting Information
- Using Co-branding to Leverage Your Brand
- Meet Angle Health: The Health Plan Startup for Startups
- Gov. Newsom Expands Mental Health Parity
- Predicting What's Next in The New Normal
- Adopting the Mindset of an Innovator
- Diagnostic Breakthroughs for the 21st Century
- Implications of the Expanded World of Telehealth
- Getting Back to a New Normal
- Even During a Pandemic, the Business of Healthcare Must Go On
- Your COVID-19 experience to date: with employees, clinicians, patients, and yourself AND Infection Control in the Age of COVID-19
- INFECTION PREVENTION & CONTROL IN THE ERA OF THE CORONAVIRUS
- Lessons Learned from Successful Transactions & Turnarounds
- Lessons from Business Expansion & Integration (in an era of declining reimbursement)
- How to Accelerate Bringing New Healthcare Product/Service Ideas to Market
- Chapter 2 of the Retailization of Healthcare
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