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Oliver Wyman Health Innovation Center Leaders Alliance

The Oliver Wyman Health Innovation Center (OWHIC) was created to promote positive change in healthcare.

Leaders Alliance is a coalition comprised of senior executives from all areas of healthcare who have committed to work collaboratively on key issues impacting consumer value and overall industry sustainability. The Leaders Alliance will focus on major challenges that are impeding healthcare industry progress, where no one organization or sector can adequately address the issue on its own. The group will develop a vision for industry change and outline a broad agenda to achieve that vision. The Leaders Alliance will use the collective power of the group to advance innovative, multi-stakeholder solutions at scale.

The Empowered Marketplace

The OWHIC Leaders Alliance is tackling the biggest healthcare issues that no one organization or sector can advance without multi-stakeholder and cross-industry collaboration. The group addresses issues with the following characteristics:

  • Represent a significant opportunity to disrupt, transform, or reinvent
  • Hold the promise of significant impact
  • Have pervasive industry-level challenges
  • Require multi-stakeholder solutions

At its inaugural meeting, Leaders Alliance members focused on defining a vision for the Empowered Marketplace. The Empowered Marketplace is informed consumers actively participating in the system. It is a market that looks to physicians to deliver better, more cost-effective treatment, and then rewards those who do so. And it includes systemic incentives that align with long-term individual and population-wide health goals. 

To achieve the Empowered Marketplace, collaboration, cooperation, and unprecedented partnerships between payers, providers, and innovators will be required. The Empowered Marketplace requires long-term perspective and commitment from incumbents and new entrants alike. The Leaders Alliance is dedicated to facilitating and scaling the innovation that will make the vision of the Empowered Marketplace a reality.

Sam Glick and Josh Michelson Answers 4 Questions
  • 1Why did Oliver Wyman form the OWHIC Leaders Alliance?

    Sam Glick: At Oliver Wyman, we've had a long history of consulting with – rather than consulting to – clients. Collaborating with extraordinary organizations to solve tough problems is what we do for a living, and the OWHIC Leaders Alliance is an extension of that focus. Through the Leaders Alliance, we aim not just to redesign businesses, but to redesign the healthcare system in a way that's consistent with our mission.

  • 2Why is a multi-stakeholder approach needed?

    Sam Glick: No company or industry has ever survived betting against the consumer. And consumers don't think in silos of payer vs. provider vs. pharma vs. software company, etc. So if we're going to change the industry, we can't think that way either; we need every part of the consumer experience represented if we have any hope of making the revolution happen.

  • 3It seems there is no shortage of innovation. What will it take to translate that to real change?

    Josh Michelson: Promising solutions are trapped in silos; simply effectively using what already exists would dramatically change the game. However, our belief is that the next frontier goes a step beyond scaling innovation. Real breakthrough will come through the integration of these solutions – a genuine creative assembly around population and consumer needs. OWHIC Leaders Alliance members are committing to addressing major issues in this type of connected manner.

  • 4Cross-industry initiatives have been launched before. Why is this different?

    Josh Michelson: A number of industry groups are a collection of ‘like animals;’ others focus on either ‘far-out’ or ‘immediate’ issues; and there are forums for discussion, experience sharing, and research. We are unique in our diversity of membership and because we are guided by a long-term vision for where we collectively aspire to move the industry. We are a transformative action group, motivated to tackle the issues others view as intractable.

Oliver Wyman Health Innovation Center Leaders Alliance


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Meet Members of the Leaders Alliance

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Toyin Ajayi 

-Cityblock Health

Rajni Aneja

-MIT Connection Science

Charles Boorady

-Health Catalyst Capital

Renee Buckingham

-Humana

Jeanne Cohen

-Motive Practicing Wisely Solutions

Michael Dandorph

-Wellforce Health System

Sean Duffy

-Omada Health

Esther Dyson

-Way to Wellville

Eric Engler

-Ascension

Rushika Fernandopulle

-One Medical

Lisa Fitzpatrick

-Grapevine Health

Niyum Gandhi

-Mass General Brigham

Rick Gates

-Walgreens

Matt Hermann

-Formerly Ascension Ventures

Ricardo Johnson

-CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield

David Joyner

-Hill Physicians / PriMed

John Kao

-Alignment Healthcare

Ellen Kelsay

-Business Group on Health

Nina Kjellson

-Canaan Partners

Steve Klasko

-Formerly Jefferson Health

Jason Langheier

-Foodsmart

Karen Murphy

-Geisinger

Kristen Murtos

-NorthShore - Edward-Elmurst Health

Marcus Osborne

-RightMove

Corbin Petro

-Eleanor Health

Scott Powder

-Advocate Aurora Health

Jeff Roe

-Premera Blue Cross

Craig Samitt

-Surround Care and Navvis

Su Soderland

-Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts

Tom Spann

-Brightside

Chris Stenzel

-Kaiser Permanente

Grace Terrell

-IKS Health

Jeff Tillery

-OSF Healthcare

Kathryn Torres

-HCA Healthcare

Glen Tullman

-Transcarent

Todd Van Tol

-Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan

Robb Vorhoff

-General Atlantic

Mike Weissel

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