Across 2020, we have seen an acceleration of many market forces that have meaningfully and permanently changed health care. What will 2021 portend? Join Dr. Mitch Morris of Optum Advisory Services and Eric Larsen of Advisory Board for a strategic discussion about what’s in store for 2021 and beyond. Key topics will include:
Dislocations in the health care ecosystem
The imperative to decrease total cost of care
Role of consumers in the migration to value-based care models
Non-traditional actors in the health care value chain
Mitchell Morris is Executive Vice President at Optum and President of Optum Advisory Services, the consulting division of Optum. Optum is a leading health services and innovation company dedicated to helping make the health system work better for everyone. With more than 124,000 people collaborating worldwide, Optum combines technology, data and expertise to improve the delivery, quality and efficiency of health care. Dr. Morris has more than 30 years of health care experience in consulting, health care administration, technology, and clinical care. Prior to joining Optum, Dr. Morris was Vice Chairman and Global Leader for the Life Sciences and Healthcare Industry at Deloitte. Dr. Morris also served as Senior Vice President for Healthcare Systems and Chief Information Officer at MD Anderson Cancer Center where he was also Professor in Surgery and in Health Services Research. At the University of Texas, Houston, he was Professor of Biomedical Informatics (adjunct). During his academic career, he received international recognition as a leading clinician, researcher, and educator.
Dr. Morris’s career focus has been on health systems, academic organizations, and government agencies, assisting them with the development and implementation of strategies around health reform, growth, technology, and innovation. He has published extensively and is a frequent speaker on healthcare reform, technology, and policy.
Eric Jon Larsen serves as President of Advisory Board, the best practice research arm of Optum.
Eric has oversight responsibility for enterprise strategic relationships, key client partnerships and companywide business growth efforts. He is a leading expert on health care market forces and industry transformation, and has served as a trusted strategic advisor to the CEOs of the 100 largest health systems nationally—both not-for-profit and investor-owned—for more than two decades. His relationships extend internationally as well, advising Advisory Board’s member CEOs around the globe. Furthermore, in his role as President he guides the work of our best practice research experts studying the future of health care.
In addition, Eric profiles the industry’s preeminent healthcare leaders in his published series, “Lessons from the C-Suite,” which is distributed to a readership of 250,000. These conversations explore the personal and professional journeys of healthcare’s most influential CEOs, and their forward-looking approaches to industry issues of national importance. To date, he has published more than 50 of these conversations, and the majority of his CEO participants are perennial members of Modern Healthcare’s “100 Most Influential People in Healthcare.”
Eric received his bachelor's degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in 1995. In addition to his work with The Advisory Board Company, Eric serves on the Boards of Directors of several organizations, including The Washington National Opera (where he serves as chairman of the board) and The Washington Ballet. Eric also serves on the Board of Directors for Mytonomy, a patient experience cloud company; as a board member for Contessa Health, a home recovery care organization that offers acute care, post-acute care, and surgical procedure services; and as a board observer for Somatus, a leading provider of value-based kidney care for health plans, health systems, and provider groups.
Eric is an enthusiastic traveler, having visited 95 countries across all seven continents. He lives in Washington, DC with his wife, Susi, and their three children.
