Welcome to HPN West Coast! We bring transformational executives together in an intimate setting to exchange healthcare ideas on a global scale. Engage in an open dialog with peers about what the problems are, sharing successes and failures and collaborating on potential solutions.

 

AI is reshaping clinical, operational, and financial workflows - but impact varies widely, and the stakes for getting it wrong are high. In this fireside chat, health system innovators who are deliver ...

Our signature ‘Shark Tank’ session provides each solution provider with an opportunity to deliver a short pitch, explaining why they are here and how their services can help tackle some of the sector’s ongoing challenges.

Cybersecurity is now a strategic, enterprise-wide issue – not a technical domain – and the stakes continue to rise as health systems modernize infrastructure, adopt AI, manage vendor sprawl, and face ...

AI and automation are now driving real gains in throughput, care coordination, value-based performance, and workforce efficiency. This session breaks down the use cases that matter – ED flow, document ...

Workforce innovation must translate into better outcomes, not extra complexity. This session is built around practical ways to build capability, redesign roles, and strengthen culture while improving digital literacy and readiness for hybrid care. Attendees will receive actionable steps to reduce operational risk, support new leadership metrics, and drive measurable improvements in performance, access, and financial sustainability.

Next-generation care models must improve access, experience, and outcomes while managing cost and operational risk. This session highlights practical strategies for hybrid care, remote monitoring, patient engagement, and population-health-driven pathways. Speakers will share how they are redesigning workflows, reducing variation, and embedding equity and literacy considerations to deliver measurable, sustainable improvements.

Reimbursement volatility is reshaping strategy, service design, and margin expectations. This session is designed to clarify the financial pressures ahead, the regulatory shifts driving them, and the practical actions systems are taking to reduce risk, protect revenue, and prioritize investment. Clarify your highest-exposure risks and define the financial moves that strengthen resilience in the next operating cycle. 

Health systems are under pressure to strengthen margin, stabilize the workforce, expand access, modernize care, and rebuild trust – all while navigating reimbursement volatility and shifting patient expectations. This interactive roundtable session focuses on the priorities that will matter most in the years ahead, from Medicare break-even strategies to home-based care models, population health economics, and digital readiness. Share your own views on how to improve resilience, address literacy and trust gaps, and support sustainable clinical and operational performance. The goal is clear: identify what deserves focus, what no longer works, and where the most meaningful opportunities for progress lie.

Digital tools only create impact when patients and clinicians genuinely want to use them. This session focuses on the real-world work of improving access, reducing friction, and designing tech-enabled care models that earn trust and deliver measurable value. Speakers will discuss what is working across hybrid care, virtual nursing, workflow redesign, and AI-supported communication – and why adoption fails without strong cultural, operational, and change-management foundations. The conversation will include patient literacy, equity, team readiness, and the shift towards consumer-grade experience expectations. Offering practical guidance that reduces risk, strengthens adoption, and enables digital journeys that improve access, experience, and outcomes. 

Health systems face growing financial pressures and rapid technological change, many are turning to investing, in companies and external funds, as a strategic lever for innovation and growth.

This panel will explore how provider organizations can build or expand investment arms to diversify revenue, accelerate digital transformation, and access breakthrough solutions. Leaders across the ecosystem will discuss identifying high-value opportunities, balancing financial and strategic returns, and navigating governance and risk. Attendees will gain practical insights into how health systems can help shape the future of healthcare innovation.

Many health systems have launched AI pilots, and far fewer have successfully scaled them. This session focuses on the organizational, operational, and governance factors that determine whether AI becomes embedded into daily work or remains isolated experimentation.

Speakers will share practical examples of what worked, what didn’t, and how leaders can align technology, workflows, and teams to drive adoption and measurable outcomes across clinical and administrative functions.

Health systems need operational gains that strengthen margin without increasing burden. This session highlights proven methods for improving throughput, optimizing labor, and reducing variability through better digital-clinical coordination, workflow redesign, and target use of AI. Join for practical steps to cut waste, manage risk, and drive sustainable productivity gains across teams and service lines.

Sustained transformation depends on a workforce that can adapt, reskill, and trust the process. This session focuses on building cultures that reduce operational risk through stronger change leadership, digital literacy, labor management discipline, and support for hybrid and tech-enabled care models. Attendees will gain practical tactics to strengthen engagement, capability, and performance during continuous change.

Care redesign must strengthen trust, access, and day-to-day experience. This session focuses on tangible steps for integrating hybrid, virtual, and home-based models; improving navigation; and reducing friction across settings. Take away clear actions to expand rural access, embed patient coaching, and align workflows in ways that enhance safety, confidence, and outcomes in redesigned pathways.

Transforming a health system is easy to talk about but notoriously hard to sustain. This panel brings together executives who have delivered meaningful, lasting impact across AI, cloud modernization, operational redesign, and new care models.

They will share the key determinants of success: overcoming change fatigue, simplifying vendor and integration complexity, strengthening clinical and operational alignment, and building trust as a leadership discipline. Our speakers will reflect on the turning points, corrective moves, and structures that have allowed transformation to survive budget cycles, leadership changes, and frontline resistance – and ultimately become part of how their organizations operate and improve.

This closing discussion brings together the leaders from each breakout track to surface the most important actions health systems can take now.

The panel distills two days of insight into practical steps that strengthen financial performance, improve access and experience, modernize digital foundations and reduce operational risk. Panelists will outline what works, what to avoid and how to manage the change required to make progress stick. Attendees will leave with a clear, shared set of priorities they can apply immediately to move their organizations forward with confidence.