Harnessing Innovation for Equitable Health Access with Dr. JP Valin

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Episode Overview: 

How can healthcare systems leverage innovation to provide equitable access to high-quality care across diverse communities? 

Our next guest, Dr. JP Valin, is spearheading this mission as Chief Clinical Officer of Intermountain Health. 

With deep clinical experience and a passion for connecting fragmented healthcare, Dr. Valin brings a unique perspective to addressing industry-wide challenges. 

As the leader of clinical operations for one of the nation's top healthcare enterprises, he's driving initiatives to combat workforce shortages, harness AI's potential, and activate patients in their health journeys. 

While together, Dr. Valin and I explore how Intermountain Health is reimagining care delivery across urban and rural settings, embracing technology to enhance clinician efficiency, and pioneering innovative solutions to create healthier communities. 

Join us as Dr. Valin shares his vision for a future where personalized, accessible care is the norm. Let's go!

Episode Highlights:

• Addressing the critical healthcare workforce shortage and revealing that a third of Intermountain Health's physicians and APPs will retire by the end of the decade
• Emphasizing the importance of leveraging technology to expand care delivery beyond traditional one-on-one doctor-patient relationships
• Implementing innovative tools like ambient listening and AI to increase clinician efficiency and reduce non-value-added work
• The potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) to personalize patient care by synthesizing vast amounts of medical research and data
• Activating patients as key partners in their own healthcare journey, focusing on healthy behaviors between clinical visits

About our Guest: 

Dr. JP Valin was named Intermountain Health’s Chief Clinical Officer (CCO) in 2022 immediately following the organization’s merger with SCL Health. As CCO, he is responsible for leading clinical operations across the enterprise to improve equitable access to the highest quality care for patients and communities.

Dr. Valin graduated from Georgetown University and New York Medical College, and he holds a master’s in healthcare administration from the Health Management Academy/University of Providence.

In addition to serving in various leadership positions, Dr. Valin also practiced clinically for 15years as both a full scope general internist and a full-time hospitalist.

Dr. Valin received the Clinician Experience Project’s CEO Award of Excellence in December 2020 as well as a special recognition from the Leapfrog Group for Pandemic Heroism. In August 2021 he received Huron’s What’s Right in Health Care® Hero Award. And most recently, Dr. Valin was named as one of Becker’s Healthcare’s 2023 Chief Medical Officers to Know.

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