Josh Luke

Dr. Josh Luke is a healthcare futurist, hospital CEO and health system vice president well known for his humorous and entertaining personal stories that engage audiences. His expertise includes sharing simple tactics on how hospitals and health systems can partner with innovative disease specific providers to increase revenues and market share. His knowledge of these specialized providers comes as a result of his role with Forbes as an author and contributor known to Fortune 500 Company's as America's Healthcare Affordability Authority.

After ten years as a hospital CEO, a new owner arrived and Luke was out of a job, had no health insurance for his family, and his mother was subsequently diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease. Soon after he penned his first book and became a best-selling author. He now finds solace in sharing his experiences as a caretaker for his mom and being without health insurance for his family has given him a deeply emotional understanding of the other side of care delivery.

Luke shares his faith and how it impacted his journey, and his presentations are always entertaining, humorous, and leave the audience feeling enthusiastic and informed. Luke, shares some of his early career stories in sports marketing as well as experiences as a young healthcare executive as they helped shape the leader he became as a hospital CEO. He founded the National Readmission Prevention Collaborative and is a social media influencer who writes for LinkedIn's Healthcare Pulse.

Dr. Luke has previously spoken for AHA, ACHE, South By Southwest, at Health 2.0, multiple state hospital association trade organization annual meetings (including rural hospital events) and more than 150 other events globally. Each appearance includes up to 250 complementary copies of his book Ex-Acute: A former hospital CEO tells all on what's wrong with American healthcare. Luke also promotes all speaking events on four social media platforms, his radio show & podcast and has a healthcare executive mailing list of more than 200,000 opt-in subscribers nationwide he can utilize to market your event as well. He is guaranteed to be a hit and your highest rated speaker at the event!

Three Take-Aways:

1. Attendees will understand the shift in control from the hospital sector to the insurance sector and how home based care will be the focus of the industry.

2. Attendees will understand that hospitals are shifting from profit centers to the largest expense in a bigger model.

3. Attendees will learn new revenue streams for health systems transforming to value based care that are no longer able to rely solely on inpatient revenue and surgical programs for profitability.