
Jeff Goldsmith
Health / Policy, Healthcare Future, Healthcare Management, Healthcare Technology, Internet, Technology
Travels from Virginia, USA
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Jeff Goldsmith Profile
Renown healthcare futurist and industry analyst, Jeff Goldsmith, Ph.D. specializes in corporate strategy, trend analysis, health policy, and emerging technologies. He is President of Health Futures where he has advised a variety of clients on key decisions in policy, development, and investment since 1982.
Jeff Goldsmith earned his doctorate degree in sociology from the University of Chicago. For four decades he has worked across the health system- hospitals, health plans, physician groups, pharmaceutical, biotechnology and health manufacturing and distribution sectors- advising senior management and Boards on issues such as the future of information technology and healthcare; implications of new biotechnology developments; health care trend analysis; the internet’s impact on medicine; the future of managed care and of integrated health systems. His clients include University Hospitals of Cleveland,
Scripps Memorial Hospitals, NutraSweet Corporation, Hospital Corporation of America, American Hospital Supply Corporation , General Electric Medical Systems, and the New Zealand Ministry of Health.
He has published multiple articles in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Harvard Business Review, Time, among other major outlets, and has lectured on health care organization and management at: Harvard University, John Hopkins University, Wake Forest University, University of California at Berkeley, Washington University, Wharton School/ University of Pennsylvania. He is an Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences at the University of Virginia and serves on the Board of Directors of onFocus Healthcare which provides enterprise performance management software to healthcare organizations.
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Jeff Goldsmith is President of Health Futures, Inc. He is also Associate Professor of Medical Education in the School of Medicine at the University of Virginia. For eleven years ending in l990, Jeff Goldsmith was a lecturer in the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago, on health services management and policy. He has also lectured on these topics at the Harvard Business School, the Wharton School of Finance, Johns Hopkins, Washington University and the University of California at Berkeley. Jeff Goldsmith′s interests include: biotechnology, international health systems, and the future of health services.
From 1982 to 1994, Jeff Goldsmith served as National Advisor for Healthcare for the firm Ernst and Young, and provided strategy consultation to a wide variety of healthcare systems, health plans, supply and technology firms. Prior to 1982, he was Director of Planning and Government Affairs at the University of Chicago Medical Center and Special Assistant to the Dean of the Pritzker School of Medicine. From 1973 to 1975, Jeff Goldsmith worked in the Office of the Governor, State of Illinois as a fiscal and policy analyst, and Special Assistant to the State Budget Director.
Jeff Goldsmith earned his doctorate in Sociology from the University of Chicago in 1973, studying complex organizations, sociology of the professions, and politics of developing nations. He graduated from Reed College in 1970, majoring in psychology and classics, earning a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship for graduate study in 1971.
Jeff Goldsmith was the recipient of the Corning Award for excellence in health planning from the American Hospital Association′s Society for Healthcare Planning in 1990, and has received the Dean Conley Award for best healthcare article three times (1985, 1990 and 1995) from the American College of Healthcare Executives. He has written five articles for the Harvard Business Review, and has been a source for articles on medical technology and health services for the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Business Week, Time and other publications. Jeff Goldsmith is a member of the editorial board of Health Affairs. He is a Director of the Cerner Corporation, a healthcare informatics firm. Jeff Goldsmith is also Director of Essent Healthcare, a hospital management firm, and a member of the Board of Advisors of Burrill and Company, a private merchant bank in biotechnology and health sciences.
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Jeff Goldsmith has joined the Board of Directors of onFocus Healthcare a Nashville based company that provides enterprise performance management (EPM) software to healthcare organizations. OnFocus? provides on a “software as a service” basis a suite of management tools which enable top executives to track continuously the progress of their organization and direct reports on key management goals and metrics on a special custom website, updated automatically. The Chairman of onFocus is Ron Galbraith, Ph.D. and CEO is Steven Mason, Jr.On April 9, 2009 Health Affairs posted a new Jeff Goldsmith blog entry on the missing Obama financing plan for health reform: “Health Reform: Show Us the Money!”. Mr. Goldsmith’s post-election Health Affairs blog posting “Obama’s Health Policy Options: Three Scenarios” (Nov. 5, 2008) was the most read blog posting on the Health Affairs site for 2008. Mr. Goldsmith also posted blogs on Health Affairs profiling the new Administration’s major healthcare actors. They include Thomas Daschle “Daschle: What Can We Expect from the Health Czar in Waiting” Dec. 15, 2008 and “Orszag: A Powerful New Voice in Health Policy Takes Command at OMB” on February 9, 2009.
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