Int'l Future Hospital Summit Attracts Top Hospital & Healthcare Execs

Bringing together leading healthcare executives from the USA, Canada, the UK, Europe and Israel, Sheba Medical Center's International Division, led by Michal Raviv Reisman, Director of Sheba International, hosted its' first-ever summit in October to discuss the future challenges facing hospitals.

The Sheba Summit 2018, focused on “The Future Hospital: Setting Strategies for 2030 and Beyond", where global healthcare innovators and leaders engaged in fruitful discussions about the challenges facing academic hospitals in the coming years and the transforming roles and responsibilities of healthcare institutions.

Summit participants represented prestigious healthcare organizations including the Federation of American Hospitals (Washington, D.C.), Henry Ford Health System (Michigan), Johns Hopkins Medicine (Maryland), Stanford Health Care (California), Univ. of Pennsylvania Health System, Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals (UK), Erasmus Medical Center (Holland), University Hospital of Montreal (Canada) and many more.

“Sheba Medical Center is proud to be a pioneer in the healthcare industry. We were honored to host such a high-quality and innovative group of senior healthcare executives from across the world to discuss how we can help one another build the hospital of the future,” said Prof. Yitshak Kreiss, Director General of Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer. Charles Kahn III, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federation of American Hospitals added, "We also agreed that the hospital of the future will have to go beyond the 4 walls and become a virtual caregiver to patients and communities alike. Additionally, hospitals, in order to meet the demands of care in the future, will have to be flexible.  The sharing of these challenging ideas at the Sheba International Summit, will now serve as a powerful foundation for ongoing discussions between us going forward."