2026 Healthcare Sessions Conference: Day Two

The final day of the 2026 Nashville Healthcare Sessions turned the conversation toward a fundamental question: how can the industry better organize healthcare around the people it serves?

Today’s discussions approached that question from multiple angles, examining how whole-person care models can bridge traditional silos, how changing economics are reshaping investment and complex care, and how AI is moving from an emerging capability to part of healthcare’s underlying infrastructure. Speakers challenged Sessions attendees to look beyond individual solutions and consider how clinical models, technology, capital and partnerships can work together to create a healthcare system that’s easier to navigate, more sustainable to operate and better equipped to improve outcomes.

As Sessions wraps up, the conversations of the past two days reinforced that healthcare’s future is not simply something to anticipate – it’s something leaders across this industry can shape. The opportunity now is to turn conversation into collaboration and ideas into action.

A special thank you to our panelists, attendees, partners, sponsors and team for making this year’s Nashville Healthcare Sessions a success. Mark your calendars today for Nashville Healthcare Sessions 2027, taking place September 26-28. We look forward to welcoming you back next year in #TheHealthcareCity!

Healthcare Sessions: Day 2

In case you couldn’t attend today’s Sessions, we’ve got you covered!

Below is a recap of key highlights and discussions from today. View the photos.

Whole Person Health: Building the Next Generation of Healthcare Platforms

A panel discussion featuring Robert Krayn, CEO & Co-Founder, Talkiatry, Sharon Meers, President & Co-Founder, Midi Health, Julie Yoo, General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

Delivering whole-person care doesn’t necessarily mean trying to deliver everything under one roof. Instead, the next generation of healthcare providers may depend on knowing where to specialize, where to partner and how to connect those capabilities around the needs of the patient. Drawing from experiences scaling behavioral and women’s health platforms, panelists discussed the importance of virtual care in expanding access and creating greater consistency, while underscoring that successful partnerships need clear organizational alignment, meaningful patient volume and measurable outcomes. Technology is also helping these models scale more effectively – from streamlining administrative functions to supporting clinical consistency – while giving providers more opportunity to focus on the human interactions that build trust and ultimately influence outcomes.

“The provider gets to be more human. AI is making our providers actually less distracted.” – Sharon Meers, President & Co-Founder, Midi Health

Capital, Consolidation, and the New Healthcare Investment Thesis

A conversation with Hemant Taneja, CEO, General Catalyst, and Mike Marks, CFO, HCA Healthcare

What creates durable value in a world where sophisticated technology becomes increasingly accessible? That question shaped a wide-ranging conversation about AI, capital and the future of healthcare investment. While applications across documentation, revenue cycle, diagnostics, supply chain and patient engagement are already demonstrating potential, Taneja argued that the greater opportunity lies in connecting those capabilities so their benefits can compound across an organization. Doing so will demand more than purchasing the latest tools. Healthcare organizations will need strong data foundations, leaders willing to drive adoption and operating models capable of putting technology to work at scale. As AI makes certain technical capabilities more abundant, it increases the value of trust, relationships, differentiated assets and real-world execution – reshaping both how investors assess opportunities and how healthcare organizations approach transformation.

“I do think we can change the dynamic of technology being behind [in healthcare], to actually leapfrogging this time around.” – Hemant Taneja, CEO, General Catalyst

The New Economics of Complex Care

 A panel discussion featuring Mike Uchrin, Co-Founder & CEO, Monogram Health, Dr. Benjamin Kornitzer, CMO, Aetna, Dr. Sanjay Shetty, President, Centerwell, Josh Weisbrod, Partner, Bain & Company

Value-based care is entering a new phase – one in which participation alone is no longer a meaningful measure of success. For patients managing multiple chronic conditions, better outcomes and sustainable economics require the difficult work of coordinating care across conditions, clinicians and organizations. The panel examined why earlier models have produced mixed results, citing overreliance on coding and financial mechanics alongside gaps in clinical models, incentives and data infrastructure. The path forward centers on greater clinical rigor: multidisciplinary teams working from a shared care plan, compensation aligned with outcomes, stronger payer-provider collaboration and technology that gives clinicians a more complete view of the patient. Rather than adding another collection of disconnected solutions, the goal is to reduce fragmentation and build durable models capable of delivering higher-quality care at a more sustainable cost.

“The percentage of contracts doesn’t matter. Are people actually getting better outcomes?” – Dr. Benjamin Kornitzer, CMO, Aetna

The AI Health System: What Healthcare Looks Like in 2030

A fireside chat with Dr. Nate Gross, VP, Health, OpenAI, and Dr. Mike Schlosser, EVP & Chief Clinical Officer, HCA Healthcare

With 2030 only four years away, the future of AI-enabled healthcare is quickly becoming a question of implementation rather than prediction. Two leaders at the forefront of healthcare transformation examined what responsible adoption will require as AI becomes more deeply embedded in clinical and operational workflows. Their discussion focused on shared accountability for safety, protecting patient and organizational data and creating close feedback loops between those developing AI and those delivering care. The emerging HCA Healthcare-OpenAI partnership offers one example of that approach, pairing technology expertise with frontline operating knowledge to expand workforce capabilities and explore new ways to orchestrate activity across the hospital. The organizations are currently evaluating an AI-enabled system designed to help coordinate the many tasks involved in moving patients through care while leaving clinical judgment with doctors and nurses. By starting with applications that reduce friction and make care teams more effective, both organizations aim to build the trust needed for more advanced uses of AI over time.