Mr David Entwistle is President and CEO of Stanford Health Care (SHC), where he has served since 2016. Among other achievements, Entwistle has championed the development and implementation of an integrated strategic plan that aligns SHC, the Stanford School of Medicine, and Stanford Children’s Health behind a common vision and key strategic initiatives through 2025. Under his leadership, SHC has also received a number of national accolades, including being named a top-10 U.S. academic medical center for care quality by Vizient. Most recently, Entwistle spearheaded the completion of the new Stanford Hospital, which opened to patients in November 2019, representing the culmination of more than a decade of planning , design, and construction.
Mr Entwistle has extensive executive experience at leading academic medical centers. Previously, he served as CEO of the University of Utah Hospital & Clinics (UUHC) for nine years. UUHC is the only academic medical center in the Intermountain West region, with 1,100 board-certified physicians who staff four university hospitals, 10 community clinics and several specialty centers. While at UUHC, the organization earned a number of prestigious awards, including a No. 1 national ranking by Vizient in its annual Quality and Accountability Study of U.S. academic medical centers. For his administrative contributions to UUHC and for his long-standing track record in quality achievement, Entwistle received the Modern Healthcare “Up and Comers Award” in 2008.
Prior to UUHC, Mr Entwistle served as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics in Madison, Wisconsin from 2002-2007. He was also the former Vice President of Professional Services and Joint Venture Operations at City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, California.
As a recognized health care thought leader, Mr Entwistle is a board member of the American Hospital Association, the AAMC Council of Teaching Hospitals, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and Vizient (formerly University HealthSystem Consortium). He is the past chair of the Utah Hospital Association and was appointed by the governor of Utah to the state’s Medicaid Task Force.
He earned a bachelor's degree in Health Sciences from Brigham Young University and a master’s degree in Health Services Administration from Arizona State University. He also was awarded a postgraduate administrative fellowship at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.
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Keynote Address: From Telemedicine to Artificial Intelligence: How Technology Is Transforming Patient Care
Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, Stanford Health Care is on a journey to reimagine the patient experience by delivering human-centered, high-tech, high-touch care. From rewiring health care delivery to meet patients in their homes to pioneering innovations in responsible AI-supported clinical care, Stanford embraces a future of digitally-driven health care that empowers patients and leverages the latest technologies to lift their health. This session will discuss Stanford’s approach to assessing and refining AI tools to augment clinical and administrative operations, including a pilot with Epic and Microsoft to use generative AI for drafting messages to patients. It will also explore the health system’s unique experience in integrating and sustaining telemedicine across clinical departments, while highlighting Stanford’s overall philosophy for innovating cutting-edge digital technologies to transform health care and the health of patients and communities.
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HM13: Building Tomorrow’s Hospital Today
What does it take to build a hospital for the next 100 years of innovation? Stanford Health Care President and CEO David Entwistle walks through his health system’s decade-long process to plan and launch just such a facility. The 824,000 square foot, state-of-the-art Stanford Hospital was designed to support and empower patients and their families through every step of the healing journey. Deploying the latest in medical technology, digital applications, and operational efficiencies, the facility not only accommodates innovations of today, it also includes the flexibility to evolve with advancements in patient care delivery. From a “first-in-the-world” robotic pharmacy to a 3.5-acre hybrid operating platform, from outdoor gardens to comfortable spaces for overnight visitors, the hospital creates an environment that prioritizes the whole patient’s experience while providing the highest quality clinical care.