Prof Zimlichman serves as Chief Innovation Officer and Chief Transformation Officer at Sheba Medical Center (Sheba). To redesign healthcare to be more patient-centric, effective, efficient, and equitable, he founded Sheba's innovation arm, ARC. ARC is short for accelerate, redesign, and collaborate.

In the United States, Prof Zimlichman held the position of lead researcher at Partners HealthCare's Clinical Affairs Department in Boston, where he was involved in strategic care redesign efforts. During that time, Prof. Zimlichman had appointments at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School's affiliate, the Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice.

Prof Zimlichman is a founding member of the International Academy of Quality and Safety in Health Care and an international expert at the International Society of Quality in Healthcare. He also served as an advisor to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Prior to assuming his current position, he was Chief Medical Officer and Chief Quality Officer at Sheba.

Prof Zimlichman earned his MSc in Healthcare Management from the Harvard Chan School of Public Health and his MD from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology.

Presentation Synopsis
HM2: Health 2030: From Vision to Reality
The problems in our healthcare systems include subpar quality and patient safety, a misplaced focus on acute care rather than on prevention and population health, inadequate person centeredness, and unsustainable cost. The next decade will see considerable transformation in how health systems are designed, propelled by opportunities such as digital health, growing consumerism, and mounting financial constraints. Sheba Medical Center, Israel's largest hospital, and one of the leading medical centers around the world on the Newsweek Hospital Ranking, has taken a proactive leadership approach and launched the FOH (Future of Health) initiative as well as the ARC (Accelerate, Redesign, Collaborate) Global Program. While FOH is a leadership think-tank tasked with setting the vision for what Health needs to look like over the next decade, ARC serves as an innovation ecosystem that would lead transformations globally. In his talk, Prof. Eyal Zimlichman, the Founder and Director of ARC, and the Co-Chairman of FOH, will describe the FOH vision, what ARC is and how it is looking to advance transformation efforts globally. Prof. Zimlichman will provide concrete examples of how innovation coming out of ARC is leading transformation, specifically in the field of remote care, artificial intelligence, extended reality and more.

Presentation Synopsis
HM16: Bridging the Gap in Patient Safety Through Innovation
Patient safety remains one of healthcare's most critical challenges and very little progress has been made in the field over the last 30 years. In this talk, Prof Eyal Zimlichman, Chief Transformation and Innovation Officer at Sheba Medical Center, will discuss how innovation in technology is needed to create solutions that can improve decision making and help clinicians provide safer care. Prof Zimlichman will bring examples of healthcare innovation that is being deployed at Sheba Medical Center to optimize patient safety, including AI-powered diagnostic and prediction tools, wearable devices, implantable sensors, AR/VR, and more. This keynote will also touch upon Sheba’s ARC (Accelerate, Redesign, and Collaborate) innovation model, which is supporting hospitals around the world to develop and adopt some of these technologies in their own systems.