John Gallagher

Senior Consultant Simpler Consulting

John Gallagher is a Vice-president and Senior Consultant with Simpler Consulting with over 20 years of Lean Enterprise Transformation experience in manufacturing, healthcare, real estate, and construction.

Since joining Simpler in 2010, John has worked exclusively in the Healthcare Industry coaching and developing the Lean Transformation with large healthcare clients in large integrated health systems and multi-specialty group practices. John has spoken, written, blogged, coached and taught on many current Healthcare industry topics, including: Population Health, Digital Command Centers, Cancer Care Transformation, ACO , PCMH, Primary Care, Specialty care including medical and surgical specialties, and Leadership Development. John has provided professional advisory/coaching at the C-suite, executive and director levels as well as facilitated change management through all levels of Healthcare operations.

John is a graduate of West Virginia University with a degree in Mechanical Engineering.

Agenda Day 1

1:30 PM Deploying a Digital Command Center: A Health System Blueprint for Resiliency and Operational Efficiency, presented by IBM Company

COVID-19 has strained the healthcare system on a global scale. Hospitals and Clinics are struggling to prepare for the surge in demand on resources, medical equipment, supplies, and facilities. Healthcare organizations will need to develop and deploy strategies to handle the increased volumes resulting from new care delivery models.


Healthcare systems now have the need to optimize the capacity of medical staff, supplies, facilities, and other resources in our healthcare facilities and/or present scenarios to reduce the economic impact. IBM believes that the implementation of Digital Command Centers to track, monitor, and alert leaders and staff to flow challenges will be critical.


Using predictive analytics, sophisticated modeling, machine learning, and process improvement techniques, the Digital Command Center will help to support quality and safety improvements as well as help to reduce the overall cost of care through the disciplined and rigorous use of these techniques.


In this webinar, John Gallagher Vice President and Senior Consultant at Simpler Consulting, and IBM Company, will discuss 5 reasons why the Digital Command Centers will accelerate HC Systems improvement going forward:

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining John.

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