Authority Magazine, Feb 17, 2025
Sufian Chowdhury, CEO of Kinetik, shares a multi-layered view on what it will take to meaningfully improve the U.S. healthcare system. One key theme he emphasizes is the need for better alignment across policy, technology, and care delivery. Without this coordination, even the most innovative healthcare solutions risk falling short. Chowdhury points out that incentives across stakeholders—patients, providers, payers, and regulators—are often misaligned, leading to inefficiencies, fragmented care, and wasteful spending.
He advocates for accelerating digitization not just within individual organizations, but across the healthcare ecosystem. Sufian believes that health tech companies must take responsibility for building systems that integrate easily, ensuring providers and payers can share data securely and in real time. He also underscores the importance of collaboration between younger and more seasoned healthcare professionals. Innovation, Sufian notes, can’t thrive in silos. Younger leaders bring digital fluency and urgency for reform, while established practitioners provide context, clinical wisdom, and policy insights that are crucial for navigating change.
Sufian's vision highlights the importance of addressing healthcare not only as a system of services but as a dynamic and evolving network of people, data, and shared responsibility.
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