Dr. James Weinstein SVP, Microsoft — Creating healthcare with value, outcomes & equity for patients
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Dr. James Weinstein is the Senior Vice President of Microsoft Healthcare. He is responsible for leading Microsoft Healthcare’s strategy, innovation, and health equity functions.
Prior to joining Microsoft, Dr. Weinstein served as president and CEO at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health in Northern New England. He led the organization’s adoption of a population-health model, which included the transition away from fee-for-service payments to global payments.
Before becoming CEO, Dr. Weinstein was president of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic and director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, home of the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care. This Atlas has been documenting the variations in the health care delivery system across the United States for many decades.
Dr. Weinstein, Mayo Clinic Intermountain Healthcare The Dartmouth Institute and Denver Health are founding members and inaugural executive directors of the National High Value Healthcare Collaborative. The Collaborative, a group of health systems working together to improve the quality of healthcare while reducing costs at a national level, was founded in 2009.
Dr. Weinstein was a member of National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and he held the Peggy Y. Thomson chair in the Evaluative Clinical Sciences while at Dartmouth. He is a Senior Fellow, Healthcare Center and Clinical Professor Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth and a Clinical professor at the Kellogg School of Business, Northwestern University.
Dr. Weinstein serves on the Special Medical Advisory Group of the National Veteran’s Administration. He is a member of the Boards of Trustees for Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience and Intermountain Health System.
Dr. Weinstein, a spine surgeon and researcher, has received over $70 million from the federal government. He has published 325 peer reviewed articles, and continues to serve as editor in chief of Spine. He is also on the Board of Advanced Regenerative Medicine Institute, a Department of Defense program that uses stem cells and bio-substrates for printing artificial organs.
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