Forum Faculty

Alden Solovy

Alden Solovy is executive editor of Hospitals & Health Networks and associate publisher for the Journals of the American Hospital Association. He is also a widely published author and a frequent speaker on the evolution of the health care economy and the nation’s Most Wired health systems.

Since 1999, the Most Wired Survey and Benchmarking Study has measured the nation’s hospitals on their use of information technology for quality, customer service, public health and safety, business processes and workforce issues.

Mr. Solovy’s Most Wired presentation focuses on lessons learned from 10 years of research into how hospitals successfully use information technology to advance business and clinical goals. It includes case studies from the nation’s top tech hospitals, including quality at the point of care, personal health records and physician adoption of IT. This session may be tailored to include an analysis of hospital-specific data for any hospital that has completed the Most Wired survey.

Prior to joining the AHA, Mr. Solovy served as director of market and business analysis for Premier, Inc., and as a hospital financial consultant specializing in capital planning and debt transactions. He has also served as a writer and reporter for the Decatur Herald & Review, the La Crosse Tribune and The Wall Street Journal.

Mr. Solovy holds two master’s degrees: an MBA from the University of Chicago where he specialized in economics and finance and conducted research into hospital closure; and a master’s in public affairs journalism from the University of Illinois at Springfield, where he specialized in state education funding policy. He has written five books, and edited two others, on health care finance and strategy.