Dr. Stephen Klasko, president and CEO Of Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health System, has emerged as one of Philadelphia’s new visionaries thanks to a forward-thinking approach to healthcare. No one would claim that Dr. Stephen Klasko lacks chutzpah. The...

On April 21, 2015, Dr. Steve Klasko presented at Epic Systems’ Deep Space Auditorium to an audience of over 7,000. He spoke about his optimistic vision of the future of health. Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/126437561...

Suppose Malcolm Gladwell was on the admissions committee of our medical college? Dr. Steven Klasko asked the author that question on stage at a recent event by the Philadelphia Arts and Business Council, while talking about Gladwell’s book, “David and...

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. How will healthcare change in the future? Dr. Stephen Klasko shares his insights on healthcare reform in this informative talk cleverly staged in the year...

Jefferson hosted the Health Hack on November 13-15, 2015. The hackathon was designed to help reinvent health care access and delivery by creating innovative solutions to the biggest challenges in the industry today. Health Hack is part of the new...

Dr. Klasko delivered this keynote speech in Philadelphia on July 15, 2014 at the CONVERGE conference on healthcare and innovation. In this video, Dr. Klasko looks back from the vantage of the year 2024, the 200th anniversary of Jefferson’s founding,...

It is time to bring medicine home. To be truly patient-centric, we need to think about the patient before he or she leaves home, not just when the patient’s in the doctor’s office or hospital. That’s why I believe the...

DATE: July 25, 2024 FROM: Stephen K Klasko, M.D., M.B.A. Retired President & CEO, Thomas Jefferson University and Health System Current CEO, Steve’s Vinyl Emporium and Implantable Health Chips, South Street, Philadelphia Dear Colleagues, Here we are in the year...

We have it all wrong. Going around the country, I hear physicians and hospital administrators screaming that the end is near, or, as Woody Allen put it: “We are at a crossroads, one road leads to total destruction…the other to...

Hospitals need creative partnerships and a leadership team with imagination, communication, teamwork and emotional intelligence. Read more at hhnmag.com...