Thomas Spiegel

Dr Thomas Spiegel, MD, MBA, MS, FACEP
Vice President, Clinical Analytics and Prediction, AdventHealth

Tom Spiegel, MD, MS, MBA, FACEP is the Vice President of Clinical Analytics and Prediction at AdventHealth, a faith-based healthcare system comprised of 57 hospitals, over 2,000 outpatient locations, and nearly 110,000 employees. He leads enterprise strategy for advanced analytics, predictive intelligence and clinical data science, with a focus on using data-driven insights to help caregivers make informed decisions, improve patient outcomes and strengthen the delivery of whole-person care across the system.He held several positions over 12 years at the University of Chicago including Vice President and Health System Chief Quality Officer, and both the Interim Section Chief of Emergency Medicine and the ED’s Medical Director.  Previously, Dr. Spiegel has over 20 years of experience including serving as the Vice President of Business Strategy and Operations Support for Marriott International, a Federal Reserve Bank Analyst, and a Small Business Administration Consultant. Dr. Spiegel has served in national positions including as the American College of Emergency Physicians’ Chair of the Medical Director Section and is an American Board of Emergency Medicine Oral Boards Examiner.  He has numerous publications and speaking engagements at conferences, webcasts, and media interviews.  He holds board certifications in both Emergency Medicine and Clinical Informatics.

Presentation Synopsis
HM 5 - What Healthcare Needs Now: Frontline First

In the current healthcare environment where compassion fatigue and burnout are pervasive, motivating exhausted healthcare workers to engage in quality improvement efforts is more challenging than ever.  Healthcare executives can look to other industries for transferable learnings and craft such learnings toward their own team’s needs.

During this session, Dr. Tom Spiegel, MD, MBA, MS will share leadership lessons and a novel quality improvement approach called “Frontline First” that drew from his 3 decade journey through the corporate and healthcare worlds.  This session will focus on the components of a successful approach that develops an employee-centric and quality-minded culture.

HM 16 - The Value of Leveraging Your Data

Healthcare organizations face mounting pressure to leverage data assets for clinical and operational improvement, yet most lack a structured framework for assessing where they stand and where to invest. This session presents a comparative analysis of leading clinical analytics maturity frameworks and applies them to real-world health system examples from the United States, United Kingdom, Singapore, Australia, Germany, Canada, the UAE, and Brazil.

The presentation traces the analytics maturity spectrum from descriptive reporting through cognitive AI, details the multi-stage architecture of each framework, and contrasts their complementary strengths. Global case studies illustrate how leading systems — including Mayo Clinic, Kaiser Permanente, NHS England, and Singapore's NUHS — have translated maturity advancement into measurable clinical and financial outcomes. A self-assessment instrument, four-phase advancement roadmap, and 90-day executive action plan equip leaders to evaluate their organization's current position and prioritize investment.

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