When you're at an event featuring some 40 C-level leaders, you can bet that you'll walk away with more than a few nuggets of wisdom to consider and even some strategies you can try to implement. So it was with this year's Top Leadership Teams in Healthcare conference.

HealthLeaders Media 2008 kicked off with a panel entitled "Lay Waste to Waste: How to cut the cost of doing business." Healthcare administration makes up 30 cents of every dollar spent on care, in large part because healthcare has been slow to adapt to techniques that can successfully cut the cost of doing business. But that doesn't mean that there aren't many who can teach valuable lessons about providing value to patients, which was essentially the focus of the panel.

Listen to healthcare industry leaders discuss their strategies and lessons learned at the 2008 HealthLeaders Media Top Leadership Teams conference in Chicago.

Carilion Clinic CEO Edward Murphy, MD, and COO Nancy Howell Agee talk about transforming their system into a clinic model.

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