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Season 1 | Episode 52 - Jul 28, 2026

Care Model Engineering at Advocate Health: A Product Lens on How Care Gets Built

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In this episode of The Strategy Catalyst Dispatch, Shoeb Sitafalwalla, Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at Advocate Health, walks us through care model engineering, Advocate's approach to designing care models with a product lens across one of the largest health systems in the country. We cover how a post-merger discovery process led his team to rethink what a health system's core product actually is, what it looks like to run care models through a product pipeline with stage gates and a 100,000-patient pilot minimum, and how the reusable architecture they've built took them from a 10-month first product to launching every three to four weeks.

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About Our Host

Anika Rasheed

Anika is a Senior Analyst on the Strategy Catalyst team.

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