Michael Levy · Keynote Speaker

Digital transformation, made human.

Healthcare is digitizing faster than it is transforming. Michael Levy helps leaders redesign the operating models, partnerships, and human experiences required to turn AI and innovation into trusted, scalable change.

Healthcare operator · Transformation framework creator · Keynote speaker
Health systems · Life sciences · Digital health · Cross-sector ecosystems
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20+ years across healthcare systems, innovation, academia and venture-building.
Former leadership roles at UCLA Health, UNC Health Care and University of Miami Health System · Founder/CEO, DHIT · Co-Founder, Bluedoor Group
Portrait of Michael Levy

It's 1926 in the 21st century.

Michael Levy
Operator, not commentatorTwo decades translating transformation strategy into programs, pilots, partnerships and new operating models.
Healthcare-nativeExperience spanning major health systems, digital health, life sciences, academia, venture and community transformation.
Original frameworksCreator and architect of practical transformation methods designed to move audiences from idea to action.
Built for executive roomsKeynotes, fireside chats, panels, workshops and facilitated sessions tailored to the decisions leaders actually face.
The central idea

Healthcare does not need another technology upgrade. It needs a new operating model.

Michael's work starts with a simple provocation: much of healthcare is applying 21st-century technology to structures designed for another era. Transformation requires changing how people, organizations, systems and communities work together — not simply adding more tools.

His talks connect AI, digital health and innovation to the harder questions of trust, adoption, access, workflow, leadership and scale.

Audiences leave with a sharper way to distinguish digitization from transformation — and a practical way to decide what to change next.

Why Michael

The perspective of an operator. The energy of a provocateur.

Michael has spent more than 20 years inside the systems he now challenges from the stage. That combination lets him push audiences beyond conventional thinking without losing contact with what implementation actually takes.

01

He has worked across the ecosystem

Health systems, startups, academia, venture, government, life sciences and community organizations — giving him a cross-sector view of why promising innovation stalls and what helps it scale.

02

He turns strategy into action

Michael's frameworks are designed to move leaders from broad transformation ambition into priorities, experiments, partnerships, operating models and measurable next steps.

03

He makes technology human

AI and digital health become more useful when leaders examine the people, incentives, trust, workflows and lived experiences surrounding the technology.

04

He creates productive tension

A candid, energetic delivery challenges audiences to question the status quo — while giving them a constructive path toward what comes next.

What audiences take away

Ideas that change the conversation — and decisions that change what happens next.

Audiences leave able to
  • Identify where their organization is digitizing a broken process rather than transforming it.
  • Evaluate AI and innovation through a human-centered operating-model lens.
  • Recognize the organizational conditions that prevent promising ideas from scaling.
  • Map the partners, community voices and capabilities required for adoption.
  • Select a meaningful next move instead of adding another disconnected pilot.
Health SystemsOperating models, AI adoption, access, care delivery and transformation at scale.
Life SciencesTrust, partnership, community activation and the move from product to health impact.
Digital Health + TechMoving from product experimentation to implementation, adoption and ecosystem fit.
Academic + CivicInfrastructure, partnerships and community-driven models for equitable transformation.
Michael's methodology

The Elements of Transformation.

These eight principles are the backbone of Michael's methodology, serving as the foundation for both his proprietary transformation frameworks and his signature stage talks. They define how we build the future of health.

01
Dh
Digital Health
Transformation as a continuous, people-first process.
02
Cd
Community-Driven
Innovation co-designed with those it serves.
03
Hs
Health Sprint
Rapid discovery, prototyping & validation.
04
Hc
Human-Centered
Design rooted in trust and lived experience.
05
Eq
Access & Equity
Care models redesigned for who's left out.
06
Ec
Ecosystems
Connecting startups, systems, academia, gov.
07
Ft
Futurism
Where health transformation is actually headed.
08
Ed
The Edge
Why the future of health starts hyperlocal.
Three flagship keynotes

Make the choice easy.

Three clear entry points into the same core thesis: transformation happens when technology, operating models and human experience move together. Each talk can be tailored as a keynote, executive session, fireside or workshop.

Signature keynote · Transformation

Digital Health Needs a Transformation, Not an Upgrade

Why healthcare cannot simply digitize the status quo — and what leaders must redesign to create new models of access, trust, care and community impact.

  • Distinguish digitization from true transformation
  • See the operating-model barriers hiding beneath technology initiatives
  • Choose practical moves that turn strategy into implementation
Best for · Executive audiences, health systems, innovation summits
Flagship keynote · AI

The AI-Powered Practice: From Experimentation to Transformation

AI is moving faster than most healthcare organizations can absorb it. The winners will not be those with the most tools — but those that redesign work, decision-making and human experience around them.

  • Move beyond disconnected AI experimentation
  • Evaluate AI through workflow, trust and adoption
  • Build an operating model that makes AI useful at scale
Best for · Medical groups, health systems, leadership conferences
Flagship keynote · Future of health

The Future of Health Starts at the Edge

The next era of health will increasingly be shaped outside traditional walls — in homes, communities, workplaces, schools and the everyday environments where health actually happens.

  • Understand why health is moving beyond institutional boundaries
  • Identify the ecosystem capabilities needed at the edge
  • Rethink access, infrastructure and community partnership
Best for · Cross-sector, civic, academic and future-facing audiences
Additional sessions: From Pills to Partnerships · The Periodic Table of Health · The Health Innovation Sprint · Building the Digital Healthcare Superhighway
In conversation

Off the stage, on the mic.

Michael is a frequent podcast guest on digital health transformation, people-first design, and the future of care. A few recent conversations worth a listen.

Access Amplified podcast card featuring Michael Levy Watch · YouTube

Access Amplified

“Real impact starts when we co-learn, co-define, and co-implement with the community itself.”

Watch the episode → Remote First Innovators podcast card featuring Michael Levy Watch · YouTube

Health as a System

“Stacking small wins for transformation” — Michael Levy on Remote First Innovators (Ep. 113).

Watch the episode → Entrepreneurs, Executives & Eccentrics podcast card with Michael Levy and Scott Turman Listen · Entrepreneurs, Executives & Eccentrics

The Future is Collaborative

Insights from Michael Levy with host Scott Turman on building health innovation that starts with community.

Read & listen →
Track record

Two decades building what he speaks about.

  • CEO, Digital Health Institute for Transformation — a 501(c)(3) education and research "think and do tank" supporting communities through digital health transformation.
  • Principal architect of the Health Innovation Sprint — a community-driven model for co-designing, prototyping, testing, and validating health solutions.
  • First Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Center for Health Innovation at UNC-Chapel Hill — designed UNC's Digital Health Program and launched its Digital Health Innovation Sprint.
  • Former health-system leadership — prior leadership roles at the University of Miami Health System, UNC Health Care, and UCLA Health.
  • Co-Founder, Bluedoor Group — a digital health growth and innovation agency for startups, health systems, and industry partners.
  • Venture Partner, SpringTide Ventures — supporting early-stage digital health companies with strategy, partnerships, and go-to-market execution.
  • Global ecosystem builder — programs and partnerships across North Carolina, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Montreal, including HIV prevention work in the Southeast.
  • Framework creator — including DHIT's Periodic Table of Health Elements and the smart community health model, helping communities identify the building blocks of transformation.
  • Featured speaker & frequent podcast guest — on digital health transformation, people-first design, and the future of care delivery.
Bring Michael to your stage

Give your audience a new way to see transformation.

Think big. Start small. Start.

Michael is available for keynotes, executive sessions, fireside chats, panels and facilitated workshops. Share your audience, event theme and goals, and the session can be tailored around the decisions your leaders are facing now.