Healthcare systems face a critical moment. New regulations, aging workforce and population, changing reimbursement models, expanding patient access, and the increasing use of AI are transforming how we view labor and productivity. These challenges demand not only awareness but also strategic actions.
Join Justin Wiser, VP and CFO Enterprise Hospitals, INTEGRIS Health, alongside Health Catalyst’s John Hansmann and Dan Hopkins for a realistic yet forward-looking discussion on the current state of healthcare labor. This session will explore the realities leaders face today and offer a clear roadmap to help teams respond with curiosity, data, clarity, and confidence.
This isn’t just a conversation — it’s a call to action for leaders eager to move from complexity to understanding, and from challenge to solution, shaping a system and workforce ready to tackle these complex issues.
Attendees will walk away with five strategic actions:
- Audit Labor Cost Drivers Identify top cost centers and review premium pay, overtime, and contract labor usage.
- Standardize Staffing Practices Compare policies across departments, address inconsistencies, and analyze span-of-control ratios.
- Map Technology to Labor Efficiency Inventory current tools and assess their impact on workload and productivity.
- Investigate Employee Impacts and Opportunities Analyze items such as turnover, recruitment, burnout, labor-market conditions, aging workforce, workforce shortages, employee satisfaction, and role design.

Featured Speaker
Justin Wiser
Justin Wiser, MBA, serves as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for the Hospital Enterprise at INTEGRIS Health. He has more than 25 years of healthcare finance experience, having previously held multiple leadership roles at Intermountain Health. At INTEGRIS, Justin has led data-driven strategies that improved efficiency and delivered over $30 million in labor cost savings.

Featured Speaker
John Hansmann
John Hansmann, MSIE, FHIMSS, DSHS joined Health Catalyst in October, 2015 as a Sr. Director. He has over 30 years of healthcare experience in operations, productivity management, strategic and IT analyses. Prior to coming to Health Catalyst, John was the Senior Director of Labor Management & Productivity for Tenet Healthcare Corporation. Prior to Tenet, John worked for Intermountain Healthcare as the Urban South Region Manager of Management Engineering. He has expertise in the development of standardized nursing care models and staffing practices, optimizing patient throughput, work redesign and leading workflow analysis. John is a Fellow of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), a senior member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) and Diplomate within the Society for Health Systems (SHS.) He is a past Board member for HIMSS and past President for SHS. He currently serves on the Advisory Board for the school of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (IME) at North Dakota State University (NDSU.) He received his BSIE and MSIE from NDSU.

Featured Speaker
Dan Hopkins
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