Tampa General Hospital Publishes Health Care Affordability Framework Built From 300+ Leaders' Input
Tampa General Hospital published a white paper on health care affordability drawn entirely from insights shared by more than 300 industry leaders at the NEXT Summit in February 2026. The framework, called NEXT Intelligence: A Crowdsourced Framework for Health Care Affordability, captured 1,300 unique insights from executives, investors, and innovators across 16 states and 10 health care sectors.
The hospital used AI-powered crowdsourcing technology to collect and organize the input in real time. Attendees shared ideas through a dedicated booth, mainstage sessions, and workshops using voice-to-text transcription and AI clustering to build what the hospital calls a "live knowledge graph" - essentially a map of how different ideas connect.
Six Themes Emerged From the Data
The white paper identifies these actionable areas:
- Transparency as a Foundation for Trust: Price transparency for procedures, pharmaceuticals, and insurance products must come first.
- Reimagining the Role of Technology: AI, predictive analytics, and digital health tools can reduce administrative work and flag high-risk patients early. Technology deployment must be equitable to avoid widening disparities.
- Value-Based Care at Scale: Health systems need to move faster away from fee-for-service toward payment models that reward outcomes, supported by standardized metrics and interoperable data systems.
- Social Determinants of Health: Housing, food security, transportation, and mental health access affect downstream costs. Hospital walls alone cannot solve affordability.
- Workforce Sustainability: Clinician burnout and staff turnover drive up care costs. Investment in team-based care and streamlined workflows matters.
- Policy and Payment Reform: Policymakers and payers must work with health systems to modernize reimbursement and reduce regulatory burden.
How the Process Worked
The crowdsourcing approach combined voice capture with AI-driven analysis. As leaders spoke their ideas, the platform transcribed them, grouped similar themes together, and mapped relationships between concepts. This produced a structured framework rather than a collection of unrelated comments.
"This is what innovation looks like in practice: not just adopting new technology but using it to catalyze knowledge that leaders representing different parts of the health care ecosystem agree will move the needle," said Rachel Feinman, senior vice president of Innovation, Ventures and Digital Solutions at Tampa General.
What Comes Next
Tampa General plans to build on this model for future summits. The hospital has already announced dates for NEXT Summit 2027: February 24-25, 2027.
Health care leaders interested in attending, speaking, or sponsoring can visit tghnext.com or contact the TGH Innovation team at innovation@tgh.org.
For professionals in health care leadership and strategy, understanding how peers across the industry are approaching affordability offers practical context for decisions at your own organization. The full white paper is available for download on Tampa General's website.
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