Dr. A. Marc Harrison
Marc Harrison, M.D. is a global healthcare leader, recognized for healthcare transformation and health equity advocacy. He is a pediatric critical care physician, and is the former president and CEO of Intermountain Healthcare. Dr. Harrison has joined the venture capital firm General Catalyst to launch and lead Health Assurance Transformation Company (HATCo), a new business owned by GC with the mission to deliver health and wellness collaboratively, compassionately, and courageously – for all people.
As president and CEO of Intermountain, Dr. Harrison led the organization to reimagine healthcare operations and champion innovation and collaboration to ensure that its 60,000 caregivers had access to the technology and tools to best reach, serve, and empower patients. In his first five years leading the organization, he executed a disciplined growth strategy with significant investments in telehealth and rural health to expand Intermountain’s service area from primarily Utah communities to serving patients throughout the Mountain West.
Under his leadership, Intermountain embraced unconventional, public-private partnerships to confront some of the most pressing systemic challenges facing communities and industry to proactively keep people well and make communities healthier. Those initiatives were a catalyst for the national movement toward value-based care, advancing clinical education, and establishing a new Digital Hippocratic Oath (developed by Graphite, a company co-founded by Intermountain) to improve hospital data interoperability and secure patient privacy rights.
During his tenure, Intermountain partnered with more than 1,000 hospitals nationwide to launch Civica Rx, a nonprofit generic drug manufacturer and distributor, to make generic medications—including insulin, which they plan to offer in 2024—more accessible and affordable. Intermountain was a founding member of the Utah Alliance for the Determinants of Health, a collaboration of community partners proactively addressing forces that affect people’s ability to stay healthy. Additionally, Intermountain partnered with an international genomics leader and more than 100,000 volunteers to advance medical breakthroughs that will help prevent and treat genetic diseases for people around the globe.