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

The Strategy Catalyst Dispatch · Jul 28, 2026 · 32m · transcript

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…