Salt Lake City, Utah and Jefferson City, Missouri — June 10, 2026 —The Mindshare Institute℠ and the Missouri Hospital Association (MHA) are pleased to announce a new collaborative development partnership. With its 135 member hospitals and health systems, MHA’s leadership sees this work as an opportunity to address the market failures that are making healthcare […]

Drawing on personal experience and industry leadership, Carter Dredge examines why essential healthcare remains out of reach for too many. This article outlines the emerging Health Care Utility model, an approach that aligns mission and market forces to make critical services more accessible, affordable, and sustainable at scale. *Illustration by Alice Mollon. Read the full […]

Dave Willis, Mindshare Institute’s VP of Convening and Development, assembles leaders in the healthcare industry to develop great solutions, together.

Tomás Valdiva is Mindshare Institute’s Managing Partner and Director, leading the creation and development of new Health Care Utilities.

Laura Kaiser, President and CEO of SSM Health, talks about how the Mindshare Institute will create scalable solutions through collaboration with SSM and other industry leaders.  

In this episode of Life Sciences Today, John Lynn, Founder and Chief Editor at Healthcare IT Today, and Carter Dredge, Executive Director at Intermountain Health Institute and President at Mindshare Institute, discuss Civica Rx’s mission to transform drug access and affordability. Learn why Intermountain entered the pharmaceutical space, how Civica’s unique model works, and what’s next […]

Carter Dredge, President at Mindshare Institute, joins David Johnson, Founder and CEO at 4Sight Health, for an insightful discussion on the power of collaboration in healthcare. Together, they explore how working across organizations and disciplines can lead to innovative solutions for some of the industry’s most pressing challenges. This conversation highlights why sharing expertise and […]

Carter Dredge, President, Mindshare Institute, and Cambridge Fellow, explores how AI is reshaping healthcare structures. His presentation highlights innovative care delivery models that reduce costs, expand access, and personalize treatment—turning what once seemed impossible into reality. Recorded at the 2025 Utah Life Sciences Summit.

Murray, Utah — November 18, 2025 — Six leading nonprofit organizations are joining forces to improve medical transport in the respective areas they serve across the country. Advocate Health, Flight For Life Wisconsin, HealthNet Aeromedical Services, Intermountain Health, MedFlight of Ohio, and Vanderbilt Health Medical Center, all collaborating with the Mindshare Institute, have created a […]

Dr. Tom Lee, Chief Medical Officer at Press Ganey, shares why he’s energized by the launch of the Mindshare Institute, an effort to confront harmful market failures in healthcare and drive meaningful change. He reflects on the challenges ahead and his pride in being part of a movement determined to do more.

Greg Yap, Partner at Menlo Ventures, shares how the Mindshare Institute is catalyzing bold collaboration across healthcare. With pioneering leadership, transformative partnerships, and a venture-capital mindset, he expresses his excitement about how innovation is driving down costs and solving systemic challenges.  

Carter Dredge, President of the Mindshare Institute, shares how the Institute is uniting healthcare executives, academics, philanthropists, and community leaders to tackle market failures and improve patient care. Discover why collaboration and competition aren’t opposites—and how working together can transform the healthcare system for the better.  

HBS Prof. Leemore Dafny discusses Civica Rx in this Health Care Minute video from the Harvard Business School Health Care Initiative

Dan Liljenquist, Chief Strategy Officer of Intermountain Health and Chief Architect of Civica Rx explains the relation between Civica Rx and the Mindshare Institute.  

Rob Allen, President & CEO of Intermountain Health explains why he is excited to be part of the Mindshare Institute.    

By injecting a nonprofit Health Care Utility into the generic drug market, Civica Rx has demonstrated improved supply reliability and lower costs, offering a scalable structural innovation to combat pharmaceutical shortages and pricing failures. Read the full journal article

The Health Care Utility Model offers a scalable, nonprofit business structure that empowers health institutions to collaboratively produce essential medicines at lower costs, bypassing profit-driven intermediaries and reshaping access and affordability in the pharmaceutical market. Read the full journal article

CivicaScript’s nonprofit model slashes generic drug costs—saving patients 64% and payers 92%—by restructuring the pharmaceutical supply chain through a collaborative, transparent Health Care Utility approach. Read the full journal article

Disruptive collaboration empowers health care institutions to collectively challenge entrenched oligopolies through the Health Care Utility Model, enabling scalable, mission-driven innovation that prioritizes affordability, transparency, and access over profit. Read the full journal article    

Carter Dredge, President of the Mindshare Institute, Rob Allen, President & CEO of Intermountain Health, and Dan Liljenquist, Chief Strategy Officer of Intermountain Health, introduce the Mindshare Institute, a collaborative organization with a purpose to solve market failures that are hurting people.

CivicaScript's nonprofit model slashes generic drug costs—saving patients 64% and payers 92%—by restructuring the pharmaceutical supply chain through a collaborative, transparent Health Care Utility approach.