"We are going to draw back the veil between what those of us working inside health know about it and what the people on the the receiving end of our ministrations get to see - particularly about care quality," he said.
Mr Stevens, currently an executive for a US private healthcare firm, told the World Innovation Summit for Health, that healthcare systems would need to change urgently, responding to technological advances - such as the use of mobile sensors, which can track patients' health.
"Over the next decade, groundbreaking innovation will be possible - particulary if we open ourselves to innovation from outside the healthcare sector as well as inside it," he said.
But he said radical changes were required, to allow innovation in healthcare to spread.
"I want to suggest that our current healthcare models mostly won't cut it," he told delegates. Mr Stevens said systems needed to be able to respond to new ideas and technological breakthroughs more quickly, and roll out changes on a bigger scale.
"In other words, what they need is the exact opposite of healthcare as the world's largest cottage industry - which is what we have got in most countries," he said.
NHS England, the body he will lead, has recently announced plans for a reorganisation of hospital services, and ministers have said that far more has to be done to keep people out of hospital.
Mr Stevens said the combination of new technology and improvements to care systems would mean far more care delivered outside hospital.
"We need to get serious about useful innovation; urgent about reshaping our care systems and open to a profoundly changed relationship with the people that we serve," he said.
Mr Stevens, 47, was Mr Blair's health advisor between 2001 and 2004, and before that advisor to then-health secretary Alan Milburn.
He is currently President of Global Health Division at United Health Group.
When he accepted the job of NHS chief executive in October, he was praised by the Health Secretary for "leading from the front" by taking a 10 per cent pay cut for the job, for which he takes up post in April.
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