Jay Desai | Founder & CEO | PatientPing

Mr. Desai started PatientPing in 2013 with one goal in mind: To connect providers everywhere to seamlessly coordinate patient care. Prior to founding PatientPing, Jay worked at the CMS Innovation Center (CMMI) where he helped develop ACOs, bundled payments, and other payment initiatives. Jay’s passion lies at the intersection of technology, policy, and community building. He has an MBA in healthcare management from Wharton and a BA from the University of Michigan. Jay feels lucky to love his work, but also loves running, all things music, and spending time with his family and friends.

Gaurav Lal | Executive Director | Innovative Solutions at Merck

Mr. Lal received a BS degree in biological sciences from Oklahoma State University and a MBA degree from Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. After beginning his career in the pharmaceutical industry with E.R. Squibb & Sons, he joined Merck in 1988 as a Professional Sales Representative in Texas. In his career, Gaurav has held positions of increasing responsibility in a broad range of business functions. His experience includes sales, sales training, field communications, sales management, managed markets, strategy & commercial model innovation In 2016, he moved into his current Executive Director, Innovative Solutions role responsible for expanding Merck’s capability to develop and incubate innovative programs and tools that address unmet needs of top customers, including integrated delivery systems, payers, retail chains and other influencers of health care decision-making that support Merck’s core franchises.

Anne Marie Polak | Senior Director | Leavitt Partners

Ms. Polak is a senior director based in Washington, D.C. In her role, she provides policy counsel and analysis to clients with matters involving regu-lations, legislation, and business implications. Anne Marie’s experience includes developing strategic messages and policy positions for Capitol Hill, administration, trade associations, and corporate audiences. Prior to joining Leavitt Partners, Anne Marie was a vice president for Faegre BD Consulting in the firm’s health and biosciences group. She also spent five years with the Podesta Group in Washington, D.C., while completing her law degree in the evenings at the George Mason University School of Law, graduating cum laude in 2010. Anne Marie also worked in the government and legal affairs office of Novo Nordisk in Washington, D.C., and as a congressional aide to Rep. Michael Ferguson of New Jersey.

Raymond J. Fabius, MD, CPE, FACPE
Co-Founder & President, HealthNEXT
Co-Chair, PHA Program and Membership Committee

Dr. Fabius has recently returned to his start up. HealthNEXT, a company dedicated to the development of organizational cultures of health — after serving as Chief Medical Officer of Truven Health Analytics (formerly the healthcare business of Thomson Reuters), the world’s leading source of intelligent information for business and professionals. In this capacity he is charged with developing and deepening relationships with customers, advising on product development, and providing counsel to the leadership on business strategy and medical issues. Formerly, Dr. Fabius served as strategic advisor to the President of Walgreens Health & Wellness Division. This organization will coordinate over 1,000 workplace health centers and 10,000 pharmacies, many with retail clinics, into a seamless primary care network across the country within the next five years. In the not too distant future, it will be possible to offer large employers medical and fitness services on-site as well as episodic illness care, health coaching and disease management monitoring at the employee’s nearest Walgreens pharmacy.

Dan Buettner | Founder | Blue Zones

Mr. Buettner is an explorer, National Geographic Fellow, award-winning journalist and producer, and a New York Timesbestselling author. He discovered the five places in the world—dubbed Blue Zones—where people live the longest, healthiest lives. His articles about these places in The New York Times Magazine and National Geographic are two of the most popular for both publications.

Buettner now works in partnership with municipal governments, large employers, and health insurance companies to implement Blue Zones Projects in communities, workplaces, and universities. Blue Zones Projects are well-being initiatives that apply lessons from the Blue Zones to entire communities by focusing on changes to the local environment, public policy, and social networks. The program has dramatically improved the health of more than 5 million Americans to date.

Mary Ann Cooney, RN, MSN, MPH | Chief | Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) Center for Population Health Strategies

Ms. Cooney provides strategic direction for the Centers three Pillars of Population Health – Clinical to Community Connections, Health Equity and the Social Determinants of Health, and Public Health Data Analytics and Informatics. Mary Ann previously worked for 14 years at the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services where she was Deputy Commissioner for the Department and Director of Public Health.

Mary Ann has served as adjunct faculty member for the Master of Public Health Program at the University of New Hampshire and recently re-ceived UNH’s 2016 Distinguished Alumni Award. She was School Health Director for the City of Manchester Public Health Department and President of the New Hampshire Public Health Association.

Tom Scully | General Partner | WelshCarson, Anderson & Stowe, Former CMS Administrator

Mr. Scully is a General Partner in the Healthcare Group, having joined WCAS in 2004. Before joining WCAS, he was the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for three years and the President and CEO of the Federation of American Hospitals for six years. He also served as the Deputy Assistant to the President and as the Associate Director of OMB under President GHW Bush from 1989 to 1993, and has practiced law at Alston and Bird; Patton Boggs; and Akin, Gump, Strauss Hauer and Feld. He is a Principal at the Lincoln Policy Group.

Don Wright, M.D., M.P.H. | Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health, Director | Office of Disease Prevention & Health Promotion

Dr. Don Wright has served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health and Director of the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) since January 2012. In this capacity, he leads coordination and policy development for public health and prevention activities within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He is also currently the acting Executive Director of the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition.

Jaan Sidorov, MD | President & CEO | The Care Centered Collaborative

Dr. Sidorov is a board-certified in general internal medicine physician with more than 25 years of experience in primary care, inpatient care, medical education and evidence-based practice. Jaan believes physician leadership throughout the continuum of care is the bedrock of value-based care delivery. He received his medical degree from Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, and completed his internship and residency at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Hanover, New Hampshire. Jaan also served as a Chief Resident at Reading Hospital in Reading, Pennsylvania.

Andrey Ostrovsky, MD | President & CEO | Concerted Care Group; Former Chief Medical Officer, CMS

Dr. Ostrovsky is a practicing physician, social entrepreneur, and health policy expert who specializes in human-centered design, lean manage-ment, quality improvement, population health, and digital health. Dr. Ostrovsky was most recently the Chief Medical Officer for the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services (CMCS), the nation’s largest insurer covering over 74 million people, annually.

Denee Choice, MD | Vice President and Medical Director Physical Medicine | American Specialty Health

Dr. Choice is vice president and medical director for physical medicine services at American Specialty Health (ASH). Dr. Choice oversees the Rehabilitation Services Clinical Quality Evaluation program and leads the content development, training and clinical quality processes for ASH’s musculoskeletal health and pain management products.

Previously, she served as a Medical Director of Pain Management in the VA System where she led the development and implementation of multi-specialty clinics and treatment teams, complementary and alternative medicine services, and co-authored opioid safety guidelines, with the focus of reducing reliance on opioids for chronic pain.

Mary Jane Osmick, MD
Vice President & Medical Director Medical Services Department,
American Specialty Health
Chair, PHA Quality and Research SDH Task Force

Dr. Osmick is Vice President and Medical Director for the medical services department at American Specialty Health (ASH), one of the nation’s leading providers of specialty health services. As a physician executive with extensive internal medicine clinical expertise, Dr. Osmick provides medical management, quality oversight, clinical review and product development support across ASH product lines, including specialty health care, population health, and fitness and exercise services.

Helene Forte | Vice President, Public Plans Emerging Markets | Tufts Health Plan

Ms. Forte is responsible for leading Tufts Health Public Plans expansion efforts. Prior to her current position, she was vice president of care management for all Public Plans members.

Prior to joining Tufts Health Plan in 2014, Helene held positions in clinical program support and engagement strategy, care advocacy and medical management for Aetna, a national health plan. She also has served as vice president of medical operations at APS Healthcare Inc., a health management organization servicing commercial, Medicaid and state employee members, while serving consecutively as manager of health programs and manager of case management for Tufts Health Plan. She began her career as a staff nurse — and has taught classes in nursing at Mount Wachusett Community College and Montachusett Vocational School.

Elise Bowman | Director of Strategic Initiatives | Health Leads

As Director of Strategic Initiatives, Ms. Bowman oversees new social needs intervention initiatives among our clinical partners — including program design, resource database build-outs, and integration of Health Leads’ signature technology, Reach. Elise brings 10 years of direct service experience to her role, having previously served as a Health Leads program manager, a case manager for adults struggling with mental illness and homelessness, and in developing parent engagement initiatives in public education settings.

Elise has a passion for helping client-facing staff find sustainable, workable solutions to integrate social needs efforts into their daily work — and loves the opportunity to bring her experience and expertise to bear on the systemic change that comes from spreading social needs programs.

J. David Johnson | Vice President & Senior Consultant | Sage Consulting

Mr. Johnson leads the Sage Consulting’s work for a number of public sector, corporate, non-profit and multi-employer clients. David brings particular expertise in evidence-based workplace wellness programs and leveraging Behavioral Economics principles in Human Resources Management. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology at Towson University.

David has over 29 years of experience in Health Care and Human Resources. He is a frequent national and regional speaker on workplace wellness and behavior change strategies. David has published multiple articles on employee benefits issues and has been quoted in US News & World Report, the Washington Business Journal, the Baltimore Business Journal, and Employee Benefits News. He holds an MBA in Health Care Management from Johns Hopkins University and a BS in Public Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Sandeep Wadhwa, MD, MBA | Senior Vice President | Solera Health

Dr. Wadhwa is a leader in building population health programs for vulnerable populations. He serves as the senior vice president of market innovation and is the chief health officer for Solera Health where he is focused on scaling the Diabetes Prevention Program as well as health-related, social support interventions. Previously, Sandeep held population health leadership positions with 3M and McKesson. He also served as the State Medicaid Director for Colorado under its former Governor. While there, he oversaw a $4 billion program and led the effort to implement an accountable care collaborative. Sandeep also serves on the board of Reinvestment Fund, a $1 billion non-profit, financial institute devoted to revitalizing low-income neighborhoods. Sandeep continues to see patients at the Seniors Clinic at the University of Colorado Hospital where he serves as associate clinical professor in the division of Geriatric Medicine.

Anil Jain, MD | VP & Chief Health Informatics Officer | IBM Watson Health

Focused on the intersection of information technology, informatics, clinical medicine and innovation, Dr. Jain is VP and Chief Health Informatics Officer at IBM Watson Health. He was Co-Founder, Senior VP and Chief Medical Officer of Explorys, Inc. formed in 2009 based on innovations that he developed while at the Cleveland Clinic. In April 2015, Explorys was acquired by IBM as an integral component of the newly formed Watson Health business unit. In 2017, he was appointed by Congress to the Federal Health IT Advisory Committee established by the 21st Century Cures Act.

Rose Maljanian
PHA Board Chair
Chairman and CEO, HealthCAWS, Inc.

Ms. Maljanian is an accomplished senior executive with more than 25 years of experience in the health care industry. Rose’s leadership experience
spans corporate managed care, specialty population health management, delivery systems and public health settings and include product strategy,
design and development, M&A; operations and fiscal management; and quality improvement/outcomes research.

Rose, founder of HealthCAWS, Inc. serves as Chairman and CEO of HealthCAWS, Inc., a privately held corporation focused on improving health and making health care more affordable by aligning accountability models and supports for success. As President, Strategic Health Equations, LLC, her initiatives included sourcing and diligence for venture and private equity firms; and for existing companies, product portfolio development and strategic planning. Prior, Rose served as SVP Product Innovation at Magellan and VP Clinical Interventions at Humana and as chief executive for the Institute for Outcomes Research and Evaluation at Hartford Hospital. She holds a Bachelor of Science in nursing, was critical care certified and holds an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Colorectal Cancer Screening: How Technology Can Increase Screening Rates

SPEAKER:
Josh Sclar, MD, MPH
Chief Medical Officer, BioIQ

It’s 2018, which means the moment of truth has arrived for the National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable’s “80% by 2018” initiative for colorectal cancer screening. Needless to say, we’re not measuring up. And with the American Cancer Society lowering their recommendation of age that screening should start — from 50 to 45 — even more unscreened people may need this critical test. We discuss how technology, convenience and personalization can transform colorectal cancer screening rates and save more lives.

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Joshua Sclar, MD, MPH, is BioIQ’s Chief Medical Officer. Sclar is board certified in preventive medicine and public health and has over 15 years experience in healthcare. His career has spanned clinical practice, health services research and public health instruction in addition to building innovative, prevention-oriented healthcare delivery models for academia and business.

Prior to joining BioIQ, Sclar was the Chief Medical Officer at Ingenios Health Co., which developed one of the first purpose-built mobile technology platforms for health risk assessment. Sclar was a member of the steering committee that created the Johns Hopkins Sibley Innovation Hub and served as its first Lead Designer and Innovator in Residence. He has published research on a variety of topics in healthcare delivery while working at the FDA, Columbia University Medical Center, and the Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health and Human Rights. He has also been a full-time practicing physician at St. Luke’s Hospital in St. Louis, MO.

Sclar received his medical degree from the State University of New York and completed residency training at Johns Hopkins. He earned a master’s degree in public health as a BJC Healthcare Scholar at Washington University in St. Louis, and holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Miami.

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Successful Physician Engagement in the Value-Based World Webinar

SPEAKER:
Gary Stelluti
Principal & Chief Strategist, HC Marketing

In this webinar, Gary Stelluti will outline what is becoming the Holy Grail of population health: physician engagement. Drawing on his experience in working with a number of high performing physician-led organizations, Mr. Stelluti will describe the successful elements of physician engagement. Using real world examples, this webinar will offer lessons learned that could be applied to other settings that are looking to engage physicians, drive value and achieve organizational success.

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Gary Stelluti has 20 years of experience in physician-specific marketing and communications, earning a reputation as a physician-engagement expert. Gary oversees client relations and the creation / implementation of market-specific physician engagement strategies. His experience includes working for large physician networks and IPA’s, single specialty practices and physician-owned companies throughout the United States.

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Activating Physician Leadership in Population Health

SPEAKERS:
William Faber, MD, MHCH
Managing Principal
Lumina Health Partners

Lucy Zielinski
Managing Partner
Lumina Health Partners

MODERATOR:
Jaan Sidorov, MD
CEO & President
The Care Centered Collaborative

Population Health demands strong physician leaders. Many physicians are taking on executive and leadership roles as the industry shifts to value-based care. For example, physicians are leading by creating strategies and executing plans to transform care delivery, managing clinically integrated networks and ACOs, and facilitating various work groups. These new roles require a new skill set.

In this seminar, we will discuss practical techniques to activate physician leadership. A roadmap to leadership effectiveness will be shared, as well as the top 5 leadership competencies physicians must master.

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Social Determinants of Health and Health Disparities

SPEAKER:
Mary Jane Osmick, MD
Vice President and Medical Director
American Specialty Health

Join PHA’s next webinar detailing the recent release of the White Paper, examining the definition, impact, and potential interventions to reduce the effect of negative social determinants of health (SDH) on health status in the U.S. PHA’s Quality and Research Committee spearheaded this initiative to identify best practices and highlight areas where additional research is required to support organizations intervening in SDH.

The Population Health Alliance and its member organizations use best practices and recommendations in the White Paper to enhance and improve effective population health programs for employers, health plans, and other stakeholders. The White Paper is available as a benefit to members of the Population Health Alliance. Non-members may access an Executive Summary.

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Driving Quality through Population Health Management Strategies: An Overview of the PHA Framework & NCQA Accreditation Standards

SPEAKER:
Rose Maljanian
Chairman & CEO
HealthCAWS, Inc.

Board Chair
Population Health Alliance

Rose Maljanian, Chairman & CEO, HealthCAWS, Inc., and PHA Board Chair will lead with a discussion on driving quality through application of PHA’s Population Health Management Framework across the care continuum and across market segments. Patricia Barrett, Vice President, Product Design and Support, NCQA will do a deep dive into the newly released NCQA Population Health Management accreditation standards and their implications for improving the value of PHM across the healthcare ecosystem.

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A Care Management Guide: Moving Volume to Value

SPEAKER:
Diane Littlewood RN MSN CCM 
VP, Care Management and Practice Integration
The Care Centered Collaborative
at The Pennsylvania Medical Society

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Social Determinants of Health: Implications for Provider Value-Based Care Arrangements Webinar

SPEAKER:
Jaan Sidorov, MD
CEO and President
The Care Centered Collaborative
at The Pennsylvania Medical Society

Join PHA’s next webinar detailing the recent release of the White Paper, “Taking Action: Social Determinants of Health and Health Disparities,” examining the implications for provider value-based care arrangements.

The Population Health Alliance and its member organizations use best practices and recommendations in the White Paper to enhance and improve effective population health programs for employers, health plans, and other providers. The White Paper is available as a benefit to members of the Population Health Alliance.

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Healthcare’s Shifting Risk: The Implications for Physicians

SPEAKER:
Daniel Brooks
Senior Vice President
HealthEC

In this webinar, Daniel Brooks, Senior Vice President, HealthEC will review the rise of value-based purchasing and how the market has responded with consolidation and the entry of new players.  He will focus on the transition from “IDN” (integrated delivery systems) to “RBE” (risk-bearing entities) and how that has prompted the arrival of alternative arrangements for providers, such as clinically integrated networks (CINs).  Dan will provide insights on how providers can pursue success in this new market, how they will need to consider the pros and cons of “sponsorship alternatives” and carefully consider payer outreach strategies.

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Mr. Brooks currently serves as Senior Vice President at HealthEC, an international physician enablement and Population Health Platform provider. Dan has a long career serving the provider community, including as Vice President, Business Development at a multi-hospital health system, 20+ years healthcare management consulting, as Chief Strategy Officer at a Practice Management supplier, and as Executive Director of Medicare and Commercial ACOs.

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Employer Interest in Population Health Improvement: Opportunities (and Challenges) for Providers

SPEAKER:
Neil Goldfarb
President and CEO
Greater Philadelphia Business Coalition on Health

Mr. Neil Goldfarb is President and CEO of the Greater Philadelphia Business Coalition on Health, an employer-led non-profit organization established in 2012 with the mission of developing best practices for maintaining a healthy workforce, and ensuring that when healthcare is needed it is safe, high-quality, accessible and affordable. Mr. Goldfarb brings over 30 years of healthcare research and management experience to his Coalition leadership position.

As Associate Dean for Research in the Jefferson School of Population Health, he was responsible for developing and carrying out the School’s research agenda, focused on healthcare quality and value, and economic evaluation of healthcare technologies. Concurrently, Mr. Goldfarb served as Director of Ambulatory Care Performance Improvement for the Jefferson faculty practice plan. His previous positions include Executive Director of a quality improvement consulting and data collection firm, and Vice President of Health Services for the Philadelphia region’s first Medicaid managed care plan.

Mr. Goldfarb has authored over 60 articles in the peer-reviewed literature, focused on his interests in health and disease management, quality measurement and improvement, care for the underserved, and health economics and outcomes research. He has served as adjunct faculty for the Jefferson College of Pharmacy and University of the Sciences. Mr. Goldfarb is Chair of the Board of Governors of the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions (National Alliance), and founding co-Director of the National Alliance College for Value-based Purchasing of Health Benefits.

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Orthopedic Medicine and Excellence in Episodes of Care: The Rothman Institute’s Journey

SPEAKER:
Chris Vannello
Director of Quality
Rothman Institute

Chris Vannello is the Director of Quality at Rothman Institute in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. The Rothman Institute is one of the largest orthopedic practices in the country. Chris oversees all quality improvement initiatives internally, locally and nationally for the practice. She is responsible for the episode of care management as it relates to alternative payment models, monitoring of outcomes, the patient navigation process, MIPS and establishing and sustaining orthopedic centers of excellence with hospital partners. Chris sits on the Quality committee for the National Orthopedic Spine Alliance and is the co-leader for a national outcomes benchmarking group.

Before working at Rothman Institute Chris was a Director of Quality at Main Line Health Systems, Riddle Hospital in Media, Philadelphia. She was responsible for the overall hospital quality improvement initiatives including the stroke, chest pain and hip and knee replacement programs and certifications. She began her career as a nurse at Bryn Mawr Hospital in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.

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Activating Physician Leadership in Population Health

SPEAKERS:
William Faber, MD, MHCH
Managing Principal
Lumina Health Partners

Lucy Zielinski
Managing Partner
Lumina Health Partners

Moderator:
Jaan Sidorov, MD
CEO & President
The Care Centered Collaborative

Population Health demands strong physician leaders. Many physicians are taking on executive and leadership roles as the industry shifts to value-based care. For example, physicians are leading by creating strategies and executing plans to transform care delivery, managing clinically integrated networks and ACOs, and facilitating various work groups. These new roles require a new skillset.

In this seminar, we will discuss practical techniques to activate physician leadership. A roadmap to leadership effectiveness will be shared, as well as the top 5 leadership competencies physicians must master.

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Population Health Management (PHM) for the Practicing Provider

SPEAKER:
Rose Maljanian
Chairman & CEO
HealthCAWS, Inc.

Board Chair
Population Health Alliance

Rose Maljanian, Chairman & CEO, HealthCAWS, Inc., and PHA Board Chair will lead a discussion on driving quality through application of PHA’s Population Health Management Framework across the care continuum and across market segments. Patricia Barrett, Vice President, Product Design and Support, NCQA will do a deep dive into the newly released NCQA Population Health Management accreditation standards and their implications for improving the value of PHM across the healthcare ecosystem.

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The Provider Engagement in Population Health: Organized Medicine as a Catalyst

SPEAKER:
Jaan Sidorov, MD
CEO and President
The Care Centered Collaborative
at The Pennsylvania Medical Society

Jaan Sidorov, MD, CEO of the Care Centered Collaborative, will provide an update on the role that state medical societies can play in organizing networks of physicians to adopt population health in the pursuit of value-based health insurance contracts.  As the Triple Aim expands to include the 4th Aim of improving the work life of health care clinicians, stakeholders in population health are interested in leveraging independent community-based based physician as an additional resource.  This webinar will describe several “lessons learned” in this emerging area of health care, and how local medical societies can potentially partner with other organizations in arrangements that further expand the population health market.

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Six Strategies for Successful Physician Alignment

SPEAKERS:
Esther Nash, MD
Deloitte Consulting Specialist Executive
Deloitte Consulting LLP

Dorrie Guest
Consulting Managing Director
Deloitte Consulting LLP

MODERATOR:
Jaan Sidorov, MD
CEO and President
The Care Centered Collaborative at
The Pennsylvania Medical Society
and Population Health Alliance Provider Engagement Chair

As the healthcare system continues to rapidly evolve, physicians and hospitals are seeking approaches that help them better deliver affordable quality while simultaneously achieving their revenue objectives.  In this webinar, speakers will present results from a recent study by the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions and discuss six readily achievable alignment strategies that they’ve uncovered in the course of interviews with health system executives across the United States.  This webinar will focus on those strategies and how they can be deployed to meet providers’ preferences, leverage physician leadership, achieve actionable data insights, deploy financial incentives, maximize transparency and support optimal workflows.

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Pediatric Population Health: Of Offspring and Outcomes

SPEAKER:
Gregory Dean, MD
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Presenter:

John Haughton MD, MS
Chief Clinical Improvement Officer – Independent Health
Chief Innovation Officer – Chautauqua AMP (MSSP ACO)Dr. Haughton brings over 25 years of clinical experience and building and deploying population care workflow systems. He has an expertise in predictive modeling and is a member of the Population Health Alliance Board of Directors.

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Description:

The discussion will include the following topic areas and use Independent Health and the Chautauqua AMP experience as examples of use in clinical care today:

• Which patients and why (ID and stratification)
• What information and when it’s relevant (plan)
• What labor and shared care (intervene)
• What success (measure – population effectiveness)

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Nicole Alexander-Scott, MD, MPH
Director, Rhode Island Department of Health
President, Association of State and Territorial Health Officials

Nicole Alexander-Scott has been the director of the Rhode Island Department of Health since May 2015. She brings to this position tremendous experience from her work as a specialist in infectious diseases for children and adults at hospitals in Rhode Island affiliated with Brown University and at the Rhode Island Department of Health. Her clinical and academic responsibilities were balanced with serving as a consultant medical director for the Office of HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STDs, and TB in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology at the Rhode Island Department of Health. Alexander-Scott is board certified in pediatrics, internal medicine, pediatric infectious diseases, and adult infectious diseases. She obtained a Master of Public Health degree from Brown University in 2011. She is also an assistant professor of pediatrics and medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

Originally from Brooklyn, New York, Alexander-Scott attended Cornell University, majoring in human development and family studies, and subsequently graduated from medical school in 2001 from SUNY Upstate Medical University at Syracuse. After completing a combined internal medicine-pediatrics residency at SUNY Stony Brook University Hospital in 2005, Alexander-Scott finished a four-year combined fellowship in adult and pediatric infectious diseases at Brown in 2009.

Presenter:
Suzanne Mitchell, MD, MS
Founder, See Yourself Health LLC
Associate Professor, Family Medicine and Palliative Care
Boston Medical Center/ Boston University School of Medicine

A healthy lifestyle is an essential part of disease prevention, chronic disease management and population health. New technology solutions emerge each day designed to help people with lifestyle management. Yet few use scientific and evidence based strategies to make healthy lifestyle changes more achievable. This webinar will provide an overview of design, implementation and dissemination of the See Yourself Health platform – a novel educational platform targeting adults with chronic disease who are striving to make lifestyle changes. The program’s founder and lead scientific investigator, Dr. Suzanne Mitchell, will present early research findings and share how this novel approach is being used to help create communities of learning and change for patients with chronic disease.

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Presenter:
Ken Goldblum, MD
Chief Medical Officer
Tandigm Health

How can a network of high performing primary care practices work with an insurer to increase value for high risk populations? In this webinar, Tandigm’s Chief Medical Officer Ken Goldblum will describe this organization’s coordinated and regional approach to care southeast Pennsylvania that led to measurable increases in value.

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Presenter:
Dawn Tice RN, BSN, MBA
Division Vice President, Clinical Operations
Main Line Healthcare

Dawn Tice RN, BSN, MBA is the Division Vice President, Clinical Operations for Main Line Healthcare. Her presentation will examine how a regional health system successfully implemented a robust ambulatory quality strategy that included patient-centered practice transformation the implementation of centralized care management, and systemwide adoption of population management.

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Presenter:
Mary Jane Osmick, MD
Vice President & Medical Director
American Specialty Health

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Presenter:
Dr. Sanjay Seth
Chief Medical Informatics Officer, HealthEC

This webinar will review examples of how provider-led organizations have implemented population health management and value-based care solutions, lessons learned along the way, and how to leverage data for value-based contracting.

With over 30 years of clinical, administrative and consulting experience, Dr. Seth helps provider organizations transition to population health management, develop value-based care strategies, and engage in contract negotiations.

Dr. Seth has supported two physician groups in the formation of Accountable Care Organizations under the MSSP initiative, creating collaborative care coordination agreements and introducing technology and processes to manage ACO operations. He also established a payer supported Virtual Patient Centered Medical Home program for over 15,000 lives with care coordination and technology to comply with quality measures and utilization metrics.

Prior to joining HealthEC, he was a part of the turnaround team for Interfaith Medical Center, Newark Beth Israel Hospital Center at Orange and East Orange General Hospital, leading the implementation of complex hospital and physician clinical, financial, contractual and compensation relationships. Dr. Seth has also led numerous physician groups in their formation or re-structuring efforts including modification of billing systems, implementation of EMR’s and development of partnership agreements.

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Creating true “value” for patients, practices and payers requires a commitment to quality, total cost of care and understanding your entire patient population. Practices serving pediatric patients have unique challenges in the move from fee for service to value based payments. Explore ways in which even small, independent practices can transform the care they deliver to create high value and remain financially viable in the changing healthcare landscape.

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Rose Maljanian, PHA Board Chair, will lead with a discussion on driving quality through application of PHA’s Population Health Management Framework across the care continuum and across market segments. Patricia Barrett, Vice President, Product Design and Support, NCQA will do a deep dive into the NCQA Population Health Management accreditation standards and metrics.

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Presenter:
Dr. Randall Williams
Co-Founder, WellSaid.ai

In this unique learning opportunity, Dr Randy Williams, Co-Founder of WellSaid.ai will explore the potential for using voice-activated smart speakers in the home to better engage patients and coordinate patient care. WellSaid is currently leveraging the intuitive simplicity of Alexa voice technology to solve the challenges of Aging in Place for seniors and their loved ones. 

Audience participants will:

• Become familiar with the rapid adoption of voice activated smart speakers and applications;
• Understand how voice activated technologies can be leveraged by population health entities to better engage patients and support care coordination;
• Learn the critical path considerations for integrating voice activated technology models into your care management initiatives.

About the speaker:

Dr. Williams is a visionary and experienced physician executive, digital health pioneer and serial entrepreneur, board member, founder and CEO.  He brings a unique breadth of healthcare executive leadership, market facing and operational experience and clinical perspective. Following his medical training at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, as a heart failure and transplant cardiologist, he was recruited to Northwestern University in Chicago.  There he built one of the first nationally recognized chronic care programs for heart failure and the medical group IPA’s care management infrastructure. Dr. Williams has testified and advised the US Senate, Congressional Budget Office, and both the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations on healthcare delivery system reform. From 2004 to 2018 he was the founding CEO of Pharos Innovations, a pioneering digital health and patient engagement technology company, serving at risk provider systems, VA, Medicare and Medicaid payers. He previously served on the Population Health Alliance Board and Executive Committee and chaired the Government Affairs Committee 👍.

Randy is currently working on his second start-up company, WellSaid.ai, a first mover voice technology company in the Longevity market, solving the challenges of Aging in Place for seniors and their loved ones.

Presenters:
Dr. David Nace
Chief Medical Officer, Innovaccer
Board of Directors, Population Health Alliance
Dr. Paul Grundy
Chief Transformation Officer, Innovaccer

How does the focus on primary care change in the transformation to value? Watch PHA members Dr David Nace and Dr Paul Grundy of Innovaccer engage in an in-depth discussion on the major governing factors for primary care success in value-based settings. Created by Jaan Sidorov, MD – CEO, PA Clinical Network and PHA President-Elect as part of our ongoing Provider Engagement Webinar Series, this presentation will help primary-care physicians, their teams, and supporting technology partners to accelerate success in value while strengthening the patient-provider relationship.

Audience participants will:

• Understand why the transformation to value requires a significant focus on primary care
• Learn strategies PCP’s can use to take on more accountability for patients’ health & coordinate better care and find value in a healthy relationship between a physician and a patient
• Explore the role of technology in transforming the patient-provider relationship
• Hear about empowering patients to work with their primary care teams
• Consider the evolving role of primary care in the US healthcare

About the presenters:

Dr. David Nace is the Chief Medical Officer at Innovaccer and a physician executive with more than 3 decades of senior management experience across large health systems, insurer/payer sectors, employer benefit, pharmacy and healthcare technology enterprises. He has served as a VP of Population Health at McKesson Corporation, the Chairman of the Board at Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative, an SVP at the UnitedHealth Group, a VP & Chief Medical Officer at Aetna, and is a member of the Board of Directors at the Population Health Alliance.

Dr. Paul Grundy is the Chief Transformation Officer at Innovaccer and godfather of the Patient-Centered Medical Home revolution. He is the founding president of the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative and has served as a member of the IBM Industry Academy, Chief Medical Officer, and Global Director of Healthcare Transformation at IBM. Prior, Dr. Grundy was a senior diplomat of the rank of Minister-Counselor in the U.S. Department of State.

Presenters:
Dr. Jaan Sidorov
President & CEO, PA Clinical Network
President-Elect, Population Health Alliance

The Healthcare Effectiveness Data Information Set (HEDIS), the CMS STAR rating program, and the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPHS) each provide unique opportunities for providers and their practices to stand out and thrive in their risk-based models. However, one can get quickly overwhelmed in their efforts to maximize the value of these tools. In this month’s presentation of the Provider Engagement Webinar Series, Dr. Jaan Sidorov will help practitioners sift through the complexity of these tools and shed light on some of the best practices for harnessing these tools towards practice success.

About the presenter:

Dr. Jaan Sidorov is the CEO and President of the PA Clinical Network at the Pennsylvania Medical Society. He is a board certified general internal medicine physician with over 25 years of experience in primary care, inpatient care, medical education and evidence-based practice. Jaan believes physician leadership throughout the continuum of care is the bedrock of value-based care delivery.

In addition to authoring over 50 peer-reviewed scientific publications, has also written articles in nationally recognized journals examining the role of boards in oversight of non-financial healthcare outcomes, innovation, the role of physicians in corporate governance and big data. He’s been quoted in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Consumer Reports, and has appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered and public television’s Need to Know.

Dr. Sidorov received his Medical Degree from the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, and completed his internship and residency at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Hanover, New Hampshire. He also served as a Chief Resident, at Reading Hospital, Reading, Pennsylvania. He also serves as President-Elect at the Population Health Alliance and chairs the Provider Engagement Initiative.

Presenters:
Dr. Donney John, PharmD
Executive Director, NOVA Scripts Central

With nearly 80% of the United States living below 200% of the federal poverty line, the rising expense of health services can prove to be un-bearable for a large percentage of the populations we serve. The result of this increased financial strain is reduced access to health services and reduced ability to adhere to prescribed treatments. In the adoption of risk-based contracts, what tools can providers utilize to maintain prescription access and adherence for their patients facing financial strain? In this webinar, Dr Donney John from NOVA ScriptsCentral introduced charitable pharmacies and presented examples of the opportunities they can provide for population health management in your practice.

Viewers Will:

• Explore the critical value of “sustainability” when addressing the issue of medication access and adherence
• Identify how pharmacy services can empower patients and minimize their prescription burden
• Understand the role charitable pharmacies play in improving patient care within the safety-net

About the presenter:

Donney John, PharmD is the Executive Director of NOVA ScriptsCentral a non-profit pharmacy that provides life saving medications to uninsured patients in the Northern Virginia area. He is a practicing pharmacist, healthcare consultant, entrepreneur and patient advocate. Dr. John has considerable expertise in the areas of precision medicine, patient engagement, population health management, transition in care and mobile health technology solutions. He serves as a medical advisor for a variety of companies focused on health/wellness, patient engagement and medication adherence. Dr. John currently serves as the Co-Chair of Region III Mid-Atlantic Regional Health Equity Council (RHEC). He is also as the National Co-Chair for the Kaiser Permanente Research Bank National Community Advisory Board. In 2017, he was named as one of the 40 under 40 Thought Leaders in Health by the National Minority Quality Forum. Dr. John holds a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from St. John’s University in Queens, New York and has completed a pharmacy residency with Massachusetts College of Pharmacy & Health Services.

Presented By:
Dr. Sanne Magnan, MD, PhD
Senior Fellow, HealthPartners Institute
Co-chair, Roundtable on Population Health Improvement of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine

The book “Purchasing Population Health” (Kindig DA, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor) was published over 20 years ago with the assertion “that population health improvement will not be achieved until appropriate financial incentives are designed for this outcome.” Recently, Kindig and Magnan revisited its strategies (Popul Health Manag. 2019 Apr;22(2):91-92). This presentation will explore current thinking and invite audience participation for how to move the concept forward.

About the presenter:

Sanne Magnan, M.D., Ph.D., is a Senior Fellow at Health Partners Institute and the co-chair of the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.

She is the former President and CEO of the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI) (2006-2007; 2011-2016). In 2007, she was appointed Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Health by Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty. She served from 2007 to 2010 and had significant responsibility for implementation of Minnesota’s 2008 health reform legislation, including the Statewide Health Improvement Program (SHIP), standardized quality reporting, development of provider peer grouping, certification process for health care homes, and baskets of care.

Dr. Magnan was a staff physician at the Tuberculosis Clinic at St. Paul – Ramsey County Department of Public Health (2002-2015). She was a member of the Population-based Payment Model Workgroup of the Healthcare Payment Learning and Action Network (2015-2016) and a member of the CMS Multi-sector Collaboration Measure Development Technical Expert Panel (2016). She is on Epic’s Population Health Steering Board and on Healthy People 2030 Engagement Subcommittee.

Sanne has an MD and PhD in medicinal chemistry, from the University of Minnesota, where she also serves as Adjunct Assistant Professor.

Presented By:
Ned Laubacher
Principal, Health Spectrum Advisors

You will be amazed by the detailed pop health data you can identify, and then apply, through medical, pharmaceutical, and biometric benefits data. Gathered through employer health benefits, state medical assistance benefits programs, or other sources, claims data can be used for targeted analytics, such as:

• Correlate whether a current low-risk member is projected as a future high risk member
• Correlate whether a current low-cost claimant is projected to trigger stop loss spec threshold as a high-cost claimant
• Isolate members by primary chronic and co-morbid conditions, including all related medical and pharma incurred costs by site of care
• Trigger early-warning alert for members with a new diagnosis typically associated with a subsequent Specialty drug prescription

The purpose of targeted analytics such as these is for the Pop Health Provider to then apply these insights into targeted solutions which help support the individual member, their employer, their insurer, and systematically drive tangible improvement in the population’s health.

About the Presenter:

Ned Laubacher has spearheaded growth strategies and financial turnarounds throughout his healthcare career as both a CXO and strategic advisor to the C-team. His subject matter expertise in business analytics and financial risk strategies are the core of his consulting services through Health Spectrum Advisors. Ned’s current focus is a rapid bacterial diagnostic device capable of revolutionizing sepsis management, antimicrobial stewardship, and antibiotic therapy protocols across the globe. Ned holds dual masters’ degrees in business administration and public health as well as a bachelors’ degree in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Presented By:
Dirk Soenksen
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Ceresti Health

Learn how empowering family caregivers (e.g., spouses and adult children) can achieve the Triple Aim for the 30% of Medicare Advantage plan members that have a cognitive impairment (e.g., dementia) or complex care needs. These members incur 65% of all hospitalizations, and more than 80% of all potentially preventable hospitalizations (PPH). This PHA Member Showcase webinar will provide a claims-based rationale for why family caregiver empowerment can be a valuable supplemental benefit for your members and will highlight results from Ceresti’s technology/coaching program.

About the presenter:

Dirk Soenksen, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Ceresti is a strategic results-oriented healthcare executive with over 25 years experience. Prior to Ceresti, Mr. Soenksen founded venture-backed Aperio and served in the positions of President/CEO/Chairman until its acquisition by Danaher/Leica Biosystems in 2012. He built a winning team that established Aperio as the recognized global leader in digital pathology, with a staff of 200, a rich portfolio of patents, healthy and growing revenue, multiple FDA clearances, and an installed base of more than 1,000 systems in 35 countries. He earned his AB degree in Chemistry from Bowdoin College, MSEE from the University of Pennsylvania, and his MBA from Pepperdine University.

Presenters:
Audrey Sefakis, RN, BSN, CCM
Director of Care Management, Commercial Products at Tufts Health Plan
Caroline Carney, MS, RDN,
Vice President, Business Development at Good Measures

The growing prevalence of food-related medical conditions and chronic disease represents a tremendous and increasing cost to our society. Chronic diseases related to poor nutrition cost the United States over $1.7 trillion dollars each year through direct and indirect medical expenditures. Tufts Health Plan and Good Measures have partnered to create a population health based food-as-medicine solution that aims to reduce these conditions and curb the burden on the system.

Audience participants will:

• Learn about population health at Tufts Health Plan & Good Measures
• Understand how these two organizations’ four-year collaboration has brought a unique and effective solution to addressing social determinants of health related to food
• Discuss learnings from this collaboration that your organizations can leverage for your communities

About the presenters:

Audrey Sefakis is the Director of Case Management for Commercial Products at Tufts Health Plan in Massachusetts. She has been in the CM field for 22 years with expertise in contracting, utilization management, hospital, physician-based, post-acute, and insurance case management. Her nursing experience is in acute rehabilitation, pediatrics, community health, hospice, and leadership. Audrey currently serves on the Board of Case Management Society of New England as the MA Extension Chair.

Caroline Carney is a registered dietitian dedicated to helping people feel their best through good food by creating tools and environments that promote healthy living. Before joining Good Measures where she serves as Vice President of Business Development, Caroline worked in customer experience strategy at Forrester Research and web analytics at the online advertising agency, Digitas. Her time with The Full Yield included collaborating with pioneers in the food-based wellness space. Caroline holds a BA from Brown University and a Master’s degree in nutrition communication from Tufts University. She completed her training in nutrition at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Presenters:
Dr John Bulger
Chief Medical Officer, Geisinger Health Plan
Dr Ray Fabius
Co-Founder and President, HealthNEXT
Dr Jaan Sidorov
CEO & President, PA Clinical Network

Crises like the COVID-19 pandemic have the potential to upend even the most robust and deeply-invested population health management strategies. While unpredictable circumstances call for innovation and a willingness to be nimble, the uncertainty of the moment requires leadership to maintain progress toward ambitious goals for improved health outcomes at a more efficient investment. It has become clear that populations who are healthier handle this COVID 19 virus better. One of the tenets of population health is to elevate the health of all so that we all have greater capacity to fend off or heal when infected.

In this virtual learning opportunity, hear from some of the foremost leaders in population health strategies for employers, payers and providers about their perspectives on the COVID-19 response and take away lessons for meeting urgent need while maintaining the course for your population health targets.

This Webinar is hosted by the Population Health Alliance and presented by some of the scheduled presenters at the PHA Forum20 – Succeeding in Value Based Care: Leveraging Population Health Management Strategies http://www.populationhealthalliance.org/forum . While we wait with anticipation for their presentations on October 5th, you are invited to join us to hear their perspective on the current and developing crisis on March 30th, 2020.

About the presenters:

John Bulger is the Chief Medical Officer for Geisinger Health Plan. He is responsible for working with Geisinger and community providers to improve the quality of medical care for the patients and members they serve. Dr Bulger has held several positions within Geisinger Health System, including serving as Chief Quality Officer for four years. Dr Bulger earned his B.S. from Juniata College in Huntingdon, PA and his D.O. from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. He also holds and MBA from Pennsylvania State University.

Ray Fabius is the Co-Founder and President at HealthNEXT where he helps organizations increase the quality of their productive advantage without increasing costs. A global physician executive, Ray has served as a medical leader in academics, private practice, managed care, health insurance industry, e-Health, informatics, and the corporation-purchaser space. Dr Fabius is the author of several books and dozens of peer-reviewed articles on population health management and value-based health care. Dr Fabius is on the Board of Directors at the Population Health Alliance and serves as Co-Chair of the Program and Membership Committee.

Jaan Sidorov is the CEO and President of the PA Clinical Network at the Pennsylvania Medical Society. He is a board-certified general internal medicine physician with more than 25 years of experience in primary care, inpatient care, medical education and evidence-based practice. Jaan believes physician leadership throughout the continuum of care is the bedrock of value-based care delivery. Dr Sidorov received his medical degree from the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, and completed his internship and residency at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Hanover, New Hampshire. He also served as Chief Resident at Reading Hospital in Reading, PA and currently serves as President of the Population Health Alliance.

Presenters:
Jake Peltzman
Executive Director, Women & Children’s Health Alliance
Sita Kapoor
Chief Information Officer, HealthEC

Success in value-based contracting requires custom-built technology solutions that connect providers and payers to data from across the healthcare spectrum. In this presentation, Sita Kapoor, CIO at HealthEC and Jake Peltzman, Executive Director at the Women & Children’s Health Alliance, will describe how healthcare organizations are leveraging the power of data aggregation and analytics to improve interoperability, quality performance, and cost savings as the industry transitions from volume to value.

This Webinar is hosted by the Population Health Alliance and presented by some of the scheduled presenters at the PHA Forum20 – Succeeding in Value Based Care: Leveraging Population Health Management Strategies. While we wait with anticipation for their presentations on October 5th, you are invited to join us to hear about their partnership on April 16th, 2020.

About the presenters:

Jake Peltzman is an experienced physician practice and hospital administrator with a demonstrated history of working in the hospital & health care industry. He is entrepreneurial and professionally skilled in healthcare consulting, revenue cycle management, customer service, strategic planning, and business process improvement. Mr. Peltzman is passionate about improving health outcomes in the pediatric population and helping to sustain independent practice through the Women and Children’s Health Alliance. He holds an MBA from Rutgers and an MPH in Healthcare Policy from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.

Sita Kapoor is a healthcare IT entrepreneur and innovative leader directing HealthEC’s research and development team, applying mathematical and computing models in the custom development of large-scale data integration and analytics solutions that empower physicians and healthcare organizations to identify and engage at-risk patients requiring closer medical attention. Sita holds an MCS from the Stevens Institute of Technology in NJ.

Presenters:
William Appelgate, PhD, CPC
Executive Director & CEO, Iowa Chronic Care Consortium
Kathy Kunath, RN
Clinical Project Manager, Iowa Chronic Care Consoritum
Shelle Berg, RN
Population Health Nurse/Outpatient Care Coordinator/Clinical Health Coach, First Care Health Center

Healthcare reform comes in part from changing the system – quality, delivery and payment. However, to address the rising challenge of chronic conditions healthcare must find effective ways to prompt healthier behaviors. More than 31% of total healthcare costs are attributed to behaviorally influenced chronic conditions; 69% of total healthcare costs are influenced by consumer behaviors.

In population health, powerful opportunity springs from the capacity of individuals to build self-care skills, improve their health behaviors and accept accountability for health. For healthcare professionals, it is not about giving motivation for behavior change, but inspiring it. That is the role of effective health coaching.

Whether delivered in-person or through telehealth, a health coaching strategy addresses three powerful facts: 1) 98% of healthcare decisions take place outside of a provider office or clinic; 2) most care is self-care, from health promotion to care of chronic conditions; and, 3) individuals and their families are the greatest underutilized resource in healthcare. This knowledge is the foundation for health coaching as a breakthrough idea for transforming healthcare.

Dr. William Appelgate, Founder and President of the Clinical Health Coach, will lead this virtual presentation which will include practicing professionals actively utilizing a coaching approach. The webinar will describe the basic science behind coaching, explore how a coaching strategy works in practice and deliver examples of coaching impact on patient outcomes – clinical, financial, quality of life and patient experience.

The Clinical Health Coach is the leading coach training for professionals in the clinical settings having trained more than 4,000 healthcare staff in 45 states and several countries. The training emerged from the validated performance of the Iowa Chronic Care Consortium in successfully managing large populations of individuals with chronic conditions for health plans, Medicaid, health systems and clinics.

About the presenters:

William Appelgate, PhD, CPC

Bill is the Executive Director/CEO of the Iowa Chronic Care Consortium and Founder of the Clinical Health Coach® Training. He believes deeply that inspiring improved personal health behaviors is the change-the-world strategy required for the future of healthcare in America.

His professional work has included service as a director of a university research center (Illinois), college foundation director (California), college president (Iowa), C.E.O. of two comprehensive, innovative healthcare systems (Wisconsin and Iowa), as well as Vice President and Clinical Professor at Des Moines University, a graduate health sciences university and medical school.

The Iowa Chronic Care Consortium is a non-profit population health capacity building organization founded in 2002 with clients and trainees in 45 states. It has received national recognition for its particular skill in achieving dramatic clinical and cost outcomes through health behavior change with at-risk populations. This past year, ICCC launched a Professional Skills Training Program for Community Health Workers and one of the first in the nation Registered CHW Apprenticeship Programs.

Dr. Appelgate has a B.S. from Iowa State University, an M.A. from Loyola University of Chicago and a Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University. He is a Vietnam Era Veteran and a Certified Professional Coach.

Kathy Kunath, RN

Kathy has a personal mission of building healthier communities by serving as a catalyst for growth in both individuals and organizations. As a registered nurse her early professional years focused upon the care of critically ill patients. She managed a cardiac rehabilitation program for 13 years, led creative community health outreach programs, spearheaded a community health coalition to change tobacco policy, and coordinated local television shows highlighting innovative treatment options and lifestyle management programs for chronic diseases. She chaired a community-based initiative of the American Heart Association that published several local resource guides for healthy living and was a National Cardiovascular Health Leadership Fellow.

Kathy joined the Iowa Chronic Care Consortium in 2004 to assist the Consortium to support their innovative demonstration programs in population-based chronic disease management. In 2008, she served as the lead project facilitator of the innovative “Physician Office Health Coach Training Program.” She currently operates as the Training and Partner Relations Coordinator for the nationally recognized “Clinical Health Coach Training Program.” In her personal time, Kathy volunteers for a local Free Medical Clinic, providing health coaching services to underserved individuals in the region.

Shelle Berg, RN

Shelle has 35 year of nursing experience as an LPN and RN in a variety of patient care settings. Since 2016, she has overseen the ACO Programs that First Care Health Center participates in as the RN, ACO Care Coordinator/Population Health Nurse. This nursing leadership role has brought high value to First Care Health Center in Park River, North Dakota that she serves. She is deeply committed to providing sustainable outreach to patients to overcome barriers, provided resources and inspire patients to create their own patient-centered self-care management goals.

Shelle is very grateful to be a member of the FCHC administrative leadership which actively supports team-based care and consistently prompts provider clinical teams to stretch performance to the highest standards of health care. First Care Health Center received the 2019 Blue Alliance Innovator Award, 2019 Top 20 Critical Access Hospitals in the Nation patient satisfaction recognition and achieved NCQA 2019 Patient-Centered Medical Home Recognition. In 2019, Caravan Health Accountable Care Organization honored Shelle with the Pioneer Award for Most-Valuable Care Coordinator in the U.S.

Presenters:
Fred Rahmanian
Chief Analytics and Technology Officer, Geneia
Shelley Riser
Vice President of Consulting Services and Clinical Innovations, Geneia

Models created using artificial intelligence (AI) are increasingly being used by physicians, hospital and health plans to predict and prevent unnecessary exacerbations of chronic illness. In this webinar, Geneia Chief Analytics and Technology Officer Fred Rahmanian will discuss how these models are developed and review models such as one that predicts which type 2 diabetes patients will experience a diabetes-related complication in the next 12 months, another that predicts which heart failure patients will have a complication(s) and a third that identifies patients at high risk for severe COVID-19 impacts. Geneia’s Vice President, Consulting Services and Clinical Innovations Shelley Riser will share best practices for putting analytic models into population health practice. She’ll also discuss how she and her team are using a hypertension model to create a more effective, care management program.

About the presenters:

Fred Rahmanian is Geneia’s Chief Analytics and Technology Officer. He brings more than 20 years of experience as a healthcare data scientist and software architect and a track record of building applications that integrate diverse data sources to solve the most sophisticated problems in healthcare. Most recently, he was principal data scientist at IBM Watson Health. He also held leadership roles at KPMG and Siemens Healthcare. Rahmanian has been awarded patents for his work to improve patient data; two are granted and three are pending.

Shelley Riser is Geneia’s Vice President of Consulting Services and Clinical Innovations. She is responsible for clinical strategy, oversight of consumer outreach and engagement programs, and professional advisory services. Shelley has nearly 30 years of experience in healthcare with expertise in population health, executive management, behavioral health, care and service delivery, operations, practice management and program/product development.

Presenters:
Lori Sieboldt, MD, CHCQM-PHYADV
Medical Director, Population Health at Deaconess Health System
Shelly Evans
Post Acute Services Manager, Deaconess Health System
Sean Mullins
COO, Olio Health

Learn how one regional health system engaged a broad network of nursing homes to support their most vulnerable patient populations. This presentation and discussion by Deaconess Health System’s Lori Sieboldt, MD, Medical Director Care Integration and Population Health and Shelly Evans, Manager of Post-Acute Services describes how their teams use Olio technology & data, built onto their team’s best practices to get meaningful engagement from post-acute teams on value-based efforts before, during, and (hopefully) after COVID-19.

About Deaconess Health System:
Founded in 1892, Deaconess Health System is the premier provider of health care services to 26 counties in three states (IN, IL, and KY). The system consists of seven hospitals located in southern Indiana. Deaconess Clinic, a fully integrated multi-specialty group featuring primary care physicians as well as top specialty doctors, provides patients with consistent and convenient care. Additional components include a freestanding Cancer Center, Urgent Care facilities, a network of preferred hospitals and doctors, more than 30 care sites, and multiple partnerships with other regional health care providers. Learn more at www.Deaconess.com

About Olio Health:
Olio started as a consulting firm aimed at improving collaboration between acute and post-acute providers. After saving providers millions and improving clinical outcomes through post-acute differentiation, it was clear the market needed an easy, scalable way to solve the collaboration puzzle in the post-acute episode of care. That’s why Olio created the first-to-market digital collaboration platform of its kind. Learn more at olio.health

Presented By:
Mayur Yermaneni
Chief Growth and Strategy Officer, eQHealth Solutions

Learn how eQHealth Solutions’ unique approach to Population Health Management helps organizations eliminate niche’ and disjointed solutions and become more effective with their population health initiatives. Utilizing their comprehensive technology and community-based services for optimization of whole person health and organizational health, eQHealth has proven to support organizations reduce unnecessary spending, decrease operational costs, create healthier members and improve clinical effectiveness. Their innovative technology features AI and machine learning that has been built around their extensive clinical foundation.

About eQHealth Solutions:

eQHealth Solutions is improving the health and well-being of individuals and communities they serve through the industry’s most comprehensive, innovative, and integrated technology platform by providing excellence in IT and setting the industry standard for compassionate clinical care. We are committed to delivering unparalleled financial and operational outcomes and unrivaled quality that enable us to positively impact the future health of our clients’ business and ultimately, the value of healthcare as a whole. eQHealth serves a variety of entities including federal, state and commercial payers and other at-risk organizations.

About the Presenter:

MAYUR YERMANENI, Chief Growth and Strategy Officer
Thought Leader in Innovative Population Healthcare Analytics

Having over 20 years of experience in the public and private health services industry, Mayur Yermaneni is responsible for the vision and strategic direction of eQHealth Solutions and the continued development of eQHealth’s product and service lines while ensuring alignment with established corporate goals.

Yermaneni designed and developed eQHealth’s current medical management services model and is also responsible for its end-to-end management. As chief business developer, he led the growth of eQHealth Solutions from $15m to approximately $50m in revenue and expanded its footprint from 8 states to 45. Yermaneni also led the acquisition of a key contract with the state of Vermont resulting in eQHealth achieving the first CMS certified care management system in the United States.

Yermaneni earned a M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Akron and MBA from Kellogg School of Business, Northwestern University.** He also holds over 40 intellectual and property medical device patents.

** Expected 2020

Presented By:
Dr. Ronald Harris
Population Health Management Consultant

With the epidemic of obesity, aging population, burgeoning health care disparities and steady growth in health care related spending, diabetes represents a chronic disease affecting over 30 million Americans. As diabetes continues to effect larger portions of the US and global populations, effective health care approaches that address diabetes at the population level are urgently needed.
This PHA webinar will discuss how a population based care can be applied to the management of diabetes. Attendees of this unique educational offering will:

• learn how to address the growing prevalence of diabetes and the financial impact it has on the United States health care landscape
• understand the elements of success in implementation of population health management for patients with diabetes
• see examples of how population based care can be applied to the management of diabetes

About the Presenter:

Dr. Harris has 40 years of clinical experience and a tireless passion for the study of endocrinology and, in particular, diabetes. He served as Clinical Program Director, Diabetes, Geisinger Health Plan where he was responsible for setting the quality agenda for diabetes. This led to the first application for multi-site recognition for over 450 primary care physicians for NCQA’s Diabetes Provider Recognition Program. Nationally, he has served on NCQA’s Diabetes Provider Recognition Committee, Performance Measurement Committee, Clinical Program Committee. He previously served as a member of the Endocrine Society’s Quality Improvement as well as Health Care Delivery System Sub-Committees and representative to CMS’s Macra Episode-Based Resource Use Measures- Clinical Committee.

His research has involved motivational interviewing and medication adherence in high risk patients with diabetes, longitudinal cohorts and comparative effectiveness research utilizing rich data in electronic health records, genetics of latent autoimmune diabetes, novel drugs in the treatment of diabetes and e-Diabetes integrating shared decision making with patient preferences.

He received his medical degree from Tulane University School of Medicine, internal medicine internship Philadelphia General Hospital University of Pennsylvania, residency Boston VA, Jamaica Plains. He completed his endocrinology fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania.

Presented By:
Jason Cooper
Senior Vice President and Chief Analytics Officer of Population Health Management at HMS

With the COVID-19 situation changing by the day, how can healthcare organizations stay agile enough to leverage ever-changing insights to inform their population health strategy and operational models? This starts with transforming data into actionable insights via advanced, agile analytics which enable nimble product and solutions pivots.

Join Population Health Alliance board member and HMS’ chief analytics officer Jason Cooper on Monday, August 31 at 12 PM ET for a deep dive into how to translate COVID-19 analytics from research to operations in order to achieve all aspects of the triple aim.
This PHA webinar will discuss how a population based care can be applied to the management of diabetes.

In this webinar, we’ll share:

• Learnings from advanced analyses of claims and social determinants of health data and the impact of COVID-19
• How to operationalize COVID-19 analyses and predictive modeling
• An overview of how an integrated approach to population health management can help identify and address hidden and rising risk in vulnerable populations/li>

About the Presenter:

Jason Cooper is Senior Vice President and Chief Analytics Officer of Population Health Management at HMS (NASDAQ: HMSY), a leading provider of coordination of benefits, payment integrity and population health management solutions. Jason has more than 20 years of experience in healthcare data, analytics, informatics and technology having held executive leadership roles at Blue plans, Cigna and CVS Health. He serves on the board of directors for the Population Health Alliance (PHA) and holds a master’s degree in computer science from West Virginia University and a master’s degree in biomedical engineering from Duke University.

Presented By:
Chris McReynolds
CEO, Wellsource
Natalie Mueller
Senior Product Development Manager, NCQA
Sarah Emanuel
Manager, Wellness Services, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska

Today’s population health professionals have access to more data than ever before to help guide effective, engaging healthy lifestyle interventions. But where do you start, and how can you ensure you have quality data? As technology advances, gathering personalized data is the key to more targeted intervention programs that can increase engagement and improve health outcomes. When it comes to collecting data, garbage data in, garbage data out.

This webinar will explore the importance of quality metrics for self-reported data collection using an health risk assessment, and the ways the data can be used to inform a more effective population health program.

Join in the conversation as this panel of industry practitioners discusses what makes for quality population health data – and how to best put it to use in population health programs.

During this webinar, attendees will hear:

• Tips to ensure you are collecting and using quality self-reported health and lifestyle data
• About standardization efforts across quality measures — and how they promote a comprehensive, effective population health strategy
• Firsthand accounts of quality improvement strategies, and how your technology vendors can be your best partners when it comes to creating quality programs
• An overview of quality measures and program recommendations from health plan accreditation body NCQA

Post webinar follow up materials we will send out:

• Checklist – evaluating an HRA

About The Presenters:
Chris McReynolds, CEO at Wellsource, joined the Wellsource team in 2012, and became CEO in 2016. Joining a company with over 40 years of history in health risk assessments, Chris brings a vision of the future and values his role as a leader of a team of excellent, highly engaged employees who work well together to make that vision a reality. Today, Wellsource harnesses the power of technology to create scientific, evidence-based health risk assessment solutions and wellness tools that deliver actionable data so health and wellness professionals can achieve better outcomes.

Natalie Mueller is a Senior Product Development Manager and has been with NCQA since 2015. In this role, she updates existing accreditation products and creates new accreditation and certification products to meet market and customer needs. She currently leads the Population Health Management project, which included transforming NCQA’s flagship product, Health Plan Accreditation, from single-condition management towards a population health-based approach that focuses on whole-person care. This work included creating two new products, Population Health Program Accreditation and Population Health Management Prevalidation for other organizations that support population health management. She attended Penn State University where she received her Bachelor of Science in Nutritional Science and the University of Pittsburgh for her Master in Public Health.

Sarah Emanuel is the manager of wellness services at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska (BCBSNE). In her role, Emanuel leads internal and external wellness initiatives and develops solutions that support the health and well-being of BCBSNE members.

Presented By:
Marcella Wilson, PhD
CEO & Founder, Transition to Success
Mary Jane Osmick, MD
Physician and Clinical Consultant
Mitchell A. Kaminski, MD, MBA
Program Director, Population Health, Jefferson College of Population Health

More than a decade ago, Dr. Marcella Wilson took over a failing charity, and recognized two frequently opposing paradigms for addressing poverty: everyone had good intentions, but a “character flaw” mentality infused their efforts. Unlike other public health challenges, there was lack of a “science of poverty.” Join us for a joint presentation with Drs. Wilson, Osmick, and Kaminski about the evolving science of poverty, and how that knowledge can be applied to address poverty as a core social determinant of health to strive for healthier populations.

About The Presenters:
Marcella Wilson, Ph.D has more than 30 years of extensive experience in healthcare administration, not-for-profit management, behavioral health, criminal justice and public sector programming.

Her life’s work is dedicated to developing a national standard of care that changes the paradigm of understanding and response to the condition of poverty as a treatable condition, not a character flaw. This is the model for Transition to Success.

Currently an appointee of Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, serving on the Commission on Community Action and Economic Opportunity, Dr. Wilson also serves on the Michigan 211 Board of Directors. She served as a Fellow for the National Alliance for Children and Families; the Long Term Planning co-chair for Detroit Area Agency on Aging; a member of Wayne State University President’s Advisory; and a member of the Detroit City Council Returning Citizen Task Force. Dr. Wilson has received numerous honors including the 2015 Distinguished Alumni by University of Michigan School of Social Work, the Spirit of Detroit Award, and the Henry Ford Health System Health Education Achievement and Leadership Award. She received an Emmy Award as the creator and executive producer of “WATRUFIGHTN4?” a video and website promoting social activism.

As President/CEO for Matrix Human Services, 2006-2016, Dr. Wilson’s work and research focused on developing a national standard of care to treat the condition of poverty. Her work has been showcased on CBS Evening News and The New York Times and is recognized as a Clinton Global Initiative.

Dr. Wilson, a University of Michigan alumnus, holds degrees in psychology, sociology, a Master’s degree in Social Work and a Ph.D. in Health and Higher Education Administration.

Dr. Marcella Wilson and TTS have garnered much local and national attention. Dr. Wilson receive the 2017 Women of Impact Award from Focus on Women Magazine and a State of Maryland Governor’s Citation.

Mary Jane Osmick, MD is a board-certified internal medicine physician executive with extensive experience leading organizations in health care delivery. She practiced for 17 years as a primary care, general internist, served as a senior medical leader of a 150-employed physician network, as medical director for regional and national health insurers, and clinical leader for vendor organizations focusing on managing the health and well-being of employer populations. MJ currently focuses on clinical advisory and consultant roles with the goal of building organizational capacity to integrate social determinants into the fabric of population health management programs. With other population health experts, she currently teaches a focus on social determinants of health at Thomas Jefferson University, College of Population Health in a program entitled “Population Health Academy – Essentials.”

Mitchell A. Kaminski, MD, MBA is a family physician who has combined clinical practice and teaching with a career in healthcare leadership that has included private groups, hospital systems, and academic institutions. Prior to joining the Jefferson College of Population Health, he served as Chief Clinical Officer at the Delaware Valley ACO, helping to develop the clinical strategy and teams in one of the largest ACOs in the country. He has continued to care for patients part-time, most recently at the Jefferson Department of Family and Community Medicine. He embraces the complex challenges of our transforming national and regional healthcare systems, and continues to bring front-line perspectives to his leadership positions.

Since joining the Jefferson College of Population Health in August 2018, Dr. Kaminski has led enhancement of the College curriculum to include greater emphasis on value-based care, population health management, and an increasing focus on the social determinants of health. He speaks to diverse groups on population health topics, value-based care, and physician leadership.

Dr. Kaminski also enjoys working in collaboration with NAVVIS in a joint mission to promote successful transformation of health care to meet the population health needs of today’s patients…and tomorrow’s.

Presented By:
David Claud, MD, PhD
Chief Medical Officer, BenefitsDoc

Organizations spend too much on healthcare that too often does little for its members. Quality and cost improvement in healthcare is occurring too slowly. Onsite clinics provide a useful mechanism for healthcare purchasers to more effectively use their purchasing power to improve healthcare, but they must be able to differentiate quality.
In this PHA Provider Engagement Webinar, participants will learn:

• A practical, working definition of Quality Healthcare that customers and providers can use to evaluate quality of healthcare.
• How markets respond to information asymmetry between the customer and the supplier, and how to reduce this asymmetry.
• Fundamental aspects of healthcare quality that are not readily evaluated by standard healthcare quality measures.

About the Presenter:

Dr. Claud founded BenefitsDoc to help organizations evaluate and improve the performance of their onsite health clinic team so their members can receive the highest quality of care. David has spent more than a decade helping self-insured employers, municipalities, and unions gain more from their healthcare purchase while serving as a National Medical Director at Optum and as a Chief Medical Officer of Activate Healthcare. He has a deep understanding of tools healthcare purchaser can use to improve their beneficiaries’ healthcare experience. Recent accomplishments include serving as Activate Healthcare’s first full-time CMO, helping the Onsite Clinic provider earn recognition from KLAS in 2019 as the Top Performing Worksite Health Services Vendor. He holds certifications from the Validation Institute, Johns Hopkins Medicine Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, and the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He is a recovering marathoner who is morphing into an urban bicyclist.

Presented By:
Beth Frates, MD
Lifestyle Medicine Specialist
Part-Time Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
President Elect, American College of Lifestyle Medicine

Health is critically important for patients and employees who are also health care providers themselves. Studies have also shown that when a provider “practices what they preach” their patients are more likely to heed treatment recommendations.
In this PHA member showcase webinar, Lifestyle Medicine Specialist Beth Frates, MD will:

• Discuss the six pillars of Lifestyle Medicine
• Highlight the roles of each pillar for a healthy body and mind
• Identify actionable tips for incorporating more exercise, improve nutrition, stress resiliency, sounds sleep and social connection into daily life

About the Presenter:

Beth Frates, MD, is trained as a physiatrist and a health and wellness coach. Her expertise is in lifestyle medicine, and she works to empower patients to reach their optimal level of wellness by adopting healthy habits.

At Harvard Medical School, Beth created the first Lifestyle Medicine Interest Group in 2008, which is still thriving today. She is an award-winning teacher at Harvard Medical School, where she is an assistant clinical professor, and she developed and taught a college lifestyle medicine curriculum at the Harvard Extension School, which is one of the most popular courses offered at the school. She shared a lifestyle medicine syllabus, which can be downloaded through the ACLM website, in hopes that her work can serve as a template for other instructors and professors hoping to teach a course in lifestyle medicine. In addition, Dr. Frates shared her PowerPoints and curriculum in lifestyle medicine and co-created a LM Curriculum 101 which is free and accessible through the ACLM website.

As the Director of Wellness Programming at the Stroke Institute for Research and Recovery at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Dr. Frates has created and implemented a 12 Step wellness program, PAVING the Path to Wellness™ for patients and providers alike. As the Director of Lifestyle Medicine and Wellness for the Department of Surgery at Mass General Hospital, Dr. Frates is well versed in physician wellbeing programing.

Dr. Frates is co-author of the book Life After Stroke: The Guide to Recovering Your Health and Preventing Another Stroke and co-author of three chapters on behavior change in different medical textbooks. Recently, she co-authored The Lifestyle Medicine Handbook: An Introduction to the Power of Healthy Habits which was ranked in the top 20 by Book Authority for medical book released in 2018. In August of 2020, Dr. Frates was voted President of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine.

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Presented By:
Jan Berger, MD
CEO, Health Intelligence Partners
Clinical Advisory Board Member, DayTwo

With COVID-19 straining budgets and shining a light on low value programs, employers are looking to eliminate waste and redeploy resources to high value initiatives. When it comes to metabolic disease, including diabetes, new interventions such as precision nutrition are redefining outcomes and replacing low value programs. Learn how your organization can focus on identifying, eliminating and redeploying low value resources toward higher value programs and sustainable outcomes.

Presented by Dr Jan Berger, a tri-sector healthcare executive with over 30 years of experience with CVS Health, Mid-West Business Group on Health, and Health Intelligence Partners, this PHA Member Showcase Webinar will present:

• How to identify low value care for metabolic disease
• Why not all diabetes medications are equal
• A focus on the cost and complexity of insulin
• How precision nutrition changes the cost-value equation at the individualized-care level
• Why 360 care is crucial to successful outcomes

About the Presenter:

Jan Berger, MD is a tri-sector healthcare executive that has proven results as a senior executive in the three sectors of private, public and government services over the last 30 years. In 2009 Jan founded Health Intelligence Partners as a health care consultancy that blends more than thirty years of business and clinical experience. Health Intelligence Partners has a global focus (engagements in 14 countries with both Health Organizations and National Ministries of Health), working with clients on areas of growth including short-term and long-term business strategies and solutions. Health Intelligence Partners helps clients to navigate intersection of strategy and operations within both the healthcare and consumer goods and services environment in order to identify and articulate value opportunities.

Prior to founding Health Intelligence Partners, Jan served as Senior Vice President, Chief Clinical Officer and Innovation Officer for CVS Health/Caremark. During that time, she was a corporate officer and on the executive team with P & L (500 million-dollar business unit), operations and strategic experience. Jan also lead Caremark’s Medicare Part D development and was the clinical lead for CVS Caremark’s M & A activity. During this time, Jan developed an expertise in both healthcare and retail consumer behavior. Before going to CVS Caremark, Jan had 15 years’ experience in healthcare administration within the health plan and academic arenas and lead operations for two population health companies.

As a veteran healthcare executive, Jan’s leadership has delivered results in a variety of settings. Jan offers her experiences and insights through her consulting agency as well as through her participation on healthcare and consumer product boards. She presently sits on healthcare focused boards including), GNS Healthcare (Vice Chair of the Board, Chair; Governance/Compensation/Nomination Committee, M&A/Strategy Committee), Cambia Health Solutions (Consumer Engagement Platform Committee, Health Services Committee), Tabula Rasa (Nominations, Compensation, Governance), UCB Pharmaceuticals and Voluntis Health Care (Chair, M&A/Strategy Committee). Jan’s consumer focused boards have included Savor Health, Care Heroes and Whiskerdocs. Jan previous board experience includes; Care Core National (Committees: Audit and Finance Committee, Compensation, Search, M&A and Strategic Directions), AccentCare (Chair; Compliance Committee, Compensation Committee), Qliance and Rx-Ante. She also sits on numerous business and healthcare advisory boards.

As the author of the books “Leveraging Health”, “Thirteen Common Pitfalls in Consumer Engagement”, “We Don’t Talk Anymore: A Consumer’s Guide to Connecting with their Doctor” and “Medical Liability for Pediatricians”, the past Editor in Chief of American Journal of Pharmacy Benefit and on the editorial boards of a number of healthcare journals, Jan is considered a national health care thought leader. Jan speaks and writes on a broad range of health care and pharmaceutical services issues.

Jan holds both a Doctor of Medicine degree and a master’s degree in jurisprudence from Loyola University in Chicago, and a Certificate in Healthcare Business Administration from University of South Florida. She also holds a black belt in Six Sigma. Jan is an assistant professor at Northwestern University School of Medicine and School of Communication in Chicago, Illinois where she teaches the Engaging the Consumer in Health course.

Presenters:
Michael Abramoff, MD, PhD
Founder and Executive Chairman, Digital Diagnostics
Seth Rainford, MBA
President & COO, Digital Diagnostics

Autonomous AI and Trust: The Path Towards Patient Centric AI from Population Health Alliance on Vimeo.

Join PHA on Wednesday March 17th to hear from members Michael Abramoff, MD, PhD and Seth Rainford, MBA of Digital Diagnostics on the use of autonomous AI in healthcare. They will discuss a specific use case for diabetic retinopathy, the important ethical principles established for developing AI in healthcare, the state of autonomous AI reimbursement, and where the future is headed.

In this PHA Member Showcase Webinar attendees will learn about:

• An application of autonomous AI for diabetic retinopathy and skin concerns
• The ethical principles and liability of autonomous AI in healthcare
• The state of payment and reimbursement for autonomous AI
• How autonomous AI drives value in the healthcare system



About the presenters:

Michael D. Abramoff, MD, PhD, Fellow, IEEE, is a neuroscientist, computer engineer and fellowship-trained retina specialist. He is founder and executive chairman of Digital Diagnostics, Inc., the first company ever to receive FDA clearance for an autonomous AI diagnostic system. As the Watzke Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Iowa, he has authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications, inventor on 17 issued patents, and has been cited over 35,000 times. As the expert on AI in healthcare, and AI ethics, he has briefed the US Congress, the White House, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and chairs the Foundational Principles of Ophthalmic Imaging Algorithmic Interpretation workgroup, originally instituted by FDA.

Seth Rainford brings more than a decade of executive experience to Digital Diagnostics, most recently serving as Regional Vice President & General Manager of LabCorp Diagnostics in the Midwest. Previously, he served as Vice President at Northwestern Medicine, where he drove the commercialization and scaling of their diagnostics business.