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October 28th, 2010
1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Eastern (10:00 - 11:30 a.m.
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Geisinger and BCBS of Rhode Island Models for
Success
Live Webinar,
Plus Pre-Recorded Sessions & 3 Months Free Med
Home News
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Medical Home case experience from an integrated health
system & Blue Cross Blue Shield plan perspective
Topics include practice design, value care systems,
outcomes reporting, EHRs & new payment approaches
Chronic care management & Identifying High Risk Patients
in the medical home setting using analytics
Plus
Pre-Recorded Presentations on:
A Friendly Devil's Advocate POV;
Safety Net Hospital Medical Home
Strategies; Understanding AAAHC
Medical Home Accreditation; and Analytics for Decision
Support |
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Webinar Faculty:
Diane Littlewood, Regional Manager-Health
Navigator, Geisinger
Joann Sciandra, Regional Manager-Health
Navigator, Geisinger
Swati Abbott, President, MEDai
Andrea Galgay, Director of Practice Innovation,
BCBS Rhode Island
Raymond Carter, Editor, Medical Home News
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Pre-Recorded
Presentation Faculty:
Vince Kuraitis, Principal, Better Health Technologies, LLC
Brian Klepper, PhD, Principal, Healthcare Performance Inc.
Kathryn Swink, MPH Research Associate, NAPH
Sam JW Romeo, MD, MBA, Tower Health & Wellness Shahram
Ebadollahi, Ph.D, IBM
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Diane Littlewood
RN, BSN, CDE
Regional Manager-Health Navigator
Geisinger Health Plan
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Diane Littlewood RN, BSN, CDE, is a Regional manager for nurse case
managers with the ProvenHealth NavigatorSM program with
Geisinger Health Plan. In her role, she is responsible for the start up
and maintenance of the medical home program for those sites enrolled in
the program in the north central region. She also serves as a liaison
between the Geisinger Health Plan and Geisinger Community Practice.
Ms. Littlewood received her Bachelors of Science in Nursing from
Misericordia University and is a Certified Diabetes Educator and
Certified Tobacco Cessation Counselor. Her experience includes medical
surgical nursing as well as oncology, cardiology, gastroenterology, and
ob/gyn. More recently, she has been involved in case and care management
as a case manager, preceptor, and team leader in care coordination.
Ms. Littlewood is president of the Danville chapter of CMSA and is
involved in community education programs as well as educational programs
for case management staff.
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Joann Sciandra
RN, BSN, CCM
Regional Manager-Health Navigator
Geisinger Health Plan
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Joann Sciandra RN, BSN, CCM, is a Regional manager for nurse case
managers with the ProvenHealth Navigator SM program with Geisinger
Health Plan. In her role, she is responsible for the start up and
maintenance of the medical home program for those sites enrolled in the
program in the eastern region. She also serves as a liaison between the
Geisinger Health Plan and Geisinger Community Practice.
Ms. Sciandra received her Bachelors of Science in Nursing from Wilkes
University and is a Certified Case Manager. Her experience includes
nursing practice in the intensive care unit as well as geriatric clinic
coordinator. More recently, she has been involved in case and care
management as a case manager, preceptor, and team leader in care
coordination.
Ms. Sciandra is a member of the CMSA and involved in community education
programs as well as educational programs for case management staff.
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Swati Abbott
President
MEDai
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Ms. Abbott is President of MEDai, Inc., an Elsevier
Clinical Decision Support company, and the industry leader
in predictive analytics. As President, Ms. Abbott provides
leadership to position the company at the forefront of the
healthcare industry. Ms. Abbott’s oversight of strategic
plans advance the company's mission and objectives, to
promote revenue, profitability and growth as an
organization. Prior to her role as President, Swati served
as MEDai’s Senior Vice President. As Senior Vice President,
she was responsible for establishing key alliances that
enabled remarkable growth, enhanced capabilities and
industry recognition. Through focused product development
and joint marketing ventures, Ms. Abbott has ensured that
MEDai solutions meet the critical needs of their clients,
including providers, hospitals/IDNs, payers, and IPAs.
During her tenure at MEDai she has become a regular speaker
in the predictive modeling/care management circuit. Ms
Abbott is also on the Editorial Board for Predictive
Modeling magazine, and is a regular contributor to content.
Ms. Abbott first joined MEDai as Vice President of Business
Development in 2004, bringing with her a decade of expertise
in healthcare analytics software in the provider and payer
market segments. As a respected industry leader, Swati has
been quoted in several industry publications regarding the
use and future of predictive analytics, the state of
healthcare data and quality improvement initiatives. She has
presented topics related to predictive modeling, medical
home and healthcare analytics at many industry conferences
across the US each year. Prior to MEDai Ms. Abbott was
Managing Director for the Medical Management Strategic
Business Unit at ViPS, Ms. Abbott provided leadership for
the development of strategic solutions for the healthcare
payer clients for medical management data warehousing and
HEDIS reporting. She also held the title of Director,
Product Management, Services and IT of HealthObjects
Corporation in Baltimore, MD. As a startup company her role
at HealthObjects focused on working with beta customers,
managing product releases, and identifying problems/gaps
with the product and proactively resolving them. Ms Abbott
was also involved in leading SoftMed Systems, Inc,, to
create and provide solutions for hospitals and IDNs in the
key areas of medical chart abstraction, QA, UM, Risk
Management, and regulatory reporting. Ms. Abbott holds a
M.S. in Computer Science and a B. S. in Physics from Delhi
University.
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Andrea Galgay, Director of Practice Innovation
Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island
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As Director of Practice Innovation within
the Provider Relations division at Blue Cross & Blue Shield
of Rhode Island,Andrea plays an integral role in formulating
the plan’s Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) strategy,
including the development of its PCMH design and roll out to
primary care practices.
In addition to overseeing transformation efforts
pertaining to PCMH, Andrea’s team is also involved in
promoting the ‘meaningful use’ of Electronic Health Records
through the development of programs which provide support,
both financially and in kind.
Andrea received her Bachelor’s degree from Providence
College and MBA from Bryant University. In addition to
working at BCBSRI, Andrea also serves as a Special Lecturer
at Providence College. Andrea is a lifelong Rhode Islander
and resides there with her husband and two daughters.
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Vince Kuraitis
Principal
Better Health Technologies, LLC
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Vince Kuraitis JD, MBA is Principal and
founder of Better Health Technologies, LLC. BHT consults to
companies in developing strategy, partnerships and business
models for chronic disease management and eHealth
applications delivered in homes, workplaces, and
communities. BHT’s clients — both established organizations
and early-stage companies — include: Intel Digital Health
Group, Philips Electronics, Amedisys, Joslin Diabetes
Center, Ascension Health System, Samsung Electronics,
Siemens Medical Solutions, Medtronic, Varian Medical
Systems, Disease Management Association of America, and many
others.
Vince brings 25 years health care experience in multiple
roles: President, VP Corporate Development, VP operations,
management consultant, and marketing executive. His
consulting and work projects span 100+ different health care
organizations, including hospitals, physician groups,
medical devices, pharma, health plans, disease management,
e-Health, IT, and others. Vince speaks frequently at
industry conferences and corporate events. He has been the
opening keynote speaker at the Healthcare Unbound
conferences between 2004 and 2010 and has spoken at about 35
conferences in the past 3 years. He has experience leading
strategic planning retreats for Boards and physicians.
Vince’s experience includes: Principal, Better Health
Technologies; President, Health Choice (medical call
center), VP Corporate Development and VP Specialty
Operations, Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center;
Regional Director of Marketing, National Medical Enterprises
(hospital chain with 100 facilities); Senior Consultant,
Amherst Associates, national health care management
consulting company. His education includes MBA and JD
degrees from UCLA, and a BS degree in business
administration from USC.
Vince is on the editorial advisory boards of Disease
Management & Health Outcomes Journal, Population Health
Insider, Medical Home News, and the International Disease
Management Alliance. He serves on the ASTM International E31
Technical Committee on Healthcare Informatics (CCR). Vince
is a member of the California State Bar (inactive). He also
is on advisory boards for several early stage companies.
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Brian Klepper, PhD
Managing Principal
Healthcare Performance Inc.
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Managing Principal of Healthcare Performance Inc., a
business development practice based in Atlantic Beach, FL,
Brian is a nationally prominent health care analyst,
adviser, commentator and entrepreneur with broad experience
and relationships.
An active author and speaker, Dr. Klepper has
provided health care commentary to CBS Evening News, the
Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the Washington
Post, and has published articles in Kaiser Health News,
Medscape, The New England Journal of Medicine, Modern
Healthcare, Business Insurance, HealthLeaders and newspapers
nationally. He is a regular columnist on two of the most
widely read expert health care blogs: The
Health Care Blog, hosted by
Matthew Holt, and
Health Policy
and Marketplace Review, hosted
by Bob Laszewski.
He is an Aspen
Institute Health Forum Fellow,
serves on the Board of the
Lundberg Institute, is an
Advisory Board member for the
Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative,
and is one of two non-physician Board members of the
Consortium for Southeast Hypertension Control (COSEHC),
a physician group dedicated to translational medicine for
vascular disease. He is also an advisor to the
Center for Value Health Innovation.
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Kathryn Swink, MPH
Research Associate
National Association of Public
Hospitals and Health Systems & National Public Health
and Hospital Institute
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Kathryn Swink, is a Research Associate with
the National Association of Public Hospitals and
Health Systems and the National Public Health and Hospital
Institute.
Kathryn Swink joined the NAPH research team in October of
2009.
Previously, Ms. Swink worked as a maternal and child
health researcher for the University of Florida’s School of
Medicine and conducted pediatric HIV/AIDS research at
Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC. She
holds a B.S. degree in Chemistry and a Master of Public
Health degree, with a concentration in Epidemiology, from
the University of Florida.
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Sam JW Romeo, MD, MBA
Tower Health & Wellness Center
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Sam Romeo, MD. MBA is a nationally
recognized health care administrator and physician with over
40 years of experience. . He received his B.S. degree from
St Mary’s College, California, M.D. degree from St Louis
University School of Medicine, and M.B.A. from National
University. With the integrity he exudes and the warmth in
his handshake, even his barber doesn’t know that he has
served as the President/CEO of medical groups as large as
3,000 physicians strong, has held senior faculty and
deanship positions at the USC School Of Medicine, the
Medical College of Wisconsin, and St. Louis University
School of Medicine, and has been the CEO and Medical
Director of Health Maintenance Organizations in California,
Florida, and New York. He continues to be tirelessly
committed to improving health care on a national level and
participates in such organizations as the Accreditation
Association of Ambulatory Care (AAAHC) which insures quality
standards are met by medical organizations. He has served on
the AAAHC Board of Directors, AAAHC Institute for Quality
Improvement (IQI) Board of Trustees, and as a methodologist
in the American Medical Association (AMA) Physician
Consortium for Performance Improvement which is developing
evidence-based performance measurement sets for physicians
to enhance the quality of patient care. From its inception,
Dr Romeo has been a member of the Performance Measures
Advisory Group of the CPT Editorial board creating CPT
Category II Performance Measure codes. He has lectured, been
published, and consulted around the country on medical
ethics, occupational medicine, managed care, family
practice, outcomes measurement that reflect the quality in
health care, quality improvement, and the role of academic
health care centers in the managed care environment. He has
recently published a book “We the Patients” which is
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Shahram Ebadollahi, Ph.D.
Manager, Healthcare Transformation Research Group
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
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Shahram Ebadollahi, Ph.D. is Manager, Healthcare Transformation Research Group;
Program Manager, Healthcare Transformation; and
Founding co-chair, Medical Informatics PIC at
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. In these
capacities, Dr. Ebadollahi manages a group of scientists and
physicians conducting cutting edge research in the broad
area of health informatics, especially applications of data
mining, machine learning, advanced visualization, and
simulation to healthcare applications and comparative
effectiveness research.
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