Interoperability Roundtable

What is the link between provider data quality and CMS Star Ratings? To us, it is not just about meeting benchmarks; it's about redefining excellence in your health plan to ensure a superior member experience, increase enrollment, and capture substantial financial gains. Dive into expert insights and real-world stories and strategies from Barry Volin to elevate your service.

In this episode of Interoperability Roundtable, we chat with Jon Hamdorf, former Medicaid Director and Director of Health Care Finance for the state of Kansas and current Market President for UCare. Join our conversation with Jon as he shares his unique insights into how provider operations can make or break your MCO's success.

Get inspired by Samantha Olds Frey, the healthcare visionary and now-former CEO of the Illinois Association of Medicaid Health Plans (IAMHP), as she shares her remarkable journey towards implementing a universal standardized roster for all Illinois MCOs. Discover how her leadership transformed the healthcare landscape, delivering groundbreaking results that not only mitigated compliance liabilities but also significantly improved accuracy. Learn from her firsthand experiences and get valuable takeaways for your health plan.

Leap Orbit is joined by Barry Volin, CEO of MCRA, for a discussion on how provider data affects the member experience, and why this is becoming increasingly important for payers.

Leap Orbit founders, Mrinal Bhasker and David Finney, are joined by Clifford Goldsmith, Chief Medical Officer and Kathleen McGrow, Chief Nursing Information Officer, #Microsoft for our next Interoperability Roundtable! We're looking forward to an open discussion covering the latest in healthcare interoperability, including:  

Clifford Goldsmith brings a unique experience to Microsoft as a physician who also has over 33 years of know-how envisioning, designing, developing, and selling high-performance solutions for the healthcare industry. He has been with Microsoft’s Health and Life Science team for more than 20 years. In his current role of US Chief Medical Officer, he designs and executes Microsoft’s strategy for the US Healthcare Provider Industry. Dr. Goldsmith has focused on numerous areas of healthcare information technology including value-based payment models, AI and ML for Health, rare diseases, clinical trials, medical devices and embedded systems, clinical process improvement and patient engagement. He has also served as Chief Medical Officer of Aptima Corporation, where he led a team in transitioning well-tested concepts on human-centered engineering from aviation and the military into healthcare. Prior to joining Microsoft in 1998, Dr. Goldsmith worked for Harvard University’s Department of Medicine and the Center for Clinical Computing, developing and managing various aspects of IT for both Beth Israel and Brigham and Women’s Hospitals. During this appointment, he pioneered full, remote access electrocardiograph (ECG) integration with the EHR. He founded and managed LINK Medical which delivered a commercial product that integrated ECGs and other waveform diagnostics into the EHR. He joined the HL7 (Health Level 7) Committee in its early years and collaborated on both the Order Entry and Results Reporting standards. He is also a long-standing member of HIMSS. Dr. Goldsmith received a B.S. and a MBBCh (MD) from the University of Witwatersrand, Johnannesburg, South Africa.  

Kathleen McGrow serves as Chief Nursing Information Officer for the Microsoft Health & Life Science Industry Team. In this role, Dr. McGrow advises organizations on how the innovative use of technology can support their digital transformation imperatives of consumer engagement, provider enablement, analytics for population health and cognitive computing to support a learning health system. Her expertise in data, analytics and artificial intelligence is used to educate organizations on how to enhance clinical, operational, and financial performance, maximize capacity and patient experience, and transform to new care models and paradigms. Dr. McGrow has led, planned, and directed programs and strategic initiatives for organizations including implementation of an evidence framework for best practices. She most recently has published two articles about Artificial Intelligence. Artificial Intelligence: Essentials for Nursing and Transforming Clinical Data into Wisdom: Artificial Intelligence Implications for Nurse Leaders. Both written to engage strategic thinking about current and future use of AI for clinical use cases and improve patient outcomes.

Join us with Julie Barnes, Founder & Principal, Maverick Health Policy to discuss the following:  

Julie Barnes is a health care policy expert with years of experience helping the private sector navigate federal government activities that impact the health care system. Ms. Barnes is a strategic adviser to organizations that need guidance about federal health policies and how to develop relationships with policymakers and influential advocacy organizations.  As a former policy analyst, health care attorney, and Capitol Hill staffer, Ms. Barnes can inform business strategy and investments in a myriad of health care areas, including health information technology, data privacy and interoperability, value-based care, transparency, health insurance and new payment models, and federal health programs.

Join our conversation with Harvard Pan, Chief Technology Officer of Diameter Health, as we discuss the latest in healthcare interoperability.

Join us with Julie Barnes, Founder & Principal, Maverick Health Policy to discuss the following:  

Julie Barnes is a health care policy expert with years of experience helping the private sector navigate federal government activities that impact the health care system. Ms. Barnes is a strategic adviser to organizations that need guidance about federal health policies and how to develop relationships with policymakers and influential advocacy organizations.  As a former policy analyst, health care attorney, and Capitol Hill staffer, Ms. Barnes can inform business strategy and investments in a myriad of health care areas, including health information technology, data privacy and interoperability, value-based care, transparency, health insurance, and new payment models, and federal health programs.

Join us with Karsten Russell-Wood, Portfolio Leader, Post Acute & Home at Philips Healthcare to discuss the following:

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Join us with Genevieve Morris, Change Healthcare's health IT policy wonk to discuss the following: