John Lynn is the founder of the HealthcareScene.com network which currently consists of 10 blogs containing over 11,000 articles with John having written over half of the articles himself. These EMR and health care IT-related articles have been viewed over 18 million times.

John also manages HealthcareITCentral.com and HealthcareITToday.com, the leading career Health IT job board and blog. He also organized the first of its kind conference and community focused on marketing to healthcare: HealthITMarketingConference.com. Plus, he just launched Health IT Expo, a conference focused on practical health care IT innovation.

John is an advisor to multiple health care IT companies and a highly sought-after keynote speaker. John is deeply involved in social media and, in addition to his blogs, can be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit.

Eric Haberichter is the co-founder, chairman & CEO of Access Healthnet. He has more than 25 years of health care, management and entrepreneurial experience as a highly motivated, mission-driven innovator and problem solver focused on improving the delivery and sustainability of health businesses.

Early in his career, he worked as a radiation therapist and multi-modality radiographer. For 15 years, he worked within a major Wisconsin-based health care system, and in 2004, left system-based health care to work with independent physicians to develop and manage outpatient imaging and ambulatory surgical centers.

In 2006, he co-founded Smart Choice MRI, the first flat-rate, quality-assured MRI provider in America. He has worked closely with employers, brokers, payers, TPAs, and medical practices to lower costs, increase quality and improve patient satisfaction.

In 2013, he founded NewAmerica Health Strategies, LLC, a medical business consulting firm dedicated to creating value in health care. He was joined by Jim Kolb and Leslie Kolowith, and their experiences in serving the needs of technology start-ups and national networks aided in more fully developing the concept of Access HealthNet and its proprietary technology solution, The Super Option.

Providers, employers, networks, and stakeholders can learn more about Access HealthNet at accesshealthnet.com.

If a payer is paying for health care in an FFS, it’s tough to determine whether the health care delivered for the cost paid constitutes value. It’s hard to know how to collate the charges into some sort of outcome. But how are provider aggregators such as Access HealthNet in the midwest operationalizing price transparency and paying for episodes of care and making it possible for employers and other payers to buy value at scale? Today, I speak with Eric Haberichter, co-founder of Access HealthNet.

Darren is Chief Executive Officer at Aduro, Inc., a human performance company that delivers habit change programs that empower people and organizations to reach their full potential. He brings a unique outlook to the health care sector, combining his experience with the intricacies of the industry with potential he sees in groundbreaking technologies, human analytics and personalized well-being. With more than 15 years of expertise in demonstrated return on population health, Darren helps companies unlock the power of a happier, healthier, and higher-performing workforce.

Prior to founding Aduro, Darren has served as Associate Doctor, Clinic Director and Chief Executive Officer of Clear Chiropractic, a collection of practices in the Puget Sound Area specializing in the Blair Chiropractic Technique. Darren received his Doctor of Chiropractic from Georgia's Life University and currently serves as Chairman of the Board at Clear Chiropractic.

Darren spends an increasing amount of time developing new opportunities to bring his purpose-driven approach to the larger community with support for behavior health and nutritional lifestyles. When he's not igniting Aduro's culture at a Friday Fire all-company huddle, he can be found curating crowd-pleasing playlists or traversing down the slopes at his favorite mountain hideaway.

Dr. Darren White and I begin our conversation by covering the basics — what do employers have to do with health care. From there we discuss the ways employers are attempting to control spiraling health care costs and raise poor outcomes that might be resulting from all that spend. And then Darren offers up some advice on what an employer really needs to do to do health care right.

Gary is a disrupter and founder of OM Healthcare, Inc. a health care technology startup established in 2015. He has over 18 years of business development experience and over 13 years of executive-level hospital and health system strategy expertise. Gary is a thought leader in the new frontier of health care technology, innovation, and strategy. Over the years Mr. Frazier's leadership and expertise has been sought after for strategic business planning, financial planning, growth strategy, integrated delivery systems, program development, mergers and acquisitions, and physician alignment.

His roles have encompassed the rapid growth of Paladin Healthcare through hospital mergers and acquisitions, most notably a $170M acquisition of 2 Tenet hospitals in Philadelphia, PA. He served as a Principal for Vizient Consulting where he focused on physician/hospital alignment and hospital growth strategies for health systems throughout the United States. He was Vice President of Strategy and Business Development for a flagship 434-bed Dignity Health hospital in Central California where he was responsible for all strategy, growth, marketing, physician alignment, payer relations, and strategic partnerships. Before Dignity Health he managed all business development activities for hospital real estate transactions, expansions, and joint ventures in Arizona, California, and Nevada for Hammes Company Healthcare.

A native of Southern California, he earned an undergraduate degree from Cal State Dominguez Hills and an MBA from UC Irvine Paul Merage School of Business. He has served as a board member of the California Hospital Association Political Action Committee (CHPAC), the Bakersfield March of Dimes, and the American Heart Association in Central California, and was Chairman of the Bakersfield Museum of Art.

You can learn more at www.omhealthcare.com.

Gary is a disrupter and founder of OM Healthcare, Inc. a health care technology startup established in 2015. He has over 18 years of business development experience and over 13 years of executive-level hospital and health system strategy expertise. Gary is a thought leader in the new frontier of health care technology, innovation, and strategy. Over the years Mr. Frazier's leadership and expertise has been sought after for strategic business planning, financial planning, growth strategy, integrated delivery systems, program development, mergers and acquisitions, and physician alignment.

His roles have encompassed the rapid growth of Paladin Healthcare through hospital mergers and acquisitions, most notably a $170M acquisition of 2 Tenet hospitals in Philadelphia, PA. He served as a Principal for Vizient Consulting where he focused on physician/hospital alignment and hospital growth strategies for health systems throughout the United States. He was Vice President of Strategy and Business Development for a flagship 434-bed Dignity Health hospital in Central California where he was responsible for all strategy, growth, marketing, physician alignment, payer relations, and strategic partnerships. Before Dignity Health he managed all business development activities for hospital real estate transactions, expansions, and joint ventures in Arizona, California, and Nevada for Hammes Company Healthcare.

A native of Southern California, he earned an undergraduate degree from Cal State Dominguez Hills and an MBA from UC Irvine Paul Merage School of Business. He has served as a board member of the California Hospital Association Political Action Committee (CHPAC), the Bakersfield March of Dimes, and the American Heart Association in Central California, and was Chairman of the Bakersfield Museum of Art.

You can learn more at www.omhealthcare.com.

Stacey is co-president/CEO of Aventria Health Group, specializing in helping employer, pharmaceutical, device, and pharmacy clients by creating partnerships with other health care organizations. For 20 years, Stacey has innovated better-coordinated health solutions benefiting all stakeholders, and most of all, the patient.

Dave is co-president/CEO of Aventria Health Group and president/CEO of Pinnacle Health Communications. He is a 27-year veteran of managed-markets marketing. After working in consumer marketing with AT&T and health care publishing with Elsevier, Dave made the move to medical advertising and communications at KI Lipton, Inc. Subsequently, he became a cofounder of Pinnacle. Dave is an accomplished strategist, providing innovative customer marketing, access, quality, and health intervention solutions for large clients and has directed the development of numerous industry-leading campaigns in primary care and specialty markets. He has supported clients in disease areas that include oncology (Bristol Myers Squibb [BMS], Novartis, Eisai), virology (BMS, Merck & Co.), pharmacy (American Pharmacists Association, Merck, Novartis), and blood disorders (Novo Nordisk), to name a few. Dave has helped more than 15 clients achieve top rankings in their respective categories. He is also an active member of the Pharmacy Quality Alliance.

You can learn more about Aventria Health Group at aventriahealth.com or by emailing [email protected].

Today I speak with my co-president Dave Dierk from Aventria Health Group about pharmaceutical companies collaborating with health innovators. There have been many articles written about the prospect of such collaborations, often authored it seems by people who haven’t actually been involved in such an arrangement. Sometimes I giggle at the delta between the rose-colored version and the no-filter version, but collaboration is the future and Pharma would be well served get good at it.

Tim Thomas, RPh president, Crystal Clear Rx

Mr. Thomas is a graduate of the University of South Carolina College of Pharmacy, and has 38 years' experience as a pharmacist. His management background includes residency training and being a Director of Pharmacy at both a hospital and an HMO.

For the last 25 years Mr. Thomas has been involved in managed care pharmacy with expertise in formulary, benefit design, and creating value in the pharmacy benefit. He developed a PBM in the 1990's and has held senior positions within the PBM industry. In 2008 he created Crystal Clear Rx, a pharmacy benefit consulting and research firm that is singularly focused on helping clients realize better value from their pharmacy benefit by providing optics into the PBM contracting process, data analysis, and cost effective solutions.

You can learn more at www.crystalclearrx.com.