Health Innovation Summit 2022

Healthcare has survived – even grown – through past periods of societal and economic disruption. The upheaval caused by the dot-com bubble and the housing crisis had other sectors struggling to find their footing, and many organizations collapsed – but healthcare was relatively unscathed. As a result, we largely stayed the course. Our hesitancy to truly transform allowed health inequities to grow, failed to bend the cost curve, and delayed the evolution in new workforce models. This is a different time. The world has become far more unpredictable, and a new set of societal norms are emerging requiring agility, resiliency, and stronger connections with our communities. Previously nice-to-have innovations are now expected of us. 

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   Innovation in Action Showcase: Innovators you should know

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 Digesting (the Summit) Over Lunch + Speaker Table Talk

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Lisa Alderson is the CEO and Co-Founder of Genome Medical, Inc., a digital health company and virtual medical practice transforming the delivery of healthcare by enabling access to genomic-based medicine for patients everywhere. Lisa has 20 years of experience building early-stage companies with a focus on technology, consumer and life sciences businesses. Prior to Genome Medical, Lisa served as the chief commercial officer and chief strategy officer of Invitae. a rapidly growing genetic information company. She was part of the start-up team at Genome Health Inc., president of Cinema Circle, Inc., and the former manager of strategic planning at The Walt Disney Co.

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Anne Aslett is the global CEO of the Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF) which she has served for almost 20 years. As International Development Director to EJAF UK, she managed more than £60m in grants to programmes in Europe, Africa and Asia, before taking over the UK Foundation as its Executive Director in 2008. When the US and UK Foundations merged their operations in 2018, Anne assumed her current role.

During Aslett’s tenure Foundation has become the 6th largest AIDS funder globally; has saved the lives of over 5m of the most marginalised people in the world and raised awareness of HIV amongst more than 100m people.

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Amit Bhagat has twenty-plus years of experience helping clients succeed by developing information management, governance, business intelligence, advanced analytics, organizational design, intelligent automation, and performance management strategies and solutions. In an era of increasing change and labor challenges, Bhagat has worked extensively with clients in healthcare organizations to develop and implement growth strategies as well as drive measurable improvement in their operational performance by combining complex and information-based technology solutions, culture, people, and processes, all working in concert.

As CEO of Amitech, he leads the firm’s client-facing and growth strategies and enjoys working with client executives in an advisory capacity to solve complex problems facing today’s healthcare industry.

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Adam Boehler is the founder and CEO of Rubicon Founders, an entrepreneurial healthcare investment firm focused on building and growing transformational companies. Boehler has extensive experience in investment, entrepreneurship, and innovation in both the private sector and in the US Government. Boehler founded three successful businesses. Most recently, he founded and served as CEO of Landmark Health, a company delivering around-the-clock medical care to chronically ill patients in their homes. While at Landmark, he was recruited to lead healthcare innovation for the United States, serving as Senior Advisor to the Secretary, Deputy Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and Director of the Innovation Center at CMS (CMMI). Adam was also a founding member of Operation Warp Speed, a public-private partnership that ultimately led to the first COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S.

Joe Cardosi is the Founder and CEO of Free Market Health. Prior to launching Free Market Health, he held sales and strategy leadership roles within Walgreens Specialty Pharmacy (now, AllianceRx Walgreens Pharmacy).  Cardosi began his Walgreens career in health plan sales/account management where he was responsible for winning, retaining, and growing specialty pharmacy business with leading US health insurers. Prior to leaving AllianceRx WP, he was the Vice President of Payer Strategy and Sales, where he developed and executed the company’s payer strategy and led the field-based provider sales team.

Before joining Walgreens, Cardosi managed the business aspects of the pharmacy benefit at Gateway Health (now Highmark Wholecare), a mid-sized managed Medicaid and Medicare health plan in Pittsburgh, PA. In this role, he led specialty pharmacy and home infusion provider strategy and contracting, as well as formulary strategy through direct rebate negotiation and management of pharmaceutical manufacturer relationships. Prior to that, Joe began his career in clinical and patient-facing roles at small and large specialty pharmacies.

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Robert Fields, MD is a family medicine physician and serves as the EVP, Chief Population Health Officer (CPHO) at Mount Sinai Health System in New York City. In this role, Fields leads system strategy and operations for population health, fee for service and value-based contracting, medical economics, and population health analytics. The Mount Sinai network of hospitals and physicians manages $3.5 billion dollars of medical spend for over 450,000 patients in the downstate region including global risk and shared savings arrangements in all lines of business.

He began his career as an independent primary care physician with a particular concentration on underserved Latino patients in Western North Carolina. He came to Mount Sinai in March of 2018 as the SVP and CMO for Population Health and has led the redesign of clinical operations for value including care management, provider engagement, quality programs, remote monitoring and condition management, social determinants, and other aspects of the system’s population health strategy. He was promoted to Chief Population Health Officer in 2021 where in addition to his previous role, is now also developing the contracting and strategic pricing strategy and operations for the system.

Lisa Fitzpatrick, MD is a physician, medical epidemiologist, and is the founder and CEO of Grapevine Health, a digital health media company she established to build trust and improve patient engagement among Medicaid patients. She began her public health career in 1998 as a member of the CDC’s elite Epidemic Intelligence Service. She has served as a foreign diplomat in the Caribbean, an academic researcher, and the former chief medical officer for the DC Medicaid program. Dr. Fitzpatrick is a member of the Institute of Medicine/ National Academy of Sciences Roundtable on Health Literacy and an Aspen Institute Health Innovator Fellow.

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Gabriela Perez is the Chief Commercial Officer at Big Health, a digital therapeutics company providing safe and effective non-drug alternatives for the most common mental health conditions including insomnia and anxiety. In addition to her role at Big Health, Gabriela is a partner at NextGen Ventures and has been starting and building technology-enabled healthcare services companies since 1999.

Her entrepreneurial career started as part of the founding team at Best Doctors, a pioneer in the market of global e-second opinions, which operated in 45 countries. During her tenure, Gabriela held multiple leadership positions across product, marketing, partnerships and global sales divisions until the company was acquired by Teladoc (NYSE: TDOC) in 2017.

Following Best Doctors, Gabriela led the recapitalization of Attune Hearing which she evolved into the largest audiology company and multi-clinic network in Australia. Most recently, Gabriela was EVP & General Manager at Ovia Health, the largest women & family digital health company in the United States, responsible for triple digit growth which culminated in an exit in 2021.

Her passion for entrepreneurship extends beyond the workplace and includes investing in next-generation connected health ventures and mentoring at Harvard Innovation Labs in Boston. Gabriela presently seats on the investment board of the Florida Institute for Commercialization of Research and Technology and is an Advisor and Investor in multiple health tech organizations. Gabriela is an alumna of Stanford University’s Design School and Harvard Business School.

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Minoo Javanmardian is a Chicago-based senior partner at Oliver Wyman and a member of Health and Life Sciences Team. She is a recognized thought leader in provider and payer sectors. She has served many CEOs, C-Suite executives, and Board of Directors across multiple health system sectors including academic medical centers, faith-based systems, regional players and community players. She has also served many payer clients including Blue Cross Blue Shields in different regions

Her focus is on strategy development and implementation of resulting capability systems to ensure successful execution. While supporting clients from strategy to execution she has also led several engagements around strategic cost transformations through business process redesign, operating model (governance and organization), M&A strategy and post-merger integration.

Ricardo R. Johnson is Executive Vice President of Enterprise Strategy and Emerging Business of CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield and leads Healthworx, the innovation and investment arm of CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield (CareFirst). Johnson is part of a dynamic team that creates, partners with, and invests in companies who are improving affordability, convenience, and equity in healthcare.

Ricardo has a deep understanding of the healthcare industry — from product development and operations to strategy and business growth. Before Healthworx, he worked as the Special Assistant to the CEO of CareFirst where he was senior advisor in both strategic and operational functions within CareFirst. Prior to that Johnson practiced law, including as Associate General Counsel of CareFirst, handling a variety of healthcare and corporate matters. He holds a law degree from University of Maryland and an undergraduate degree from La Salle University.

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Alex Oshmyansky, MD is the founder and CEO of the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company. Oshmyansky founded the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company after being incensed by the skyrocketing costs of generic drugs for his patients.

Oshmyansky graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder at the age of 18 with a BA in Biochemistry. He went on to earn an MD at the Duke University School of Medicine and a PhD (DPhil Oxon) at Oxford University in Mathematics as a Marshall Scholar. He completed a surgical internship at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School. Oshmyansky went on to a residency in diagnostic radiology and a fellowship in pediatric radiology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He then served as an adjunct faculty member at the Stanford University School of Medicine and continues to practice as an emergency radiologist.

While in grad school, Oshmyansky founded a startup dedicated to reducing the rates of nosocomial diseases in hospitals, Altitude Medical. That company has been continuously operating for over 14 years.

Amit Sabharwal is a Senior Partner at Lippincott, a division of Oliver Wyman Group. He co-leads Lippincott’s Marketing and Customer Strategy practice and oversees the firm’s Customer Sciences capabilities, including advanced marketing sciences and data sciences.
Amit’s work has spanned nearly two decades, five continents, and a range of industries. He has consulted to hallmark brands – including Bank of America, Coca-Cola, CVS, eBay, and Walmart – and has additionally worked broadly across the healthcare ecosystem – including with leading hospital systems, payers, digital health platforms, and healthcare advocacy organizations. He supports clients to drive profitable growth through the development of customer-centric marketing strategies, including new business design, brand, customer experience, and product strategies.
Prior to joining Lippincott, Amit spent time in management consulting, technology product management, venture investing, and economic development.

Jennifer Schneider, MD is the Co-founder and CEO of Homeward, a technology-enabled healthcare provider delivering care to those who don’t have it, starting in rural America. Previously, she served 5 years as the Chief Medical Officer and President of Livongo. At Livongo, Schneider was responsible for product, data science, engineering, marketing, clinical operations, and our growth strategy. She was honored by Modern Healthcare as one of the 50 Most Influential Clinical Executives and by Fierce Healthcare as Woman of Influence for her work empowering women and modeling diversity and inclusion in the workplace. She currently serves on the Boards of the Health Assurance Acquisition Corp., the Revolution Healthcare Acquisition Corp, and Cityblock Health.

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Roberta L. Schwartz is the Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer of Houston Methodist Hospital, one of the Texas Medical Center’s founding institutions. She is responsible for overseeing all operations at the 946-bed hospital, which has been named by U.S. News & World Report as the No. 1 hospital in Texas for 10 straight years and has also been named to the publication’s prestigious “Honor Roll” of America’s best 20 hospitals five times. In her role as chief innovation officer, Schwartz is responsible for advancing and expanding Houston Methodist’s digital innovation platforms, including telemedicine, artificial intelligence and big data.

Prior to joining Houston Methodist, Schwartz worked as director of business development for Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York as a consultant and project manager for several academic medical centers for APM/Computer Sciences Corporation and for CMS (HCFA).

Schwartz earned a master’s in health science from Johns Hopkins University and an honors undergraduate degree from Barnard College at Columbia University. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Texas School of Public Health. Schwartz has been recognized nationally for her professional and non-profit work. She was most recently recognized by Modern Healthcare’s Top 25 Women Leaders as one of its 10 Women to Watch. She is also involved in many non-profit organizations such as Lifegift OPO, Robert M Beren Academy and the UOS Synagogue, Young Survival Coalition and many breast cancer organizations.

Amy Dirks Stevens is an entrepreneurial healthcare leader focused on accelerating business performance through innovative enabling technology. She has been a health system C-suite leader (COO, CSO) in not-for-profit and large for-profit health systems; President of one of the nation’s 1st CINs; and a founding executive of AVIA, the vanguard network of health systems and payors driving digital innovation.

She is GM for Provider Performance at Innovaccer, a healthcare data activation and analytics platform ranked #1 by KLAS and expanding global reach. She partners with provider and risk-bearing entities to digitally-enable their business performance. Leaders adopt the Innovaccer platform to reduce costs, improve workforce retention and automate workflows, optimize traditional and value-based care contract performance, diversify revenue, and engage their providers, populations, and patients.

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Heiyab Tessema is a Partner in Oliver Wyman’s Digital and Health and Life Sciences practices, based in New York. He has over a decade of digital transformation, product management, and technical delivery experience across healthcare, retail, financial services and the public sector. He helps clients develop and execute innovation strategies amidst existing technology and operating model constraints and his experience includes process digitization, data pipelining, advanced analytics and user interface design in back-office, B2B2C and D2C contexts. Prior to joining Oliver Wyman, Tessema worked as a Lead Business Architect at Agora Group, Inc. as well as a Senior Project Engineer at Savin Engineers.

Todd Van Tol is the Executive Vice President of Health Care Value for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM). He is responsible for provider contracting and network management, medical and pharmacy management as well as end- to-end management of the total cost and quality of care for individual and group customers.
Previously, he led the plan’s Commercial Group business with responsibility for the Autos, Key & Large, Middle & Small Group, and Private Exchange lines of business.
Prior to joining BCBSM in July of 2017, Todd served as a Partner and North American practice leader for the Health and Life Sciences business of Oliver Wyman where he led the firm’s efforts across Payer and Provider clients.

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Jeff Wessler, MD is a Virtual Cardiologist and the Founder and CEO of Heartbeat Health. Heartbeat Health delivers virtual cardiology via remote diagnostics, telemedicine, and management for cardiac patients with atrial fibrillation, vascular disease, and heart failure. Wessler graduated from Williams College, received an MPhil in public health and epidemiology from Cambridge University, and his MD from Harvard Medical School. He completed a cardiology fellowship at New York Presbyterian-Columbia, being named Chief Resident of the medicine program. He is currently an assistant professor of medicine at Northwell Health. Wessler is a father, an avid squash player, and was raised in Boston.

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Ashwini M. Zenooz, MD is the CEO of Commure, the first operating system designed for healthcare. A board-certified radiologist, Zenooz has more than 20 years of clinical experience. Prior to Commure, Inc., she was Salesforce’s Chief Medical Officer its General Manager of Global Healthcare and Life Sciences, and served as Chief Medical Officer at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) overseeing the national EHR modernization program. She has held senior policy development and operational roles including serving as Deputy for Veterans Affairs Health Policy and Services, Legislative Health Policy Fellow with US Senator Richard Blumenthal, and Committee Staff on the US Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs.

Inspiration Experience

Renaissance 2022

Join the Inspiration Experience to immerse yourself in the macro trends that are driving societal disruption to how we do business, how we engage with consumers, and how we build and manage our workforce. The experience will explore insights derived from 18+ months of consumer research by the Oliver Wyman Forum, engaging 100,000+ human voices across 10 countries. 

During the experience, you’ll be introduced to the new people shaping our future including The Citizens of the Metaverse, The Digital Boomers, The New Collars, The Virtual Natives, The Wellness Protagonist, and more.

Our Partners

Softheon’s makes healthcare affordable, accessible, and plentiful. Softheon’s cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Business Process-as-a-Service (BPaaS) solutions for health plans have solved complex challenges that are associated with administering health insurance for millions of members. Softheon solutions work to transform the way issuers operate by delivering health plan operations solutions, including: Enrollment and Enhanced Direct Enrollment (EDE), premium billing and subsidy reconciliation, member communications and self-servicing, and near-real-time analytics for the entire member operations platform. Softheon has ranked on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies in 2020 and 2018.

Navvis is a population health market maker. We drive transformation. We work with health plans, health systems, and physician organizations to develop new business models that accelerate and fundamentally change the way healthcare is delivered. We create markets and unique partnerships that allow healthcare organizations to unlock value-based care opportunities in their markets. This model constructs and redesigns markets to solve the underlying systemic issues, to maximize the performance in value-based risk arrangements.

Our capabilities create a solution that is physician-led and patient centric. We support all payers, payment models, and lines of business, connect the full continuum of care, and activate all providers, caregivers, and family members. The result is a healthcare ecosystem that never stops caring—one that is sustainable and eliminates complexity for consumers, empowers providers, and reduces the high cost of healthcare.

Transcarent is a health and care experience company that makes it easy to get the high-quality, affordable health and care that everyone deserves – where and when they want it, on their terms. Transcarent puts consumers back in charge by directly connecting them with an integrated ecosystem of high-value providers and health solutions, transparent information, and trusted guidance – in as little as 60 seconds, 24/7/365, from the palm of their hand, often at no cost to Members and at a lower cost to their employer. Transcarent takes accountability for results – offering at-risk pricing models and transparent impact reporting to align incentives towards measurably better experience, better health, and lower costs. Join us in building the future of health and care.

Motive partners with payers and providers to deliver impact through insights and actions that lower costs and improve outcomes.

Amitech Solutions is an award-winning data, analytics and automation healthcare consulting firm. At Amitech, we believe healthcare can and should be better. With a single-minded focus on value, we combine people, process, culture and technology to drive real and lasting change. We partner with our customers to deliver data, analytics and automation strategies and solutions to make healthcare more proactive, higher quality and less expensive for everyone.

Big Health’s mission is to help millions back to good mental health by providing safe and effective non-drug alternatives for the most common mental health conditions including insomnia and anxiety. Designed by leading clinical experts, Big Health’s digital therapeutics expand access to gold standard care, including behavioral medicine, and are backed by industry-leading research and randomized controlled trials. By seamlessly integrating across the care pathway, from member engagement to billing via pharmacy benefit managers, Big Health simplifies adoption for both payers and patients, providing an inclusive, scalable, and affordable approach without serious side effects.

Calibrate is the leading metabolic health platform wrapping next generation obesity medications with intensive lifestyle intervention to drive sustainable, cost-effective results. The right members receive the right medication for the right length of time—resulting in decreased costs, guaranteed outcomes, and increased engagement. Calibrate is delivering dramatic savings ($20k total cost of care savings opportunity per enrolled member), superior outcomes (15% average weight loss), and high engagement (2.3 interactions with our platform per day for each member). Join us in changing the way the world treats weight!

Carrot provides fertility healthcare and family-forming benefits for all, regardless of a member’s goals or stage in life. Leveraging technology and clinical programming, our telehealth solution navigates members to the right care through personalized pathways and support – while lowering costs and improving outcomes.

Emcara Health delivers a proven model of comprehensive home-based primary care. With a passionate team of dedicated healthcare experts, we improve the quality of life for vulnerable populations with health challenges across urban and rural communities. Our integrated approach to care spans advanced primary care, complex care treatment and management, behavioral health, and addressing the social determinants that impact overall health for our patients. Our physician-led multidisciplinary care teams deliver industry-leading outcomes in patient experience, quality, lower cost of care and joy in work. Part of PopHealthCare (a GuideWell Company), Emcara Health is one of the nation’s leading value-based medical groups, focused on the mission of reimagining how healthcare is delivered.

Spring Health is a comprehensive mental health solution for employers and health plans. Unlike any other solution, we use clinically validated technology called Precision Mental Healthcare to pinpoint and deliver exactly what will work for each person – whether that’s meditation, coaching, therapy, medication, and beyond.

TytoCare is a telehealth solution that enables remote medical exams, beyond just video. TytoCare connects people to clinicians to provide virtual home examination and diagnosis solutions. Its solutions are designed to enable a comprehensive remote medical exam and include a hand-held, AI-guided, all-in-one tool for examining the heart, lungs, skin, ears, throat, abdomen, and body temperature; and a telehealth platform for sharing exam data, conducting live video exams, and scheduling visits.

Onlife Health, a GuideWell company, brings end-to-end simplicity to population health and well-being. Connecting and integrating people, technology, and benefit design through our user-friendly engagement platform, we guide consumers on “the next right thing to do” in their healthcare journey. With its built-in agility, the Onlife platform can be configured and scaled quickly and easily to serve any market, from commercial health insurance to Medicare Advantage and Individual (ACA) lines of business.

Celebrating 10 Years

We’re thrilled to celebrate 10 years of community and collaboration at this year’s Summit! 

About OWHIC

The Oliver Wyman Health Innovation Center (OWHIC) was created to develop and promote market-driven solutions to the crisis of high cost and poor quality that afflicts the healthcare systems of the developed world.

Based on the deep healthcare expertise of Oliver Wyman and drawing on a network of innovative leaders across industries, OWHIC identifies and disseminates the ideas and practices that will transform healthcare. Our goal is to create a healthcare system driven by innovation and the needs and desires of consumers, creating value for companies and the public alike.