Tackling Provider Directories

Sharing and Managing Change Across the Blockchain

Billions of dollars are spent annually on provider data management, yet provider directories often contain inaccuracies that dramatically increase the cost of care while reducing its quality.

This session will provide an overview of why Humana, MultiPlan, Optum, Quest Diagnostics and UnitedHealthcare have formed an alliance (named the Synaptic Health Alliance) to explore the use of blockchain technology in tackling the challenge of accurate and efficient provider data management and sharing. It will highlight the current challenges and state of provider data exchange and the goals and approach of the initial pilot project for the alliance.

Speaker: Lorraine Frias, Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives, Optum

Crossing the Payer-Provider Chasm

Collaboration in the Journey to Value Based Care

As healthcare delivery organizations continue to move to value-based payment models, the need to collaborate with their payers has become increasingly important.  Learn what barriers still exist to true collaboration and what forward leading health plans are doing to partner with their provider networks. In this session the presenter will

•  Describe the challenges that prevent payer and provider alignment
•  Discuss what payers have done to better collaborate with their provider  network
•  Demonstrate some real world use cases and solutions that creates better alignment

 Presenter: Lynda Rowe , Senior Advisor, Value-Based Markets, InterSystems

Data Governance in Healthcare

Data governance in healthcare, also called information governance, is defined as an organization-wide framework for managing health information throughout its lifecycle. 

In this Accountable Care Series presentation, Logan Data will discuss how a practical approach to data governance can generate meaningful results in the short and long-term and what tools and techniques healthcare organizations can use to achieve these results. 

The presentation will answer the following questions:

Presenter: Barbara Nichols, Partner, Logan Data