Finnovations: Health outcomes and patient value, 5 April 2009 Presenters and panelists
Sachin Jain Sachin H. Jain is a member of faculty of the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness of Harvard Business School and a resident physician in the Department of Medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. Dr. Jain's work focuses on health care management and health care policy in the United States. Dr. Jain holds his bachelor's degree magna cum laude in government from Harvard College and his MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was recipient of the Dean's Award. He received his MD from Harvard Medical School, along with the Henry Asbury Christian Award for outstanding scholarship. He has worked previously at McKinsey, WellPoint, and the Institute for Health Care Improvement. 2
Lasse Parvinen Lasse A. Parvinen has a long career within HSE-field in various fields of industry. He has experience in working at senior level positions (CEO, Senior Vice President) in several European countries including Germany, Sweden and Finland. He has also been working as an independent expert for the European Commission on several occasions. Currently Mr. Parvinen is working in the health sector as managing partner. He is also affiliated with the Åbo Akademi University at faculty of Industrial Economics. 3
Jim Reynolds Jim Reynolds, M.D., Chief Medical Officer As chief medical officer, Jim leads HealthFitness Research, Development and Outcomes division and is instrumental in new program development and existing program enhancement. In addition, Jim works closely with the sales and account management groups to bring clinical perspectives to ensure best practices and evidence-based content are the basis of HealthFitness services. Jim brings more than 30 years of experience in clinical medicine, health management and quality assurance. Prior to HealthFitness, Jim served nearly three years as a senior consultant in Mercer Health and Benefits Health and Productivity Management specialty practice. Jim has a M.D. degree from the University of Missouri and is board certified in internal medicine. He is an active member of the American College of Physicians, American Medical Association, and the American College of Environmental and Occupational Medicine. 4
Jeffrey Hill Jeffrey Hill, PhD Chief Executive Officer Anceta LLC A subsidiary of the American Medical Group Association Jeffrey L. Hill, PhD has served since 2003 as the Chief Executive Officer of Anceta LLC, a health informatics subsidiary of the American Medical Group Association (AMGA) which supports AMGA s strong tradition of collaborative quality improvement. Through the Anceta Collaborative Data Warehouse, participating AMGA multispecialty medical groups across the nation receive access to comparative data and meaningful benchmarks for clinical outcomes, practice management, economics, and quality of care. In his role as CEO, Dr. Hill heads Anceta s operations, in addition to developing and managing the relationships among AMGA, its member medical groups, Anceta, and its business/technology partners. 5
Mikko Vasama In his current role as the Head of Commercial Effectiveness, Primary Care Europe, Pfizer, Mikko leads an European team that is responsible for Customer Relationship Management, Customer investments and resource allocations and development of commercial innovations for 16 European markets. Mikko has his offices in Helsinki and in London. Prior to Mikko s new role, he was Strategic Development Director for Pfizer Finland and Director of Preve Oy (a Pfizer company). In these roles Mikko was responsible for Strategic Planning, Business Innovation, Business Development, Analytics and BT and building of Preve Oy, new services business company at Pfizer. Mikko started his career at Pfizer in 2001 and has worked in various roles in Planning & Business Development, Business Innovation and Analytics, both at Pfizer HQ in NY and at Pfizer Finland. Prior to joining Pfizer, Mikko worked in the media industry where he held a variety of marketing management positions. Mikko holds an executive Master of Business Administration degree from Helsinki School of Economics and from Helsinki University of Technology. 6
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Janne Aaltonen Medical Director, Logica, M.D., MBA Janne Aaltonen works as a medical director for Logica. Logica is a leading European IT and business services company, employing 40,000 people. In the health care IT sector, Logica provides electronic patient record and other software, business management consulting, programme management, systems integration, applications development and outsourced IT services together with industry independent IT solutions and systems for hospitals. Logica works closely with its customers applying deep industry knowledge, technical excellence and global delivery expertise. More information is available at www.logica.com. Before entering Logica last summer Janne worked for the Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa (HUS) as a director of R&D. HUS is one of the biggest specialized health care providers in Europe (annual revenues of 1.9 billion USD). One of most recent development projects Janne orchestrated was called 'Ideal Hospital', which defined target-oriented hospital of the future consept. Janne is a former consulting anaesthesiologist. He has participated in dozens of IT development projects on behalf of the customer side. 8
Sanjaya Kumar, MD, MPH President, CEO and CMO Dr. Kumar is driven by an agenda aimed at improving the quality of care provided to patients by today's evolving healthcare delivery systems. He has been the clinical lead on a number of cooperative clinical quality improvement projects in various phases of development and implementation. Dr. Kumar also serves on numerous quality improvement committees, task forces, and working groups, both at the national and state level and is a frequent speaker at national healthcare conferences and meetings. Dr. Kumar has published widely in peer reviewed medical journals and has also been involved in hosting various healthcare industry conferences. 9
Charles Safran Charles Safran is a primary care internist who has devoted his professional career to improving patient care through the creative use of informatics. He is Chief of the Division of Clinical Informatics, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Associate Processor of Medicine Harvard Medical School. He is a senior scientist at the National Center for Public Health Informatics at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention where he assists on strategic initiatives like the national health information infrastructure. He is the past President and Chairman of American Medical Informatics Association was previously Vice-President of the International Medical Informatics Association. He is an elected fellow of both the American College of Medical Informatics and the American College of Physicians. Dr. Safran is co-editor of the International Journal of Medical Informatics and on the Health on the Net (HON) Foundation Council. During his career he has helped develop and deploy large institutional integrated clinical computing systems, ambulatory electronic health records, clinical decision support systems to help clinicians treat patients with HIV/AIDS and most recently personal care support systems for parents with premature infants which he calls collaborative healthware. He founded a company, Clinician Support Technology and as its CEO successfully brought his ideas to a national market. The company s products and technology were acquired by a major public company. He has over 150 publications and speaks to national and international audiences. He has recently testified for the U.S. Congress on Health IT. He graduated cum laude in Mathematics and hold a Masters degree in mathematical logic and a Doctor of Medicine all from Tufts University. 10
Steven Spear Steven Spear (DBA MS MS), Senior Lecturer in MIT s Engineering Systems Division and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, is author of the award winning and critically acclaimed book, Chasing the Rabbit: How Market Leaders Outdistance the Competition. An expert about how 'high velocity organizations' generate and sustain advantage on the strength of their development, design, and delivery processes, even in the most hyper competitive markets, Spear has worked with clients spanning manufacturing, software, and healthcare, and he has spoken at events as varied as those of the Association for Manufacturing Excellence and the Institute of Medicine. Having taught at Harvard Business School and worked for the University of Tokyo, the US Congress Office of Technology Assessment, and the investment bank, Prudential Bache, he holds a doctorate from Harvard Business School, masters degrees in mechanical engineering and management from MIT, and a bachelors degree in economics from Princeton. 12