Scott Blanchette is currently Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Vanguard Health Systems (NYSE: VHS), a Fortune-500 company. He is also Founder and President of Hangar9 Solutions, a professional services firm that provides IT services to small and mid-sized hospitals and health care systems across the country. As CIO, he is responsible for the technology strategy, execution, and business operations of departments across Vanguard’s $7B portfolio of assets, including hospitals and hospital systems, ambulatory clinics, health plans, lab companies, and more than fifty related health and health care business ventures. He also has substantial responsibilities leading design and development efforts for multiple Accountable Care Organizations across the company. As Founder and President of Hangar9 he is responsible for transitioning Vanguard’s information technology capabilities into an independent, externally-focused profit center, generating growth, contribution margin, and service excellence to a broad, diverse, and expanding customer base. Prior to joining Vanguard, Scott was Senior Vice President of Product Development and Chief Information Officer at Health ways, Inc (NASDAQ: HWAY), the world’s leading provider of health and wellness programs. In his last capacity, he was responsible for leading the design, development, implementation, and operation of Health ways 225 uniquely differentiated products inside their portfolio. He managed design and development operations across the globe, including the oversight of more than 700 designers and developers in seven states and four countries. He started at Health ways in 2006 as the Chief Technology Officer, and became CIO in 2007. While CIO, he garnered multiple awards for innovation, including being recognized by Information Week as the 8th (2011) and 35th (2010) most innovative technology leader in the US. In addition, CIO Magazine (2011) recognized him with the CIO-100 “Plus One” award for leading the organization delivering the greatest social impact. Less   View all posts

Dr. Bakerman is the Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) for the UMass Memorial Healthcare System. Dr. Bakerman is responsible for the clinical implementation and adoption for the system’s Siemens Soarian EMR. In his role, Dr. Bakerman is also responsible for the development and deployment of a system wide integration strategy for affiliated and independent ambulatory physician practices. Prior to joining UMass Memorial, Dr. Bakerman was the Associate Medical Director for Partners Healthcare in Boston. Included among his many responsibilities was the development and management of system wide P4P measures and targets. With over $100M at risk, incentive measures for quality, technology and efficiency were developed. The network achieved an 85% level of return on their selected measures. Dr. Bakerman was also the Medical Lead for Clinical Transformation Services at Perot Systems (now a subsidiary of Dell Computer). In his role, Dr. Bakerman led efforts for the clinical implementation of both inpatient and outpatient electronic medical records, including change management, workflow redesign, governance for IS projects, specific focus on clinician adoption and benefit realization. Specifically, Dr. Bakerman was the project lead at Marshall University for their integrated ambulatory practice implementation and adoption of Allscripts. Dr. Bakerman was the clinical lead for both an Allscripts implementation at Howard University in Washington, D.C. and for a Cerner PowerChart inpatient implementation and adoption at Catholic Health West in San Francisco. Dr. Bakerman is a frequent lecturer. His most recent events included the National P4P summit in San Francisco in 2010 and 2011 and the National Patient Safety Colloquium in Boston in 2010. Dr Bakerman is an associate faculty at the Tufts Healthcare Institute in Boston participating in teaching residents in internal medicine topics in managed care. Dr. Bakerman has also been associate faculty at the Partners Clinical Process Improvement Program (CPIP) discussing topics in data management and analysis. Less   View all posts

John Mattison, MD, joined Kaiser Permanente in 1989. He has an intense interest in exploiting information technology to create new ways to support how consumers interact with their health and wellness coaches and how they interact with the ever-escalating avalanche of communication created by the internet revolution, through the use of mass-customized avatars and personal digital health coaches. Doctor Mattison has sponsored numerous innovation projects including direct text-messaging to patients, smartphone applications for healthcare consumers, and medication management tools using smartphones. He leads a team that is building the infrastructure and applications for consumer directed healthcare using advanced decision support, mobile platforms, and computer-managed behavioral models of affecting change (captologies). Doctor Mattison was honored as one of the first “Game Changers” in 2011 by Health Data Management. Less   View all posts