The ongoing pandemic has spurred an acceleration of many health care trends. Join us for this panel discussion featuring key thought leaders from varied healthcare markets. Key topics will include:
Post-pandemic virtual care
The evolution of healthcare business models
Where and how care will be delivered post-pandemic
Bringing care into the home beyond telemedicine
Closer-to-home access points
In-home healthcare providers
Focus on hyper-local convenience
Our Moderator Meredith Duncan currently serves as President of the Texas Market at Bright HealthCare. Prior to joining Bright HealthCare, Meredith worked for CVS/Aetna as Chief Growth Officer for Aetna’s Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico markets with responsibility for Aetna’s commercial group business. While at Aetna, she also held Chief Strategy Officer and Market Executive Director roles for the same geography. Meredith also spent nearly 8 years at Ascension Seton Texas, where she last served as CEO of Seton Insurance Co and VP of Accountable Care and Physician Engagement.
Meredith holds a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin and a Masters in Public Health from UCLA. She serves on the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Austin Chapter Board, the Board of Governor’s for LifeWorks Austin and the Austin Healthcare Council Board of Directors.
Meredith has 20 years of experience in strategic planning, consumer market research, sales and business development, and operations management and held leadership roles at Information Resources, The Strategy Group, Dreyer’s/Edy’s Ice cream, and Kaiser Permanente Southern California.
Anas Daghestani, M.D., is an Internal Medicine Physician and Chief Executive Officer and President of Austin Regional Clinic (ARC), founded in 1980. ARC is a 340-physician multi-specialty medical group that serves the greater Austin metropolitan area with 28 clinical locations. ARC provides care to approximately 500,000 Central Texans in ten cities and three counties. Dr. Daghestani is President of the ARC Executive Board. He is also President and Chief Executive Officer of Covenant Management Systems (CMS), an Austin-based organization that delivers a full spectrum of medical group management and billing services to multi-specialty medical groups, including a full spectrum third party administrative service and utilization that provides technical support and services to governmental and employer-based health plans.
In addition, Dr. Daghestani serves as Chief Medical Officer for the Seton Health Alliance, an Accountable Care Organization (ACO), in partnership with the Seton Healthcare Family and also serves as Medical Director of ARC’s Population Health & Clinical Quality.
Dr. Daghestani joined ARC in 2005, and practices at ARC Far West. He received his medical degree from Damascus University, Damascus, Syria, and completed his internship and residency at the University of Illinois St. Francis Hospital, Evanston, IL. He received additional training at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY and is board-certified in Internal Medicine.
Kristi Henderson, DNP, NP-C, FAAN, FAEN is a digital health leader and clinician with over 25 years of experience designing, implementing, and optimizing the health care delivery system using digital health tools and technology. She is the SVP of The Center for Digital Health & Innovation for Optum Health, where she is creating a first-of-its-kind connected health ecosystem using industry-leading digital health tools and telehealth. She most recently led clinical operations for Amazon Care, a healthcare initiative for Amazon employees and their families. Before joining Amazon, she designed and launched a national solutions center for patient access, virtual care, and care coordination for Ascension Health. She has a proven track record of delivering successful programs at scale that improve health and save money. She is an adjunct faculty member in Population Health at the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas-Austin and at the University of Washington School of Nursing.
Henderson thrives with complex challenges and consistently delivers results that exceed expectations. She is known for her ability to execute and sustain these models in advance of them becoming an industry standard as evidenced by her first launch of a telehealth program in 2003 which is recognized as one of only two of HRSA’s Centers of Excellence. She is resourceful, collaborative, and known for her creative solutions that engage patients and empower clinicians. She has testified before multiple U.S. Senate committees and given numerous presentations across the country, including a TEDx, to advance telehealth policy and share innovative new models of care.
A few of her other leadership roles include service as an executive board member for the American Telemedicine Association; Association of American Medical Colleges Telehealth Committee member, American Nurses Association co-chair for Committee on Connected Health and National Quality Forum Telehealth Committee. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and the Emergency Nurses Association.
Henderson received her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham where she was recognized as the 2019 Distinguished Alumna from the School of Nursing. She maintains national certification as a family and acute care nurse practitioner.
Chris Moose is a Partner in IBM's Healthcare and Life Sciences practice developing new pharmaceutical distribution strategies with Federal, State, City and commercial entities. This includes addressing COVID-19 supply chain challenges, enabling a safe and rapid vaccine adoption, improving supply chain safety and helping the industry adopt the FDA Drug Shortages Task force’s recommendations.
His efforts involve convening an ecosystem across Government and Private entities and encouraging adoption of supply chain tools to address visibility, coordination and security. He also works with third parties such as The World Economic Forum and The Linux Foundation alongside the healthcare industry and technology industry in crafting new business models to improve healthcare outcomes.
Outside IBM Mr. Moose is an advisor and investor at Capital Factory, Texas's largest technology accelerator, Advisor to Global Healthcare Crisis Center (GHC3) and advisor to the Global Self Care Federation.
Stephan Rodgers is the Chief Executive Officer of AccentCare®, Inc. He has over 25 years of healthcare experience including home care, insurance, consulting and employee benefits. Prior to joining AccentCare, Mr. Rodgers was CEO of OptumHealth Collaborative Care, a division of UnitedHealth Group, which owns, manages and provides administrative and technology services to healthcare delivery systems. Earlier in his career he was a healthcare executive at General Electric Company, responsible for purchasing healthcare benefits. Mr. Rodgers holds a Bachelor of Arts in biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley.
AccentCare Inc., headquartered in Dallas, TX, is a nationally recognized leader in post-acute care, with more than 30 strategic partnerships aligned to deliver consistently exceptional care to patients and their families. AccentCare partnerships are with insurance companies, physician groups, and major health systems, including the joint venture companies AccentCare Asante Home Health, AccentCare UC San Diego Health at Home, AccentCare UCLA Health, AccentCare
Fairview, and Texas Home Health Group, an affiliation with Baylor Scott & White Health. AccentCare has over 30,000 qualified professionals delivering personal/non-medical care, skilled nursing, rehabilitation, hospice, and care management services to more than 145,000 patients and clients annually, at more than 200 locations, in 26 states. In May of 2019, AccentCare was acquired by Advent International, one of the largest and most experienced global private equity investors.
AccentCare’s approach to delivering quality care, including proprietary RightPath disease-specific programs, leads the industry in expediting Starts of Care (SOC), and reducing hospital readmissions as is demonstrated by numerous third-party, evidence-based distinctions. All AccentCare home health and hospice agencies are CHAP-accredited, with an overall 4.5-star rating from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). AccentCare is also honored to be recognized by the “We Honor Veterans” program. For more information on services available through AccentCare, visit accentcare.com.
