This webinar focused on the evolving role of consumers in the healthcare marketplace and why consumer engagement strategies are important to quality and cost outcomes. Speakers discussed the importance of consumer engagement in health information technologies and provided an overview of the Consumer eHealth Readiness Tool (CeRT), a pragmatic tool that supports the advancement of consumer engagement as well as the meaningful use of technology.
UPDATE: HealthCAWS Announces New Enhancements to Consumer eHealth Readiness Tool. Read the full press release here.
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, HealthCAWS, Inc.
Rose is an accomplished senior executive with over 25 years of experience in the health care industry. Rose’s leadership experience spans corporate managed care, specialty population health management, delivery systems and public health settings, and includes product strategy, design and development, M&A; operations and fiscal management; and quality improvement/outcomes research. read more
Senior Research Fellow, Center for Applied Infomatics at the Northern Kentucky University
Dr. Gary W. Ozanich is currently a Senior Research Fellow in the Center for Applied Informatics at Northern Kentucky University and serves as the Chair of the Business Development & Finance Committee for the Kentucky Health Information Exchange. He is an active HIMSS member and is the current (FY2014) Chair of the HIE Committee. He was the Founding Director of NKU’s Graduate Program in Health Informatics His background includes more than 12 years as a Vice President on Wall Street for bulge-bracket investment banks where he was a technology analyst. Gary also has worked in consulting at Booz-Allen & Hamilton and LINK Resources. He has held academic and research positions at Columbia University, Michigan State, and SUNY Buffalo. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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