San Francisco Bay Area
Measuring the impact of AI and digital health tools at organizations delivering healthcare to patients is a challenge. Special expertise in navigating the large digital health landscape, how to determine true impact, and creating credible, defensible, and publishable analyses to measure those impacts. I also am the developer of a "patient engagement" vital sign, measured daily, and have used the expertise gained from patient generated health data (PGHD) to inform policy makers at CMS. I have been tapped by CMS several times to convene national thought leader stakeholder groups, and actively work on the Patient Engagement and Empowerment Reporting (PEER) Framework, which I handed to the American Heart Association to steward, as well as a PGHD consortium consisting of thought leaders from major organizations around the country (AHA, AMA, HIMSS, NQF, Google, Microsoft, Cerner, academia). I am deeply familiar with the transition to value-based care, and am the lead author on a MIPS Improvement Activity IA-BE-14 which gives healthcare organizations high credit under MIPS to empower their patients with remote digital guidance and monitoring. Researcher (multiple published peer reviewed digital health studies), AI in healthcare, solving the quadruple aim, public speaker, and practicing clinician.
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Informatics physician-researcher, Faculty lead for AI at UCSF School of Medicine, and Director, Action Incubators of UCSF Coordinating Center for Diagnostic Excellence (CoDEx). Work includes leveraging informatics and AI to learn from and improve healthcare, healthcare delivery, and health itself. Active collaborations with the FDA, the ONC, national and international thought leaders in digital health, AI, diagnostic excellence, informatics, and policy.
Providing national thought leadership on digital therapeutics to DTA, ensuring that high quality digital therapeutics are directly improving patient clinical and health economic outcomes.
Provided industry input to top leadership at CMS on patient engagement and digital health, including a quantitative metric of patient engagement and it's association with outcomes. Created the Patient Engagement and Empowerment Reporting (PEER) National Workgroup, resulting from work with CMS, which includes stakeholders from major healthcare organizations including the AMA, AHA, HIMSS, ACOG, National Council on Behavioral Health, American College of Surgeons, and academia, working towards a technology agnostic, public domain metric for patient engagement. This has also resulted in my lead authorship of a MIPS Improvement Activity that was accepted into the Federal Register and offers financial incentives to healthcare organizations using remote patient monitoring technologies under CMS' Quality Payment Program (see https://www.mobihealthnews.com/content/how-remote-patient-monitoring-made-its-way-medicares-2018-reimbursement-rules) Also advised CMS on how patient generated health data (PGHD) can be leveraged for quality improvement. Formed a national workgroup on this topic, and continue to develop this framework to promote policies that move health systems forward in adopting PGHD in patient care.