NAACOS Spring Conference Breakfasts

April 6
7:30 - 8:15 am
Breakfast served in foyer

Accelerate Your Path to Shared Savings in Six Months!
Sponsored by Salient Healthcare
Key 11-12
Speakers: Hymin Zucker, Total Quality Management, Craigan Gray, Salient Healthcare, Amy Kotch, Triple Aim Development Group 

Description:
The central function of any ACO is to accelerate improvements in both the cost and quality of healthcare delivery by leveraging historic performance data as a benchmark from which to improve. No matter your ACO’s current track or level of accepted risk, the clearest path toward achieving these improvements can be found by identifying the key performance indicators that are most relevant to your physicians and focusing resources and efforts where they will have the greatest impact. 

Please join Craigan Gray, M.D., as well as Hymin Zucker, M.D. and Amy Kotch, MHA as they offer a proactive approach to continuous improvement that provides ACOs a decisive advantage on their path to achieving shared savings. 

April 6
7:30 - 8:15 am
Breakfast served in foyer

Operating an Intelligent, Effective ACO Using the Airport Model^TM 
Sponsored by The Garage
Key 3-4
Speaker: Pranam Ben, CEO, The Garage 

The Garage with its deep experience in developing platforms for managing populations, has conceived, designed and developed its proprietary Airport Model to help ACOs and other value based organizations. As an airport’s terminals help commuters reach their destinations, the Airport Model help ACOs provide better care, improve community health and lower delivery costs. A very unique, proven perspective. 

April 7
7:30 - 8:15 am
Breakfast served in foyer 

Telemedicine as a Tool for Value-based Care
Sponsored by Carena
Key 11-12
Speaker: Ralph C. Derrickson, President and CEO, Carena

An engaged patient with timely access to quality and coordinated care is at the core of the ACO program.  Please join us for this informative and practical breakfast session to learn how telehealth can help your ACO achieve the goals of patient engagement, access to care, ER diversion, readmissions reduction and patient retention. We will discuss the value proposition of telehealth for an ACO as well as explore several case studies of how virtual clinics have improved access, care and patient retention in health systems.  Carena partners with the nation’s leading health systems to extend their reach to patients through integrated, system-branded 24/7 virtual clinics.

Breakfast Speaker Bios 

Pranam Ben
Pranam Ben, Founder and CEO of The Garage, has established and owned multiple successful technology ventures over the course of his more than 18-year career.  Ben founded Orlando-based The Garage in 2012, adopting a name that pays tribute to the world’s most innovative companies that started in a garage, like Google, Amazon and Apple.  An emerging thought-leader and media source in the healthcare information technology space, Ben has been featured in CBS Money Watch, Marketwatch, business.com, Florida Trend, Orlando Business Journal and the Orlando Sentinel, among other media outlets. One of the products designed by Ben earned a Metro Orlando Economic Development Commission William C. Schwartz Industry Innovation Award. Under Ben’s leadership, The Garage received recognition as one of Orlando Business Journal’s “Best Places to Work” in 2014 for offering an outstanding work environment with great perks. Ben was also honored in the inaugural Orlando Business Journal CEO of the year class, for his leadership, ability to navigate market conditions and lasting impact in the community. 

Ralph C. Derrickson
Since joining Carena as President and CEO in 2006, Ralph has overseen the company’s transformation from a house call company to a virtual healthcare solutions provider with care-quality as the core of its vision. Ralph’s leadership includes investment in clinical quality and partnerships with leading health systems and Fortune 50 companies to offer high-quality virtual care access to over 18 million consumers. Prior to Carena, Ralph served as Managing Director of Venture Investments at Vulcan Capital, where he was responsible for the firm’s technology and biotechnology investments. He co-founded Watershed Capital, an early stage technology venture fund. Ralph has served on the boards of numerous technology start-ups and has held leadership positions at Starwave Corporation, NeXT Computer, Inc., and Sun Microsystems. Ralph is also an active member of the Seattle entrepreneur community. Ralph earned a degree in systems software science from the Rochester Institute of Technology. 

Craigan Gray
As Chief Medical Officer at Salient Healthcare, Dr. Gray brings a rich experience from private practice, hospital leadership, and governmental health-benefit programs. Prior to joining Salient, Dr. Gray was director of North Carolina’s $12 billion Medicaid program. His time as VPMA at Bon Secours Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital in Kentucky was distinguished by moving the facility into the top-quality performance tier for Health Grades and CMS health quality indicators. Dr. Gray is a Stanford University trained Obstetrician/Gynecologist. He also holds an MD degree, an MBA degree and a JD degree. He is a Certified Physician Executive and is published in various medical journals. 

Amy Kotch
Amy Kotch is the Operations Coordinator at Triple Aim Development Group, LLC, where she has gained experience consulting and completing data analysis for Accountable Care Organizations, technology firms, and pharmaceutical companies. She obtained her Bachelor of Science from the University of Miami and continued on to get her Masters in Health Administration from Florida Atlantic University. In graduate school she was the recipient of the Provost Fellowship and was selected to enter into the Richard J. Stull Essay Competition. In addition, she competed on the ACHE Case Competition team in South Florida placing third overall. Prior to her professional work experience, she interned in an insurance office, multiple hospitals, a physician office, and two Universities. She is excited to broaden her experience in the healthcare arena and to assist in the triple aim. 

Hymin Zucker
As a practicing internal medicine physician for more than twenty years, Dr. Zucker is one of the nation's leading authorities and innovators on physician protocols, providing quality experiences to patient care while reducing unnecessary costs. Dr. Zucker is Chief Medical Officer of Total Quality Management.