Live Webinar
Digital Transformation in 2022: Getting Your Priorities Right
27 JANUARY
11 AM CT
Event information
Digital transformation has accelerated since the beginning of the pandemic. Telehealth and virtual care models have gone mainstream. However, digital maturity varies significantly across healthcare organizations, as does the adoption rate for digital health among patients and providers. There is an explosion of digital health startups, at the same time there are significant challenges in harnessing the innovation and evaluating the vast ecosystem of solution providers. Emerging technologies such as AI are not living up to their expectations yet. M & A activity among healthcare enterprises and solution providers is reshaping the landscape. Against this backdrop, how should healthcare and technology leaders approach digital priorities in 2022?
Join Paddy Padmanabhan, Founder and CEO of Damo Consulting and best-selling author of Healthcare Digital Transformation – How Consumerism, technology and Pandemic are Accelerating the Future, and leading practitioners of digital health as they discuss digital transformation priorities in 2022.
Guests
- Tony Ambrozie, SVP and CIO, Baptist Health South Florida
- Stephanie Lahr, MD, CIO and CMIO, Monument Health
- Nick Patel, MD, Chief Digital Officer, Prisma Health
- Dr. Roy Schoenberg, President and CEO, Amwell
Key topics that will be covered:
- What are the top digital transformation priorities for health systems in 2022? Findings from Damo’s annual survey of healthcare CIOs
- What are the biggest challenges in accelerating digital transformation? Experiences from leading CDOs and CIOs
- What are the challenges before healthcare organizations for 2022? The Great Resignation and more
Guests:
Paddy Padmanabhan
CEO, Damo Consulting, Inc.
Host & Moderator
Paddy Padmanabhan is the Founder and CEO of Damo Consulting Inc., a digital transformation and growth advisory firm focused on the healthcare sector. Paddy is an award-winning business leader and entrepreneur with deep experience in healthcare technology markets. He is the author of the best-selling book Healthcare Digital Transformation - How Consumerism, technology and Pandemic are Accelerating the Future (Taylor and Francis, Aug 2020). Paddy has had a distinguished career in leadership roles with global organizations such as GE and Accenture and has been a founding member of startups that had successful exits. Over the past 20 years, he has worked extensively as a technology strategist and trusted advisor to C-suite executives in large health systems and digital health firms.
Paddy is a widely published thought leader on technology-led transformation in healthcare. He is the author of a previous best-selling book The Big Unlock – Harnessing Data and Growing Digital Health Businesses in a Value-based Care Era (Archway Publishing, 2017). He is the host of the highly subscribed podcast The Big Unlock featuring C-level executives from the healthcare and technology sectors. He has a by-lined column in CIO Magazine on digital health technology trends and is frequently quoted in respected industry publications. Paddy is a sought-after speaker on digital transformation and has spoken at leading conferences and company events.
Paddy is a graduate of the executive management program of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, holds an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, and a B.S in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology.
Nick Patel, MD
Chief Digital Officer, Prisma Health
Dr. Patel serves as the Chief Digital Officer at Prima Health and Vice Chair for Innovation & Clinical Affairs at USC Department of Medicine in South Carolina. Prisma Health is the largest, most comprehensive, locally owned, non-profit hospital system in South Carolina. He also continues to practice as an internal medicine physician for the past sixteen years. Dr. Patel has given multiple presentations around the country ranging in topics from Healthcare IT transformation, governance, workflow enhancements, health equity, telehealth, AI, and population health. Spearheaded the largest, first-of-its-kind Microsoft Surface pilot in the nation to improve physician workflow, published in the International Journal of Medical Informatics. Played an instrumental role in the acquisition of over $24 million of venture capital funding for healthcare start-up companies.
Previously as the medical group’s CMIO, he co-led efforts in the optimization and integration of Epic and Cerner at Prisma Health. Recognized as a leader in defining and articulating a unique vision on the utilization and development of technology in healthcare. Because of his industry contributions, he currently serves on multiple healthcare advisory boards including HP Inc., University of South Carolina College of Engineering and Computer Science, Kyruus, Conversa, MDLive, Perfect Serve, and Fraunhofer USA. Subject matter expert for multiple Fortune 500 tech companies, such as Hewlett-Packard, and Microsoft. He also has served as principal investigator on multiple IRB approved IT studies in conjunction with USC. Holds a clinical faculty position at the USC School of Medicine department of internal medicine and USC School of Engineering and Computing. He is also one of two physicians in the world who have been awarded Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional Award. Also recently named Top 20 Chief Digital Officers to know in 2020 by Becker’s Hospital Review.
Tony Ambrozie
Senior VP and CIO, Baptist Health South Florida
Tony is responsible for all technologies and customer experience as well as clinical digital and data transformation efforts.
Before joining Baptist Health, Mr. Ambrozie served as the Senior Vice President, Technology and Digital at The Walt Disney Company. In this role, he was responsible for a number of digital and core systems and technologies, engineering, data analytics and machine learning for Disney Parks, Consumer Products, Games and Publishing.
Prior to joining Disney in 2013, Mr. Ambrozie was Vice President for Digital Platform Technologies at American Express, where he was responsible for platform engineering, shared services development and application security, with previous roles focused on application architecture, development, engineering and performance.
He is a proven leader in the technology and digital space with a keen focus on using technology and data to enhance the consumer experience.
Prior to spending the past two decades focused on large business operations, he launched his technology career as the cofounder of a software development startup, specializing in building unique, small business applications.
Mr. Ambrozie holds a dual MBA and master’s degree in Information Management from the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University.
Stephanie Lahr, MD
CIO and CMIO, Monument Health
Stephanie works on the strategy, implementation and management of technologies within the health care system. She graduated from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, completed an Internal Medicine residency, and is board certified in Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics with an additional certification through CHIME as a Certified Healthcare CIO.
Dr. Roy Schoenberg
President and CEO, Amwell
Prior to Amwell, Roy was the Founder of CareKey and served as the Chief Information Security Officer at TriZetto, following its acquisition of CareKey. In 2013, Roy was appointed to the Federation of State Medical Boards’ Taskforce that issued the landmark guidelines for the “Appropriate Use of Telemedicine in the Practice of Medicine”. Roy was named one of Modern Healthcare’s 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare in 2020 and is the 2014 recipient of the American Telemedicine Association Industry award for leadership in the field of telemedicine. An inventor at heart, Roy holds over 50 issued US Patents in the area of healthcare technology, speaks frequently in industry and policy forums, serves on the healthcare advisory board of MIT Sloan, holds an MD from the Hebrew University and an MPH from Harvard. He is a sailor, scuba-diver, and, between September and February, a devoted football fan.
