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Dr. Randy Williams, founder and CEO of Pharos Innovations
Dr. William (Bill) Appelgate, executive director of the Iowa Chronic Care Consortium, a voluntary collaboration of public, private, academic and government organizations whose purpose is to develop capacity for the state of Iowa to effectively manage the most prevalent chronic diseases affecting Iowans
Dr. Tom Kline, medical director for Iowa Medicaid Enterprises
To request a personal walk-through of the detailed demonstration results, contact Pharos Innovations at pharos@pharosinnovations.com.
You will hear an in-depth explanation of how these results were achieved, as well as discussions about the most effective methods to measure results and the best ways to introduce care management programs and technologies at your organization.
Speaking Panel:
Dr. Randy Williams, founder and CEO of Pharos Innovations
Dr. William (Bill) Appelgate, executive director of the Iowa Chronic Care Consortium
Virtual Pharos brings together the industry’s best and brightest for interactive and informative webcasts and webinars on innovations in care coordination. Join us here often for new presentations and demonstrations on the hottest topics. You’ll learn valuable information that you can take back and implement within your own organization.
Improving Chronic Care Management Through a Proven Disruptive Innovation
Healthcare reform is dramatically changing the way in which our healthcare is delivered and paid for. In this challenging environment, it is more important than ever to identify innovative ways to disrupt the status quo in order to lower costs while improving quality and outcomes.
In a recent interview at ATA 2010, Pharos Innovations CEO, Dr. Randall Williams, explained how Pharos' Tel-Assurance remote patient monitoring and behavior change platform shifts the focus on chronic condition management away from complicated devices, expensive technologies and inefficient staffing models to an elegantly simple, platform-based model that users, clinicians and health plan and provider business leaders applaud.
Commonwealth Fund Briefing: “Pathways to Payment Innovation in a Post-Health Reform Era”
In a May 10 briefing, Nick Wolters, MD, CEO of Billings Clinic, joined Gail Wilensky, senior fellow at Project HOPE, and Stuart Guterman, assistant vice president for payment system reform at The Commonwealth Fund, to discuss how healthcare reform is changing our healthcare delivery and payment system. During the briefing, they discussed:
How changes in the current model can eliminate fragmented care and reduce healthcare costs
The impact the new CMS Innovation Center will have in changing our system
How Billings Clinic piloted a successful model as part of the CMS Physician Group Practice demonstration
Watch the informative briefing to learn more about delivery and payment system reform and the IVR and Web-based remote patient monitoring/behavior change technology that Billings Clinic used as part of their program.
Breaking the engagement enigma: Tips to maximize care management program engagement before program launch
It is no surprise or secret that program enrollment and retention are critical to optimizing healthcare management program success. The greater the number of patients who are engaged in a care management program, the greater the program’s outcomes, both clinical and financial. Yet, program enrollment and retention continues to be a challenge for many organizations. Pharos can help. In this six minute on-demand webcast, we share some of the best practices we have learned in our 15 years of experience working with healthcare organizations to maximize program success.
Inova Health System reduces avoidable readmissions and improves patient care using Pharos Innovations’ Tel-Assurance IVR and Web-based remote patient monitoring/behavior change platform
Inova Health System is offering Tel-Assurance free to patients with congestive heart failure. The program is keeping patients out of the hospital, and at home, doing the things they love and is reducing avoidable hospital re-admissions at the same time. All it takes each day is a simple phone call.
Chicago Business Today with Lisa Leiter highlights Pharos Innovations entrepreneurial spirit and the company’s efforts in shaping healthcare reform for a more cost effective and efficient healthcare delivery system
On December 15, 2009, Chicago Business Today with Lisa Leiter featured Dr. Randy Williams, CEO of Pharos Innovations on the company’s efforts to transform healthcare delivery through technology-based behavior change services and its efforts in shaping healthcare reform for a more cost effective and efficient delivery system.
PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Highlights Critical Healthcare Delivery System and Payment Reform Issues; Pharos Client, Billings Clinic, Featured
August 12, 2009, PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer featured a lengthy segment on one of the most important issues of healthcare reform – delivery system and payment reform. The entire 9 ½ minute segment featured Pharos client, Billings Clinic, a not-for-profit healthcare organization in Billings, Montana, as an example of a successful model that is already working to reduce healthcare costs and improve care quality. As one of ten participating systems in CMS’ Physician Group Practice demonstration, Billings Clinic, through the use of Pharos’ Tel-Assurance remote patient monitoring platform, was able to show $1.5 million in annual savings, a 40% drop in admissions and a 3:1 return. Watch the 9 ½ minute streaming video to see the Billings Clinic’s successful model for improving care and reducing healthcare costs.
Changing the Conversation about Chronic Care Management: Pharos CEO Interviewed on New Care Collaboration Model that is Taking Chronic Care Management to New Level
Like many today, Tim Rowan, editor of Home Care Automation Report, is intrigued by Pharos’ new collaborative care model that is changing the conversation about chronic care management. In this 10 minute streaming video, Mr. Rowan interviews Dr. Randall Williams, CEO of Pharos Innovations, about this new model and how it is changing the chronic care management paradigm.
Improving Patient Engagement in Telephonic and Online Health Improvement Programs for Lasting Behavior Change - Podcast
During this 11 minute Podcast interview with the Health Intelligence Network, Dr. Randall Williams, CEO of Pharos Innovations, provides his insight into participant engagement for health improvement programs. He addresses the particularly challenging task of engaging hard-to-reach populations, such as Medicaid members.
Active Management of Chronic Conditions with a Medical Home Model: Virtual Care with Hospital as Hub
In this informative discussion to members of the Sg2 Design Forum, Dr. Randall Williams, CEO of Pharos Innovations explores a new model for delivering chronic condition care that connects patients, providers and facilities for more effective care management.
Study Validates Use of Technology-Based Remote Monitoring Platform to Reduce Healthcare Utilization and Cost
Hear from the experts about the "hot off the presses" results from the Iowa Medicaid Congestive Heart Failure Population Disease Management Demonstration that reduced the need for costly acute care services and saved Iowa Medicaid $5 million.
A New Paradigm for Chronic Care Management – Hosted by Health Data Management
Pioneering leaders involved with the Iowa Medicaid Congestive Heart Failure Population Disease Management demonstration expand on the breakthrough results they experienced by adding the Pharos Innovations model of remote patient monitoring to Iowa Medicaid’s care coordination program.
