Nicole Engel, Author at NextHealth Technologies, Inc.

Gene Cavanaugh

Gene Cavanaugh is our Chief Financial Officer with over thirty years of professional experience. Throughout his career, Gene has worked in service operations, finance and accounting, and outsourcing/ offshore. In previous roles, Gene was a management consultant focusing on healthcare operations and finance; including call center operations, due diligence, and business development for offshore enterprises and health care services companies.

Biography:

Gene is a resident of West Palm Beach, Florida.

Degrees:

Gene completed his undergrad degree in accounting at Villanova University.

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Dr. Michael Poku

Michael Poku, MD, MBA is a senior medical director for Oak Street Health, a network of primary care centers that deliver value-based care to adults on Medicare. Michael is passionate about developing and implementing novel care models and is a proponent of “whole-person care”. Prior to his time at Oak Street, Michael was at Signify Health. Michael also holds clinical faculty positions at the Methodist Health System in Dallas and UT Southwestern. Michael has past experiences in management consulting at McKinsey and company where he worked in the healthcare payer and provider space; he also has experiences in intellectual property management, VC/PE, and healthcare operations and strategy.

Biography:
Outside of work, Michael enjoys supporting non-profit organizations volunteering, and serving on the board. Of late, he has been convinced by his wife to foster dogs over the past several months.

Education:
Michael holds a doctorate from the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

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Impacting Affordability During a Pandemic: Humana's Telehealth Experience

In light of the Pandemic, telehealth is having sea change impacts across the industry. In this unique environment, Humana’s Test and Learn culture has uncovered many new opportunities to positively understand and impact member behavior, improve health status and outcomes, and decrease health plan costs.

In this Webinar, Humana will discuss their successful usage of NextHealth’s “Test & Learn” analytic platform during the Pandemic, targeted to resolve a long-standing problem for Humana – avoidable ER utilization. Employing a Test & Learn approach, Humana systematically identified and increased telehealth adoption with targeted members to causally reduce avoidable ER usage … even in the time of COVID!

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Webcast: Unlocking the Value of PHM Solutions: How to Establish an ROI-Based Approach in the Wake of an Ongoing Pandemic

Population health management (PHM) industry solutions focus on identifying the macro/micro population segment that’s at risk and needs care. While high-performing health plans do this very successfully, most PHM initiatives fail in bringing “last mile change.”

What’s missing? Health plans need to integrate PHM insights into clinicians’ workflow to drive evidence-based engagement strategies and help physicians leverage their trust-based patient relationships. Doing so drives behavior change and brings tangible return on investment (ROI) to PHM initiatives. This is more important now than ever in this dynamic healthcare landscape and current operating environment.

Join this session to learn how to leverage technology and analytics to establish a holistic, ROI-based PHM approach—from strategy to implementation. ZS, along with the CMO of Highmark and CEO of NextHealth Technologies, will discuss how a full digital health transformation in relation to population health is now essential. We will also provide a framework built around identification, engagement, wellness and outcome that can help health plans like yours take their members from illness to wellness.

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