CORPORATE SPONSORS
Change Healthcare
Change Healthcare is inspiring a better healthcare system. Working alongside our customers and partners, we leverage our software and analytics, network solutions and technology-enabled services to help them improve efficiency, reduce costs, increase cash flow and more effectively manage complex workflows. Together, we are accelerating the journey toward improved lives and healthier communities. Learn more at www.changehealthcare.com.
Optum
Optum is a leading health services and innovation company dedicated to helping make the health system work better for everyone. With more than 133,000 people collaborating worldwide, Optum combines technology, data and expertise to improve the delivery, quality and efficiency of health care.
DIAMOND SPONSORS
Intuitive
At Intuitive®, innovating for minimally invasive care is the passion that drives us. Our robotic-assisted da Vinci® Surgical System helps empower doctors and hospitals to make surgery less invasive than an open approach. Working with doctors and hospitals, we’re continuing to develop new, minimally invasive surgical platforms and future diagnostic tools to help solve complex healthcare challenges around the world.
VisitPay
VisitPay is the first and only platform for Patient Financial Health. The culmination of seven years development in user-driven software design, predictive analytics and consumer finance, VisitPay enables hospitals and health systems to dramatically increase yield on patient balances while giving patients an easy to use experience that allows them to take control of their financial health.
PLATINUM SPONSORS
Abbott
At Abbott, we're committed to helping people live their best possible life through the power of health. For more than 125 years, we've brought new products and technologies to the world -- in nutrition, diagnostics, medical devices and branded generic pharmaceuticals -- that create more possibilities for more people at all stages of life. Today, 94,000 of us are working to help people live not just longer, but better, in the more than 150 countries we serve.Connect with us at www.abbott.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews and @AbbottGlobal.
AccuReg
AccuReg has one simple, clear focus: Optimizing the front-end of the revenue cycle. This is the best place to help the RCM industry perform better at a lower cost. In fact, as hospitals are being squeezed to become more efficient, effective and less costly, the front-end is the only place left for the RCM industry to go.
Allscripts
Allscripts is a global leader in healthcare technology that connects communities for smarter care. Built on an open platform, its EHR, financial management, population health and precision medicine solutions drive innovation in workflows, care delivery and patient behavior.
American Medical Association
The AMA has launched a new strategy designed to create more impactful support for health systems and medical groups. The new benefits provided allow leadership to tackle the issues that keep them up at night, while also more effectively supporting their physicians. These new resources provide solutions ranging from reducing physician burnout to programs built to improve population health.
athenahealth
athenahealth® partners with hospital and ambulatory clients to drive clinical and financial results. We offer network-enabled medical record, revenue cycle, patient engagement, care coordination, and population health services, as well as Epocrates® and other point-of-care mobile apps. athenahealth connects care across a national network of 106,000 providers and 102 million patients. Our network provides clients better insight across their own organization as well as the ability to learn from the experience of every other provider on the network. Through our model, we infuse the knowledge clients need to thrive in a changing industry directly into their workflow, from clinical guidelines to payer rules. We take on back-office work at scale so providers can focus on patients, not paperwork, and get paid more, faster.
Cardinal Health
Cardinal Health, Inc. is a global, integrated healthcare services and products company, providing customized solutions for hospitals, healthcare systems, pharmacies, ambulatory surgery centers, clinical laboratories and physician offices worldwide. Cardinal Health™ WaveMark™ supply management and workflow solution helps reduce the total cost of care by supporting streamlined workflows that capture actionable intelligence on product spend, location, usage and waste, so health system professionals can make more informed supply decisions, and focus more on delivering quality patient care. For more information, visit cardinalhealth.com/WaveMark.
Cedar
Cedar is a patient payment and engagement platform for hospitals, health systems and medical groups that elevates the total patient experience beyond clinical care. The platform leverages advanced data science, machine learning and smart segmentation to deliver modern intelligence and simplify the healthcare experience for patients. To learn more, visit cedar.com.
Cigna
Cigna is a global health service leader dedicated to helping people improve their health and well-being. Our health benefits and services for hospitals provide connected health care solutions uniquely designed for those who deliver health care. As the market evolves, Cigna continues to deliver highly customized solutions to meet the needs of hospitals and physicians.
HEI Health
HEI Health is a healthcare re-engineering organization whose passion, over the last 20 years, has been solving the most complex and challenging problems faced in healthcare. Whether it is improving patient's experience and access to care, solving the challenge of physician burnout, implementing a one-stop does it all “schegistration” model or improving revenue cycle collections, our team of experts can lead you towards the solutions you want.At HEI Health, we believe that tomorrow’s healthcare can be made affordable today. To find out more about what we do – visit us at HEIhealth.com
Heron Therapeutics
Heron’s mission is to improve patient’s lives by developing best-in-class medicines that address major unmet medical needs. Our portfolio includes two products approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, SUSTOL® (granisetron) extended release injection and CINVANTI TM (aprepitant) injectable emulsion, as well as one product in development; HTX-011, a novel fixed-dose combination of the local anesthetic bupivacaine with the nonsteroidal anti- inflammatory drug (NSAID) meloxicam is being investigated for application into the surgical site to reduce postoperative pain and the need for opioid analgesics for 72 hours.
Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies
At Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies (JJMDC), we are using our breadth, scale and experience to reimagine the way healthcare is delivered and help people live longer, healthier lives. In a radically changing environment, we are making connections across science and technology to combine our own expertise in surgery, orthopaedics and interventional solutions with the big ideas of others to design and deliver physician and patient-centric products and solutions. As pioneers in medical devices, we continually focus on elevating the standard of care – working to expand patient access, improve outcomes, reduce health system costs and drive value. We create smart, people-centered healthcare to help the patients we serve recover faster and live longer and more vibrantly. We are in this for life.
Mastercard
Mastercard Data & Services encompasses Mastercard's offerings beyond the transaction. We provide customers with tailored portfolios of solutions to address their pain points. By harnessing the power of real-time, anonymized and aggregated data, powerful software platforms and wealth of expertise, we empower customers to unlock a holistic view of consumer behavior, distill actionable insights and make data-driven decisions.
MedSpeed
Intra-company logistics—the enterprise-wide movement of physical materials (specimens, pharmaceuticals, supplies, equipment, etc.)—is the foundation of the healthcare supply chain. Clinical operations cannot function without it. MedSpeed is a market-leading organization that is changing transportation logistics by leveraging it to help health systems integrate, and by doing so achieve greater efficiencies, reduce risk, better utilize scale, eliminate redundancies and centralize services.
Medtronic
As a global leader in medical technology, services and solutions, Medtronic improves the lives and health of millions of people each year. We use our deep clinical, therapeutic, and economic expertise to address the complex challenges faced by healthcare systems today. Let’s take healthcare Further, Together. Learn more at Medtronic.com.
Nuance
Nuance healthcare solutions capture, improve and communicate more than 300 million patient stories each year, helping more than 500,000 clinicians in 10,000 global healthcare organizations to drive meaningful clinical and financial outcomes. Nuance’s award-winning clinical speech recognition, medical transcription, CDI, surgical CAPD, coding, quality and medical imaging solutions provide a more complete and accurate view of patient care.
R1 RCM
R1 RCM is a leading provider of technology-enabled RCM services which transform and solve revenue cycle performance challenges across health systems, hospitals and physician practices. The flexible and scalable technology-enabled services offered by R1 help manage healthcare providers’ revenue cycle operations while generating sustainable improvements in operating margins and cash flows and enhancing patient, physician and staff satisfaction.
Simplee
Simplee, founder of the patient financial care movement, is healthcare’s leading technology platform for engaging patients and addressing affordability with personalized paths to payment. Loved by millions of patients, Simplee’s consumer-centric experience helps the largest health systems reach higher levels of patient satisfaction and achieve better financial performance.
TeamHealth
At TeamHealth, our purpose is to perfect our physicians' ability to practice medicine, every day, in everything we do. TeamHealth offers outsourced emergency medicine, hospital medicine, anesthesia, orthopedic hospitalist, acute care surgery, obstetrics and gynecology hospitalist, urgent care, post-acute care and medical call center solutions to approximately 3,200 civilian and military hospitals, clinics, physician groups and post-acute care facilities nationwide.
Teladoc Health
Teladoc, Inc. (NYSE:TDOC) is the largest and most trusted provider of virtual healthcare delivery services. The company provides virtual access to high quality care and expertise with a portfolio of services and solutions, and Teladoc is the only telehealth provider with a dedicated business unit and licensable technology solution for hospitals and health systems which has earned the exclusive endorsement of the American Hospital Association. Recognized by MIT Technology Review as one of the “50 Smartest Companies”, Teladoc is forging a new healthcare experience with better convenience, outcomes and value. For more information, visit teladoc.com/healthsystems or call 844.798.3810. For more information, visit teladochealth.com, teladoc.com/healthsystems, twitter.com/teladochealth, facebook.com/teladoc, and linkedin.com/teladoc-health
GOLD SPONSORS
BKD National Health Care Group
You’ve got big plans for your system and those it serves, but the route you choose is just as important as the destination. Before you embark on your next major initiative, our friendly, forward-thinking pros can help you improve performance, navigate industry changes and explore market opportunities. Everyone needs a trusted advisor. Who’s yours?
SILVER SPONSORS
3M Health Information Systems
Transforming health care from a system that treats disease, to one that improves health and wellness begins with accurate health information and payment. From improving efficiency of medical records coding, to outlining success in value-based care, we deliver software and services to over 5,000 provider, payer and government healthcare organizations that help them succeed in an ever-changing healthcare world.
ClearBalance
ClearBalance® has been at the forefront of patient pay management since 1992, setting and delivering a high bar for zero interest financing solutions, patient pay reimbursement, revenue cycle IT expertise and the patient/consumer experience. Our HFMA Peer Reviewed ROI Value Model sets nationally recognized patient pay standards and we maintain the industry’s highest patient loan repayment rate.
Echelon Medical Capital
Echelon Medical Capital is one of the largest dedicated accounts receivable finance companies in the US, delivering tens of millions of dollars in operating capital to doctors, hospitals, ASCs, diagnostic, pain and chiropractic centers. With innovative insurance and personal injury receivable finance options, and enormous capital availability, Echelon has the liquidity solution to maximize revenue for your practice.
Jarrard Phillips Cate & Hancock, Inc.
Jarrard Phillips Cate & Hancock, Inc. is a strategic communications consulting firm devoted to helping healthcare providers navigate change, challenge and opportunity. Ranked a top-10 firm nationally, Jarrard Inc. has guided leaders at more than 400 healthcare organizations across the country through high-stakes moments, including leading communications for more than $45 billion in announced hospital M&A.Our team of former journalists, political operatives and healthcare executives is built to serve the unique needs and challenges of national health systems and academic medical centers; regional and community health systems; and health services companies. For more information, visit jarrardinc.com.
SAP Concur
SAP Concur takes companies of all sizes and stages beyond automation to a completely connected spend management solution encompassing travel, expense, invoice compliance and risk. Our global expertise, industry-leading innovation and dynamic ecosystem of diverse partners and applications unlock powerful insights that help businesses reduce complexity and see spending clearly, so they can manage it proactively.
TD Bank
TD Bank is one of the 10 largest banks in the U.S. with over $287B in assets, providing 8.5+ million customers with retail, small business and commercial banking products and services. TD's Institutional Healthcare division works with some of the largest not-for-profit health systems and academic medical centers across the country.
BRONZE SPONSORS
Alkermes
Alkermes is a leader in innovative medicines that address the unmet needs and challenges of people living with debilitating diseases. As a fully integrated global biopharmaceutical company, Alkermes applies our scientific expertise, proprietary technologies and global resources to develop products that are designed to make a meaningful difference in the way patients manage their disease.
Bank of America
Bank of America Merrill Lynch Healthcare Banking ™ is committed to supporting its healthcare clients achieve value-based care systems through customized financial strategies and innovative solutions. With over 30 years of industry experience, Bank of America Merrill Lynch is a powerful ally to healthcare companies of every size. To learn more, please contact your Bank of America Merrill Lynch representative or visit www.bofaml.com/healthcare.
HED Design
HED is a national healthcare architecture firm delivering world-class medical care and exceptional patient service through excellent design. Successful hospitals and health systems must navigate a multitude of interrelated resources from technical advances to the latest legal and regulatory standards, but one resource – the building – stands out as the single asset that organizes all healthcare delivery. www.hed.design
Merck
For more than a century, Merck has been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, Merck continues be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.
Norton Rose Fulbright
Norton Rose Fulbright is a global law firm with more than 4,000 lawyers in over 50 cities around the world. Our traditions are rooted in representing clients in the healthcare industry. Our healthcare team focus began in 1941 with the creation and development of the Texas Medical Center. Today, with more than 150 lawyers with a practice focus in the healthcare sector, we are one of the largest healthcare practices in the nation. For more information visit www.nortonrosefulbright.com/us/.
ZocDoc
Zocdoc is the beginning of a better healthcare experience. Each month, millions of patients use Zocdoc to find in-network doctors they love, instantly book appointments online, see what other real patients have to say, and much more. We partner with leading provider organizations across the country to deliver the simple healthcare experience patients expect and deserve