Chief Executive Officer
Partnership Network Events
Dr. Arun Mathews is a physician executive with over 15 years of experience driving clinical excellence, innovation, and digital transformation in healthcare. As the Chief Medical Officer for South King County at MultiCare Health System in Washington state, Dr. Mathews provides strategic leadership for Auburn and Covington Medical Centers. Under his guidance, both hospitals achieved successful certification surveys in 2017, 2018, 2021 and 2022.
In addition to his CMO role, Dr. Mathews has served as the Technology Advisory Services Chief Medical Information Officer for MultiCare, spearheading partnerships and investments in advanced clinical decision support and research tools. His passion for leveraging technology to improve care delivery began during his Medical Informatics Research Fellowship at Johns Hopkins, and continued through progressive dual CMO/CMIO roles in Texas. Highlights include leading EMR implementations, achieving HIMSS Analytics Stage 6 designation, and attaining Meaningful Use Stages 1 and 2.
As an educator, Dr. Mathews directed the Hospitalist Medicine Fellowship at Texas Tech from 2010-2015. He has presented at national conferences on topics including clinical analytics, gamification in medical education, and fostering physician innovation.
Dr. Mathews has been recognized with the AMDIS Award for Excellence in Applied Clinical Informatics and as a Rising Star Under 40 by Becker’s Hospital Review. In partnership with the administrative team, MultiCare Auburn Medical Center was named a Most Socially Responsible Hospital by the Lown Institute in 2023.
Dr. Mathews earned his medical degree with honors from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He completed his residency and chief residency in Internal Medicine at Good Samaritan Hospital in Baltimore. A published author, his works include The Hospitalist Manual and A.C.E. Medical Mnemonics flashcards.
With his unique blend of clinical, informatics, and leadership expertise, Dr. Arun Mathews is dedicated to transforming healthcare delivery and improving lives through innovation, education and social responsibility.
Chief Medical Officer
MultiCare Health System
Dr. Chia-Shing Yang has spent the last decade building physician enterprise solutions for partners from coast to coast. With a deep focus on the people we care for, she is passionate about developing standard-setting bedside teams. A board-certified internist,
Dr. Yang is also an alumna of the University of Virginia (BS), Eastern Virginia Medical School (MD), and Christiana Care – Jefferson Medical College (residency). Formerly a faculty member at Texas A&M and currently a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP) and Fellow of Hospital Medicine (FHM), Dr. Yang speaks nationally about human-centric
healthcare ecosystems and the future of care.
Regional President
Sound Physicians
At Philips, our purpose is to improve people’s health and well-being through meaningful innovation. As such, we see huge opportunities to make a difference through innovation, design, and sustainability – partnering with our healthcare customers to increase productivity and deliver better care for more people through our innovation platforms of monitoring, imaging, interventional and enterprise informatics.
As a technology brand that cares about people and the planet, we listen, discover and challenge, in order to deliver meaningful innovation to people.
Head of Sales, Clinical Applications
Philips
Welcoming everyone to HPN San Diego 2025.
Partner
North Gate Group
Founder and Partner
Fitzroy International
Ambience Healthcare’s clinical AI platform for scribing, point of care CDI & coding, referrals, and patient summaries has been deployed at leading health systems like Cleveland Clinic, UCSF, Houston Methodist, and Memorial Hermann. By providing clinicians with the world’s most advanced AI technology, Ambience reduces clinician burnout, enables high quality care, and unlocks revenue — without asking clinicians to see more patients. www.ambiencehealthcare.com
Chief Digital Health Officer
Houston Methodist
Overview, including key stats and trends as well as the implications of the new administration for equitable healthcare delivery.
Dr. Chia-Shing Yang has spent the last decade building physician enterprise solutions for partners from coast to coast. With a deep focus on the people we care for, she is passionate about developing standard-setting bedside teams. A board-certified internist,
Dr. Yang is also an alumna of the University of Virginia (BS), Eastern Virginia Medical School (MD), and Christiana Care – Jefferson Medical College (residency). Formerly a faculty member at Texas A&M and currently a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP) and Fellow of Hospital Medicine (FHM), Dr. Yang speaks nationally about human-centric
healthcare ecosystems and the future of care.
Regional President
Sound Physicians
Dr. Arun Mathews is a physician executive with over 15 years of experience driving clinical excellence, innovation, and digital transformation in healthcare. As the Chief Medical Officer for South King County at MultiCare Health System in Washington state, Dr. Mathews provides strategic leadership for Auburn and Covington Medical Centers. Under his guidance, both hospitals achieved successful certification surveys in 2017, 2018, 2021 and 2022.
In addition to his CMO role, Dr. Mathews has served as the Technology Advisory Services Chief Medical Information Officer for MultiCare, spearheading partnerships and investments in advanced clinical decision support and research tools. His passion for leveraging technology to improve care delivery began during his Medical Informatics Research Fellowship at Johns Hopkins, and continued through progressive dual CMO/CMIO roles in Texas. Highlights include leading EMR implementations, achieving HIMSS Analytics Stage 6 designation, and attaining Meaningful Use Stages 1 and 2.
As an educator, Dr. Mathews directed the Hospitalist Medicine Fellowship at Texas Tech from 2010-2015. He has presented at national conferences on topics including clinical analytics, gamification in medical education, and fostering physician innovation.
Dr. Mathews has been recognized with the AMDIS Award for Excellence in Applied Clinical Informatics and as a Rising Star Under 40 by Becker’s Hospital Review. In partnership with the administrative team, MultiCare Auburn Medical Center was named a Most Socially Responsible Hospital by the Lown Institute in 2023.
Dr. Mathews earned his medical degree with honors from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He completed his residency and chief residency in Internal Medicine at Good Samaritan Hospital in Baltimore. A published author, his works include The Hospitalist Manual and A.C.E. Medical Mnemonics flashcards.
With his unique blend of clinical, informatics, and leadership expertise, Dr. Arun Mathews is dedicated to transforming healthcare delivery and improving lives through innovation, education and social responsibility.
Chief Medical Officer
MultiCare Health System
Welcome to HPN San Diego! We bring transformational executives together in an intimate setting to exchange healthcare ideas on a global scale. Engage in an open dialog with peers about what the problems are, sharing successes and failure...
Welcome to HPN San Diego! We bring transformational executives together in an intimate setting to exchange healthcare ideas on a global scale. Engage in an open dialog with peers about what the problems are, sharing successes and failures and collaborating on potential solutions.
Brian R. Spisak, PhD is the Chief People and Communication Officer and Senior Partner at Csuite Growth Advisors, focusing on digital transformation and workforce management in healthcare. Brian is also the Program Director of AI and Leadership at the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. In this role, he helps decision-makers lead through crisis and boost resilience with AI. In addition, he’s a faculty member at the American College of Healthcare Executives, where he helps leaders develop strategies to increase employee satisfaction and reduce burnout. His best-selling book, Computational Leadership: Connecting Behavioral Science and Technology to Optimize Decision-Making and Increase Profits, is an essential read for leaders striving to navigate an evolving digital landscape.
Senior Partner // Program Director of AI and Leadership, National Preparedness Leadership Initiative
Csuite Growth Advisors // Harvard University
Chief Medical Informatics Officer
Alignment Healthcare
Ambience Healthcare’s clinical AI platform for scribing, point of care CDI & coding, referrals, and patient summaries has been deployed at leading health systems like Cleveland Clinic, UCSF, Houston Methodist, and Memorial Hermann. By providing clinicians with the world’s most advanced AI technology, Ambience reduces clinician burnout, enables high quality care, and unlocks revenue — without asking clinicians to see more patients. www.ambiencehealthcare.com
Chief Digital Health Officer
Houston Methodist
Responsible for the development and implementation of an enterprise-wide information security program and biomedical technical.
Design, develop and maintain the overall delivery of biomedical equipment support for the Health System. Along with the responsibility for the security team I am responsible for the biomedical team.
Responsible for planning, managing, coordinating programs, and implementing strategic initiatives to preserve the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the organization’s information resources.
I interfaces with senior leadership, front-line team members, executes corporate development strategy, and drives change initiatives across the system to optimize organizational potential.
Works with executive management to govern policies and procedures for information security in a matter that meets the needs of the organization’s patients, medical staff, management and employees, and establishes customer confidence in the system’s information security program.
Chief Information Security Officer and Director of Infrastructure
Nebraska Methodist Health System
Dr. Lozovatsky is the Vice President of Digital Health at the American Medical Association where her team has responsibility for supporting physicians in the use of clinical technology. Dr. Lozovatsky is a nationally recognized leader in healthcare informatics and has a passion for using technology to improve patient care. Dr. Lozovatsky is a member of the Advisory Board for the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems and a Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association (FAMIA). In 2023, Dr. Lozovatsky received the HIMSS-AMDIS Changemaker in Health Care Physician Executive Award. Dr. Lozovatsky also serves as a pediatric hospitalist in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she continues to care for patients. She is board-certified in Pediatrics and Clinical Informatics.
Chief Medical Information Officer and Vice President of Digital Health Innovations
American Medical Association
We cannot avoid artificial intelligence, which has the potential to reshape the healthcare landscape – from improving clinical workflows and optimizing operational processes to redefining patient care delivery. This opening keynote...
We cannot avoid artificial intelligence, which has the potential to reshape the healthcare landscape – from improving clinical workflows and optimizing operational processes to redefining patient care delivery. This opening keynote panel will side-step the hype and focus on how AI is actually being deployed beyond pilot stage, encompassing the people (both staff and patients), the process to leverage the technology, and the outcomes delivered in implementation. Picking up on the critical challenges of AI adoption, including data security, governance and ethics, financial sustainability and ROI, this will set the stage for innovation-driven discussions throughout HPN San Diego.
Dr. Chia-Shing Yang has spent the last decade building physician enterprise solutions for partners from coast to coast. With a deep focus on the people we care for, she is passionate about developing standard-setting bedside teams. A board-certified internist,
Dr. Yang is also an alumna of the University of Virginia (BS), Eastern Virginia Medical School (MD), and Christiana Care – Jefferson Medical College (residency). Formerly a faculty member at Texas A&M and currently a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP) and Fellow of Hospital Medicine (FHM), Dr. Yang speaks nationally about human-centric
healthcare ecosystems and the future of care.
Regional President
Sound Physicians
Enterprise Chief Digital Transformation Officer
Medical University of South Carolina
Chief Financial Officer
MultiCare Health System
Bringing together a CIO and CFO for a candid conversation. We will ask these thought leaders to share their perspectives on navigating the intersection of cutting-edge technology investments and financial sustainability, exploring strate...
Bringing together a CIO and CFO for a candid conversation. We will ask these thought leaders to share their perspectives on navigating the intersection of cutting-edge technology investments and financial sustainability, exploring strategies to modernize systems, adopt advanced tools like AI, and align IT priorities with cost containment efforts—all while meeting the demands of a rapidly evolving healthcare landscape. This is about fostering collaboration between technology and finance leaders to drive organizational success.
At Philips, our purpose is to improve people’s health and well-being through meaningful innovation. As such, we see huge opportunities to make a difference through innovation, design, and sustainability – partnering with our healthcare customers to increase productivity and deliver better care for more people through our innovation platforms of monitoring, imaging, interventional and enterprise informatics.
As a technology brand that cares about people and the planet, we listen, discover and challenge, in order to deliver meaningful innovation to people.
Service Solutions and Partnerships Leader
Philips
Strategic Capital Projects and Partnership
UCI Health
This session explores how health systems can navigate financial pressure and technology overload by investing in innovations that simplify operations, scale effectively and deliver meaningful ROI. Learn how large IDNs are moving beyond f...
This session explores how health systems can navigate financial pressure and technology overload by investing in innovations that simplify operations, scale effectively and deliver meaningful ROI. Learn how large IDNs are moving beyond fragmented tools toward enterprise strategies that reduce clinician burden and drive system-wide performance. Gain practical insight into building long-term vendor partnerships that enable financial flexibility and aligned decision-making. You will leave with actionable strategies to streamline systems and make smarter technology investments that support both clinical and operational goals.
Our signature ‘Shark Tank’ session provides each solution provider with an opportunity to deliver a short pitch, explaining why they are here and how their services can help tackle some of the sector’s ongoing challenges.
15 minute meetings with suppliers who are offering solutions most relevant to your challenges. Please check the schedule on the back of your delegate pass for your meeting timings.
Dr. Arun Mathews is a physician executive with over 15 years of experience driving clinical excellence, innovation, and digital transformation in healthcare. As the Chief Medical Officer for South King County at MultiCare Health System in Washington state, Dr. Mathews provides strategic leadership for Auburn and Covington Medical Centers. Under his guidance, both hospitals achieved successful certification surveys in 2017, 2018, 2021 and 2022.
In addition to his CMO role, Dr. Mathews has served as the Technology Advisory Services Chief Medical Information Officer for MultiCare, spearheading partnerships and investments in advanced clinical decision support and research tools. His passion for leveraging technology to improve care delivery began during his Medical Informatics Research Fellowship at Johns Hopkins, and continued through progressive dual CMO/CMIO roles in Texas. Highlights include leading EMR implementations, achieving HIMSS Analytics Stage 6 designation, and attaining Meaningful Use Stages 1 and 2.
As an educator, Dr. Mathews directed the Hospitalist Medicine Fellowship at Texas Tech from 2010-2015. He has presented at national conferences on topics including clinical analytics, gamification in medical education, and fostering physician innovation.
Dr. Mathews has been recognized with the AMDIS Award for Excellence in Applied Clinical Informatics and as a Rising Star Under 40 by Becker’s Hospital Review. In partnership with the administrative team, MultiCare Auburn Medical Center was named a Most Socially Responsible Hospital by the Lown Institute in 2023.
Dr. Mathews earned his medical degree with honors from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He completed his residency and chief residency in Internal Medicine at Good Samaritan Hospital in Baltimore. A published author, his works include The Hospitalist Manual and A.C.E. Medical Mnemonics flashcards.
With his unique blend of clinical, informatics, and leadership expertise, Dr. Arun Mathews is dedicated to transforming healthcare delivery and improving lives through innovation, education and social responsibility.
Chief Medical Officer
MultiCare Health System
Kathy Azeez-Narain
Chief Digital and Innovation Officer – Hoag
Kathy Azeez-Narain is Hoag’s Chief Digital and Innovation Officer (CDIO). In this role, Kathy leads the development of Hoag’s digital strategy and transformation efforts, as well as the health system’s strategic marketing initiatives.
On the digital strategy and transformation front, Kathy works to advance Hoag’s position as an innovator in delivering both the highest quality of care and exceptional patient experiences. These efforts include optimizing the relationship between Hoag patients and their health information data; utilizing digital tools to develop, design and enhance the patient experience; and effectively moving patients from offline to online via a comprehensive digital eco-system.
With Kathy at its helm, Hoag’s marketing and communications department leads
strategic initiatives that grow brand awareness and market share. With a focus on data-driven decision-making, Kathy oversees multi-channel marketing campaigns that integrate digital strategies, social media, content development, and traditional advertising to educate and connect with the community.
Kathy is digital product leader with nearly 20+ years of experience in product development and marketing within the healthcare and financial services industries. Before joining Hoag, Kathy spent 15 years at American Express, where she held various leadership roles driving digital product, marketing and data strategies for the company. There, she delivered some of the organization’s first ever digital solutions, including mobile experiences that better connect businesses to their cards, centralized data platforms and in-house design/creative solutions and teams.
Senior Vice President, Chief Digital and Innovation Officer
Hoag Health Network
Medical Director Provider Market
Mayo Clinic Platform
This session will focus on how Mayo Clinic and Hoag Health are transforming care through digital innovation while maintaining clinical excellence and financial sustainability. The discussion will highlight how health systems can leveragi...
This session will focus on how Mayo Clinic and Hoag Health are transforming care through digital innovation while maintaining clinical excellence and financial sustainability. The discussion will highlight how health systems can leveraging AI, data, and integrated care models to enhance access, improve outcomes, and develop scalable, patient-centered solutions. This is about balancing agility with quality, addressing gaps across the care continuum, and deploying technology to meet evolving patient needs while navigating the complexities of an increasingly dynamic healthcare landscape.
Premier’s Stanson Health delivers innovative clinical decision support solutions that empower providers with real-time, actionable insights at the point of care. Premier reduces low-value care and enhances coding accuracy through AI-driven alerts and analytics. Premier’s recent acquisition of IllumiCare complements this by integrating cost transparency tools, helping clinicians make financially informed decisions without compromising quality. Together, they serve over 82,000 providers across 50+ EMR systems, streamlining workflows, improving care coordination and supporting value-based care models. Their unified platform drives smarter healthcare delivery, closing care gaps and optimizing performance across health systems.
Vice President Clinical Decision
Premier Inc. / IllumiCare
IllumiCare (now part of Premier) defines inpatient medication and diagnostic use that is unlikely to have clinical benefit and attributes the hospital’s actual supply cost to the ordering provider. By specifically defining low value ca...
IllumiCare (now part of Premier) defines inpatient medication and diagnostic use that is unlikely to have clinical benefit and attributes the hospital’s actual supply cost to the ordering provider. By specifically defining low value care and making real costs transparent to clinicians, IllumiCare facilitates upstream interventions in formulary and order sets while hyper-targeting “nudges” to providers at point of care. The combination leads to millions in directly attributable savings while also reducing iatrogenic risk.
An opportunity to connect with your peers and suppliers to talk over the learnings from the event.
What if generative AI could eliminate inefficiencies before they begin? Join Dr. Shiv Rao, CEO and Founder of Abridge, as he explores how shifting upstream, embedding intelligence directly into patient conversations and the clinical work...
What if generative AI could eliminate inefficiencies before they begin? Join Dr. Shiv Rao, CEO and Founder of Abridge, as he explores how shifting upstream, embedding intelligence directly into patient conversations and the clinical workflow, transforms not just documentation, but the entire care experience. Abridge’s enterprise-grade AI turns conversations into clinically useful, compliant, and billable notes in real time. Trusted by over 150 health systems and supporting 50+ million annual conversations, Abridge is deeply embedded at the point of conversation, adding value for all care teams. Discover how moving upstream improves clinical efficiencies, enhances patient outcomes, and unlocks value across every layer of care.
XFERALL is transforming behavioral health care with real-time technology that expedites access to care, improves patient flow, and significantly reduces emergency department (ED) boarding. Our innovative platform connects healthcare providers instantly, enabling rapid, efficient transfers of behavioral health patients to appropriate treatment facilities. By eliminating time-consuming manual processes, XFERALL helps hospitals reduce wait times, improve outcomes, and alleviate system bottlenecks. Trusted nationwide, we are redefining how behavioral health patients receive care—faster, smarter, and more equitably. At XFERALL, we believe timely access to care isn’t just a goal—it’s a necessity. We’re advancing behavioral health, one transfer at a time.
Chief Clinical Officer and Co-founder
XFERALL
Senior Director, Crisis Services
Sutter Health
Building on the theme of technology-enabled care transformation, this session explores how Sutter Health has reimagined behavioral health access through a Command Center approach, powered by cutting-edge technology from XFERALL. Senior D...
Building on the theme of technology-enabled care transformation, this session explores how Sutter Health has reimagined behavioral health access through a Command Center approach, powered by cutting-edge technology from XFERALL. Senior Director Troy Nelson will outline the system-wide strategy behind Sutter’s Mental Health Patient Access Center—a centralized model that integrates real-time digital coordination, predictive analytics, and streamlined
workflows to significantly reduce emergency department boarding and improve patient throughput across 21 emergency departments.
Join us to learn how technology-driven collaboration, transparency, and centralized operations are transforming psychiatric crisis response at scale. Discover replicable strategies for accelerating transfers, enhancing staff efficiency, and delivering timely, equitable behavioral health care.
15 minute meetings with suppliers who are offering solutions most relevant to your challenges. Please check the schedule on the back of your delegate pass for your meeting timings.
An opportunity to network, catch up with work, or just get some rest! The HPN team will be on hand to support this in any way we can.
Evening reception including entertainment.
Chief Executive
National Readmission Prevention Collaborative
Chief Medical Officer
Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center
Ms. Agrawal is the Divisional Executive Director at Providence St Joseph Health. She has 15 years of leadership experience in healthcare operations, capacity management, developing innovative new revenue-generating services and designing and operationalizing transfer/command centers. In her current role she has created end-to-end operationally-integrated transfer centers serving Northern and Southern California spanning seventeen hospitals.
Previously she served in various Director-level roles in Cincinnati-area focusing on improving quality of care and access. She also played a significant role creating a highly functioning care delivery model for rural hospitals.
Ms. Agrawal has a Masters in Healthcare Administration, a Masters in Economics and a Bachelors in Science. She has passion for healthcare innovation and is committed to quality of care, improving access and leveraging technology to bring about positive and sustainable outcomes.
Divisional Executive Director, Patient Placement Center
Providence
This session will focus on how a transfer center can be used to improve access to care for patients as well as works as a growth strategy for the healthcare system. Learn how collaboration between transfer center and hospital’s Chief M...
This session will focus on how a transfer center can be used to improve access to care for patients as well as works as a growth strategy for the healthcare system. Learn how collaboration between transfer center and hospital’s Chief Medical Officer / Medical Staff is crucial in developing and implementing a successful transfer center.
Chief Medical and Scientific Officer and Senior Partner
Csuite Growth Advisors
Amy M. Sitapati, MD
Chief, Division of Biomedical Informatics (UCSD)
Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics (UCSDH)
Chief Medical Information Officer for Population Health (UCSDH)
Lawrence S. Friedman Professor of Population Health, Endowed Chair (UCSD)
UC San Diego
Clinical Professor of Medicine
asitapati@health.ucsd.edu
Profile: http://profiles.ucsd.edu/amy.sitapati
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-sitapati-
Website: https://sitapati.org
Dr. Amy M. Sitapati serves as a Clinical Professor of Medicine at UC San Diego as well as the Chief and Chair of Biomedical Informatics, and UCSDH Chief Medical Information Officer for Population Health. Dr. Sitapati seeks opportunities to align people, process, and technology to deliver ‘Data Powered Health.’ She is Board Certified in Clinical Informatics and Internal Medicine, certified as a Lean Expert, with undergraduate training as a Biomedical Engineer and master’s level training in Clinical Research and Business Administration. She leads UCSD’s academic biomedical informatics vision for transforming healthcare delivery through health artificial intelligence, precision medicine, registries, vital records, quality informatics, and other innovative tools.
Nationally, Dr. Sitapati serves as FDA Special Government Employee, on the Boards of AMDIS and American Heart Association, previously served on HHS’s ICD-11 Workgroup. Within the State of California, Dr. Sitapati serves as an appointed advisor to the California Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI) Hospital Equity Measures Advisory Committee as well as on the Boards of the Center for Data Driven Insights and Innovation -CDI2 as well as the California Public Hospitals and California Safety Net Institute. At UCSDH, she leads $44m incentive quality payment program, COSMOS, SlicerDicer, >180 UCSDH registries.
Dr. Sitapati is a population health and public health academic visionary currently co-PI of California’s birth and decedent registries (vital records & vital statistics) as well as the site PI for the NIH All of US at UCSD. Her expertise includes design, implementation, use, and evaluation of large data sets (i.e. NIH All of Us, enterprise BI, etc.), registries (i.e. EMR, national, public health state), data quality (i.e. NIH AoU, cross UC OMOP, CMS Incentive payment programs, California birth and decedent registries, ACO, claims, Medical, American Heart Association, AMGA, etc.), terminology (ICD, SNOMED, etc.), FAIR data (i.e. local EMR, NIH All of Us, California vital records), and implementation of new innovation (i.e. LLM/AI/ChatGPT, FHIR/HL7). She has expertise in designing innovation that incorporates artificial intelligence (LLM and ML) into traditional domains of population health, quality, and public health. Other areas of expertise include in patient centered care delivery, research on populations with health disparities, development of a chronic disease registry, and engaging patients in digital health.
Chief Medical Information Officer of the Population Health
UC San Diego Health
This interactive workshop explores strategies to reduce documentation-related stress, improve efficiency, and enhance retention. Participants will collaborate on optimizing EHR workflows, leveraging AI, and streamlining processes to bett...
This interactive workshop explores strategies to reduce documentation-related stress, improve efficiency, and enhance retention. Participants will collaborate on optimizing EHR workflows, leveraging AI, and streamlining processes to better support clinician well-being.
CEO and Founder
Clinical Solutions & Innovations
Vice President, Central Billing Office
Methodist Health System
Dive into best practices for reducing denials, improving billing accuracy, and leveraging automation to optimize revenue cycles. Participants will leave with actionable ideas to enhance financial outcomes while improving the patient paym...
Dive into best practices for reducing denials, improving billing accuracy, and leveraging automation to optimize revenue cycles. Participants will leave with actionable ideas to enhance financial outcomes while improving the patient payment experience.
Vice President of Contact Center Strategy
Memorial Hermann Health System
Director, System Triage Center
Memorial Hermann Health System
This session will explore how AI-driven call management and self-service tools can optimize patient outreach, improve engagement, and drive operational efficiencies. Learn strategies for scaling AI within Epic to streamline processes, re...
This session will explore how AI-driven call management and self-service tools can optimize patient outreach, improve engagement, and drive operational efficiencies. Learn strategies for scaling AI within Epic to streamline processes, reduce costs, and enhance financial resilience, all without adding staff or complexity.
Ambience Healthcare’s clinical AI platform for scribing, point of care CDI & coding, referrals, and patient summaries has been deployed at leading health systems like Cleveland Clinic, UCSF, Houston Methodist, and Memorial Hermann. By providing clinicians with the world’s most advanced AI technology, Ambience reduces clinician burnout, enables high quality care, and unlocks revenue — without asking clinicians to see more patients. www.ambiencehealthcare.com
Chief Digital Health Officer
Houston Methodist
The Emergency Department is a busy, complex clinical environment where documentation gaps impact patient care, clinician well-being, and revenue capture. In this session, Houston Methodist shares how they successfully implemented ambient...
The Emergency Department is a busy, complex clinical environment where documentation gaps impact patient care, clinician well-being, and revenue capture. In this session, Houston Methodist shares how they successfully implemented ambient AI in the ED setting after selecting a partner that quickly incorporates user feedback, evolving the product to truly support ED clinicians and their workflow. As a result, documentation quality, coding compliance, clinician experience, and patient throughput have increased.
Dr. Arun Mathews is a physician executive with over 15 years of experience driving clinical excellence, innovation, and digital transformation in healthcare. As the Chief Medical Officer for South King County at MultiCare Health System in Washington state, Dr. Mathews provides strategic leadership for Auburn and Covington Medical Centers. Under his guidance, both hospitals achieved successful certification surveys in 2017, 2018, 2021 and 2022.
In addition to his CMO role, Dr. Mathews has served as the Technology Advisory Services Chief Medical Information Officer for MultiCare, spearheading partnerships and investments in advanced clinical decision support and research tools. His passion for leveraging technology to improve care delivery began during his Medical Informatics Research Fellowship at Johns Hopkins, and continued through progressive dual CMO/CMIO roles in Texas. Highlights include leading EMR implementations, achieving HIMSS Analytics Stage 6 designation, and attaining Meaningful Use Stages 1 and 2.
As an educator, Dr. Mathews directed the Hospitalist Medicine Fellowship at Texas Tech from 2010-2015. He has presented at national conferences on topics including clinical analytics, gamification in medical education, and fostering physician innovation.
Dr. Mathews has been recognized with the AMDIS Award for Excellence in Applied Clinical Informatics and as a Rising Star Under 40 by Becker’s Hospital Review. In partnership with the administrative team, MultiCare Auburn Medical Center was named a Most Socially Responsible Hospital by the Lown Institute in 2023.
Dr. Mathews earned his medical degree with honors from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He completed his residency and chief residency in Internal Medicine at Good Samaritan Hospital in Baltimore. A published author, his works include The Hospitalist Manual and A.C.E. Medical Mnemonics flashcards.
With his unique blend of clinical, informatics, and leadership expertise, Dr. Arun Mathews is dedicated to transforming healthcare delivery and improving lives through innovation, education and social responsibility.
Chief Medical Officer
MultiCare Health System
Dr. Chia-Shing Yang has spent the last decade building physician enterprise solutions for partners from coast to coast. With a deep focus on the people we care for, she is passionate about developing standard-setting bedside teams. A board-certified internist,
Dr. Yang is also an alumna of the University of Virginia (BS), Eastern Virginia Medical School (MD), and Christiana Care – Jefferson Medical College (residency). Formerly a faculty member at Texas A&M and currently a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP) and Fellow of Hospital Medicine (FHM), Dr. Yang speaks nationally about human-centric
healthcare ecosystems and the future of care.
Regional President
Sound Physicians
Welcome back to HPN San Diego 2025!
Co-host
The Buzz Podcast
Executive Vice President, Research and Evaluation
Patient Advocate Foundation
Chief Financial Officer
Franciscan Health Olympia Fields
Healthcare is at a pivotal moment, navigating rapid advancements in AI, workforce shifts, and systemic modernization against a backdrop of financial and operational pressures. This session will set the tone for day two, exploring how lea...
Healthcare is at a pivotal moment, navigating rapid advancements in AI, workforce shifts, and systemic modernization against a backdrop of financial and operational pressures. This session will set the tone for day two, exploring how leaders can leverage innovation, foster collaboration, and integrate technology to deliver equitable, patient-centric care while maintaining financial resilience.
Partner
North Gate Group
Vice President, Payer Contracting and High Performing Network Officer
Providence
Digital Outcomes and Emerging Technologies
Atlantic Health System
Senior Associate, Health Ventures
Cedars-Sinai
This panel will explore how healthcare systems can build resilience by balancing cutting-edge innovation with financial sustainability. Focused on reimagining workflows without constraints, the discussion will delve into strategies for e...
This panel will explore how healthcare systems can build resilience by balancing cutting-edge innovation with financial sustainability. Focused on reimagining workflows without constraints, the discussion will delve into strategies for embedding equity, adapting to workforce evolution, and responsibly implementing technologies like AI, all while ensuring long-term financial resilience. Attendees will gain actionable insights into optimizing operational efficiency, driving cost savings, and integrating equity into every decision, empowering them to shape a future of healthcare that thrives both operationally and financially.
The Garage is a population health management platform empowering value-based care nationwide. Supporting Health Systems, ACOs, CINs, MSOs, FQHCs, and Payers, it integrates 15M+ patients, 25,000+ physicians, and 120+ provider groups across 36 states with a digital-first, data-first approach to changing healthcare for good…one community at a time
Chief Executive Officer
The Garage
Chief Medical Informatics Officer
Adventist Health
As CMS accelerates digital transformation, interoperability, and value-based care, bold leadership is more critical than ever. Join Pranam Ben, CEO of The Garage, and Dr. Howard Landa, CMIO at Adventist Health, for a dynamic discussion o...
As CMS accelerates digital transformation, interoperability, and value-based care, bold leadership is more critical than ever. Join Pranam Ben, CEO of The Garage, and Dr. Howard Landa, CMIO at Adventist Health, for a dynamic discussion on transforming CMS’s priorities from nationwide interoperability to scalable AI and data-driven care coordination, resulting in real clinical and operational progress. Their collaboration showcases a Digital-First Data-First approach, AI-powered care management, and strategic alignment with TEFCA, SDOH insights, and HITRUST. Drawing inspiration beyond healthcare, they’ll explore how bold partnerships can reimagine systems, swim upstream, and change healthcare for good … one community at a time.
15 minute meetings with suppliers who are offering solutions most relevant to your challenges. Please check the schedule on the back of your delegate pass for your meeting timings.
Dr. Chia-Shing Yang has spent the last decade building physician enterprise solutions for partners from coast to coast. With a deep focus on the people we care for, she is passionate about developing standard-setting bedside teams. A board-certified internist,
Dr. Yang is also an alumna of the University of Virginia (BS), Eastern Virginia Medical School (MD), and Christiana Care – Jefferson Medical College (residency). Formerly a faculty member at Texas A&M and currently a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP) and Fellow of Hospital Medicine (FHM), Dr. Yang speaks nationally about human-centric
healthcare ecosystems and the future of care.
Regional President
Sound Physicians
Corporate Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer
Scripps Health
Chief Technology Innovation Officer
Society of Actuaries
Pat Voon has been in IT for 39 years, with 32 of those years as a cybersecurity practitioner. His cybersecurity career began at Kaiser Permanente leading their information security program for 7 years. He spent over 12 years in professional consulting, culminating as a Director leading a GRC, security, and privacy practice. As an IT Audit Manager at Alaska Air Group, he developed their inaugural enterprise IT audit program. Since 2016, Pat has been Loma Linda University Health’s CISO, where he also serves as adjunct professor of cybersecurity in healthcare. He holds the CISSP, CISA, CGEIT, and CIPM professional certifications.
Chief Information Security Officer
Loma Linda University Health
Cybersecurity is a critical pillar of healthcare’s operational and strategic success. This hybrid panel-roundtable session will explore embedding cybersecurity into modernization efforts, leveraging AI for threat mitigation, and buildi...
Cybersecurity is a critical pillar of healthcare’s operational and strategic success. This hybrid panel-roundtable session will explore embedding cybersecurity into modernization efforts, leveraging AI for threat mitigation, and building organization-wide resilience. Attendees will engage directly with panelists and peers, sharing challenges and solutions to secure patient data, balance costs, and integrate security into healthcare’s strategic framework, creating a collaborative roadmap for safeguarding the future.
Dr. Arun Mathews is a physician executive with over 15 years of experience driving clinical excellence, innovation, and digital transformation in healthcare. As the Chief Medical Officer for South King County at MultiCare Health System in Washington state, Dr. Mathews provides strategic leadership for Auburn and Covington Medical Centers. Under his guidance, both hospitals achieved successful certification surveys in 2017, 2018, 2021 and 2022.
In addition to his CMO role, Dr. Mathews has served as the Technology Advisory Services Chief Medical Information Officer for MultiCare, spearheading partnerships and investments in advanced clinical decision support and research tools. His passion for leveraging technology to improve care delivery began during his Medical Informatics Research Fellowship at Johns Hopkins, and continued through progressive dual CMO/CMIO roles in Texas. Highlights include leading EMR implementations, achieving HIMSS Analytics Stage 6 designation, and attaining Meaningful Use Stages 1 and 2.
As an educator, Dr. Mathews directed the Hospitalist Medicine Fellowship at Texas Tech from 2010-2015. He has presented at national conferences on topics including clinical analytics, gamification in medical education, and fostering physician innovation.
Dr. Mathews has been recognized with the AMDIS Award for Excellence in Applied Clinical Informatics and as a Rising Star Under 40 by Becker’s Hospital Review. In partnership with the administrative team, MultiCare Auburn Medical Center was named a Most Socially Responsible Hospital by the Lown Institute in 2023.
Dr. Mathews earned his medical degree with honors from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He completed his residency and chief residency in Internal Medicine at Good Samaritan Hospital in Baltimore. A published author, his works include The Hospitalist Manual and A.C.E. Medical Mnemonics flashcards.
With his unique blend of clinical, informatics, and leadership expertise, Dr. Arun Mathews is dedicated to transforming healthcare delivery and improving lives through innovation, education and social responsibility.
Chief Medical Officer
MultiCare Health System
Associate Chief Medical Informatics Officer, System Medical Director of Quality and Safety, Emergency Services
Ochsner Health
Executive Vice President, Research and Evaluation
Patient Advocate Foundation
Chief Medical Officer
Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center
This interactive closing panel will form a conversation about how healthcare systems can innovate access and improve patient experience while ensuring financial resilience. Discussion will center on strategies such as implementing 24/7 v...
This interactive closing panel will form a conversation about how healthcare systems can innovate access and improve patient experience while ensuring financial resilience. Discussion will center on strategies such as implementing 24/7 virtual platforms, optimizing care delivery, and fostering relationships with patients through technology. Panelists will also address how to leverage virtual care to streamline patient access, reduce burnout, and create financial sustainability. Attendees will gain insights on building scalable, patient-centered solutions that balance innovation with operational efficiency, reducing costs while improving care outcomes.
Chief Operations Officer for Professional Services
San Carlos Apache Healthcare Corporation
Senior Director
Huron
Chief Executive Officer
Innovise Consulting
Equity in healthcare is not just a moral imperative – it is a business necessity. This session will view the evolution of health tech through an equity lens, discussing how the absence of appropriate tools has become a safety risk, and...
Equity in healthcare is not just a moral imperative – it is a business necessity. This session will view the evolution of health tech through an equity lens, discussing how the absence of appropriate tools has become a safety risk, and highlighting how organizations are leveling up access in the face of policy shifts, including proposed Medicaid cuts. This is about co-developing a future where no community is left behind.
Amaka Eneanya, MD, MPH, is currently the Chief Transformation Officer at Emory Healthcare. The goal of the Transformation Office is to optimize patient and employee experiences from end to end. Prior to this position, she was Head of Strategy and Operations, Global Medical Office, at Fresenius Medical Care – a global dialysis company. Dr. Eneanya graduated cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Cornell University, holds a medical degree with honors from Meharry Medical College, and a master’s degree in public health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She completed her training at Harvard Medical School’s main teaching hospitals – first, internal medicine residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital followed by nephrology training at the combined program at Massachusetts General Hospital/Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Chief Transformation Officer
Emory Healthcare
In this interactive session, learn how forward-thinking systems are deploying technology, including AI and ambient listening, to redesign workflows and reduce the everyday friction that wears down clinicians and administrative staff. Lea...
In this interactive session, learn how forward-thinking systems are deploying technology, including AI and ambient listening, to redesign workflows and reduce the everyday friction that wears down clinicians and administrative staff. Learn from a real-world case study where frontline feedback helped identify inefficiencies, leading to the development of an AI/LLM platform that automates routine tasks and eliminates low-value work.
Brian R. Spisak, PhD is the Chief People and Communication Officer and Senior Partner at Csuite Growth Advisors, focusing on digital transformation and workforce management in healthcare. Brian is also the Program Director of AI and Leadership at the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. In this role, he helps decision-makers lead through crisis and boost resilience with AI. In addition, he’s a faculty member at the American College of Healthcare Executives, where he helps leaders develop strategies to increase employee satisfaction and reduce burnout. His best-selling book, Computational Leadership: Connecting Behavioral Science and Technology to Optimize Decision-Making and Increase Profits, is an essential read for leaders striving to navigate an evolving digital landscape.
Senior Partner // Program Director of AI and Leadership, National Preparedness Leadership Initiative
Csuite Growth Advisors // Harvard University
Tricia Smith Edris is Senior Vice President and Chief Innovation and Partnerships Officer for AdventHealth in Central Florida. As Chief Innovation and Partnerships Officer, Tricia is responsible for developing, communicating, executing, and sustaining strategic initiatives designed to engage the consumer, secure brand loyalty, drive business growth, ensure a competitive advantage and maintain market and community relevance.
The Innovation and Partnership function is multi-disciplinary and includes marketing and communications, public affairs, community impact, philanthropy, innovation and strategic partnerships teams that are integrated and focused on the achievement of the AdventHealth’s Mission and 2030 Vision.
Tricia has worked for AdventHealth for 35+ years in various roles including managing the enterprise service excellence program, being part of the administrative team that opened AdventHealth Celebration, leading the adoption and integration of the Malcolm Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence along with overseeing Quality, Patient Safety and Performance Improvement for the system. In 2020, she was asked to be AdventHealth’s
first Chief Consumer Officer launching new consumer capabilities and building functional teams focused on achieving AdventHealth’s Consumer-Focused, Connected Network Aspiration. Tricia served for 13 years as a member of the Board of Examiners for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Active in the Orlando community, she currently holds board membership on the Dr. Phillips Performing Arts Center. Tricia holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Rollins College. Personal passions include reading, traveling, and spending time with her teenage sons, Tyler, and Brandon.
Chief Innovation and Partnerships Officer
AdventHealth
Founder and Partner
Fitzroy International
Explore how to fund cutting-edge technologies and capital investments while managing rising operational costs. This discussion will feature examples of cost-sharing models, partnerships, and prioritized spending to drive sustainable grow...
Explore how to fund cutting-edge technologies and capital investments while managing rising operational costs. This discussion will feature examples of cost-sharing models, partnerships, and prioritized spending to drive sustainable growth and ROI.
Dr. Chia-Shing Yang has spent the last decade building physician enterprise solutions for partners from coast to coast. With a deep focus on the people we care for, she is passionate about developing standard-setting bedside teams. A board-certified internist,
Dr. Yang is also an alumna of the University of Virginia (BS), Eastern Virginia Medical School (MD), and Christiana Care – Jefferson Medical College (residency). Formerly a faculty member at Texas A&M and currently a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP) and Fellow of Hospital Medicine (FHM), Dr. Yang speaks nationally about human-centric
healthcare ecosystems and the future of care.
Regional President
Sound Physicians
Chief Medical Informatics Officer
Adventist Health
This hands-on session will explore how automation of administrative and clinical tasks, such as prior authorizations and quality assurance, can enhance workflow efficiency. Learn strategies to optimize resources, reduce costs, and free u...
This hands-on session will explore how automation of administrative and clinical tasks, such as prior authorizations and quality assurance, can enhance workflow efficiency. Learn strategies to optimize resources, reduce costs, and free up capacity for patient care.
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