The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the dangers of tying health care delivery to brick-and-mortar health care facilities and has highlighted an ongoing need to create a distributed health care delivery ecosystem centered in patients' homes and the community. This webinar brought together innovators in health care delivery and payment to explore what it will take to create and scale a home-based care ecosystem.
Panelists
ALI KHAN, MD, MPP, FACP
Vice President and Chief Medical Officer – Aetna Medicare
Aetna/CVS Health Company
Dr. ALI KHAN is Vice President and Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for Aetna Medicare. In this role, Dr. Khan will continue to advance strategies, policies and programs that drive the delivery of holistic care, and champion work that positively impacts the clinical results and member experience for our more than 11 million Medicare members nationwide.
Dr. Khan joins Aetna from Oak Street Health where he is the Chief Medical Officer of Value Based Care Strategy and Executive Medical Director. He works at the intersection of medicine, entrepreneurship, translational health policy, population health and public service to help transform American healthcare delivery and achieve the quadruple aim. On the basis of his work at frontier delivery systems across the United States, Dr. Khan was named a National Minority Quality Forum 40 Under 40 Leader in Health, a MedTech Boston 40 Under 40 Healthcare Innovator and a California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF) Health Leadership Fellow.
Prior to Oak Street, he served as CareMore Health's Clinical Design Officer, where he directed national clinical product and program design, implementation and iterative innovation for CareMore's work with high need, complex and vulnerable populations across the United States. During his prior work at Iora Health, Dr. Khan served on the national clinical operations leadership team as Director of Physician Engagement. As a clinical innovator, he led the strategic design and deployment of a variety of initiatives in population health, clinical quality improvement, clinical application product development and workforce development.
Dr. Khan is a board-certified internist and practices general internal medicine in both the primary care and inpatient settings. His particular focus: the care for the super-utilizer urban underserved (in Richmond, Boston, New Haven, Las Vegas, San Francisco, San Jose and Chicago) in high-performing frontier healthcare delivery systems. He draws on experiences within leading academic medical centers, the Veterans Healthcare Administration, Kaiser Permanente and the private sector.
Beyond the clinic, Dr. Khan maintains an active public leadership portfolio, including recent service on the national boards of Doctors for America, the American College of Physicians, Physicians for Human Rights, the California Healthcare Foundation Leadership Program and Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the Co-Founder of VoteHealth 2020, IMPACT and Doctors for Biden.
Dr. Khan completed his residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital, where he served on the clinical faculty. He is a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School and VCU’s Medical College of Virginia, earning joint MD and MPP degrees as a Harvard Public Service Fellow.
Among his many accolades, Dr. Khan was named a Modern Healthcare Top 25 Emerging Leader, a National Minority Quality Forum 40 Under 40 Leader in Health, and a Crain’s Chicago Business Health Care Hero.
Eliza Pippa Shulman, DO, MPH
Chief Medical Officer at Medically Home
Eliza “Pippa” Shulman, DO, MPH is the Chief Medical Officer of Medically Home, which operates a scaled model of decentralized care for patients with serious or complex illnesses with health systems, physician groups and payers. Using its clinical, logistical and technological model, emergency and hospital care can safely be provided to patients in their homes. Medically Home simultaneously augments and challenges traditional brick-and-mortar healthcare delivery, adding flexible capacity for hospitals while demonstrating better outcomes for patients including lower readmission rates and fewer falls.
Pippa is the clinical architect of Medically Home’s program, leveraging her experience so that patients are able to access needed hospital care from home.
Pippa’s leadership role at Medically Home is a natural outgrowth of a career focused on putting patients at the center of care. Before joining Medically Home Pippa led the Center for Healthcare Innovation at Atrius Health, charged with identifying, testing and implementing novel care delivery solutions as part of the largest independent multi-specialty medical group in the Northeast. Prior to that, Pippa was the Chief of Geriatrics and Palliative Care at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates; tasked with leading value-based care initiatives as part of the ACO as well as multiple improvement efforts in home care, extended care facilities, ambulatory, and palliative care services.
Dr. Shulman is triple boarded in family medicine, preventive medicine, and hospice and palliative medicine. She is a graduate of the combined NH-Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency and Dartmouth Hitchcock Leadership Preventive Medicine Residency, which is focused on developing physicians to lead change and improve systems of care. Pippa is the president of the American Academy of Homecare Medicine.
Kristofer L. Smith, MD, MPP
Chief Medical Officer at Optum at Home
As Chief Medical Officer of Optum at Home, Dr. Smith works to create clinical and care management programs for the nearly 1.5 million patients under management. He supports HEDIS/STAR, clinical documentation, quality and affordability initiatives. He oversees clinical model design, quality of care standards and clinical improvement activities. He works closely with provider groups and plan partners to identify opportunities for collaboration.
Prior roles include Chief Medical Officer of Landmark Health, Chief Clinical Officer at Prospero Health, President of naviHealth’s Home-based Medical Care division and SVP of Population Health at Northwell Health.
He has published papers on advanced care models for the frail elderly and regularly gives national talks on health policy, the frail elderly and the intersection of payment reform and clinical redesign. He currently serves on the board of the American Academy of Home Care Medicine.
He worked as a house calls physician for more than a decade, providing primary and palliative care to the frail homebound elderly.
Moderator:
Bruce Leff, MD
Professor of Medicine
Director, Center for Transformative Geriatric Research
Division of Geriatric Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
The Hopkins Business of Health Initiative integrates the scholarship across Johns Hopkins University - through a partnership between the Carey Business School, Bloomberg School of Public Health, School of Nursing, and School of Medicine - around a shared vision of a healthier America, supported by an affordable and equitable, high-value health system. In pursuit of this vision, our work focuses on the role of business and incentives through rigorous, objective, non-partisan, interdisciplinary research.