Strategic Insights and Reflections from the AHIP Payer Conference

As you know, we go to a lot of healthcare IT conferences so we can cover the latest happenings for the community.  One of the conferences I like to attend is the AHIP conference that brings together one of the largest gathering of payer professionals.  While there a few topics at the conference that don’t apply to me, a large portion of the discussions are around how payers should be leveraging technology.  In fact, as I think through the exhibit hall, the majority (maybe all?) of the exhibitors were IT companies that support payers.  Can you build a company that doesn’t leverage IT in some way?

As we usually do at conferences, we had a chance to sit down with a wide variety of experts at the conferences to get their insights and perspectives.  Check out the short video interviews we did at the conference to learn about important topics like AI, prior auth, chatbots, automation, and much more.

Corinne Stroum, Head of Emerging Technologies, at SCAN

Vindell Washington, Chief Clinical Officer at Verily Life Sciences

Anand K. Iyer, Chief AI Officer at Welldoc

Jen Carter, Executive Director of Alliances at J2 Interactive

Amanda L. Bury, MS, SVP, Commercial at Ellipsis Health

Joe Mercado, Senior Director, Partnership Operations at Arcadia

Sarah Ahmad, CEO at CAQH

Matt Koehler, Vice President Product Innovation at Surescripts

Sohail Djariri, Chief Growth Officer at Sagility

Thanks everyone who chatted with us at the AHIP conference in Las Vegas.  It was great to learn from you.  What did you think of their perspectives?  Are there any you disagree with?  Let us know on social media.