Equipping Leaders to Navigate Today's Healthcare Challenges
The Virtual Healthcare Leadership Series brings together industry expertise and practical insights designed to support today’s healthcare leaders. This three-day virtual series focuses on real-world challenges, emerging trends, and strategies that drive decision-making and stronger organizational performance.
Participants will gain valuable, immediately applicable insights that strengthen leadership skills, enhance operational effectiveness, and support success in an ever-evolving healthcare environment. Whether you are an experienced executive or an emerging leader, this series delivers meaningful takeaways to help you lead with confidence and impact.
Register today to gain valuable insights and support your organization for continued success.
Session 1 - Wednesday, June 3rd
1:00 - 2:00 PM - The Future is Monitored: Remote Monitoring and the Pathway to Value-Based Care
Discover how Remote Monitoring and other Care Management programs are transforming care delivery. Evan will unpack the mechanics of Remote Monitoring, share strategies for program success, and explore how remote care models are accelerating the shift towards value-based care!
Featured Speaker
Evan Harmon
Lead Consultant & Founder at Digital Health Advisory Services
Evan is the Lead Consultant & Founder of Digital Health Advisory Services and a Senior AI Implementation Project Manager for Notable Health. With a wealth of experience in remote monitoring, care management programs, Epic EHR Implementations, and Artificial Intelligence, he’s passionate about enhancing healthcare delivery through innovative technologies.
Having previously implemented and scaled both Resolve Pain Solutions and Baptist Health Kentucky's Remote Patient Monitoring Programs, his drive for equitable and accessible care is a top priority. Evan was also pivotal in overseeing health information management IT applications, including Epic and 3M and facilitated implementation of both during his tenure at Baptist. His impressive leadership extends to many boards, including the Kentucky Health Information Management Association and the River Valley Health Information Management Association where he served as president of both organizations. Evan is currently serving as the Bluegrass HIMSS Advocacy Chair and is on the advisory board for Jefferson Community and Technical College Health IT program.
2:00 - 3:00 PM - Build A Better Business By Walking Out Your Door
Unlock a new level of operational excellence by stepping away from your desk and viewing your practice through a fresh lens. This course teaches leaders how to use external benchmarking and "patient-perspective immersion" to identify hidden inefficiencies and service gaps. By intentionally stepping outside, you'll gain the clarity needed to innovate inside your four walls.
Featured Speaker
Chip Hart
Director of PCC's Pediatric Solutions
Chip Hart is the Director of PCC's Pediatric Solutions team, author of the popular blog Confessions of a Pediatric Practice Consultant (chipsblog.pcc.com), and host of the Charting The Future podcast (info.pcc.com/charting-the-future). Chip's three decades of pediatric practice management expertise have helped hundreds of pediatricians increase their financial and financial health.
As a dynamic and motivating speaker, Chip leads educational seminars and consults for pediatric professionals nationwide for organizations such as the AAP, state chapter AAP programs, Pediatric Management Institute, Pediatric CEO, and various physician and hospital organizations around the country. You are most likely to recognize him from the Pediatric COVID webinars he did with Paul Vanchiere.
Session 2 - Wednesday, June 10th
1:00 - 2:00 PM - Introduction to AI for Healthcare Operations: Lead with Confidence in a AI-Driven Healthcare Environment
Healthcare organizations today face relentless administrative burden, workforce shortages, revenue pressure, and increasing payer friction. At the same time, generative AI and automation technologies are rapidly maturing, creating a pivotal moment for practice leaders. This session gives participants a clear, operationally grounded understanding of how AI is transforming daily workflows, where it provides immediate value, and how even small organizations can adopt it responsibly.
Bill will walk attendees through practical examples drawn from real healthcare operations, demonstrating how AI already integrates with tasks such as documentation, claims management, compliance reporting, scheduling, and patient communication. Rather than hype, this session provides clarity: what AI is, what it is not, and how practices can leverage it to reduce administrative fatigue, strengthen financial performance, and enhance patient experience.
What you'll learn:
- The Essentials of AI for Healthcare: A simple breakdown of AI and machine learning, plus real examples of how they support documentation, scheduling, and revenue cycle workflows.
- The Biggest Administrative Pain Points AI Can Solve: How automation reduces denials, alleviates data-entry burdens, enhances audit readiness, and helps combat staff burnout
- High Impact Use Cases for Fast ROI: Patient intake automation, claim validation and prediction, compliance summarization, and task routing tools that free staff for higher-value work.
- AI and the Claims Process: How payers are using AI and how practices can leverage their own tools to analyze trends, respond more efficiently, and reduce administrative friction
- Adopting AI Responsibly: Foundational steps for building trust, protecting PHI, improving data quality, and managing change without overwhelming staff
- Your AI Readiness Roadmap: A straightforward pathway for practices to move from early exploration to operationalized, measurable AI-driven improvements
Featured Speaker
Bill Lopez
VP of Business Development and Innovation at Strategic Solutions
As co-founder and Vice President of Business Development and Innovation at Strategic Solutions, Bill Lopez is responsible for assisting healthcare organizations in evaluating, planning, developing, and improving business processes and systems to ensure they appropriately support business goals and maintain industry compliance.
2:00 - 3:00 PM - ICD-10 Code Refresh: Mastering the Latest Updates
Medical coding updates can be a challenge, but Jan Blanchard, a seasoned expert from Physician's Computer Company, will simplify the latest revisions. Join this essential session on the newest ICD-10 updates that will walk you through code changes and explore documentation requirements & practical tips. Keep your practice compliant, reduce denial rates, and maximize successful claims processing in this concise session.
Featured Speaker
Jan Blanchard, CPC, CPEDC, CPMA,
Certified Professional Medical Auditor & Member of the Get Paid Team and Physician's Computer Company (PCC)
Jan brings more than three decades of healthcare expertise to her work. Her career spans areas including Medical Assistance, Billing & Collections, Credentialing, and Practice Management. This broad knowledge base allows Jan to provide independent practices with comprehensive guidance on various aspects of management. She is dedicated to keeping PCC's clients up-to-date on the latest changes and updates in pediatric coding and expertly assists them in navigating the dynamic Primary Care environment.
Session 3 - Wednesday, June 17th
1:00 - 2:00 PM -From Volume to Value: How Technology and Outcome-Aligned Care Are Reshaping Patient Access in Medicare
As CMS launches landmark new models - including the ACCESS Model and MAHA ELEVATE - the landscape of patient access to chronic care is undergoing its most significant transformation in a generation. This session will explore how technology-enabled, outcome-aligned care models are expanding access for Medicare beneficiaries, particularly those managing chronic conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, and musculoskeletal disease. Drawing on direct experience scaling a value-based care organization and leading clinical programs within the CMS innovation ecosystem, the presenter will walk attendees through the practical implications of these new payment structures for health system leaders, physician executives, and care delivery organizations. Attendees will leave with a clear framework for evaluating their organization's readiness to participate in - and benefit from - this new era of patient access.
Featured Speaker
Beau Muñoz, MD, Executive Medical Director at Pearl Health
J. Beau Muñoz, MD is a physician executive and general surgeon with over 25 years of experience spanning military medicine, academic surgery, and health technology. A graduate of Duke University School of Medicine, Dr. Muñoz completed surgical training at Harvard Medical School's Massachusetts General Hospital and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, and served as a US-UK Exchange Fellow at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University of Birmingham. He is a retired Naval officer who served as Director of Operational Medicine at Naval Special Warfare Command, overseeing clinical operations and medical personnel across the Navy SEAL community.
Dr. Muñoz transitioned to health technology in 2022 as Executive Medical Director at Pearl Health, an Andreessen Horowitz-backed accountable care startup, where he helped scale the organization 80-fold in two years. He holds an international patent in artificial intelligence and machine learning and has published in Surgery, The Lancet, and the British Medical Journal, among others. He is a frequent speaker on the transformation of American healthcare from volume to value.
2:00 - 3:00 PM -Healthcare Costs are Up!
Healthcare costs are rising due to a combination of high unit prices for services, administrative inefficiencies, and increased demand from an aging population with chronic conditions. Key drivers include hospital and insurer consolidation reducing competition, expensive new technologies, soaring pharmaceutical costs (such as GLP-1 drugs), and higher staffing costs.
Featured Speaker
Jill Age
Executive VP & Senior Benefits Consultant with Towne Benefits.
Jill has over 25 years' experience in employee benefits. Her focus is assisting business owners and professionals in developing and maintaining a benefits package that allows them to attract and retain top talent. Jill specialize in evaluating the specific needs of my clients and she has the knowledge and expertise needed to guide them through the insurance buying process.
Registration
Member - $199
Non-member - $299
ACMPE Certified Individuals
Attendees to claim up to twenty [20] hours of ACMPE credit from an external source where the content aligns with the MGMA ACMPE Body of Knowledge domains.
