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About our Speakers
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn is a health economist and management consultant who has worked with health care stakeholders in the U.S. and Europe for over two decades. Jane founded THINK-Health, a strategic health consultancy, in 1992 after spending a decade as a health care consultant in firms in the U.S. and Europe. Jane's projects focus on the nexus of health care and technology applying the tools of scenario and strategic planning, qualitative market research, forecasting, and health policy analysis. Jane is a columnist for iHealthBeat, an online publication of the California HealthCare Foundation, where she writes about health and technology. Jane also writes the popular Health Populi blog. Jane sits on the advisory boards of the Health 2.0 conference and Emdeon's U.S. Health Efficiency Index project. Jane wrote the seminal white paper, The Wisdom of Patients: Health Care Meets Social Media, on behalf of California HealthCare Foundation, in April 2008. Her follow-up paper, Participatory Health: Online and Mobile Tools Help Chronically Ill Manage Their Care, was published in September 2009 by the Foundation. Follow Jane on Twitter @healthythinker.
MaryAnn Stump, senior vice president and chief strategy and innovation officer, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, and president, Consumer Aware, is a recognized leader in health care consumerism, inviting health care providers and stakeholders to work collaboratively toward providing consumers with the information they need to make meaningful health care decisions. A passionate advocate for health care reform, she has engaged employers, health care providers and policy makers in viewing health care from the consumer's perspective and encouraging innovations in health care delivery.
Greg Matthews is Director of Consumer Innovations at Humana. After spending a career helping to build and operate businesses, Greg is now focused on using social media to create different kinds of interactions with consumers - with the goal of supporting a social revolution in health. During his tenure at Humana, he has had responsibility for the start-up HR operations for joint venture companies like Green Ribbon Health and Sensei, and in Humana's first European subsidiary in London. Most recently he launched the health industry's first twitter search tool, myTPSreport.com, and designed and launched CrumpleItUp.com, where he blogs regularly.
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