October 2021

September 27, 2019

First, there was the hc1 mobile experience. With just a smartphone and Internet access, you could log into the hc1 URL and find what you need. A mobile-friendly website was a nice shortcut – a handy device for field access. Now we’ve created something better.

Introducing the hc1 iOS Mobile App

We’ve developed an app that’s available for any current iOS smartphone. With a quick download, you can employ the power of your data through a user-friendly app.

This new offering has the simple, clean look and responsive feel you’d expect from a well-designed mobile app. Large icons and collapsible menus that are easy-to-read make this an intuitive experience and invaluable tool.

It’ll make your mobile log-in experience easier, and access remains at your fingertips.

The beta version of the hc1 mobile app will be available for any iOS smartphone beginning in January 2020.

Check us out and discover all the ways hc1 can help improve lives with high-value care.

October 22, 2019

On October 17, during the Day of Innovation at Butler University, hc1 Test Utilization™ received an Indiana Innovation Award. The award, presented by Centric^®, recognizes individuals and organizations successfully leading the innovation charge in Indiana. To be eligible, the innovation must have been introduced within the last three years and be based in Indiana.

The judging committee considers four criteria:

Did the product/service meet an unmet need?
How unique is the product/service? Is this the first of its kind? If not, how is it different or better than existing products/services?
What new value has been created for the end-user?
What financial evidence or market acceptance information does the product/service have to support it? What is its quantifiable evidence of success?

Since its launch in 2017, hc1 Test Utilization™ has impacted millions of patient lives by transforming lab data into personalized healthcare insights. Across thousands of locations, customers are using Test Utilization to monitor ordering trends and gain insights into where testing can be optimized, ensuring patients get the right test at the right time.

“hc1 is proud to accept this Indiana Innovation Award,” said Brad Bostic, chairman and CEO of hc1. “Every year, an estimated $200 billion is wasted on excessive lab testing and associated treatments, resulting in added costs and risk to patients. With hc1 Test Utilization we set out to change that dynamic.”

A comprehensive solution, Test Utilization includes both strategic guidance and cloud-based technology. With it, healthcare teams have a dashboard of real-time lab data from in-hospital, outpatient and reference labs. By taking the guesswork out of launching an effective utilization program and proactively uncovering where unnecessary tests are being ordered, a health system can effectively monitor, take action and educate its physicians – all while creating a high-value, lean organization.

Test Utilization is part of hc1 High-Value Care Platform™, which eliminates waste and personalizes care for health systems and diagnostic laboratories nationwide by turning previously static lab data into actionable healthcare insights. At hc1.com read more about or request a demo of hc1 Test Utilization and other hc1 products that help health systems improve clinical outcomes and reduce medical spending.

June 24, 2019

Healthcare used to operate almost exclusively on a fee-for-service basis, meaning each service performed was a line item billed separately and regardless of the outcome. That era is passing. Increasingly, high-value care (HVC) is the new driving force. This trend toward a team-provided and patient-centered healthcare model impacts both physical and financial outcomes.

February 19, 2020

During a recent webinar, hc1 Director of Client Enablement, Maura Lee, gave a guided tour of hc1’s
latest new tool, the hc1 CRM™ app.

The iOS app puts the most highly used CRM sales features right at the user’s fingertips. From the app’s
eight main tiles users can quickly navigate to key record types and app features to view, create, and edit
hc1 CRM organization, contact, opportunity, case, task, and memo information.

To download the app, visit the iOS App Store and search for “hc1 CRM.”

Lee told webinar attendees they can maximize their efficiency with the app by 1) intuitively accessing all
key record types with a tap of a finger, 2) using quick action buttons to open a map or start an email or
phone call and use voice to text, 3) efficiently logging interactions with clients and review past
interactions, 4) quickly viewing critical information and access additional data in collapsible menus, and
5) using streamlined search capability to find clients and contacts.

If you missed the webinar it’s not too late to learn more about navigating and using the new hc1 CRM
app. Visit our CRM solutions page for more information about the app.

February 12, 2020

hc1 has announced a new iOS app companion for its popular hc1 Healthcare CRM™ solution. hc1 CRM users can now access the most highly used CRM sales features right from their iOS devices.

hc1 Healthcare CRM™ streamlines communication and data sharing from sales activities to client and patient relationships to operations initiatives. Leaders use the highly customizable solution to seamlessly integrate, analyze, and visualize organizational metrics to quickly see value, track trends in real-time, and gain insights into relationships.

Now with the hc1 CRM™ app, users can view, create, and edit hc1 CRM organization, contact, opportunity, case, task, and memo information with they are away from their desks. They can quickly review client activities before walking in the door, map the location for their next visit, or find contact information and initiate a call or email with just a screen tap.

“The new app is intuitive and streamlined,” commented one user during the app’s testing period. “No noise – just what our sales team needs to efficiently log interactions with clients and review past interactions on the go.”

hc1 CRM users can visit the iOS App Store to download and begin using the app today. To learn more, visit our CRM web page and join us for an upcoming webinar where we will discuss navigation of the app, multiple ways the app can make your sales process more efficient, and a live Q&A to answer your questions.

August 23, 2021

“I’ve been often asked the question about personalized medicine and the practical nature of that, and, ultimately, will it ever be mainstream?” hc1 Chairman and CEO, Brad Bostic, recently told MarketScale. “My point of view on that is absolutely it will be. What I see happening right now within health care is this Renaissance that gives us a chance at getting there sooner rather than later.”

On August 31 and September 1, attendees at the 2021 Precision Health Virtual Summit hosted by hc1 and Becker’s Healthcare will learn what the future of precision health looks like, but also how that future is achievable today.

Precision health has huge potential to impact and achieve all four arms of healthcare’s quadruple aim to:

improve population health,
improve the patient’s experience of care,
enhance caregiver experience and
reduce the rising cost of care.

Those who join us will have an opportunity to hear from some of our nation’s most renowned thought leaders on precision health, precision prescribing, precision diagnostics, population health and on just how technology is coming together with precision health practices to achieve healthcare’s aims.

Fireside chats to open the discussion

Each day of the Summit will open with a forward looking fireside chat. On the first day, Purdue University President, Cerner Corporation board member and former Indiana Governor, Mitch Daniels, and hc1 CEO, Brad Bostic, will discuss the importance of precision health to our healthcare system and how implementing precision health practices is possible and practical today. On the second day, Jeffrey Kuhlman, MD, General Manager, Healthcare Analytics Solution AdventHealth, will discuss how precision health and genomics are unlocking individuality.

Keynote thought leadership

During a keynote discussion with David B. Nash, MD, MBA, Founding Dean Emeritus, Jefferson College of Population Health, and Scott Becker, Publisher and Founder of Becker’s Healthcare, you’ll hear Dr. Nash’s perspectives on how precision health and population health are tightly related. He will explain how eliminating waste in population health is a driver for precision health and how this ties into addressing cost and access concerns in delivering individualized care for all patients.

In her keynote presentation, Katherine Capps, President, Health2 Resources; Co-Founder & Executive Director, GTMRx Institute, and Jennifer Hockings, Pharmacogenomics Clinical Specialist at Cleveland Clinic, will discuss the future of precision health. Ms. Capps has a long history of collaboration in multi-stakeholder environments and has led the growth of GTMRx—an organization focused on cross-collaboration to advance appropriate use of medications and gene therapies—to over 1,200 members from 800 companies in less than two years. A gifted communicator, she cultivates and manages relationships with stakeholders across the health care and health policy spectrums.

Thought provoking panel discussions

The Summit will feature three panel discussions focused in areas where precision health practices are being implemented and will show benefit.

The precision prescribing-focused panel will discuss the lab’s critical role in precision health and how to ensure clinicians are best equipped for decision-making. Attendees will hear their insights on how precision health insights can be injected into the workflow, without added burden to the physician.The panel will be moderated by Robert Michel, Editor-in-Chief, DARK Daily and The Dark Report, and will include Matthew Katz, Principal, MCK Health Strategies, LLC; Kristine Ashcraft, Medical Director for Pharmacogenomics, Invitae; Yuri Fesko, MD, Executive Medical Director of Medical Affairs, Quest Diagnostics; and Jordan Olson, MD, Division Chief, Clinical Pathology Informatics and Quality at Geisinger.

Leading a panel of Chief Medical Information Officers (CMIOs) will be Brian D. Patty, MD, CHCIO, CMIO of Medix Technology. They will discuss the broader implications of precision health, as well as share their thoughts on actioning data and gaining physician adoption by delivering insights at the right time, in the right way, without interrupting workflow. As the bridge between the IT and clinical worlds, they will discuss challenges, successes and what the future holds. Albert Villarin, MD, FACEP, Vice President and CMIO, Nuvance Health, and Stephanie Lahr, MD, CHCIO, CIO and CMIO, Monument Health, will participate in the discussion.

On the second day of the Summit, a panel of pharmacists and healthcare strategists moderated by Behnaz Sarrami, MS, PharmD, Medical Science Liaison, AltheaDx, will discuss connecting pharmacists and providers for a team-based approach to delivering precision health care. They will explore how physician practices can use lab and pharmacy data to better coordinate care for their patients, as well as demonstrate clinical utility and actionability to ensure payment.

Special Guest Speakers

Several notable special guests will also join this year’s agenda to discuss both forward looking and current applications of precision health.

The difference between a traditional assessment of a complex patient condition and true “precision medicine” is the degree of reliance on available data – at point of care – to make decisions about specific treatment paths that may be more beneficial for the patient. Gilan El Saadawi, MD, PhD, MS, Chief Medical Officer, Realyze Intelligence, will present how to achieve a path to true personalized healthcare we need to step back from locking data in disparate silos (genomic, EMR, claims, etc.) and start thinking of building a patient model that reflects the whole patient story with all these pieces fitting together and allowing patterns to emerge from this picture.

Rehan Waheed, MD, Senior Medical Director & CMIO Healthcare Analytics Solutions, Quest Diagnostics, will discuss how when the right care is provided to individual patients at the right time using the right tests, a massive amount of data is collected from these new discoveries and insights. His discussion will highlight the importance of leveraging trends gained from individual data and research to affect population health by creating more opportunities for impactful patient interventions, powering better outcomes for all.

Joining from Regenstrief Institute, Peter Embi, MD, MS, FACP, FACMI, FAMIA, FIAHSI, President & CEO, and Umberto Tachinardi, MD, MS, FACMI, IAHSI, CIO, will share emerging ideas on infrastructure and ethical considerations for advancing real world data and evidence in health.

Todd Crosslin, Global Head of Healthcare and Life Sciences with Summit sponsor, Snowflake, will introduce the Data Cloud and its relevance to Healthcare. He will then take participants through a live tour of the Data Marketplace to see how organizations can connect to data without copy, FTP, or API to find new insights and/or enhance their machine learning models with data sources such as social determinants of health, adverse events, and COVID.

Anthony Morreale, PharmD, MBA, BCPS, FASHP, Associate Chief Consultant for Clinical Pharmacy Services and Policy, US Department of Veterans Affairs, an experienced senior clinical pharmacy leader, will share how to identify gaps in healthcare initiatives and implement changes in a rapidly growing healthcare system. He will also discuss the challenges of scaling up a clinical pharmacy workforce to keep up with technology.

Added Remarks

Rounding out the first day will be opening remarks from Brad Bostic, Chairman and CEO, hc1, and closing remarks from Molly Gamble, Vice President of Editorial, Becker’s Healthcare. Mike Lukas, Vice President and General Manager, Health Systems, Quest Diagnostics, will open the Summit’s second day and Mr. Bostic will offer his final closing remarks at the end of the second day.

hc1, Becker’s Healthcare, and Summit sponsors Quest Diagnostics, AWS and Snowflake, are excited to welcome more than 2,000 registered attendees to this important event for precision health. If you have not yet registered there is still plenty of time to do so at www.hc1.com/Summit where you can also find the complete agenda and more information about our speaker and sponsors. If you are still wondering why you should attend, check out my recent blog post on the top five reasons.

When attending the Summit, if you have a question that is not answered during the presentation or you think of one after the fact, I’d be happy to pass that along for you. Just send me your message at https://www.hc1.com/summit/contact-us.

On November 17 and 18, some of our nation’s key thought leaders on precision health, value-based care, COVID-19 pandemic response and the future of medicine joined hc1 and Becker’s Healthcare for a Precision Health Virtual Summit sponsored by AWS and Quest Diagnostics. Content from the Summit is now available free on demand.

In his opening remarks, attended live by nearly 500 people, hc1 CEO Brad Bostic acknowledged the challenges healthcare providers face. “I think we all recognize there are challenges for our caregivers in a world of increasing patient volume, increasing demands on documentation, on the fact that we’ve got about 7 minutes on average to see a given patient,” he said. “There’s this continual tension between wanting to deliver outstanding care, but also living within those constraints.”

Stephen Klasko, MD, MBA, President and Chief Executive Officer, Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health, took a moment in his keynote presentation to define precision health and connected care. “Precision Health starts with really a pretty simple concept – that people are people – and not patients,” he said. “What precision health and connected care talk about is how can we help people thrive based on all the factors that are specific to them? How can we predict, prevent and cure in a customized and precise way?”

Some presenters focused on the intersection of precision health and public health in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Shez Partovi, MD, AWS Worldwide Lead: Healthcare, Life Sciences, Genomics, Med Devices, focused on how the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation of healthcare communications. He featured six different companies using AWS to advance global surveillance, tracking the spread of the disease, drug discovery, diagnostic intelligence, virtual care and vaccine development.

Mick Raich, Chief Executive Officer, Vachette Path and Stark Auditing, took a detailed look at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on laboratory revenue. “We took two and a half months of our revenue cycle off and had to restart things,” he said. “Our revenue cycle was laid down on the tracks and now we’re finally putting things back and getting where we need to go.”

Steven Goldberg, MD, MBA, Vice President, Medical Affairs, Population Health and Chief Health Officer, Quest Diagnostics, shared a glimpse into how insight networks can be leveraged to ensure employers can create safe and health work environments for employees during the pandemic.

Brad Bostic and Dave Dexter, Chief Executive Officer, Sonora Quest, sat down for a fireside chat about Sonora Quest’s efforts to put Arizona in front of COVID-19 testing, as well as keeping employees and residents in long-term care facilities safe.

Ken Furton, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Florida International University Provost, shared a case study of what FIU, a research university and the fourth largest in the US, is dealing with in the COVID-19 pandemic to bring students and faculty back to campus.

Other presenters focused on creating efficiencies in our care delivery system that increase quality of care and reduce harm through laboratory stewardship and value-based care.

“We are a culture of innovation, but we as a health system are not great at removing those tests that no longer have value or that have been replaced by newer, more accurate tests. This leads to increased complexity in our lab test menu and meanwhile, we are not spending our time training our newest providers in the nuances of laboratory medicine,” said Jane Dickerson, PhD, DABCC, Co-Founder of PLUGS, Director of Chemistry and Reference Lab Services, Seattle Children’s. “So it really isn’t a surprise that there are tests that are ordered and resulted for patients that don’t end up benefiting the care of that patient and sometimes those tests contribute to diagnostic error and patient harm.”

“That notion that independent practices can’t survive in a value-based world is completely wrong,” said Ben Kraus, Managing Director at Kain Capital and Co-founder and President at Stellar Health. “It’s actually the independent practices that are much more successful at value-based care. And that’s both exciting, provides a lot of hope, but also means that we have to find a way to keep our independent practices thriving if we’re going to accomplish these goals as a country to provide better healthcare for our population, our citizens, and to do it more efficiently, so we’re not spending 20% of our GDP on healthcare, which is almost $4 trillion per year, which we do.”

Eric Bricker, MD, Founder, AHealthcareZ and Texas Family Insurance, moderated a panel focused on value-based care that discussed the need for investors, educators, technology, health system and payor leaders to work together to deliver prevention- and patient-focused care. Each panelist from a wide range of backgrounds discussed what precision health means to them and ways that patient-centric data is being used to drive change in their organizations. Dr. Bricker also gave one of his well-known white board presentations exclusively for the Summit focused on employer strategies for value-based care.

Donald Brown, MD, Chief Executive Officer, LifeOmic, explored the potential that healthcare data brings to patient care today and the importance of breaking down data silos to improve patient outcomes. “It’s really interesting to reflect how we assemble big data sets now in a way that was really unthinkable as I was going through medical school,” he said. “Now we can develop a pretty comprehensive view of a person and their current health, their current physiology, right up from the level of their germ-line genome, the genome they were born with on up through the phenome.”

Stuart Beatty, Pharm.D., BCACP, FAPhA, Director of Strategy and Practice Transformation at Ohio Pharmacy Association, Founder of Strategic Pharmacy Initiatives, Associate Professor of Clinical Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, echoed the need to break down data silos during a panel discussion among pharmacists focused on delivering value-based care. He told moderator Rick Christiansen, hc1 Vice-President, Value-based Care, that “one of the big reasons we’re trying to move pharmacists as providers and trying to get those incentives and reimbursement out there, is because pharmacists are such an access point that’s been underutilized for so long. And when you look at all the pharmacists out in communities, rural communities and in inner city communities, this is a highly trained healthcare professional that doesn’t really have an incentive to take care of that patient. Even if we get those incentives in place, they don’t have the data, so it’s definitely something we’re going to have to continue to work on to make sure that we have access to things like lab data, to have access to the multiple pharmacies that maybe they’re getting prescriptions at. As a pharmacist that’s trying to care for the patient, I want to have all of that data available to me.”

While not the focus of his presentation, Atul Butte, MD, PhD, Chief Data Scientist, University of California Health System, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF, described the essence of the Summit’s goal when acknowledging his conflicts of interest. He explained how proud he was of his former students who had created their own companies, saying, “I think, if anything, they learned in my lab that if you want to change the world we can’t just keep writing papers about it. At some point we’ve got to create some products and services and actually start to deliver that to patients and families and doctors and that’s usually through companies.”

Dr. Butte is absolutely right. Research and discussion are only the beginning. The next step is to take action. Here are some ideas to consider as you think about taking the energy and ideas from the Precision Health Virtual Summit and putting them into practice in your organization:

Create awareness. Share content from this Summit and other events and articles within your organization and with your peers. Become a precision health and value-based care influencer!
Involve others. Organizations that are successful at deploying value-based care and other initiatives build a multi-disciplinary team focused on evaluating needs and creating a model that takes into account the needs and strengths of all groups involved. Consider creating a special Precision Health Committee that focuses directly on precision health initiatives.
Make insights-driven plans. Look for ways to break down the walls between your data silos. Insights derived from organized, combined datasets will drive targeted actions. A partner who is the leader in critical insight, analytics and solutions for precision health like hc1 can help.

Set achievable goals. Don’t be afraid to start small. Early success can fuel both buy-in for initiatives and savings from increased efficiencies can bolster budgets for second stage initiatives.

September 26, 2019

You know best what you want from your data. You know best how you want it presented. So now you can have it your way.

hc1 CRM has rolled out a much-anticipated new feature, the User-Defined List. It’s one more way our platform is especially intuitive to the needs of your healthcare organization.

Immediately familiar components and controls

Now hc1 system administrators can easily build out tabs and record pages exactly the way they want—with no extra fees from consultants who must customize a generic CRM to accommodate healthcare-specific needs. Instead, you, the hc1 system administrator, become the architect of your own environment with:

User-defined fields to track data
User-defined lists to organize data
User-defined layouts to display the data

You are in the driver’s seat, deciding where data is displayed, what types of records are displayed, how data is filtered, who can see it, and more.

User-defined lists are one more way to specifically manage data and make it easy for users to find the information they need to do their jobs.

No waiting for information from IT

This new feature also gives users a way to run their own mini-reports, gathering subsets of information as needed. No longer are users waiting days or even weeks for query results from a busy IT department. Now users can filter and sort on any field themselves and command the information they need in moments.

For help adding user-defined lists to your hc1 environment, contact support@hc1.com or visit hc1 Online Help.

April 21, 2021

On behalf of all of hc1 I’d like to wish our partners in the laboratory a very happy Lab Week! That 70% of today’s medical decisions depend on results from the more than 14 billion laboratory tests ordered each year evidences the critical role clinical laboratories play in delivering care. Your contributions to patient care are recognized and appreciated by our team.

Lab Week is a great opportunity to increase public understanding of and appreciation for clinical laboratory personnel. This week is also a great time for internal team building, reflection and future planning for labs. How will your lab grow this year? How will you deliver the value your customers expect? How will you improve your processes?

Over the past 10 years, hc1 has developed strong relationships with many of the nation’s top labs. Through these partnerships we’ve learned how important it is for our partners to keep their operations running smoothly and efficiently. Without access to critical data and communications they realized it would be a continuous struggle to reach their full potential and revenue goals.

Some examples

Like many laboratories, Sonora Quest Laboratories (SQL), a joint venture between Banner Health and Quest Diagnostics, struggled with endless silos of data and information. SQL ingested multiple data sources into the hc1 Platform to automatically create detailed, real-time dashboards that indicate up-to-the moment trends and performance against key metrics.SQL now has a real-time, 360-degree view of data and metrics across departments, effectively dissolving data silos and providing users with the information necessary to provide a 5-star experience to patients and clients alike.The overall visibility SQL achieved has reduced the labor necessary to pull their daily performance report from 5 hours a day to just 45 minutes a day, increasing overall employee efficiency by 85%.

Incyte Diagnostics was running multiple systems to manage their sales process and payor information. Using email and spreadsheets resulted in tedious workflows and disorganized information tracking. Adopting a solution from hc1, Incyte was able to exceed their sales growth goal, retain current business, reduce the overall workload of the Client Services team by 6.25% and gained 32 additional days worth of field time for sales reps.

Four different IT systems housing static data were used to track and manage patient interactions at North Memorial Health. Unfortunately, these systems created vast data silos that left multiple departments unable to identify the root cause of repeating issues without real-time insight into situations in which more recent data would offer actionable insight. After replacing data silos with the hc1 Platform to deliver real-time business intelligence and a framework for staff to immediately drive change based on findings and trends, North Memorial is able to ensure they are delivering the right test to the right patient at the right time. They are also able to instantly assess overall utilization and test reimbursement patterns and benchmarks via up-to-the moment dashboards. By using hc1 as a central place for North Memorial staff to interact, feedback is then instantly delivered to physicians regarding ordering practices.

We’ve helped many other labs over the years unlock the untapped potential in their data to build better processes, save time, meet sales goals and improve customer satisfaction. Prior to joining hc1, I spent 12 years working for labs that, quite frankly, would probably still be around today and thriving had they invested in consolidated, real-time insights to drive growth, personalize provider interactions and improve cross-departmental communication.

Growth is more than just managing customer relationships

One thing hc1 has learned over the past 10 years is that while, yes, labs need a customer relationship management system (CRM) designed specifically for healthcare, what they need more is an operations management solution. They face account and contact information scattered across multiple systems. The insights into orders and issues are difficult and time consuming to obtain. Reports take too long to generate or don’t have the information you need. Responsiveness for sales, service, and operations teams’ is slowed. This leads to missed opportunities, ineffective communication, and wasted resources.

An operations management solution connects the lab to customer service, sales and customers with real-time insights. The hc1 Healthcare CRM® does all of these things. Therefore, we’re choosing this Lab Week to recognize everything the solution delivers to our lab customers with a new name that reflects all of its capabilities.

Now known as hc1 Operations Management™, the solution delivers customer satisfaction and lab efficiency with relationship management designed for labs, integrated with your healthcare data sources and customized to fit your workflow. Operations Management sits on the hc1 Lab Insights Platform™ where your lab’s data can be organized and normalized in a single solution that enables quick access to the insights you need to manage your lab and customer relationships. hc1 CRM customers won’t see a change. They will continue to quickly see what’s on track and what needs to improve through dashboards designed for healthcare needs and backed by real-time data analysis. They will still be able to enable employees to focus on adding clients and resolving issues by easily customizing and automating the solution. Clients will also continue to alert and inform employees and customers through email, text, and secure messaging that connects them to a centralized site.

If you are just looking to remove some manual reporting processes to unlock the analytics you need, then hc1 Analytics™ (formerly called Lab Operational Analytics®) may be all you need for now. Our High Value Care Directors can help you apply our 10 years of experience in solutions for lab operations management to find the right fit to meet your growth goals. They’d love to talk to you – just Request a Demo or Contact Us.

July 21, 2021

hc1 and Becker’s Healthcare have again teamed up to host a Precision Health Virtual Summit this August 31 and September 1. The 2020 Summit brought together a host of new ideas and examples of how advances in data-driven care by Precision Health Insight Networks (PHIN) are reducing the overwhelming complexity in our care delivery system.

PHINs have given us the ability to uncover the actionable signals once locked away in siloed patient datasets. With these real-time insights we now are able to identify the right testing and prescriptions for optimal outcomes at the lowest cost.

The 2021 Summit will again bring together some of the foremost precision health thought leaders and industry experts who will focus on implementing precision health practices into care delivery, in turn bringing the benefits of precision health to all patients.

Hospital and health system leaders, healthcare providers and payers won’t want to miss the valuable ideas, information and connections available at this free event.

Here are the top 5 reasons why:

1. Precision Health is a 2021 top trend and innovation – you don’t want to be left out

Just a few weeks ago, MedGadget named precision medicine one of the Top Biotech Industry Trends & Innovations in 2021. They write that “precision medicine technology allows for offering treatment on the basis of a wide range of crucial aspects, such as environment, lifestyle, and individual variability in genes of each person.” This approach allows researchers, healthcare providers and others to select precise treatment options according to the needs of the individual patient.

Sai Balasubramanian, M.D., J.D. wrote in Forbes that “Indeed, personalized, data-driven, and curated therapeutics will likely be the future of patient care, especially given that there are now tools available to study and collate large amounts of data into usable metrics. Especially with the introduction of machine learning capabilities, the ability to learn from and harness data to make critical decisions has never been more accessible.”

2. You have a rare opportunity to be energized, inspired and equipped with connections to implement precision health

In a recent PSQH article, hc1 CEO Brad Bostic wrote that “Of all the lessons learned during the pandemic, healthcare stakeholders can agree on one thing: Broad adoption of precision medicine must become a priority. When care is personalized to the individual, the outcome is a virtuous cycle that keeps people healthier while making healthcare significantly less costly.”

During the Precision Health Virtual Summit you’ll be exposed to discussions on a wide range of topics including:

- The intersection of precision diagnostics and precision prescribing
- Ingesting, organizing and normalizing healthcare data across silos to make it meaningful
- Prescriber and provider collaboration for executing on precision prescribing
- Population stratification and clinical research around precision health
- The laboratory’s critical role in precision health care and how we ensure clinicians are best equipped for decision-making
- Where tech is going in the world of precision health and how we are educating the next generation
- Addressing cost and access concerns in delivering individualized care for all patients
- Strategic implementation of Pharmacogenomics in Pharmacy

Following the Summit you will be energized and inspired, as well as armed with the connections you need to start or further implement precision health in your own organization.

3. You’ll hear from some of the foremost precision health thought leaders and experts

hc1 and Becker’s are assembling a group of healthcare leaders who are currently working with and implementing precision health technology and practices. They will share their experiences, ideas and innovations while participating in the Summit’s virtual fireside chats, presentations and panel discussions. The 2021 Precision Health Virtual Summit speakers include:

- Katherine Capps, President of Health2 Resources and Co-Founder & Executive Director at GTMRx Institute
- David B. Nash, MD, MBA, Founding Dean Emeritus at Jefferson College of Population Health
- Rehan Waheed, MD, Senior Medical Director and CMIO of Healthcare Analytics Solutions at Quest Diagnostics
- Gilan El Saadaw, MD, PhD, MS, Founder and CMO at Realyze Intelligence
- David Freeman, General Manager of Healthcare Analytics Solution at Quest Diagnostics
- Jeffrey Kuhlman, MD, Chief Quality and Safety Officer of AdventHealth
- Peter J. Embí, MD, MS, FACP, FACMI, FAMIA, FIAHSI, President and CEO at Regenstrief Institute
- Umberto Tachinardi, MD, MS, FACMI, IAHSI, CIO at Regenstrief Institute
- Anthony P. Morreale, Pharm.D. MBA, BCPS, FASHP, Associate Chief Consultant for Clinical Pharmacy Services and Policy at US Department of Veterans Affairs
- Todd Crosslin, Global Head of Healthcare and Life Sciences at Snowflake
- Behnaz Sarrami, MS, PharmD, Medical Science Liaison at AltheaDx and Director of Consulting at Missouri Pharmacogenomics Consulting, LLC
- Kandace Schuft, PharmD, Senior Clinical Content Specialist – Pharmacogenomics at Wolters Kluwer
- Kristine Ashcraft, Medical Director for Pharmacogenomics at Invitae
- Matthew Katz, Principal of MCK Health Strategies, LLC.
- Brian D. Patty, MD, CHCIO, CMIO at Medix Technology
- And more!

4. Virtual, Free, Live and Available on Demand

Thanks to leader sponsor, Quest Diagnostics and influencer sponsors AWS and Snowflake, as well as gracious speakers who have donated their time, the Precision Health Virtual Summit is provided at no charge. The Summit content will also be available on demand after the event if you are unable to attend one or all of the sessions live.

- Fits your busy schedule
- No cost
- No travel necessary
- No COVID Delta Variant concerns
- No pants, bra or shower required
- No reason not to register!

Visit www.hc1.com/summit to register today!

5. Most importantly, it’s time to end trial and error and one size fits all treatment

According to the American College of Physicians, 30% of healthcare dollars are wasted on:

- Unnecessary services
- Inefficient delivery
- Low-value/high-cost drugs
- Missed prevention/therapy

Trial-and-error and one-size-fits all prescribing results in more than 2 million adverse drug reactions (ADRs) a year and 15.4% of hospital admissions attributed to drug-related problems; in addition 26% of readmissions are drug-related and preventable.

“U.S. healthcare is currently on an unsustainable course, but it doesn’t have to stay that way,” wrote Mr. Bostic in Medium. “To change current dynamics, stakeholders must embrace and adopt precision medicine practices that personalize therapies and care to individuals. The challenges that have impeded mainstream use of these models are quickly dissolving, and the time is now for impactful change.”

Register for Precision Health Summit 2021 today and join hc1, Beckers Healthcare and sponsors Quest Diagnostics, AWS and Snowflake for this important virtual event.

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