Meg Barron
Managing Director, Engagement & Outreach, Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI)
Meg is passionate about driving change with industry stakeholders to improve health care. Prior to joining the recently launched Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI), she was the Vice President of Digital Health Innovations & Strategy at the American Medical Association (AMA) where she developed and led a roadmap of national initiatives with collaborators. This included leading partnerships and innovation strategies, such as the inaugural AMA Healthier Nation Innovation Challenge, the establishment of the AMA Interaction Studio at MATTER, the development of Xcertia digital health guidelines, the creation of the AMA Physician Innovation Network that enables entrepreneurs and physicians to collaborate on the development of new solutions, the AMA Digital Health Implementation Playbook series, Digital Health national research, The AMA Telehealth Immersion Program, and a Return on Health value framework for digital health.
She participates on the Advisory Board for MATTER, MassChallenge HealthTech, MedTech Color FDA Collaborative Community, Together.Health, Node Health Global Advisory Board, the Editorial Review Board of The Telehealth and Medicine Today Journal and was a past TEDMed Research Scholar. She was named a Rising Star: 104 Healthcare Leaders to Know by Beckers Hospital Review and has published articles in Health Affairs, Harvard Business Review and Nature Digital Medicine and frequently participates at national conferences and events. In her role at PHTI, she focuses on providing rigorous, evidence-based evaluations of innovation healthcare technologies to improve health and lower costs. This includes convening and leading a Purchaser Advisory Council made of up of leading health plans, employers, and health systems, as well as the Digital Health Collaborative, a group of leading healthcare and consumer organizations focused on raising the bar for digital health technologies.