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AI and Predictive Analytics Improve Prior Authorization and Provider Experience

Dates:
Oct 8, 2024
Time:
1:00 pm EDT
Presented by Cohere Health
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About This Webinar

Join Cohere Health and industry thought leaders to discover how predictive capabilities, including AI and analytic technologies, are transforming prior authorization and improving provider experience. Learn how innovative health insurance plans can promote optimal care choices via prior authorization and leverage authorization data to dramatically reduce provider time and effort in the process. We’ll dive into how predictive analytics and automated “nudges” can speed and improve care outcomes, while removing many manual steps and speeding up patient access to appropriate care.

We’ll explain how innovative technologies, including AI, machine learning, and analytics, are being applied today to reduce authorization burden, and leverage the process to have a greater impact on patient care and safety, with compelling results.

Attendees Will Learn About

  • How to leverage authorization data to improve the provider authorization experience
  • How AI and machine learning are being used in the process with tangible, meaningful results

Presenters

Traci Granston, MD, MBA, FAAOS

Vice President, Clinical Strategy, MSK

Cohere Health

Currently, Dr. Granston serves as the Vice President of Clinical Strategy for Musculoskeletal. She is an orthopedic surgeon based in Washington who specializes in hand surgery and practices at Proliance Orthopedic Surgeons. Dr. Granston attended medical school at Vanderbilt University, completed her residency in Orthopedic Surgery at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and a…

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Romy Hussain, MBA

Vice President of Data, Analytics, and Machine Learning

Cohere Health

Romy serves as Cohere’s VP of Data & Machine Learning leading the data organization, which includes data management, data science, machine learning/AI, and business intelligence. Prior to joining Cohere, Romy worked at Optum Labs (UnitedHealthcare R&D), where she was responsible for AI/ML development, engineering, and clinical analytics/informatics. She was recruited to UHG to work on…

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Heidi Kriz, MPH, RD

Director, Medical Policy & Medical Management; PA Transformation Lead

Regence

For over 15 years, Heidi has led and managed work in the field of evidence informed health policy with twelve state Medicaid programs at Oregon Health and Science University and more recently with Regence health plans. At Regence, Heidi has played a key leadership role in prior authorization transformation. She serves as the Chair and business lead for the Prior Authorization Transformation…

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