Effective Patient Engagement
in a Value-Based World

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Presentations & Panel Discussion

Join us as we enjoy the company of colleagues, dinner, and conversation with industry experts who share their experiences, innovations and best practices in patient engagement. Learn from the differing perspectives of our healthcare system including providers, payers and technologists covering telehealth, mobile apps and social media. 

Presenters and Panelists Include: 

Alan Pitt, M.D.
Barrow Neurological Institute & Chief Medical Officer
Chief Medical Officer Avizia

BIO:  Alan Pitt, M.D. is a Professor at the Barrow Neurological Institute, one of the country’s premier centers of excellence for neuroscience. He has degrees from Stanford University (B.A ’83) and the University Arizona (M.D ’88). He did post graduate training in Internal Medicine, Neurology, Radiology and Neuroradiology.  Over the past two decades Dr. Pitt has worked at the nexus of computers and medicine, looking for better ways to stitch together the our fragmented care system. He passionately believes that by putting the patient in front of the right person, fear and anxiety (for the patient, the loved one, the nurse or generalist) can be replaced by reassurance. This avoids needless tests, transfers and worry. His focuses on cloud based solutions leveraging messaging and collaboration with sustainable business models.

Dr. Pitt was the healthcare representative to the Digital Arizona Council, a group organized by the State of Arizona’s CIO. He is an Adjunct Professor for the ASU College of Nursing and Health Innovation and the Univ of Arizona College of Medicine/Phoenix. In addition to his clinical responsibilities, in 2014 Dr. Pitt was asked to be CMO for Avizia, a global provider of telehealth services. In 2011 he was awarded a $100,000 innovation grant from Dignity Health for (Mi) hospital, a novel cloud based system for patient engagement.  He has been an invited speaker at state and national level on issues related to telehealth and patient engagement.

Stephanie Bartels
Patient Engagement Solutions Lead at Dell Healthcare Services

BIO: Stephanie Bartels is the Patient Engagement Solutions Leader for Dell Healthcare & Life Sciences.  She works with providers on solutions that improve healthcare consumer experience and engagement levels. Her expertise is in data strategy, applying tele-health technologies to manage chronic populations, and in applying customer relationship management concepts to drive a better experience for patients and improve health and wellness. 

Before joining Dell, Stephanie spent 10 years at IBM and 13 years at Deloitte Consulting.  Earlier in her career she worked with financial services and retail organizations on “front office” marketing, sales and customer service transformation engagements.  She has her MBA from the University of Chicago and her BSBA from Drake University. 

James Napoli, M.D. 
Senior Medical Director, Provider Partnership and Care Transformation at BlueCross BlueShield of Arizona

BIO: As the Senior Medical Director, Provider Partnership & Care Transformation, for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona (BCBSAZ), Dr. James Napoli is responsible for collaborating with providers to create innovative models which are designed to advance healthcare quality, improve the health status of members, and reduce unnecessary costs.

These duties include providing support to the Chief Medical Officer to develop, organize, and create innovations and programs designed to foster and enhance relations between BCBSAZ, its subsidiaries and affiliates, hospitals and providers.

Napoli also plays a vital role working with the Chief Medical Officer to create outcome-driven quality initiatives and programs designed to improve healthcare services to BCBSAZ members, and maximize system efficiencies.

Napoli is Board Certified in Internal Medicine with over a decade of clinical experience in hospital medicine and physician leadership roles including: Credentials Chair, Quality Assurance Chair, Medicine Chair and Vice Chief of Staff at Arrowhead Hospital, Glendale, AZ. During this time, he developed multiple clinically integrated programs which helped establish new service lines. 

Napoli has worked as a Medical Director for OptumHealth in the medical management and quality improvement areas for Medicare Advantage membership. He lead multiple projects that supported care management innovation and lead to shared savings models for primary care physicians.

Napoli holds a Masters of Medical Management degree from University of Southern California, a Doctor of Allopathic Medicine degree from Medical College of Ohio and a bachelor’s degree from The Ohio State University.