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Another Take At Zero-Energy Buildings: Optimum Energy’s Nathan Rothman (Part 1)
Nathan Rothman is the president and CEO of Optimum Energy. He has spent the past 20 years as the president of a privately held company which structured, financed, built, and managed “green field” manufacturing plants for its clients around the world. Prior to that, Nathan founded Valiant Yacht Corporation, which was awarded the “Product of
Building A National Health Information Network: NaviNet’s Brad Waugh and Tom Morrison (Part 7)
SM: How does the architectural approach change things on the clinical side? TM: On the clinical side it is exactly the same thing. ONC has put together the quality metrics for meaningful use. The metrics on the list were designed around elements which will improve quality and remove costs from the system.
Building A National Health Information Network: NaviNet’s Brad Waugh and Tom Morrison (Part 6)
SM: Suppose the government mandated that all insurance providers in America standardize on a payment system similar to yours. What would the total cost savings be? BW: Our marketing department estimates that based on our 812,000 providers, if you take a combination of what we are saving today on both the provider and the payment
Building A National Health Information Network: NaviNet’s Brad Waugh and Tom Morrison (Part 5)
SM: Are you doing anything with electronic health records? TM: We believe that a far more effective way to create the broad, automated records needed is to automate information outside the office and present it as a package to a treating physician. Our model has the ability to do that. We are doing that today
Building A National Health Information Network: NaviNet’s Brad Waugh and Tom Morrison (Part 4)
SM: How big is NaviNet? How many insurance companies are your clients, and how many people do they represent? BW: There are over 380 insurance companies in the United States. We measure the size of an insurance company by the number of lives it insures. The smallest health plan in the country has 15,000 lives
Building A National Health Information Network: NaviNet’s Brad Waugh and Tom Morrison (Part 3)
SM: When you developed your initial strategy, was it based entirely on receiving payments from health plan providers? TM: Our goal was to streamline processes for payers as well as to create workflows that would enable us to provide additional clinical support to provider offices. For example, Aetna builds personal health records for many of
Building A National Health Information Network: NaviNet’s Brad Waugh and Tom Morrison (Part 2)
SM: What did you determine was significant about the Web in your marketplace, and is that the genesis of NaviNet? TM: The Web enabled one organization to deliver a capability to a user. I felt that it was very powerful for healthcare and that the Web would be a far easier and more effective way
Building A National Health Information Network: NaviNet’s Brad Waugh and Tom Morrison (Part 1)
NaviNet, founded by Tom Morrison and with Brad Waugh as president and CEO, is America’s largest healthcare communications network. Tom has been involved in healthcare IT for 25 years and was a co-founder of Firepond Partners. Brad was previously CEO of $2.6 billion financial services firm Wincor Nixdorf as well as an entrepreneur who founded