Reducing Inpatient Hospital Readmissions with Analytics

Barry Chaiken, MD, MPH, is the clinical lead at Tableau Healthcare and has more than 25 years of experience in medical research, epidemiology, clinical information technology, and analytics. He is board-certified in general preventive medicine and public health and is a fellow and former board member and chair of HIMSS. As the founder of DocsNetwork Ltd., Chaiken worked on quality improvement studies, health IT clinical transformation projects, and clinical investigations for the National Institutes of Health, UK National Health Service, and Boston University Medical School.

Gina is a highly effective and versatile Health Information Technology Consultant with over 20 years of diverse Payer and Provider capabilities. She commands an understanding of the full lifecycle of healthcare from Providers to Payers, with a comprehensive knowledge across all major operational areas and workflows for health insurance organizations. She is a recognized Subject Matter Expert and Payer Industry Leader who has published and presented white papers at national healthcare technology meetings. Through her extensive knowledge of current and future healthcare topics she is recognized for her ability to provide insight for business and product development offerings and thought leadership.
 
Gina’s key areas of expertise are Business and Technical Analysis, Business Process Improvement and Best Practices, and Business Process Solutions Architecture and Design. She has extensive experience working with national healthcare Payers on core systems administration migrations and technology implementations that include several BlueCross BlueShield plans for Commercial, Medicare, and Medicaid lines of businesses. Gina has a proven track record for identifying new growth opportunities, ability to drive organizational change, and influence senior decision makers.

Gina has a B.A. in Sociology/Chemistry from the University of Alabama in Birmingham.