Leveraging Your Data to Respond to COVID-19 in Real-Time

Dr. Jim Balshi is the CMIO at St. Luke’s University Health Network. He has been practicing vascular surgery at St. Luke’s for nearly 30 years. Dr. Balshi completed his General Surgery Residency at the hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, his fellowship in vascular surgery at Boston University Hosptiual and his fellowship in endovascular surgery at the Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Balshi has worked with Information Technology throughout his career facilitating AllScripts in specialty practices. He assisted the Epic inpatient leadership for St. Luke’s Network 7 hospital go-live, expanded Epic deployment to three additional hospital acquisitions and led the network Epic ambulatory go-live at more than 250 ambulatory sites. As CMIO, Dr. Balshi provides senior leadership and clinical guidance to the St. Luke’s heart and vascular center team and assumes responsibility for information technology medical leadership, including St. Luke’s clinical and medical informatics teams (predictive analytics and AI). Dr. Balshi works with St. Luke’s clinical services lines to improve existing systems and provides physician IT leadership the ongoing addition of Epic clinical modules. He directs additional projects, enhancing patience are, quality improvement and the patient experience. He serves as medical leadership on the clinical communications team, including both secure messaging and telehealth services, and is co-director of the network virtual response center.

Rohan D’Souza is the Head of Product at KenSci. Rohan is accountable for driving the innovation and product strategy in bringing machine learning solutions to some of the largest and most prestigious health systems in the world, aligned to achieving the quadruple aim of healthcare. KenSci has pioneered a suite of machine learning models that are tuned to indicators that improve operational efficiencies, clinical quality, and financial profitability on a highly scalable, elastic cloud framework. Prior to joining KenSci, Rohan was instrumental in building an industry leading population health solution at eClinicalWorks from the ground up. With over 100M patient’s data flowing through the platform, he helped some of the largest and most successful ACO’s in the US to understand opportunities within their data and build intervention strategies to drive change. He is also a leading voice for the open health data initiative and was responsible for pushing the agenda on EMR systems adopting an open API framework for healthcare interoperability.Rohan graduated from the University at Buffalo with a double degree in Biological Sciences and Business Marketing, focused on the intersection of health policy with biostatistics. His research helped guide the University at Buffalo to become the first public University in the state of New York to go completely tobacco free.