COVID-19 As a Digital Transformer:  Telehealth Accelerates & There’s No Looking Back

We’ve seen years of regulations around telehealth topple in order to respond to the market need of virtual health options due to COVID-19.

With over 42% of Americans using telehealth during the pandemic, the data speaks for itself —Definitive analysts uncovered a 6,000% increase in telehealth claims from the summer of 2019 to the summer of 2020.

Ready or not, telehealth is poised to play a critical role in healthcare for the foreseeable future.

All of this calls for more dialogue around telehealth. On September 24th, 2020, Definitive Healthcare will host an expert roundtable on telehealth and consider:  

• • What COVID-19 and post-COVID-19 virtual care look like

  • What the easing, and possible re-imposing, of telehealth restrictions means for patients and providers

  • What other ways digital expansion in healthcare can continue to evolve and what shifts need to happen to accommodate an increasingly virtual model

  • As regulations, claims coverage, and the patient journey rapidly evolve, how this will impact healthcare-focused sales and marketing

Join Afshan Ali, Division Vice President of Telehealth at Jackson & Coker, Dr. Elisha Yaghmai, President & CEO at FreeState Healthcare, and Dr. Davin Lundquist, Chief Medical Officer at Augmedix as we capture their expertise and predictions on the digital expansion of healthcare and what this means for your business and go-to-market strategy.

About the panelists:

Afshan Ali, Division Vice President of Telehealth, Jackson & Coker

Afshan brings 20 years of experience in healthcare, technology and management consulting to her role leading Jackson & Coker’s Telehealth division. She has extensive experience as a consultant during her time at Deloitte, where she served in healthcare and pharmaceuticals. With her expertise in strategy and operations, she has led systems integrations and implementations domestically and internationally. Afshan has worked with telehealth clients ranging from group practices to integrated health systems in both the commercial and government spaces.

Dr. Elisha Yaghmai, President and CEO, FreeState Healthcare

Dr. Yaghmai is double-boarded in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, and has worked in many places, from rural clinics to urban, tertiary ICUs, and everywhere in between. When not working on building FreeState, Elisha enjoys spending time with his wife, a pediatric ICU doctor, he also works a side job as personal assistant to his young children. Dr. Yaghmai attended Harvard University and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School at Dallas and completed his residency at the University of Kansas-Wichita in Internal Medicine/Pediatrics.

Dr. Davin Lundquist, Chief Medical Officer, Augmedix 

In this role, Dr. Lundquist drives rapid technological innovation across Augmedix’ product development teams while maintaining clinical excellence and tight alignment with the fast-changing US healthcare landscape. Dr. Lundquist continues to practice medicine with CommonSpirit Health and contributes as a market CMIO for Ambulatory Services in Ventura County.Dr. Lunquist is a graduate from the USC Keck School of Medicine. He completed his family medicine residency at Naval Hospital Bremerton in Bremerton, WA, and for eight years served as a Chief Medical Information Officer at CommonSpirit Health.  

Moderated by:

Allison Snow, Vice President of Go-To-Customer Marketing, Definitive Healthcare

Allison Snow is a B2B marketing and customer insights expert, having served in leadership, sales enablement, and revenue marketing roles as a practitioner, industry analyst, and consultant. She has held senior positions with technology firms of various sizes, from a billion-dollar global IT consultancy to private-equity-backed software companies. 

As the Vice President, Go-To-Customer Marketing at Definitive Healthcare, Allison’s role is to accelerate metrics that capture high-priority and revenue-relevant organizational KPIs like new business acquisition, customer engagement, referral cultivation, cross-sell, up-sell, renewals, and advocacy.

Prior to Definitive, Allison spent 4 years as a senior analyst at Forrester Research, advising B2B and B2B2C clients on how to use advanced analytics to identify trends and patterns in data and apply them to differentiated customer experiences and demonstrable revenue growth. 

In addition to her work at Definitive Healthcare, Allison is an advisory Board member at Growth Ops, an organization focused on helping organizations drive business growth. You can find Allison on LinkedIn and Twitter.