SCOTTSDALE (July 22, 2009) — Allviant a spinout of Medicity, Inc., today announced the formation of its Advisory Board to add perspective and insight to its soon-to-be-released CarePass™ technology. The advisors include industry leaders with decades of experience shaping and leading employer and health plan innovations.
“Allviant's vision for a simple, seamless technology-enabled consumer experience for managing inherently complex healthcare relationships, communications, and transactions will significantly benefit from the participation of these highly regarded experts,” says Allviant President Lilian Myers. “We couldn't be more honored to have the enthusiastic attention and support of these executives and thought leaders.”
Advisory Board members include:
Cyndy Nayer is President and CEO of the Center for Health Value Innovation, an employer-led collaborative that drives the use of value-based design to improve health while reducing costs. Ms. Nayer is a well-known speaker and advocate for innovative approaches to health and wellness that make good business sense through improved health, economic and community outcomes. Nayer is co-author of the soon-to-be-released Leveraging Health, documenting the successes and levers in value-based designs.
Leonard Grover, Industry Consultant, who recently retired as Vice President and Consumerism National Practice Leader with Mercer Health & Benefits, has represented Mercer at national conferences on trends in consumer-directed health plans. Mr. Grover's career has included chief marketing officer and chief sales officer roles with regional CIGNA and UnitedHealthcare operations, and he has served as President of the Utah Health Insurance Association.
Dana H. Felthouse, MBA, is President of the Pharmacy Benefit Management Institute, a resource for effective design of drug benefits and a forum for driving market change that improves pharmacy benefits and controls costs. Ms. Felthouse is the primary author of PBMI's nationally recognized research publications, a member of the URAC Pharmacy Advisory Group, and frequent speaker on benefit design for better outcomes.
Jim Sandridge, Vice President of Business Development at OptumHealth division of United Healthcare, has spent over 25 years as a senior executive in the healthcare industry – the past 15 years with disease and wellness management companies including ParadigmHealth and CorSolutions, helping health plans, unions and employers to improve outcomes for their members and employees.
“Our goal is to provide consumers with a convenient, multichannel communication medium and tools to help them become informed, engaged, activated consumers – especially with massive changes in coverage on the way. The system is only going to get more confusing, not less,” says Myers. “These advisors bring invaluable insight that will have tremendous impact on our ability to bring something as revolutionary as CarePass to market. These are the individuals who can help us shape how we partner with major employers and health plans to lower costs and expand value through simplified access and use of the healthcare system.”
About Allviant
Allviant is the developer of the first-ever, consumer-centric tools and network for healthcare called CarePass™. CarePass is a technology-enabled service that gives consumers a new method of access, convenience and control by connecting existing healthcare information systems and administrative data though a personally-defined set of communication mediums and methods — from phone to text to email or fax. The opposite of customer relationship management (CRM), this Service Relationship Management technology empowers the customer to determine when and how they want to interact with service providers across their unique array of relationships, making a disconnected healthcare world painless and saving time, money and frustration for everyone.
