WASHINGTON, DC, May 7, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via PRWEB - Laura Sandman, Market Operations Manager at RowdMap Inc., will be demonstrating how RowdMap uses publicly available government data to help health plans, physicians, and hospital systems succeed in pay-for-value programs.
The presentation will be featured during the Innovation Showcase at Health Datapalooza's 2016 annual conference on Tuesday, May 10, 2016 at the Grand Hyatt Washington in Washington D.C.: http://bit.ly/1TmeEd8
The presentation will take place on the main stage where Laura Sandman of RowdMap, Inc. will be joined by Lisa Simpson, President and Chief Executive Officer, AcademyHealth; MaryLynn Ostrowski, PhD, Executive Director, Aetna Foundation; Vicky A. Mahn-DiNicola, Vice President of Clinical Analytics & Research, Midas+, A Xerox Company; Susan Dentzer, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Network for Excellence in Health Innovation and Analyst on Health Policy, The NewsHour; Jamie Gunsior, PwC Principal & Digital Healthcare Leader, PwC; Richard M. Leadbeater, Global Manager: State/Provincial Government Industry Solutions, ESRI; and Miya Gray, Vice President, Customer Experience, Surescripts.
Health Datapalooza is the gathering place for people and organizations creating knowledge from data and pioneering innovations that drive health policy and practice. The Innovation Showcase highlights organizations that embody the ethos of the data liberation movement and drive value and innovation. RowdMap, Inc. strongly supports the health data liberation movement and is a proud sponsor and participant in this year's Health Datapalooza.
The showcase will discuss the concept of Risk-Readiness® and how RowdMap, Inc. successfully uses public data to identify, quantify and reduce no-value care, which is necessary to thrive in any value based model.
"We're excited to showcase our innovative approach to analyzing healthcare data to identify no-value care, which accounts for 30% of waste in the healthcare system. Through the use of public data, we have benchmarks on every physician and hospital in the U.S. and we'll be showing how payers and providers can use this data to identify waste in their markets--a win for payers, providers, and consumers," said Laura Sandman, Market Operations Manager, RowdMap, Inc.
Those interested in learning more are encouraged to contact RowdMap, Inc. directly or visit RowdMap, Inc. at Booth #30 during the 2016 Health Datapalooza Conference on Monday and Tuesday, May 9-10, 2016 at the Grand Hyatt Washington in Washington D.C.
About RowdMap, Inc.:
An Ernst and Young EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® winner, RowdMap's Risk-Readiness® benchmarks help health plans, physician groups, and hospital systems identify, quantify, and reduce no-value care that physicians deliver--a central tenet of successful pay-for-value programs.
Through practice pattern and referral analysis, RowdMap's benchmarks identify the health care entities that manage unwarranted and unexpected variation in care. This variation leads to more than $850 billion in no-value care annually. Payers and physicians use RowdMap's physician and population health benchmarks to create strategies that put these highest performing physicians at the center of networks and then design products, organize clinical programs, and coordinate sales and marketing around them. RowdMap's platform comes preloaded with benchmarks for every physician, hospital, and zip code in the United States--no IT integration required. RowdMap's Risk-Readiness® Platform works across all market segments and has significantly larger returns than traditional medical economics approaches.
For more information, please visit http://www.RowdMap.com
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