Healthcare Think Tank

Jordan Tannenbaum, MD, MBA, MPH, PgC Healthcare Informatics is Vice President/Chief Information Officer and Chief Medical Officer and a CHIME Certified Healthcare Chief Information Officer (CHCIO). Saint Peter’s Healthcare System, sponsored by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Metuchen, is the parent company of Saint Peter’s University Hospital, a 478-bed acute-care teaching hospital and acute care children’s hospital; Saint Peter’s Physician Associates, a network of primary and specialty care physicians; Saint Peter’s Foundation, the fundraising arm of the healthcare system; and Saint Peter’s Health & Management Services Corporation, which focuses on the wide group of the system’s non-hospital related healthcare services, including the CARES Surgicenter. Saint Peter’s University Hospital, received its sixth consecutive designation as a Magnet® hospital for nursing excellence by the American Nurses Credentialing Center in 2020, is a state-designated children’s hospital and a regional perinatal center, and is a regional specialist in diabetes, gastroenterology, head and neck surgery, oncology, orthopedics, and women’s services. The Children’s Hospital at Saint Peter’s University Hospital provides families with access to a full range of pediatric specialties, including a nationally recognized Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, pediatric surgery and orthopedic surgery featuring innovative anterior scoliosis correction.

Strong commitment to quality care for patients across the healthcare continuum. Telemedicine provides the framework to make this possible. Data analytics is essential to assure accurate tracking of outcomes. I believe in the disruptive change provided by the continuously evolving technology is essential to population health management. We must insist on the development of both software and hardware agnostic products to achieve the safe delivery of health care. Specialties: neuro and critical care. Respiratory care. Cardiology

Cheri Glass, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, is vice president of Employee Experience for Baptist Health a full-spectrum health system, which employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Previously, Glass served as vice president of Human Resources for Baptist Health Medical Group, which encompasses the system’s employed providers; Baptist Health Home Care; and Baptist Health Community Care, the system’s value based care arm. Glass has more than 25 years of HR leadership and experience in Louisville, most recently as vice president of Talent Acquisition, Human Resources & Benefits for Signature Healthcare. She also has served as assistant vice president of Employee Benefits for BB&T Insurance Services; as the market practice leader, chief human resources and administrative officer for Fetter Printing Company; and as director of human resources for AAA of Kentucky. Glass holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration/personnel administration and industrial relations from the University of Louisville. She and her husband have been married for 36 years have two children and are currently planning for the marriage of their daughter. Living in Kentucky Cheri and her husband Doug also breed and race thoroughbred horses.

Purna Prasad is a recognized leader, researcher, and innovator with three decades of experience in the field of clinical information technology and biomedical engineering. He is the CTO & Co-Founder of Sterling Universal Group that is the Ai & RPA research arm for multiple acute care providers in NAM. Previously Dr Prasad was the chief technology officer and vice president for information technology at Northwell Health, New York's largest healthcare system. Prasad has a career-long record of accomplishment spanning information technology, clinical technology, and biomedical program development, infrastructure/architecture planning, solution engineering, and enterprise-wide integration. Dr. Prasad's pioneering work in clinical information technology research resulted in the first networked physiological monitoring system for acute care, distant patient care using telemedicine, computerized brain monitoring system, sleeping brain monitoring and diagnosis, and application of robotics in medicine. He successfully established the first information technology innovation center at Northwell Health in New York. This innovation center is a sandbox for the 66,000-strong Northwell clinicians, scientists, and staff to think differently. The center produced the first 3-D printed prototype of an artificial limb that enabled a wounded veteran to swim again. The center excels in using commoditized technology to empower patients to care for themselves and successfully tested the first unmanned air drone delivery of an emergency first aid pack. Dr. Prasad holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, a master's degree in biomedical engineering, and a Ph.D. in information technology.

Physician, software engineer, health systems leader, educator, entrepreneur, and advocate for the underserved. I am currently the Co-Founder and CEO of Homecare Hub, where we help patients find high quality homecare and are creating new models of care to allow patients to age at home. I am also the Chief Medical Director of TD Bank Group where I am focused on improving the health and wellness of TD's 90,000 employees. My goal is to create significant positive change within our healthcare system - and am tackling this problem at all levels. My career interests include healthcare innovation, healthcare technology, healthcare quality and systems, leadership development, prevention/primary care, inner city and global health, adolescent medicine, seniors health, behavioral economics, and genomics. Key strengths include leadership, innovation, problem solving, perseverance, and integrity. I am always looking to connect with people who share a similar desire to innovate and similar vision to create positive change.