Roji Health Intelligence – how consumers fit into healthcare reform

Theresa (Terry) Hush, CEO of Roji Health Intelligence, a company that is helping to improve the quality of healthcare by enabling better decisions through integrated data, discusses her mission to give doctors/healthcare providers the right information to make smarter patient decisions while reducing healthcare costs.  She also talks about why patient experience needs to move beyond convenience and responsiveness.

Theresa Hush, CEO of Roji Health Intelligence (“Terry”) is a health care strategist and change expert with experience across the health care spectrum. She is a dynamic speaker and thought leader in health care, especially focused on Value-Based Health Care, health care coverage and financial trends, consumerism, and transformation. She is a frequent speaker and has authored many articles, published in health care journals.  She also is a regular writer of health care topics in the Roji Health Intelligence weekly blog. Terry’s broad range of health care experience includes executive positions in public, non-profit and private sectors, from both payer and provider sides of the business, peppered with health care public policy and regulation experience. She jokes that she has occupied a seat in every health care position except for the pharmaceutical industry. She led the transformation of Blue Cross Blue Shield in Illinois, reformed the Illinois Medicaid program to create better access and increase funding, and directed the strategic and contracting activities for a large clinically integrated hospital system. She is co-founder and CEO of Roji Health Intelligence, formed in 2002 to help providers prepare for Value-Based Health Care through technology and consultation services.