SoCal HIMSS Academic Alliance Conference Speakers
Charles Kennedy, MD
Vice President of Health Information Technology,
WellPoint, Inc.
Charles D. Kennedy, MD is the Vice President of Health
Information Technology for WellPoint, Inc. Dr. Kennedy
is responsible for building technical solutions which
leverage health plan data sets and are applied in clinical
settings. Dr. Kennedy has led WellPoint’s initiatives to
improve patient care through technology in a variety of
ways including strategic acquisitions and investments such
as HealthCore; WellPoint’s entry into clinical and
outcomes research and Resolution Health Inc.; an
advanced informatics company with an expertise in quality
assessment.
He has also developed commercial
relationships with companies such as RelayHealth, a
company enabling web based patient visits, RxHub, an
intermediary enabling E-prescribing, and various electronic
health record companies such as AllScripts, Medplus,
CentriHealth and others. Dr. Kennedy has also led projects
to deploy advanced health I.T. tools at WellPoint including a claims based electronic health record known
as the Member Medical History system. Dr. Kennedy has served as a thought leader on Federal, State,
and private industry initiatives including being a founding commissioner on the Certification Commission
for Health Information Technology, the first insurance industry representative on the HIT Policy
Committee, and has served on a variety of state level boards such as the California Health IT Financing
Advisory Committee.
John Fontanesi, PhD
Professor of Medicine; Director, Center for Management Science in Health
UCSD School of Medicine
John Fontanesi, PhD, is a professor in the School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego with
appointments to the Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of
Pediatrics and the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine. He is also Director, Center for
Management Science in Health. Dr. Fontanesi