Oracle Health Inside Access: Consumer-Centric Experiences
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Seema Verma
EVP and GM, Oracle Health and Life Sciences
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Seema Verma
EVP and GM, Oracle Health and Life Sciences
Seema Verma is the EVP and GM of Oracle Health and Life Sciences where she is leading the charge to bridge the gap between clinical research and clinical care to improve patient outcomes and care delivery.
Prior, she served as SVP and GM of Oracle Life Sciences; she joined Oracle in 2023 to lead the clinical trials-focused life sciences business.
She is a national health care expert and most recently served as a Senior Advisor to private equity firms TPG and Cressey & Co, serving on the Cressey Distinguished Executive Committee. She also served on the Board of Directors for Lumeris, Monogram, Wellsky, ClaimsXten, Lifestance, and ShiftKey. Additionally, she provided advisory services to a variety of early-stage and large public healthcare companies including national payers and technology companies focusing on strategy, value creation, and operations.
Seema was the former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) between 2017-2021. Confirmed by the Senate on a bi-partisan basis, she had one of the longest terms in modern CMS history. In this role, she oversaw a $1.4 trillion budget, coverage for 145 million beneficiaries, 6,000+ employees, and over 100,000 contractors. She was responsible for federal operations of Medicare, Medicaid, Health Insurance Exchanges, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), and all federal quality and safety regulations.
In this role, she developed and implemented the federal administration's healthcare strategic plan across all programs to advance value-based care, innovation, interoperability, and price transparency while reducing drug prices, and regulations through her historic Patients over Paperwork initiative. CMS had numerous accomplishments during her tenure including delivering reduced premiums across Medicare Part D, Medicare Advantage, and individual insurance market as well as addressing the social determinants of health. Her pro-market policies advanced market competition and site-neutral payments. Her leadership on the White House COVID Task Force led to the widespread adoption of telehealth, Hospital at Home, and no-cost vaccines for the entire country.
Before her role at CMS, she founded and sold a national consulting company and worked as a VP for Policy and Planning for a public hospital, public health department, and health system.
In 2019, Seema was named as Modern Healthcare's Most Influential Person in Healthcare and was part of the Top 25 Women Leaders. Her healthcare and life sciences articles have been published in The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Health Affairs, Modern Healthcare, Newsweek, CNN, USA Today, Applied Clinical Trials, Clinical Leader, Clinical Research News, PharmaVoice, STAT, and others.
Prior, she served as SVP and GM of Oracle Life Sciences; she joined Oracle in 2023 to lead the clinical trials-focused life sciences business.
She is a national health care expert and most recently served as a Senior Advisor to private equity firms TPG and Cressey & Co, serving on the Cressey Distinguished Executive Committee. She also served on the Board of Directors for Lumeris, Monogram, Wellsky, ClaimsXten, Lifestance, and ShiftKey. Additionally, she provided advisory services to a variety of early-stage and large public healthcare companies including national payers and technology companies focusing on strategy, value creation, and operations.
Seema was the former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) between 2017-2021. Confirmed by the Senate on a bi-partisan basis, she had one of the longest terms in modern CMS history. In this role, she oversaw a $1.4 trillion budget, coverage for 145 million beneficiaries, 6,000+ employees, and over 100,000 contractors. She was responsible for federal operations of Medicare, Medicaid, Health Insurance Exchanges, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), and all federal quality and safety regulations.
In this role, she developed and implemented the federal administration's healthcare strategic plan across all programs to advance value-based care, innovation, interoperability, and price transparency while reducing drug prices, and regulations through her historic Patients over Paperwork initiative. CMS had numerous accomplishments during her tenure including delivering reduced premiums across Medicare Part D, Medicare Advantage, and individual insurance market as well as addressing the social determinants of health. Her pro-market policies advanced market competition and site-neutral payments. Her leadership on the White House COVID Task Force led to the widespread adoption of telehealth, Hospital at Home, and no-cost vaccines for the entire country.
Before her role at CMS, she founded and sold a national consulting company and worked as a VP for Policy and Planning for a public hospital, public health department, and health system.
In 2019, Seema was named as Modern Healthcare's Most Influential Person in Healthcare and was part of the Top 25 Women Leaders. Her healthcare and life sciences articles have been published in The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Health Affairs, Modern Healthcare, Newsweek, CNN, USA Today, Applied Clinical Trials, Clinical Leader, Clinical Research News, PharmaVoice, STAT, and others.
Barry Pellas
GVP, Product Management, Oracle Health
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Barry Pellas
GVP, Product Management, Oracle Health
Barry Pellas is a product and technology executive focused on enabling interesting problem solving through technology and innovation. In his current role as Oracle Health’s GVP of Consumer Product Management, Barry is focusing on driving human-centric healthcare outcomes through integrated and intelligent data. In his previous roles as CTO at Primerica, he provided leadership for large scale digital transformation initiatives and legacy technology modernization strategies throughout all lines of business including insurance, finance, mortgage, marketing, and several non-regulated industries. Previously, he was the technology leader for PointSource in which he led customer driven digital transformations for companies such as LabCorp, Erie Insurnace, Sport Endeavors (soccer.com) and a slew of others.
Tom Hutsel
Senior Director, Product Management, Oracle Health
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Tom Hutsel
Senior Director, Product Management, Oracle Health
Tom Hutsel is passionate about patient access and sees it as a significant lever to improve both patient engagement and health care operations. In his role as Senior Director of Product Management for Oracle Health, Tom is focusing on modernizing the patient administration product portfolio through technology, innovation, and customer collaboration. Tom joined Oracle through the Cerner acquisition and has held leadership positions in revenue cycle consulting and product management throughout his career. Tom is a graduate of the University of Missouri and has a Master of Science degree and a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering. He also completed the Cerner Certificate in Health Care Leadership through the Bloch School of Management and the HFMA Certified Revenue Cycle Representative certification.
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