Home Monitoring, AI, & Security | Partnership Driven Outcomes

Program Description:

This presentation shares revolutionary technologies that identify patient patterns and predict medication adherence, recognize potential fraud, and support staff while augmenting care management. These technology tools have been shown to decrease hospital readmits and Emergency Department visits, increase revenue and employee satisfaction. The value of working collaboratively with others to completely leverage technology is explored.

HCSSA Topic(s) Addressed:

• §558.259[d][4] agency responsibilities
• §558.260[a][3] basic principles of management in a licensed health-related setting

Education-Training Credits:

• TX HCSSA Administrator/Alternate Continuing Education
  • 1.0 Clock Hr(s)

About the Presenter(s): Phil Beckett

Phil came to Houston in 1991 as a post-doctoral fellow to study protein metabolism at the Children’s Nutrition Research Center. At Texas Children’s Hospital he developed a rapid amino acid assay used to perform protein clamps and measure insulin sensitivity in children with diabetes. Phil kickstarted his informatics career in the neonatal ICU writing interfaces to capture data electronically from monitoring systems around the concept that quality is driven by data. He co-founded a startup, RosettaMed as a developer for patient data capture applications with interfaces to electronic health records. He led the sale of the company to Kryptiq Corporation before joining Baylor College of Medicine to lead their clinical information systems implementation (Epic, iSite PACS). Phil joined Greater Houston Healthconnect (an HIE) in May 2012 and served as a pioneer for interoperability in Houston and the Southeast Texas region. Phil introduced and integrated diagnostic image sharing with the goal of reducing duplicate tests and reducing patient exposure to unnecessary radiation. As CEO of C3HIE he continued to expand HIE services across Texas through collaboration with community partners and a focus on value and delivery through account management. Since January 2025 Phil is CEO of Texas Health Services Authority, a statutory organization to promote and enable interoperability across Texas. Phil has a major focus on usability after many years working with physicians – if it isn’t easy they won’t use it – and on patient engagement. He believes that consumers will drive the future of healthcare. In his spare time, Phil is a sailor (on Galveston Bay), Vice Chair of Close to Home, the Homeless CoC in San Antonio; Chair of the Homeless Management and Information System and Data in San Antonio; on the eHealth Advisory Committee for Texas; Deans Advisory Committee UTSA School of Health, Community and Policy; and Co-Chair for the Civitas national conference. All of these efforts tie together the factors that affect our health – policy, environment, community and medicine./p>

About the Presenter(s): Shannon Calhoun

Shannon is a distinguished healthcare executive with over 30 years of experience in the industry. She is a leader of collaboration and collaboratives that develop strong relationships and build consensus throughout multiple organizations. Shannon is passionate about rural healthcare and healthcare transformation. She served 20 plus years as CEO of Southeast Texas Health System where the foundation of her work was developing business lines for rural networks that create sustainable solutions with economies of scale and scope while protecting financial autonomy for participating providers. She also served as Vice President, Business Development for Caravan Health and Regional Vice President of Growth for Aledade, both national leaders and start ups in the transformation and implementation of innovative healthcare models for supporting quality, cost-effectiveness, and health promotion for the improvement of the well-being of patients served by rural and community health systems, and independent physician practices. Currently Shannon serves as Chief Revenue Officer of IV Ensure, a Medication Adherence Platform for home IV infusions. She is by appointment of the Governor of Texas a member of the board of the Texas Health Services Authority and currently serves as chair of the board./p>