Carolyn Scott, RN, is the Senior Vice President and Chief Customer Officer at PeraHealth. Carolyn is a healthcare leader with over 20
years’ experience assisting healthcare organizations
improve performance in value-based care, patient
engagement, and efficiency.
Carolyn gained clinical experience as a practicing registered nurse and as a nursing administrator specializing in emergency nursing in the Dallas/Fort
Worth area. She spent seven years in consulting and relationship management roles with KPMG and Vizient (formerly VHA) before providing consulting services in the areas of Value-Based Performance and Health Data/Analytics.
She went on to work as Service Line Vice President, Quality & Safety, for Premier, Inc., a healthcare alliance company, where she stayed for six years. At Premier, she was responsible for the strategic direction, planning, and execution of the healthcare quality and safety service line, including consulting services and large-scale collaborative and clinical networks.
Carolyn has served on numerous committees with the American Hospital Association, the National Quality Forum, and the National Patient Safety Foundation. She holds an MHA from the University of Texas at Arlington, a BS in Nursing from Texas Christian University, an MS in Secondary and Higher Education Consulting and Guidance from Texas A&M and a BA in Finance from the University of Texas-El Paso.
The real benefit of leveraging health data through predictive analytics is that it can provide early warning signs of patient deterioration, enable sooner intervention and ultimately save more lives.