Patricia Valenti, MD, MBA, is a senior-level physician executive and healthcare IT subject matter expert with 20 plus years of Program and Project Management experience in scientific/medical and health information technology with a passion for healthcare IT transformation. Currently as ECHO Health IT Networks, Inc. CEO/President, Dr. Valenti is providing leadership to ECHO, advancing its mission and objectives and promoting revenue, profitability and growth of the company. ECHO’s mission derives from providing business and technology vision for organizations wide information services and focusing on cutting-edge technology practices that are patient centric.
Dr. Valenti has extensive experience in Health Data Management and Analysis for Evidence-Based practices, Healthcare Business Intelligence and Data Analytic platforms that provide performance management, health outcomes and patient safety, and financial and operational management solutions. She has represented enterprise’s program’s objectives and interests with the Department of Health and Human Services agencies such as the National Institutes of Health, Centers of Disease Control, Food and Drug Administration, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Department of Defense, pharmaceutical companies, universities, health IT and clinical analytic companies.
Furthermore, she has extensive knowledge on Health IT program initiatives and policies by the office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) programs, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) and Accountable Care Organizations. National Committee for Quality Assurance, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and URAC standards and guidelines. Dr. Valenti strives to become a major contributor of sustainable health IT transformation programs.
On June 06, GE Healthcare announced its recent acquisition of Omnimed, a Brazilian manufacturer of mining equipment monitoring vital functions used in surgery centers and Intensive Care Units (ICU). GE did not disclose the acquisition amount, but should result in a gain of 50% in sales of Brazilian division of GE. Headquartered in Belo Horizonte, […]
Odebrecht Real Estate Developments (OR) – division of residential, business, commercial and tourism group Bahia is building, in Brasília (DF), a “smart medical center called Vitrium, the first of a series of developments made specifically for the company’s investment in the area of healthcare real estate. This particular investment was designed to attend to the […]
How to turn analytics into actual policy outcomes.
There has been a significant resurgence of infrastructure investments in the healthcare sector in Brazil. UniMed is currently composed of 367 local member cooperatives, operating in over 80% of Brazil’s counties, with 41% of existing physicians to serve 7% of the population. The organization’s history began with local cooperatives and subsequently federations, the confederation, and […]
GE Healthcare business development recent efforts are strategically sound and it will definitely lead GE to acquire Brazil’s healthcare market share in a significant and sustainable manner. Implementing business development and sales strategies in emergent countries such as Brazil requires a cost effective comprehensive and integrated approach. It should take in consideration deep cultural differences […]
Brazil in all accounts has been categorized as an emerging market. However, is its healthcare market ready for a sustainable information technology transformation yet? A 21st century goal of a sustainable healthcare IT infrastructure will require crucial IT infrastructural implementations before hospitals and all other stakeholders in a national wide scale can benefit from information […]