Bill Murphy is a Managing Partner at Cresting Wave where he runs a large technology community and introduces them to new targeted innovations. Prior to joining Cresting Wave, Bill was a Senior Managing Director and the Chief Technology Officer at Blackstone from 2011 – 2020, leading the Blackstone Innovations team, responsible for the firm’s use of technology along with a strategic technology investment portfolio. Before Blackstone, Bill served as the founding Chief Technology Officer for Capital IQ where he was responsible for overseeing all product design, development, infrastructure, and technology support.  Mr. Murphy received a BSE in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Barry P. Chaiken, MD, MPH has over 25 years of experience in healthcare information technology, patient safety, clinical transformation, and business intelligence. During his career, he worked with the National Institutes of Health, U.K.’s National Health Service, McKesson, Infor, Salesforce/Tableau, and BearingPoint.

Chaiken is the author of the recently released Navigating the Code: How Technology Transforms the Patient-Physician Journey, a book on healthcare information technology and its potential impact on quality, access, and cost of care.

Over the past 20 years Chaiken provided expertise in quality and patient safety to provider and payor organizations helping them utilize information technology to improve clinical and administrative activities. He has served as guest lecturer and consultant on topics including patient safety, clinician adoption of information technology, quality improvement, and managed care. Chaiken also assisted hospitals and technology firms in the creation of medical software products and authoring of marketing communication materials.

As president of DocsNetwork, Chaiken offers his expertise in strategy development, clinical transformation, and quality improvement. Chaiken is board certified in General Preventive Medicine and Public Health as well as Health Care Quality Management.

Chaiken served as a Healthcare Advisory Board member to numerous organizations as CMO of DocsNetwork Ltd., his own healthcare IT consulting company. He has delivered more than 60 CME lectures, and served on the editorial board of the journal of Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare. Chaiken wrote a column on technology and quality for the journal Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare. He also served as Conference Chair of the annual Digital Healthcare Conference and frequently contributed to WTN Media’s online publications.

Chaiken received his medical degree from SUNY Downstate Medical Center, NYC, his masters in public health degree in health services administration from the Harvard School of Public Health and his bachelors of arts degree in psychology from the University at Albany. He acquired his specialty training from the Centers for Disease Control as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer and from the New Jersey State Department of Health as a preventive medicine resident. He served as a Board member (2006-2010), Board Liaison to HIMSS Europe (2006-2009), and Board Chair (2009-2010), and is a Fellow of the Health Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS). As an Adjunct Professor at Boston University, Chaiken taught healthcare information technology in its Questrom School of Management.

DocsNetwork Ltd.

DocsNetwork provides expertise in strategic management, business development, and thought leadership to health information technology and life sciences companies by leveraging its many years of project experience serving its diverse client base.

Chris is a senior health care leader with over 20 years of experience developing analytic teams, establishing data governance, data warehousing and business intelligence implementation, delivering solutions focused on patient experience, outcomes, cost, population health, quality, regulatory and risk based arrangements, revenue cycle, health system operations.  He has extensive experience with organizational transformation and specializes in integrating analytic, IT and Informatics teams across organizational lines to improve solution delivery and enabling data driven insight.

NORTHWELL HEALTH, Lake Success, NY

The nation’s 14th-largest healthcare system, Northwell Health delivers world-class clinical care throughout the New York metropolitan area, pioneering research at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research and a visionary approach to medical education highlighted by the Hofstra Northwell Health School of Medicine. Northwell Health cares for people at every stage of life at 21 hospitals and more than 450 outpatient ambulatory and physician practices throughout the region. Northwell Health’s owned hospitals and long-term care facilities house more than 6,600 beds, employ more than 15,000 nurses and have affiliations with more than 13,600 physicians. With a workforce of more than 61,000, Northwell Health is the largest private employer in New York State