Advisory Board

Jeffrey A. Gasser
Med-Vision Advisory Board Member, Principal & Equity Owner

In addition to serving as an advisory board member of Med-Vision, Jeffrey A. Gasser is president of Gasser Consulting and executive vice president of Deerwalk, Inc. He is a nationally recognized healthcare expert serving as a principal and equity owner of Med-Vision, LLC. Jeffrey’s keen knowledge of healthcare analytics, coupled with his expertise in the healthcare provider’s world, brings nationally unique value to Med-Vision’s client concerns of healthcare cost and quality.

A graduate of the University of Tampa, Jeffrey began his career as a certified public accountant working primarily with healthcare clients. He proceeded to build over 30 years of diversified experience in all facets of healthcare and health benefits. As a healthcare analytics expert, he has been a co-founder of several companies in the healthcare industry and has served as a senior advisor to many others. His meticulous analysis of healthcare claims information has resulted in millions of dollars in employer savings.

With involvement in businesses ranging from home healthcare, to pediatric alternate site services to dialysis, Jeffrey recently co-founded D2Hawkeye, Inc., a healthcare analytics firm based in Waltham, Mass. He currently serves as a strategic advisor to the Oncology Management Services division of Biologics, Inc., which is based in Raleigh, N.C. Jeffrey also serves as a senior managed care advisor to PivotHealth, LLC, a physician consulting business in Brentwood, Tenn., and he is a senior advisor to Medicare Advantage Review Associates in Boston, Mass. Email Jeffrey at jgasser@deerwalk.com.

Rudra Pandey, Ph.D.
Med-Vision Advisory Board Member, Advisor

Rudra Pandey, Ph.D. serves as an advisor for Med-Vision, LLC. As president of Deerwalk, Inc., a software development firm, Rudra leads an executive team and provides close supervision to the operation and technology team of the company.

Prior to joining Deerwalk, Rudra was Chief Operating Officer of Verisk Health and was leading operations, research, and development activities while providing leadership to its offshore development center with about 300 software engineers. Rudra joined Verisk Health following the acquisition of D2Hawkeye by Verisk Analytics. Rudra was founder and Chief Technology Officer of D2Hawkeye, which provided data analytics and decision-support tools to the healthcare industry.

Early in his career, he worked as a business systems engineer and a database architect. He has extensive consulting experience, having worked for several prestigious financial institutions and large healthcare organizations. At Bank of America (formerly Fleet Bank), he played an integral leadership role in a major business systems reengineering initiative, which was a vital component in the bank’s successful and strategic acquisitions.

Rudra holds a bachelors degree in electrical engineering and a PhD in economics from Northeastern University in Boston. Learn more about Rudra and his work at: http://www.deerwalk.com/.

Ford Kyes
Med-Vision Advisory Board Member, Strategic Business Advisor

Ford Kyes serves as a strategic advisor for Med-Vision, LLC. Achieving outstanding success for both large and small companies throughout his career, Ford Kyes has proven himself to be a dynamic and inspirational business leader. A graduate of the prestigious Carnegie Mellon master’ program in management, he has served as president and CEO of a large hospital, executive vice president of a 10-hospital system and has started and led several smaller businesses.

Prior to launching his own business, ActionCOACH Pinellas, Ford served for six years as president and CEO of St. Anthony’s Health Care in St. Petersburg, Fla. During his tenure, he made significant improvements in many areas, including a $40 million hospital renovation, the addition of a $37 million outpatient center and the successful development of five new businesses in joint ownership with physicians. Previously, as regional vice president of materials management for the BayCare Health System, he implemented numerous best practices that resulted in more than $30 million in savings per year for the health system.

As a corporate business leader, Ford gained valuable coaching experience by mentoring graduate students in hospital management. He continues to work through the chambers of commerce to share his knowledge and experience with other business professionals, and lends his expertise to many nonprofit organizations on a volunteer basis. Learn more about Ford at: www.ActionCOACHPinellas.com.

Scott D. MacEwen
Med-Vision Advisory Board Member, Advisor

Scott MacEwen serves as an advisor to Med-Vision in addition to his role as Principal in Analytical Health Solutions, a healthcare consulting firm based in Charlotte, NC. Scott brings 25 years of experience as an advisor in the disciplines of data analytics, underwriting, operational effectiveness and vendor management.

Prior to his current role with Analytical Health Solutions, Scott was President and COO of Kanawha Healthcare Solutions (KHS), a national third-party administrator based in Lancaster, SC. There, he led efforts in the use of predictive modeling, focused on closing gaps in quality of care compliance, resulting in a study on over $60 million showing reduction of greater than 9% in allowed costs. Scott was involved in all medical management outreach program development, vendor contract negotiations and their associated operational implementation at KHS. He also led efforts with area health systems and provider groups to implement private labeled community based global capitation programs.

Scott’s earlier career included work with United HealthCare, managing large account sales and performing underwriting for national accounts.

Scott’s financial, sales and operational background with national carriers and Third Party Administrators provides a unique perspective for Med-Vision. Scott is a graduate of Clarion University and can be reached at smacewen@analyticalhealthsolutions.com.

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