Alan Baldwin

About Alan Baldwin

Dynamic healthcare executive leading the design, execution and strategy for how advanced analytics can drive business results in value-based care, population health managed care and life sciences organizations. Inspirational leader, critical thinker, and communicator who serves as a bridge between the clinical, technology and business environments. Brings a wide perspective from working in diverse areas of the healthcare system including health plan, health IT, CRO, research, physician and patient-centered care settings.Career Highlights:• Bringing Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Data and Analytics to Care: Executive sponsor of $3M in annual innovation capital funding focused on developing and integrating machine learning models like future cost and disease progression prediction into Optum’s value-based care model used in 2,700 Optum owned PCP practices• Using Advanced Analytics to Enable Medical Expense Reductions: Drove $15M in medical expense savings by developing and integrating machine-learning predictive modeling algorithms and advanced patient outcome risk stratification into population health products and programs• Evaluating the Impact, Performance and Value of Pop Health and Clinical Programs: Lead analytic teams who complete over 100 case-control value studies annually measuring how Optum Health clinical programs and products which account for $1.2B in revenue impact health cost, affordability, utilization and clinical outcomes• Collaborative business partner working with multiple teams to drive change and improve business results: With clinicians, IT and product leads redesigned and modernized Optum Care patient risk stratification methods; creating cloud based environments integrating clinical claims and EHR data; designing Optum’s value-based kidney and oncology payment models

Experience

1. Vice President, Healthcare Economics

   Optum

   Feb 2020 — Present · Raleigh, NC, US

   Provide analytics vision, support and leadership for Optum Health’s population health products and clinical programs serving 103 million Medicare, Commercial, Medicaid members, 4 million patients in value-based arrangements receiving care in Optum 2700 owned sites of care. • Lead an advanced analytics organization with a $23M annual budget of 130 statisticians, researchers, data scientists and data analysts focused on identifying trends, creating analytical insights, using machine learning and advanced study designs to drive both clinical and financial business success for Optum Health products programs. • Secured $2M in funding to create a dedicated Health Equity analytics team focused on refining the analytic methods and combined the clinical data assets to evaluate Optum Health’s products and clinical programs for fairness, bias & health equity

Education

• University of Southern Maine

  Master’s Degree, Public Policy, Planning and Management

  1993 — 1995

• The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  Bachelor's degree, Political Science and Government

  1988 — 1992

Skills

• Analytics
• Health Policy
• Informatics
• CRO
• Business Analysis
• Public Health
• Data Analysis
• Ctms
• Statistics
• Project Management
• Pharmaceutical Industry
• Sas
• Healthcare
• Infectious Diseases
• Clinical Research
• Analysis
• Clinical Trials