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www.ceotodaymagazine.com CEO Today Healthcare Awards 2019 53 USA ABOUT DEBORAH M. GAGE Deb Gage is a proven business transformer, having built her career as an entrepreneur founding and leading healthcare technology companies including operational and leadership experience in start-up and growth businesses in the analytics, financial and clinical sectors of healthcare IT. As President and CEO at Medecision, Deb oversees the Company’s mission to lead the digital transformation of healthcare through consumer engagement solutions that help health plans and care delivery organizations manage and care for their members, patients and caregivers. Under her leadership, Medecision has evolved since its beginnings as a powerful care management workflow engine for health plans, into a market-leading provider of big data, visualization, workflow and engagement solutions, as noted by Gartner and IDC. Recently, Medecision acquired a boutique consulting business (Aveus) to help the company’s clients transform their own models and operations as well. In 2017, Medecision acquired the AxisPoint Health platform business, including more than 50 new clients. As we stand here today, Medecision is trusted by 25 percent of the top 5 IDNs, 40 percent of physicians and 80 percent of the top 10 health plans to deliver the precise insights they need on population and individual risk for optimal, evidence-based interventions for 50 million U.S. consumers. Before joining Medecision and enabling the movement to liberate healthcare, Deb was an early team member at Truven Healthcare (then MEDSTAT) and served as CEO of several venture-backed healthcare IT firms. These included SolutionPoint®, Inc., a provider of database management and support software products for hospitals and integrated delivery systems as well as GTESS Corporation, a SaaS-provider of claims automation solutions for healthcare payers, and RosettaMed (acquired by Kryptiq), an electronic medical record patient intake application. Deb is a proud graduate of the University of Michigan Ross School of Business (go Blue!). DEBORAH M. GAGE President and Chief Executive Officer of MeDecision FIRM PROFILE Who We Are When 50 million people depend on you, liberation is more than a mindset. It’s a business imperative. Thanks to 30 years of business success and 85 partnerships with leading health plans and care delivery organizations, Medecision has gained a critical mass needed to help drive a revolution in healthcare. Today, we are an integrated health solutions company, partnering with risk-bearing organizations tomanage 50million+members in commercial, Medicare Advantage, and various Medicaid programs. We bring our A-game today and every day. When healthcare really works, it’s a beautiful thing. Medecision doesn’t just take on our customers’ biggest business challenges. We’re taking on the industry’s as well. Through quality improvement that breaks down barriers and busts through silos. Consumer engagement that feels relevant and personal to members, patients and the people who take care of them. Care, case and utilization management that support mobile, care-everywhere models and best-practices workflow. And population health management programs that identify risk and rising risk and drive community outcomes. Our roots are in technology, but we know product features and technical specs are only part of the solution for real people with serious health conditions. We help our clients become the difference between good days and bad, sickness and health, or even life and death, for their most vulnerable members and patients. We believe in a liberated healthcare system. Aplace where people, plans and care teams engage in driving the best health outcomes in a seamless, interconnected way. Medecision’s people and technologies optimize interventions for population health, care, case and utilization management programs in a decidedly different way. We’ve brought together tools and insights in one cloud- based, integrated solution that helps healthcare entities connect care and liberate their own businesses from the status quo. It’s called Aerial, and our community of users say it helps them do their jobs better every day.