Mark Morsch
Vice President, Technology, A-Life Medical
Morsch joined A-Life Medical in 1996, serving as vice president of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and software engineering until its acquisition by OptumInsight (formerly Ingenix)in 2010.  In this position, Morsch is responsible for directing the company’s linguists and overseeing its software engineers in the continuing advancement of A-Life Medical’s state-of-the-art Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications. He has published several papers on NLP clinical abstraction, text mining and computer-assisted coding.  Prior to joining A-Life Medical, Morsch served on the technology staff of the Raytheon/Pennsylvania State University Center for Intelligent Information Processing.  Morsch holds both Master of Science and a Bachelor of Science degrees in electrical engineering (with honors) from Clarkson University.

Raymond W. Scott – BSc, MBCS, C.Eng., CITP
SVP of Enterprise Architecture and Strategy at OptumInsight
Scott co-founded Axolotl Corp. in 1995 to provide collaborative electronic workflow solutions for communities of health care providers. He was instrumental in creating the concepts around Clinical Messaging, turning electronic medical record communication into a reality, and establishing it as a necessary requirement for successful Health Information Exchanges and Regional Health Information organizations. Before Axolotl, Scott held positions of CEO for Conput Concepts Europe and Executive Vice President positions at ECsoft. He currently serves on the eHealth Initiative Board of Directors and is a member of the Markle Foundation’s “Connecting For Health” Steering Group.  Scott holds a BSc (Honors) in Mathematics, is a Member of the British Computing Society, a Chartered Engineer and has served on the boards of both public and private companies.

Glenn Keet
President, Axolotl
Keet has worked in health care IT for 25 years and was the first employee hired at Axolotl in early 1995 as a systems architect and engineer. Prior to his role as President, he held roles as Executive Vice President over Sales and Marketing, VP of Business Development, VP of Elysium Services, and was the company’s only Product Manager until 2001. Before Axolotl, Keet worked for Mercator Software in Connecticut, which sold general purpose EDI and HL7 mapping and translation engines used in health care, insurance and other industries, and was part of IBM after a series of acquisitions in 2003 and 2004. While there, he held managerial roles in Quality Assurance and Customer Support and was initially a Systems Engineer for Mercator’s mainframe and PC products. Keet graduated from Lehigh University in 1985 with a BS in Mechanical Engineering and BA in Applied Sciences.

Todd C. Cozzens
Chief Executive Officer of Accountable Care Solutions at Optum
Cozzens, who co-founded Picis in 1994, has more than 23 years of experience in the healthcare technology and information systems industry. It was Cozzens’ original strategic vision of information systems for the high-acuity care areas of hospitals that drove the company’s growth trajectory over 1,500% since 2001. Prior to Picis, he served as the president of a division of Marquette Medical Systems (now GE Healthcare) and held several other senior management positions, including vice president of sales, from 1983 to 1995. Cozzens is a graduate of Marquette University and the Harvard Business School Executive Program for Management Development. He was named Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young in 2005 and was a four-time member of the U.S. Olympic Sailing Team. Cozzens is vice chairman and a director of the company’s board of directors.

Carol Simon, PhD
Senior Vice President and Director, The Optum Institute
Carol Simon, PhD, has more than 20 years experience in health care consulting and economic policy research. Simon is responsible for driving the Optum Institute’s research agenda, including surveys, white papers and indices highlighting the key enablers of sustainable health care. Prior to her role with the Optum Institute, Simon served as vice president in the Health and Human Services Policy practice of The Lewin Group, a healthcare policy and consulting firm owned by Optum.  Before joining The Lewin Group, Carol was principal associate and fellow at Abt Associates, and associate professor and director of the health economics program at Boston University.

Mark D. Crockett, M.D., F.A.C.E.P.
President, Emergency Care Division, Picis
Mark Crockett, MD, is chief medical officer for Accountable Care Solutions at OptumInsight. In this role, he helps to drive the building of clinically integrated health systems that support coordinated care. Mark also practices emergency medicine at Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital in Downer’s Grove, Ill. He maintains a solid understanding of the day-to-day workings of an emergency department and the need for automating the documentation process of this intense environment. Previously, Mark was CEO of Ibex Healthdata Systems and president of Emergency Care for Picis. He graduated from Wheaton College and has an MD from the University of Illinois.