<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div><img src="cid:ii_jt99p1ic0" alt="TAOdark1.jpg" width="154" height="67" style="margin-right:0px"><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><img src="cid:ii_jt99rcjr1" alt="Alan Pitt 2019.jpe" width="180" height="180" style="margin-right:0px"><br></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><b style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Dr. Alan Pitt</b><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> will be Tuesday's keynote speaker at the Telehealth Alliance of Oregon Annual Meeting and Summit, May 13 & 14 at the Mercy Corps Event Center in downtown Portland. Dr. Pitt spoke to previous Summits by video. This time he will be here in person to share his thoughts on </font><u style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">A Blue Ocean Strategy for Telehealth</u><i style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">. </i><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Based on the book </font><i style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Blue Ocean Strategy </i><font face="verdana, sans-serif">by </font><span style="font-size:13px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style="" color="#000000">Kim and Mauborgne, Dr. Pitt writes,</font></span></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="font-size:13px"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">"</span>I’m ready for a blue ocean strategy for telehealth; one that does not compete with the past, but that looks instead to the future. If we want to change the care paradigm, it’s time we stop competing with what’s done in the clinic and start thinking more about what’s possible for the new generation of telehealth.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">"</span></span> </font></div></blockquote><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><div><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div></font><p style="margin:0px 0px 5px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span style="font-kerning:none;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style="">Alan Pitt, M.D. is a Professor and Attending Physician at the Barrow Neurological Institute, a national center of excellence for neuroscience in Phoenix, Arizona. He is also an entrepreneur. He has 3 patents (2 in med device and 1 in identity management). Over the past 2 decades he has advised companies in the data analytics, personal health records, AI, telehealth, blockchain and PACS space. He is the former Chief Medical Officer of Avizia, an international telemedicine company exiting to American Well in 2018. He is currently the CMO for Cloudmedxhealth, an artificial intelligence company based in Silicon Valley. He has advised both at a state and national level on issues related to value based care delivery. Dr. Pitt moderates a podcast, <a href="http://healthcarepittstop.com/" target="_blank" style=""><span style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">healthcarepittstop.com</span></a>, discussing issues related to health tech, investment and policy. Additional information can be found at </font></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 5px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,255)"><span style="text-decoration-line:underline;font-kerning:none;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/alanpitt" target="_blank"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">http://www.linkedin.com/in/alanpitt</font></a></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 5px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span style="font-kerning:none;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Blog</font></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 5px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,255)"><span style="text-decoration-line:underline;font-kerning:none;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" style=""><a href="http://www.alanpittmd.com/" target="_blank" style="">www.healthcarepittstop.com</a></font></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 5px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,255)"><span style="text-decoration-line:underline;font-kerning:none;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 5px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span style="font-kerning:none;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><font color="#0000ff"><u></u></font><font color="#000000">Join us at the Summit for the opportunity to hear Dr. Pitt broaden our thinking about telehealth.</font></span></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 5px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span style="font-kerning:none;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><font color="#0000ff"><u><br></u></font></span></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 5px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span style="font-kerning:none;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><font color="#000000">See you there!</font></span></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 5px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span style="font-kerning:none;font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><font color="#000000">Cathy</font><u style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"></u></span><br></span></p>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="m_-769599511969896678gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Catherine S. Britain, Executive Director</div>
<div>Telehealth Alliance of Oregon</div><div><a href="mailto:csbritain@gmail.com" target="_blank">csbritain@gmail.com</a><br>541-910-7366</div>
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