Across Asia Pacific, hospital executives are facing growing pressure from payors and DRG or value-based reimbursement models to deliver more with less while safeguarding quality and clinician engagement. Yet traditional budgeting and cost allocations still mask the true cost of care. Without clear visibility, protecting margins, planning sustainable growth, and driving quality improvement remain out of reach. This session explores how Analytics and AI-driven activity-based costing can uncover the real cost of clinical and service-line operations, equipping leaders to identify unwarranted variation, reduce duplication, and make data-driven decisions that balance cost, quality, and care equity. Learn how health systems are leading:

  • Strengthening financial resilience under DRG and value-based payment pressures
  • Engaging clinicians with credible, transparent cost data
  • Reducing excessive resource consumption and improving care efficiency

Join us to see how Analytics and AI-powered cost visibility can transform hospital decision-making across Asia Pacific!


Featured Speaker

Farhana Nakhooda

SVP, Healthcare and Life Sciences - Asia Pacific, Health Catalyst

Farhana Nakhooda, SVP Health Catalyst, Asia Pacific (APAC), leads the overall vision and growth strategy of the Health Catalyst business across Asia Pacific. She is passionate about improving healthcare outcomes, access to care, as well as decreasing healthcare costs across the APAC region. Nakhooda has extensive experience with engagement at the intersection of medicine, technology, AI, and analytics. Before joining Health Catalyst, she was the IBM Healthcare & Life Sciences solutions leader for APAC for 18 years, where she played a key role in digitally enabling healthcare transformation projects across APAC, Eastern Europe, and Middle East/Africa. Nakhooda has more than 25 years of international experience in the healthcare and life sciences industry as a medical researcher and subject matter expert. She has a bachelor of science degree (with honors), in which she majored in biology and biochemistry, at the University of British Columbia. She completed her MBA at Monash Mt Eliza Business School in Melbourne, Australia.

Featured Speaker

Robert DeMichiei

Strategic Advisor, Health Catalyst

Rob is the retired Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of UPMC, a $20B+ nonprofit health system and leading health care provider and insurer. During his 16-year tenure at UPMC, he played a pivotal role in driving UPMC’s financial growth and led numerous strategic initiatives. Rob implemented best practices in service line analytics and activity-based costing. In addition to Finance, Rob led the Supply Chain Management and Revenue Cycle functions, driving integration, technology infusion and process improvement/efficiency throughout the organization. Rob’s teams created a number of healthcare technology solutions, three of which were commercialized and spun-off.

Featured Speaker

Pat Rocap

VP, Financial Services, Health Catalyst

Pat is passionate about leveraging technology and analytics to transform healthcare services to exceed the needs of the future. She has over 25 years of healthcare experience in finance, revenue cycle, and cost management services. Her peers recognize her as a leader in Information Technology, Healthcare Cost Management Services and an expert in Agile Innovation and Implementation processes to assist in driving value through the various organization to achieve the quadruple aim.
Featured Speaker

Bob Alexander

Cost Management Consultant, Principal, Health Catalyst

Bob Alexander brings over 15 years of experience in healthcare finance and decision support. Currently serving as the Principal Cost Management Consultant at Health Catalyst, Bob has established and nurtured partnerships with more than 20 health systems across the U.S. and globally. He specializes in the creation and implementation of activity-based cost accounting solutions for healthcare organizations. Prior to his current role at Health Catalyst, Bob served as Senior Director, Implementation Services and as a Technical Director.

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