Michael van Duren, MD, MBA
Vice President of Business Development at QURE Healthcare- Claim this Profile
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Kelly Smith-Bare, PMP
Michael is a rare gift to a team. He is both brilliant and innovative but also humble and willing to jump in and help with any task. He is wired to connect with people and can effortlessly build relationships that create trust and collaboration. Michael has a mind that is constantly thinking of new and exciting ideas and he then pulls you in to come along on the ride. I throughly enjoyed the opportunity to learn from and work with Michael. He is truly one of a kind!
Tracy Wilson
Michael is an innovator and constantly re-imagining how to provide solutions to address the problem. Michael's curiosity and engagement led to continuously integrating new concepts or ideas to improve the status quo. There was never a dull moment making the projects we worked on together impactful and memorable.
Kelly Smith-Bare, PMP
Michael is a rare gift to a team. He is both brilliant and innovative but also humble and willing to jump in and help with any task. He is wired to connect with people and can effortlessly build relationships that create trust and collaboration. Michael has a mind that is constantly thinking of new and exciting ideas and he then pulls you in to come along on the ride. I throughly enjoyed the opportunity to learn from and work with Michael. He is truly one of a kind!
Tracy Wilson
Michael is an innovator and constantly re-imagining how to provide solutions to address the problem. Michael's curiosity and engagement led to continuously integrating new concepts or ideas to improve the status quo. There was never a dull moment making the projects we worked on together impactful and memorable.
Kelly Smith-Bare, PMP
Michael is a rare gift to a team. He is both brilliant and innovative but also humble and willing to jump in and help with any task. He is wired to connect with people and can effortlessly build relationships that create trust and collaboration. Michael has a mind that is constantly thinking of new and exciting ideas and he then pulls you in to come along on the ride. I throughly enjoyed the opportunity to learn from and work with Michael. He is truly one of a kind!
Tracy Wilson
Michael is an innovator and constantly re-imagining how to provide solutions to address the problem. Michael's curiosity and engagement led to continuously integrating new concepts or ideas to improve the status quo. There was never a dull moment making the projects we worked on together impactful and memorable.
Kelly Smith-Bare, PMP
Michael is a rare gift to a team. He is both brilliant and innovative but also humble and willing to jump in and help with any task. He is wired to connect with people and can effortlessly build relationships that create trust and collaboration. Michael has a mind that is constantly thinking of new and exciting ideas and he then pulls you in to come along on the ride. I throughly enjoyed the opportunity to learn from and work with Michael. He is truly one of a kind!
Tracy Wilson
Michael is an innovator and constantly re-imagining how to provide solutions to address the problem. Michael's curiosity and engagement led to continuously integrating new concepts or ideas to improve the status quo. There was never a dull moment making the projects we worked on together impactful and memorable.
Credentials
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Certified Physician Executive (CPE)
American Association for Physician Leadership®Jun, 2001- Nov, 2024
Experience
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QURE Healthcare
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United States
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Hospitals and Health Care
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1 - 100 Employee
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Vice President of Business Development
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Mar 2023 - Present
QURE Healthcare’s proprietary Clinical Performance and Value (CPV®) patient simulation platform is a scientifically-validated provider engagement tool that rapidly measures care decisions. CPVs deliver proven ROI by improving real-world practice and evaluating the clinical utility of novel diagnostics for securing coverage and reimbursement. QURE’s results-driven team of experts proudly serves health systems, payers, and life sciences companies to improve evidence-based care delivery. For health systems, physician groups, ACOs, and health plans, our approach drives higher quality, cost-effective clinical decision making. Our methodology has resulted in verifiable savings within a multitude of healthcare settings. For life sciences companies, our simulated patient studies rapidly and accurately evaluate the real-world clinical utility of novel diagnostics. Studies result in published peer-reviewed articles that clients then use to secure coverage and reimbursement at a fraction of the cost of traditional methods. Our solution has been validated in numerous published studies. QURE, and its parent company, TRC Healthcare, support healthcare professionals and life sciences companies to reduce knowledge gaps, encourage evidence-based practices, lower costs, and deliver improved patient outcomes. Show less
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Embold Health
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United States
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Hospitals and Health Care
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Medical Director, Performance Improvement - Consultant
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Nov 2020 - Present
Series B startup, supported by Morgan Health, creating gold standard for physician evaluation for use in care navigation and network curation Senior Medical Director, Performance Improvement • Led provider engagement team to develop and implement physician evaluation strategy for large health systems nationwide. • Developed analytical and visualization tool suite enabling insights into primary care and specialist physician performance variation for integrated delivery networks. • Assisted sales team in tripling account volume, national expansion, and achieving $13M in annual revenue. • Reduced cost of care for ACOs and Value Based contracts by creating 150+ measures to address overuse of low-value services. Show less
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Agathos
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United States
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Hospitals and Health Care
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1 - 100 Employee
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Head of Variation Reduction - Consultant
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Oct 2017 - Present
Epic clinical analytics start-up company, creating cost savings and variation reduction by analyzing physician practice patterns and providing scalable unblinded peer comparison feedback Head of Variation Reduction (part-time consulting) • Developed content, marketing, and product implementation. Agathos is a new physician experience with data grounded in a better attribution approach, and technology to facilitate cost savings for hospitalists, critical care, ED, and primary care physicians. • Enabled growth from 1 to 7 national accounts, such that company currently has 200+ users and recently completed series A fundraising. Show less
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Variation Consulting Group, LLC
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United States
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Hospitals and Health Care
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Principal Consultant
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Sep 2017 - Present
Private consulting practice: www.variationconsultinggroup.com Owner and Principal Consultant (part-time consulting) Present solutions for finding and implementing opportunities to reduce healthcare costs by eliminating unwarranted care variation. Clients include: Dorsey & Whitney, LLP, Minneapolis, MN; Excel MSO, LLC, San Jose, CA; California Healthcare Foundation, Oakland, CA; Embold Health, Nashville, TN; Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH), San Francisco, CA. Private consulting practice: www.variationconsultinggroup.com Owner and Principal Consultant (part-time consulting) Present solutions for finding and implementing opportunities to reduce healthcare costs by eliminating unwarranted care variation. Clients include: Dorsey & Whitney, LLP, Minneapolis, MN; Excel MSO, LLC, San Jose, CA; California Healthcare Foundation, Oakland, CA; Embold Health, Nashville, TN; Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH), San Francisco, CA.
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Bay Area Hospital
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United States
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Hospitals and Health Care
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400 - 500 Employee
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Chief Medical Officer
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Feb 2019 - Nov 2020
Driving transformation by increasing quality, safety, and cost savings at the region's healthcare center. As the Medical Center for Oregon's South Coast, Bay Area Hospital offers a comprehensive range of diagnostic and therapeutic services. The hospital's inpatient and outpatient services include medical, surgical, pediatric, critical care, home health, outpatient and acute inpatient psychiatric, oncology, obstetrical, and other specialties. Driving transformation by increasing quality, safety, and cost savings at the region's healthcare center. As the Medical Center for Oregon's South Coast, Bay Area Hospital offers a comprehensive range of diagnostic and therapeutic services. The hospital's inpatient and outpatient services include medical, surgical, pediatric, critical care, home health, outpatient and acute inpatient psychiatric, oncology, obstetrical, and other specialties.
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Sutter Health
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United States
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Hospitals and Health Care
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700 & Above Employee
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Vice President, Variation Reduction
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Jan 2015 - Sep 2017
A not-for-profit health care system of 24 hospitals in 100 Northern California cities, serving 3M patients.Vice President of Variation Reduction • Led a team in Office of Patient Experience that used unblinded peer-comparison feedback to engage physicians in analyzing practice patterns to reduce variation, increase quality and lower costs. Cumulative impact was 1,239 projects including 4,042 clinicians. Expanded Variation Reduction to 13 large hospitals, achieving cumulative savings of $60M.• Developed analytics expertise in inpatient costs and clinician attribution which has become systemwide resource• Developed 100+ new metrics monitoring primary and specialty clinical care. Show less
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Vice President, Clinical Transformation, Sutter Medical Network
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Jan 2012 - Jan 2015
A network of nearly 5,000 foundation and independent practice association primary care and specialty physicians affiliated with Sutter Health, a Northern California not-for- profit health system.Vice President of Clinical Transformation• Expanded Variation Reduction into a system wide affordability initiative in all medical groups and standardized performance metrics, and made this a required participation standard for Sutter Medical Network.• Increased Press-Ganey patient satisfaction scores by leading multiple classes in the “Art of Communication for Physicians.” Show less
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Sutter Shared Services
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United States
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Hospitals and Health Care
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300 - 400 Employee
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Chief Medical Officer
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Aug 2008 - Jan 2012
Sutter Health subsidiary that provides a variety of patient access, revenue cycle, and accountable care solutions to health care provider and payer organizations. A team of over 1,500 and five regional offices provides services to over 550,000 members from 30 health care organizations; managing more than $2.25B. Chief Medical Officer • Created outreach program that accomplished 90th percentile quality scores for colon cancer and breast cancer screening. • Standardized ambulatory visit types from over 600 to 11, thereby enabling online self-scheduling by patients. • Led medical director forum for clinical leaders in 8 medial groups and 5 IPAs. • Brought together all the claims data from 5 foundations into one database which enabled episode grouping, identification of savings opportunities, and identification of best practices. • Created software tool for visualizing differences between clinicians’ efficiency, subsequently commercially sold by Optum as “Care Pattern Analyzer” in Impact Intelligence Suite. • Developed new line of business, named ‘Variation Reduction’ and contracted with 5 foundations for $3M in revenue. Show less
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Education
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University of California, Irvine - The Paul Merage School of Business
MBA, Business Administration and Management, General -
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
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Lebanon Valley College
Bachelor of Science - BS, Biochemistry and Religion