Emdeon's George Lazenby to speak at Nashville Business Breakfast May 22
Kim Chaudoin |
George Lazenby, chief executive officer of Emdeon, will be the featured speaker at Lipscomb University’s Nashville Business Breakfast at 7 a.m. on Wednesday, May 22, in Allen Arena.
Lazenby leads the largest healthcare financial and clinical network in the nation – connecting 1,200 payers, 500,000 providers, 5,000 hospitals, 81,000 dentists and 60,000 pharmacies – and processing over seven billion health care information exchanges per year. He has the proven ability to move health care’s varying levels of IT infrastructure towards the adoption of standardized electronic information exchange and is committed to taking costs out of health care while maintaining compliance with national standards for data exchange, privacy, and security.
Prior to his appointment as CEO, Lazenby was the executive vice president for Emdeon Provider Services and was responsible for several industry innovations in the revenue cycle management arena delivering record sales and revenue growth. Formerly, he served as chief operating officer of Medifax-EDI, which Emdeon acquired in 2003. As COO, he was responsible for managing all provider and payer activities, as well as its medical practice management software business.
Lazenby graduated from the University of Alabama with a Bachelor of Science degree and is a certified public accountant. He has served on many industry boards including the Cooperative Exchange, Association for Electronic Health Care Transactions and the Nashville Healthcare Council. He is also chairman of WorkIT Nashville Taskforce.
Emdeon is a leading provider of revenue and payment cycle management and clinical information exchange solutions, connecting payers, providers and patients in the U.S. healthcare system. Emdeon's offerings integrate and automate key business and administrative functions of its payer and provider customers throughout the patient encounter. Through the use of Emdeon's comprehensive suite of solutions, which are designed to easily integrate with existing technology infrastructures, customers are able to improve efficiency, reduce costs, increase cash flow and more efficiently manage the complex revenue and payment cycle and clinical information exchange processes. The company’s first quarter revenue for 2013 was $305.7 million, an increase of 6.9 percent, compared to $286 million for the same period in 2012.
The cost of the breakfast is $30 in advance and $40 at the door. Registration is available online at leadership.lipscomb.edu or by calling 615.966.6609.
The Nashville Business Breakfast is a quarterly networking event presented by Lipscomb University and the Nashville Business Journal, with a news-conference style format, featuring business leaders with local economic impact. The event is sponsored by PNC Bank.
Recent speakers include Mayor Karl Dean, Butch Spyridon, president of the Nashville's Convention and Visitor's Bureau; Loucas George, producer of the new ABC program “Nashville;” Jim Wright, CEO of Tractor Supply Company; Mike Munchak, Tennessee Titans head coach; Gov. Bill Haslam; Colin Reed, CEO and president of Gaylord Entertainment; Michael Woodhouse, chairman, president and CEO of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store; Bill Winsor, president and chief executive officer of Market Center Management Company (MCMC), developing the Medical Trade Center in Nashville; Carlos Tavares, chairman, Nissan Motor Company's Management Committee; Mark Emkes, CEO of Bridgestone Americas; and Kix Brooks, country music artist and former chairman of the Country Music Association.