

Live at HLTH: Disrupting Episodic Care with Technology —featuring Dr. Jaime Murillo
About Jaime Murillo:
Dr. Jaime Murillo is a Senior VP and the Chief CardioMetabolic Health Officer at Optum Labs.
He is focused on disruptive care delivery solutions to improve health in the community using AI-powered technology, social-behavioral determinants of health, and community-based collaboration. His work also includes advanced analytics to identify gaps in care with an emphasis on health equity and AI/ML-based phenotyping and multi-omics to advance precision medicine.
Before his current role at Optum Labs, he spent 2 years at UnitedHealthcare as the national lead for cardiovascular and ED services. This work focused on simple innovation and value-based transformation of care and affordability. He is a cardiologist from Yale University with a background in computer sciences and basic science and clinical research at Harvard Medical School and outcomes research at Yale University.
He is a former IBM Watson Health collaborator on the clinical implementation of machine learning in the cardiovascular field. He practiced cardiology with a subspecialty in imaging for 20 years at Sentara Health. Within Sentara, he played several executive roles with a focus on leadership development and consumer strategies. Outside of work Jaime enjoys watching his son play tennis, watching movies with his wife, and practicing Pilates.
Things You’ll Learn:
- In healthcare, communication is one of the areas with significant improvement opportunities.
- By 2025, about $300 billion in care will be delivered to consumers' homes.
- UnitedHealth Group also works with a sense of purpose, their recent merger with LHC seeks to build care in communities and at homes.
- Healthcare solutions today are based on clinical components and other different determinants of health.
- Algorithms can now be built to allow the identification of those who may have a condition before it develops any complications.
- Medical solutions today cannot exclusively take into account clinical data, they need to look at the patient holistically.
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