March 27, 2025
Dr. Jessica Bartell joins to lead the strategic implementation and clinical oversight of informatics and information systems.
PRESS RELEASE
Contact: Hilary Costa
hilary.c.costa@kp.org
Washington, D.C. — Risant Health, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the health of millions of Americans by increasing access to value-based care, has announced that Dr. Jessica Bartell, M.D., M.S., M.B.A., has joined as its chief medical information officer effective March 24.
Reporting to Risant Health CEO Jaewon Ryu, Dr. Bartell is responsible for further augmenting and supporting the quality and effectiveness of clinical informatics and information across Risant Health and its organizations. This includes providing strategic direction and support for clinical informatics and information systems, implementing best practices and core services, and serving as a liaison between IT, medical and executive departments.
Additionally, Dr. Bartell will be accountable for optimizing clinical technologies and workflows, making it easier for clinicians and care teams to integrate value-based care while also operating at their best in other aspects of pluralistic, multipayer, multiprovider environments.
“Dr. Bartell brings deep expertise in clinical transformation and enablement of population health and value-based care, and she has demonstrated success working at the intersection of financial incentives, analytics, technology and clinical programs,” said Dr. Ryu. “One of the ways Dr. Bartell will bring her experience to bear at Risant Health is through the effective implementation of the clinical informatics that drive our value-based platform’s powerful set of technology, services and capabilities to improve clinical performance and patient outcomes.”
Dr. Bartell joins Risant Health from UnitedHealthcare, where she served as senior vice president and chief medical officer over the areas of population health, value-based care and clinical policy. Previously, Dr. Bartell served as chief medical officer and vice president, business development and strategy, and clinical decision support at EBSCO Health in Massachusetts. Her experience also includes more than two decades as a primary care provider, specializing in women’s health across academic, community and safety net settings.
Dr. Bartell holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a Master of Science in population health sciences from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. She earned her medical degree from the University of Wisconsin Medical School and her Bachelor of Arts in political science from Yale College.
Risant Health is a nonprofit, charitable organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with a transformative vision to improve the health of millions of people by increasing access to value-based care and coverage. Risant Health is dedicated to bringing together like-minded, nonprofit community-based health systems from across the country in order to deliver better health outcomes through value-based care approaches. Risant Health’s value-based platform will support its health systems with a set of technology, services, and capabilities designed to deliver superior health outcomes and a lower total cost of care in diverse business models. Risant Health was created by Kaiser Foundation Hospitals in 2023.
