Kyna Fong
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| Born | 1983 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
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Kyna Fong is an American health economist. She is the chief executive officer and co-founder of Elation Health, an electronic health platform for independent primary care providers.[1][2]
Early life and education[edit]
Fong, the daughter of a family physician, was born in 1983 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.[3] She moved with her family to Peoria, Illinois, where at age 12 she placed into high school. She completed high school in the Bay Area in California, where her father had purchased a Walnut Creek practice.[3] During her senior year of high school, she had completed a year of couses at the University of California, Berkeley.
She was 16 when she entered Harvard University. There in 2003 Fong earned her Bachelor of Arts in applied mathematics and economics, with Phi Beta Kappa honors and the Hoopes Prize for outstanding scholarly research. She also completd her Master of Science thesis in 2003 in computer science, Multi-Stage Information Acquisition in Option Design at Harvard at age 19.[4]
Fong earned her Ph.D. in economics at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business,[5] with a 2007 dissertation titled, Theoretical analysis of incentives in pharmaceutical drug procurement, repeated games with imperfect private monitoring, and healthcare performance reporting.[6] She was also a UC Berkeley Robert Wood Johnson Fellow researching health policy.[7]
Career[edit]
From 2008–2010, Fong was an assistant economics professor at Stanford, focusing on healthcare and game theory fields.[8]
She co-founded Elation Health with her brother in 2010, a year after the HITECH Act was enacted in 2009.[3] Through her role at Elation, Fong built the initial phase of the Elation platform, aided in the development of Elation's health data sharing technology, and helped garner company funding from investors such as Aberdare Ventures and Dustin Moskovitz, among others.[9]
According to Forbes,
The company is growing fast, experiencing triple digit year-over-year growth and now serves over 2 million patients and its network reaches over 200,000 providers. The company recently announced a $15 million Series B funding led by DFJ, with participation from angel investors including former president and CEO of Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Martha Marsh; and co-founder of Quora and creator of the Facebook Platform and Facebook Connect, Charlie Cheever.
— Bruce Rogers[3]
Fong also works as a practice manager for her father, who runs his own primary care medical practice.[9]
Selected publications[edit]
- Foo, Patricia & Lee, Robin & Fong, Kyna. (2017). Physician Prices, Hospital Prices, and Treatment Choice in Labor and Delivery. American Journal of Health Economics. 3. 422-453. 10.1162/ajhe_a_00083.
- Lee, Robin & Fong, Kyna. (2011). Markov-Perfect Network Formation An Applied Framework for Bilateral Oligopoly and Bargaining in Buyer-Seller Networks.
- Fong, Kyna & Huckman, Robert. (2010). Matching and Sub-Specialization by Risk in CABG Surgery.
References[edit]
- ↑ Baum, Stephanie (2016-08-04). "Elation Health raises $15M in quest to double staff numbers, support interoperability". MedCity News. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
- ↑ "Clinical First Electronic Health Records : Elation Health". Retrieved 2020-09-01. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Rogers, Bruce (August 12, 2020). "Can Kyna Fong's Elation Health Help Save $240 Billion In Healthcare Costs And Improve Patient Care?". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-08-26.
Founded in 2010, the San Francisco-based, digital health company was built for today’s changing healthcare landscape, which is shifting from a volume-based reimbursement reward system to one that rewards value and performance.
Unknown parameter|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Pedroza, Maria S. (June 5, 2003). "Mastering Harvard at a Young Age | News | The Harvard Crimson". www.thecrimson.com. Retrieved 2020-08-26. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Wood, Megan. "17 female health IT company CEOs to know". www.beckershospitalreview.com. Retrieved 2020-08-26. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Fong, Kyna Garwei (December 2007). Theoretical analysis of incentives in pharmaceutical drug procurement, repeated games with imperfect private monitoring, and healthcare performance reporting /. Search this book on
- ↑ "More is less: The future of data-driven medicine". www.medicaleconomics.com. 2020-03-16. Retrieved 2020-07-15. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Hall, Gina (2016-08-08). "SAN FRANCISCO: Startup to upend medical record-keeping raises $15M". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2020-07-15. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 9.0 9.1 Lynley, Matthew (2016-08-04). "Elation Health receives $15M to take another crack at electronic health records". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2020-07-15. Unknown parameter
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