Raymond T. Hino, MPA, FACHE
B. Tilman Jolly, MD, FACEP
President and Chief Executive Officer
Sonoma West Medical Center
Raymond Hino is President and CEO
of Sonoma West Medical Center, a
25-bed community hospital located in
Sebastopol, California. In October
2015, he and his team successfully
re-opened the former Palm Drive
Hospital, which closed its doors in
2014, under the new name of Sonoma
West Medical Center—one of the few known hospitals in the
U.S. in the last several decades to close its doors and then
reopen. He is nationally known as a forward-thinking leader
in the health-care field, with experience in health-care policy
at the state and federal levels, health information technology,
telemedicine, and rural health-care delivery. He serves on the
Health Research & Education Trust Board of Directors and
is a past member of the Boards of Directors of the American
Hospital Association and the California Hospital Association. He was the Founding Chair of the California Critical
Access Hospital Network. In 2014 he was named by Becker’s
Hospital Review to its inaugural list of “50 Rural Hospital CEOs
to Know.”
Barb Johnston, MSN, MLM
Chief Executive Officer and
Co-Founder
HealthLinkNow
Barb Johnston, CEO of HealthLinkNow,
has more than 20 years of experience
implementing Telemedicine programs.
HealthLinkNow was the first Telepsychiatry Company to fully integrate
secure videoconferencing, a patient
portal, scheduling, billing, and an electronic health record into one seamless telemedicine system.
She was the Project Director for the Patient-Centered Medical
Home Mental Health Program, funded by the Centers for
Medicare & Medicaid Services between 2012 and 2015,
which integrated telepsychiatry services into more than 80
primary care clinics across Montana, Wyoming, and Washington State. She has experience in the business, legal, clinical,
and policy aspects of the telemedicine service industry. She is
a former Executive Director of the Medical Board of California
and is a past Board Member of the American Telemedicine
Association (ATA). Under her leadership, HealthLinkNow
became one of the first two Telemedicine companies to
become accredited by the ATA in 2015.
Chief Medical Officer
Specialists On Call
B. Tilman “Til” Jolly, MD, is a boardcertified emergency physician who
serves as Chief Medical Officer of
Specialists On Call, a large national
provider of specialty tele-medicine
services. He has practiced emergency
medicine in the Washington, DC, area
for 21 years and continues to practice
at Inova Fairfax Hospital. He retains an appointment as
Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at the George
Washington University. He has extensive experience in
academic medicine, private industry, and government. Prior
to joining Specialists On Call, he served for five years in senior
leadership positions in the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security, and also led medical preparedness planning for 11
Super Bowls.
Kofi Jones
Vice President of
Government Affairs
American Well
Kofi Jones is the Vice President of
Government Affairs for American
Well, a national mobile and webbased telehealth solution provider
based in Boston, Massachusetts. She
focuses most of her efforts evangelizing on the power of telehealth and
collaborating with federal, state, and congressional leaders to
ensure the proliferation of modernized and safe telehealth
policies. Prior to joining American Well, she spent four and a
half years working for the Deval Patrick Administration—
first as a Public Affairs Director and spokeswoman for the
Governor’s Economic Development Secretary, and then as
the state’s first Chief Marketing Officer. She also has spent
several years as a communications and media expert, including a decade in television news as a producer, reporter, and
anchor.
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