Bio

A healthcare executive with over 25 years of experience as a digital health leader, innovator, health advocate, educator, researcher, and clinician. She has led national telehealth efforts demonstrating value to customers/patients, clinicians, insurance, health systems, and communities. Before joining Optum Health, she led clinical operations for Amazon Care. Prior to that, she launched AscensionConnect where she led the virtual care, digital health, and patient access strategy for Ascension Health. She is an adjunct faculty member of Population Health at the Dell Medical School at UT-Austin and in the School of Nursing at the University of Washington. She has a long history of successfully pioneering new models of care that utilize technology and other digital health tools. Her statewide Telehealth model in Mississippi was recognized as one of only two Centers of Excellence by HRSA. Henderson focuses on the design & development of innovative healthcare delivery models but also on the policy, regulations, and workforce necessary to advance Telehealth. She has testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation’s Subcommittee on “Advancing Telehealth through Connectivity,” as well as the Subcommittee on Rural Health and the White House Domestic Policy Council. She has made numerous presentations across the country, including TEDx and SXSW, to advance telehealth policy and share innovative new models of care. A few of her other leadership roles include service as the current board chair for the American Telemedicine Association; AAMC Telehealth Committee member, past ANA co-chair for Committee on Connected Health and NQF Telehealth Multistakeholder Committee. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and the Emergency Nurses Association. Henderson received her Doctorate of Nursing Practice degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She maintains national certification as a family and acute care nurse practitioner.