Jonah Frohlich is a managing director of Manatt Health Solutions (MHS), an interdisciplinary policy and business advisory practice of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP.  Mr. Frohlich provides policy and regulatory advice to a wide array of healthcare organizations, including health plans, hospitals, provider organizations, and state governments, with a particular focus on health information technology and healthcare delivery transformation initiatives.

Mr. Frohlich has been engaged in a variety of projects involving the use of technology, and clinical and administrative data to support improvements in the delivery of care for individuals and high-risk populations.  He has led multistakeholder engagements on behalf of foundations, explored all-payer claims database design and implementation, planned for state health information technology initiatives, and published reports describing the impact of state and federal policy on public and private markets.  Mr. Frohlich has also assisted health plans and hospitals in the development of accountable care organizations and clinical integration initiatives, and he has supported engagement strategies with state health information and health insurance exchanges.

Prior to joining MHS, Mr. Frohlich was the deputy secretary of health information technology at the California Health & Human Services Agency.  In this role, he served as the administration’s top executive and advisor on health information technology, coordinating the state’s $1.5 billion initiative for the development, application, and use of electronic health records and secure information exchange.  He also facilitated policy, statutory, and regulatory changes needed to advance health information exchange.

Mr. Frohlich was previously a senior program officer with the California HealthCare Foundation, where he managed the health IT portfolio, which included driving efforts to develop state and national data exchange standards, disease registries, and electronic health record adoption.  He also served as manager at Brown & Toland Physicians, where he managed, collected, analyzed, and reported clinical, quality, financial and utilization data, and oversaw clinical integration requirements, and disease and population health management registries and programs.