Vanessa Candelora

Vanessa Candelora is Lead, PP&T (Payer, Provider & Technology) Management & Operations at Point-of-Care Partners (POCP) with over 20 years of experience in professional services, most of which are in healthcare technology. She’s known as a strategic, innovative, results-driven leader with a proven track record implementing, managing, and growing complex healthcare and technology related initiatives, programs and products. 

After two years as the Program Manager, she now serves as the Strategic Advisor for the Gravity Project, a collaborative initiative focused on the development of consensus-driven data standards to address the social determinants of health (SDOH). She also co-leads the HL7 Da Vinci Patient Cost Transparency use case, aligned with the No Surprises Act. She supports payers, vendors, providers, and government agencies with strategies to reach their business goals, reduce payer/provider friction, decrease burden, and improve the patient experience for better overall health. Before joining POCP, she worked for MedeAnalytics as Director of Account Management, leading a team of Account Managers, Program Managers, and Analysts to drive increased value of health care data analytics products supporting Health Payers, IDNs, and Providers across Employer Reporting, Provider Analytics, and Value-Based Performance Management solutions. Vanessa also worked at NaviNet (now NantHealth), project managing technical improvement projects including Master Data Management and provider registration. She supported teams implementing standard data exchange projects for Payer–Provider interoperability across several workflows. Vanessa is passionate about improving health care through data, technology, and business processes.  

Vanessa lives in Massachusetts with her husband Mark, kids Benjamin and Cameron, and Bulldog/Schnauzer Mixed dogs Frank and Beans. She also serves on the Advisory Board of Inspired Home Interiors, a professional residential interior decorating services company. She dreams of more free time to enjoy snowboarding, hiking, sailing, kayaking, volunteering and traveling.  

Vanessa holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a minor in Business from Northeastern University.