My Why & This Site

Individual Medicine

Medicine that works for "you", using the best of humanity & technology to:

• keep you healthy and out of the hospital.
• heal you when you are sick, injured or in need.
• preserve our greatest gift: life and the quality of it.

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I make things happen with people and organizations toward the goal of individualized medicine.

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I led teams & businesses in retail until, frustrated by the care my wife & family experienced, I started over as an analyst to learn & lead in healthcare. In the last ~15 years I've led toward individualized medicine doing things like these:

• Led 250 clinical & operational people moving to VBC
• Led Analytics re: how to win at VBC sold, trained & delivered to 50 clients
• Led tech teams creating industry-leading software to persuade systems to take on risk
• Led with exec partner the creation of divisions serving employer & international customers
• Leading a company & software that can revolutionize healthcare by bringing real-time data to the point of care.

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I am driven by the possibility of individualized medicine, here's why.
I love people. I am an optimist. I love seeing the potential in humans & aiming at inspiring goals. For 10 years, I led in retail teams from 2 - 250 people. I applied everything I was learning from my education, but it was missing meaning & purpose.

At the same time, my wife was chronically ill & we were continually frustrated by the capability of the healthcare system to help her. Even so, we had insurance - which was more than some in my family who were uninsured and economically locked out of healthcare altogether.

This lit a fire in me & I decided to leave my leadership roles and start over in the business of healthcare. I joined a healthcare consulting shop as perhaps the lowest paid MBA ever:). For 3 years I lived in Excel, learning FFS, VBC, RVUs & CPTs, delivering analysis to clinical & business leaders. Painful as it was, I emerged with a deep understanding of how healthcare economics work & set out to make a difference.

For the last ~15 years, I've been pursuing the most promising & practical path to moving medicine toward the vision of individual, effective medicine. After my 3y as analyst, here are some of the things I've learned, led & lost at:

Clinical Business Leadership

• I led 10+ multi-specialty clinics, 60 physicians & 250 employees in Albuquerque enthusiastically pursuing value-based care. We ultimately fell short of the change we hoped for, but...
• I learned: boots-on-the-ground experience how difficult the incentive problem was to move away from FFS. How much opportunity there was for technology to allow clinicians & operators to work at the top of their capability.
• But ... I needed to get much closer to tech to inch toward individual medicine.

Healthcare Technology (HealthCatalyst)

• I led the technology & analytics for claims data, sold & deployed product to 50 customers. I got lucky on a hunch to choose a position with claims data that give unique sight into the total cost of care in the industry.
• I led & partnered with a highly capable executive mentor the start of an employer & then an international arm at HealthCatalyst.
  I led & assembled the most powerful group of analyst builders (I think anywhere) to create an industry-leading software tool with the best analytic argument for taking risk on a population using benchmarked data & clear, detailed answers for understanding everything in healthcare spend for a population.
• I learned: the power of lean & process improvement, ways to hack the broken incentives, the power of the technology & data needed to support the change we need.
• But ... there was a challenge in reaching the individual and improving delivery at the point of care.

Scaling Software & Clinical Process

• I am leading wildly passionate & laser focused people,  operations & product  with the opportunity to use software to get the right data to the right people at the right time so we can deliver the right care to the patient. (SaVia Health)
• I am excited for every step we can take to empower clinicians to care for the individual using the best of technology and clinical expertise.
  

So what?

I am still on fire with the possibility that healthcare can grow toward individualized medicine. I am unapologetically aiming to persuade you to help lead this in whatever way inspires you - let's create the kind of medicine that we all want for us and the people we love.