In a sure sign of the Apocalypse, we’re going to be closing the doors on some 600 of our satellite offices around the country.
See the article on CNN about the closings.
This will not affect our top line at all. However, it may go to improve our bottom line drastically as our consumption of Starbucks is potentially slashed.
Thank you for your concerns and bear with us as Christopher’s withdrawal symptoms begin.
The change:healthcare team is dynamic and full of energy. To find out more about each member of the team you can download the company bios in PDF format, or browse them below.
The Team
Christopher Parks, Co-Founder and CEO
With a background that spans more than seventeen years of experience in healthcare, supply chain and technology
sales, operations and consulting, Parks established change:healthcare in 2006 and serves today as the company’s
CEO. He began his career as a Program Manager for disease management firm Healthways, where he led the startup
and management of two inpatient/outpatient hospital-based chronic disease clinics. Following a successful four
years there, he became a senior consultant at HealthCare Microsystems, responsible for the company’s business
with HCA. Later, as Regional Director of Operations for National Seating & Mobility, he increased same store sales
and total market revenues and oversaw the Kaiser southern California seating & positioning …
change:healthcare is a progressive company that deals with healthcare issues using cutting-edge technology. To find out more download the company fact sheet, or simply have a look below.
Company:
A technology firm dedicated to promoting transparency in the healthcare industry. The company provides internet-based solutions through employers and directly to healthcare consumers interested in controlling healthcare costs by making informed healthcare decisions.
For consumers/employees, it provides an easy-to-use online tool for organizing and managing all healthcare paperwork — bills, insurance statements (EOBs), payments and tax deductible medical expenses — helping them understand which providers are owed, how much and when.
For employers, it provides a platform that: offers more effective budgeting; allows the portability of employee information; helps the employee spend work time working instead of dealing with medical
paperwork; tracks employees’ HSA and FSA spending — thanks to a complete, real-time, HIPAA-compliant view of employees’ healthcare expenses.
For everyone, change:healthcare …
change:healthcare provides a unique platform that provides a various number of services. You can find out all about our products by downloading this PDF, or reading an overview below.
Overview
People today are overwhelmed, frustrated and confused by the sea of medical paperwork created by the healthcare system. At the same time, employers are struggling to avoid decreasing benefits or increasing premiums in an attempt to gain some control over the company’s healthcare costs. And for both groups, reining in healthcare costs is difficult if those making the decision – healthcare consumers — are completely disconnected from the impact of their healthcare choices and isolated from each other’s experiences.
change:healthcare provides consumers the tools, services and information they need to make the best healthcare decisions possible.
Products
The change:healthcare medical bill management platform: A secure, internet-based platform provided through employers and directly to healthcare consumers interested in controlling healthcare costs …
You’ve known us as MedBillManager. On March 3rd, we’re changing.
Change:healthcare is significantly broadening our services and making it easier than ever before to get the information you need to make better healthcare decisions. And as important friends of the company we wanted you to be the first to know.
On March 3rd, visit the change:healthcare site and see a totally new look to change:healthcare. In fact, everything – including our MedBillManager name — will be changed to reflect the change:healthcare brand.
You’ll find new sections where you can search out the latest industry and consumer information about healthcare issues, providers, insurers, even prescriptions. Of course our very popular blog will still be there, as well as our bill management tool which has helped users better order and manage their …
It all started innocently enough with a simple lunch. Christopher and Robert were telling Page about the things they were doing and how they were empowering healthcare consumers. It was very intriguing. Before he knew it, Page had left his long-standing career with a successful software firm to join the rest of the team dedicated to changing the world, or at least changing healthcare. He is excited about the things that the company has done as well as being a part of the things that the team is committed to doing in the future.
Page’s professional background includes, among other things starting an Internet company, building a successful software company and spending some time in the investment business. He pursued each of these with the same passion and careless abandon (did I really just say careless abandon?) as he …
Graham’s post on “Over!My!Med!Body!” was interesting, but it’s the comments that are both worthwhile and insightful. Head on over and participate in the conversation…
From Graham’s blog —————————————–
Patients Should Not Control Their Medical Record
Oh lordy is this a terrible idea.
Google and Microsoft are trying to put patients in charge of their medical data, and there’s even some screenshots of the Google Health online application. …Roni Zeiger, primary care doc turned Google Health employee, what are you thinking?
Patients without medical training but that actually understand all the nuances of their diseases and medications, I applaud you; most of your fellow patients, however, don’t. I strongly advocate for patients to read and learn as much as they can about …
Young and passionate, Katrina is ready to help individuals change the way they view healthcare. While pursuing a philosophy major at Vanderbilt University, Katrina took an Ethics and Medicine course and discovered her interest in medical controversies. Picking up a second major in Medicine, Health and Society, she spent her senior year intensely studying and researching America’s healthcare system and subsequent healthcare problems. Interested in finding solutions for the uninsured and simplifying healthcare to enable consumers, Katrina was excited to meet with Christopher and Robert and hear about the services change:healthcare has to offer. She is now even more excited to be part of the team.
Katrina has worked on the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Man and Woman of the Year campaign helping to raise over $750,000. She has also worked with the American Cancer Society on evaluating constituent concerns. Katrina loves …
Young, full of energy, and just out of college, Matt Mueller is a project manager for change:healthcare. Although he majored in philosophy and international relations at Hendrix College, he spent much of his time doing freelance design work when he should have been studying. He began working with Christopher and Robert in 2006, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Aside from working on change:healthcare, Matt enjoys a number of various (and not really related) activities. He is an avid runner, enjoys playing golf, cooking, and reading, among other things. He is addicted to keeping up with what is new in the “web 2.0″ world, and spends entirely too much time going through his rss feeds each day.
There is no defining Robert. His interests are varied and deep from cutting edge technology to turn-of-the-century railroad. He has led marketing efforts, defined technical specifications, planned business strategies and managed the books - even taken out the garbage - whatever it takes to make an entrepreneurial venture work. Don’t tell him it can’t be done. He’ll find a way to do it, just to prove it can be.
He is one of the original members of the team at edgenet and an owner in Controlled Healthcare, a controlled pharmaceuticals distributor. His successful ventures include high tech and healthcare among other industries. Among his business associates he counts many friends and many longstanding relationships.
A husband and a father to three girls, he values his family life and does his best to stay fit by cycling 100 miles per week. The Hendrick family loves to travel and has done so …
Happily married, father of two boys, has a an overweight black Lab named Dixie, really misses both of his parents who both passed away almost 2 years ago, and who has spent the past 16 years working for and with some of the brightest and most caring people he knows across the healthcare industry.
His past work experiences include running inpatient and outpatient diabetes treatment centers, healthcare operations and technology consulting for HCA, growing and operating a division of a specialized pediatric wheelchair services company as well as the Kaiser capitated DME services for California, the Director of Managed Care Contracting, QA/UR and Social Services for a Georgia healthcare system, and supporting, growing, collaborating with a multi-billion dollar healthcare supply-chain technology company which included a majority of the nations top academic medical centers.
He has dutifully worn the dark suit and power tie to work every day and …
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Out of Tragedy, a Commitment to Change Healthcare is Born
When both of Christopher Parks’ parents passed away within a year of each other in 2006, he was left with more than just grief. He was left with piles of medical bills, eobs, and insurance statements. He soon realized that despite having worked within the healthcare industry his entire career that sorting through piles of medical bills and related documents was more than frustrating, it was nearly impossible.
Christopher struggled just to fulfill the never-ending demands of the documents: “pay this doctor this much, send insurance this much, pay this hospital this much.” While in the end he managed to complete all of the demands, he was left wondering if this was really how healthcare was supposed to work for consumers. Had he been properly reimbursed by his insurance? Had he paid too much? Was anything left …
Out of Tragedy, a Commitment to Change Healthcare is Born
When both of Christopher Parks' parents passed away within a year of each other in 2006, he was left with more than just grief.
