Our CEO, Keith Pinter, recently joined the blueSQUAD podcast to share his vision for a healthcare system that prioritizes “doing the right things” over simply doing things faster.
Restoring the PCP as the “Quarterback”
Keith highlights a staggering reality: over 70% of hospitalizations and 82% of ER visits are unnecessary, often because the system fails to empower primary care.
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The Value-Based Fix: Moving toward a model that inspires and compensates clinicians to manage the total patient journey.
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Breaking Silos: Transitioning away from fragmented care where specialists rarely communicate, ensuring the patient remains the focal point of every decision.
Solving the Specialty Access Crisis
The discussion dives into how AristaMD integrates directly into the EMR to streamline the specialist-consult process.
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The Trifecta: By replacing a six-month wait with a rapid eConsult, we create a win-win-win: “Patient in the center, happy docs… and a lower cost of care.”
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Reducing Burdens: We tackle provider burnout head-on by removing the administrative friction that prevents nurses and doctors from doing what they love—caring for patients.
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Evidence-Based Results: Providing specialists with a comprehensive view of patient data to ensure accuracy, timeliness, and a superior patient experience.
Keith Pinter
Chief Executive Officer
Keith Pinter is a change agent and growth-oriented leader with a passion for healthcare and technology. With over two decades of experience in the healthcare provider and technology sectors, Keith has a proven track record of delivering innovative solutions that improve clinical outcomes and patient care. Keith started his career in technology, building, buying and selling businesses. He then transitioned to healthcare with a mission to bend the healthcare cost curve backward. He co-founded Rise Health, a technology-enabled, value-based primary care aggregation platform. As CEO at Rise Health, Keith led the development of a global risk primary care platform acquisition enterprise, delivering innovative solutions to the healthcare industry.
Prior to his work at Rise Health, Keith served as chief operating officer/ chief of staff for Envision Physician Services, where he was instrumental in growing the organization from $800 million to $6 billion. He was also part of the leadership team that transformed the third-largest publicly traded hospital system into an industry leader in innovation. Keith currently serves on the boards of several healthcare companies, including Moterum Technologies and Prosper RCM Solutions. He has also served on the boards of Cliexa and Accolite, where he was instrumental in the company’s growth and successful mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions. Recognized as 2023 Entrepreneur of the Year by Health Insights, Keith is a visionary leader with a deep understanding of the healthcare industry and a passion for driving change. He is committed to improving clinical and business outcomes through technology enablement and is particularly interested in novel treatment approaches for neurodegenerative diseases after losing his father.
Keith Pinter
Chief Executive Officer
Keith Pinter is a growth-oriented change leader with two decades of proven results in the healthcare provider and technology sectors, with a history of serving as a strategic catalyst for change, driven to improve clinical and business outcomes via technology enablement, with success transitioning fee-for-service healthcare operations into value-based care/global risk.
Keith started his career in technology, building, buying, and selling businesses. He then transitioned to healthcare with a mission to bend the healthcare cost curve backward. He co-founded Rise Health, a technology-enabled, value-based primary care aggregator which secured a 9-figured funding commitment in 2022. As CEO at Rise Health, Keith led the development of a global risk primary care platform acquisition enterprise, acquiring FFS PCP practices in the southwest and successfully transitioning them into global risk with a substantial reduction in MLR and increase in clinician and patient NPS.
Prior to his work at Rise Health, Keith served as chief operating officer/ chief of staff for Envision Physician Services, where he was instrumental in growing the organization from $800 million to $6 billion. He was also part of the leadership team that transformed the third-largest publicly traded hospital system into an industry leader in innovation. Keith currently serves on the boards of several healthcare companies, including Moterum Technologies and Prosper RCM Solutions, previously serving on the American College of Healthcare Executives board as the CEO liaison for the western region as well as chairing the University of Miami’s Data Science board. Recognized as 2023 Entrepreneur of the Year by Health Insights, Keith is a visionary leader with a deep understanding of the healthcare industry and a passion for developing a new service delivery paradigm.