The Wondermous Healthcare Leadership Journey podcast recently featured Keith Pinter, CEO of AristaMD, to discuss how healthcare leadership must evolve to prioritize effectiveness over simple efficiency.
Keith shared his transition from the fast-paced technology sector to healthcare, driven by a desire to leave a legacy and solve meaningful problems. He observed that while healthcare consumes nearly one-fifth of the US GDP, the nation remains in the bottom third for global health outcomes.
“Leadership effectively, to me means doing things, the right things and doing them differently than how we’ve done them before.”
Restoring the PCP as the “Quarterback” of Care
The current healthcare ecosystem often prioritizes volume over value, resulting in high rates of unnecessary interventions. Statistics show that north of 70% of hospitalizations and 82% of ER visits are unnecessary because the system is not currently “compensating people to fix that”.
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The Primary Care Solution: Value-based care offers an opportunity to “inspire and pay a clinician… on being the quarterback of all the care”.
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Patient-Centricity: A core philosophy discussed is that “if we keep the patient at the center of things, a lot of problems solve for themselves”.
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Breaking the Silos: Modern care often suffers from a lack of communication, where “patients may have a cardiovascular condition… then they’ve got a lung condition… and those people don’t really talk amongst each other”.
Solving the Specialty Access Crisis
AristaMD provides a solution for specialty care that integrates directly into the primary care physician’s existing electronic medical record (EMR).
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Streamlining the Experience: “Instead of waiting six weeks to six months, my doc got me a televisit… it really is a trifecta: patient in the center, happy docs… and a lower cost of care”.
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Removing Administrative Burdens: The platform addresses the fact that “happy docs and nurses… most of the time they’re not happy because of all the administrative stuff they gotta do”.
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Evidence-Based Accuracy: The tool allows for “accuracy, timeliness of care, and patient experience” by providing specialists a full view of the patient’s information to make informed recommendations.
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.