Innovation on the Fast Track

Today in healthcare, predicting staffing to meet patient demand is extremely complex and relies on human analysis alone. Producing schedules that work for providers is notoriously difficult and time-consuming. Inefficient staffing models lead to excessive labor costs across the spectrum of care. More importantly, suboptimal scheduling negatively impacts providers’ satisfaction and contributes to burnout. In collaboration with anesthesiology provider PhyMed Healthcare, SwitchPoint developed a groundbreaking, all-in-one, AI-driven platform for the efficient prediction and management of clinician scheduling. Polaris allows organizations to balance financial and clinical objectives and also delivers work/life balance to clinicians.

Learn more: www.polarishealth.ai

Where should your business grow? Where and how do you capitalize on new opportunities? As a business leader today, you have to address high-stakes questions like these at a faster pace than ever before. Scout Insight helps you harness the power of data and AI through a platform that is customizable to your business, so that you can make decisions with confidence. Scout Insight is a joint venture between SwitchPoint and Montecito Medical, named a key influencer in healthcare real estate for three consecutive years and one of the largest privately-held acquirers of medical real estate in the U.S.

Healthcare Startup Award Winner, 2022 Nashville Entrepreneur Center NEXT Awards

Learn more: www.winnowhealth.ai

As health care moves quickly toward value-based care, providers and payors need a way to capture value and performance as it relates to cost. Other existing performance measures aren’t ideal for these new MLR-based reimbursement models. They don’t account for costs, shared accountability, or the impact of the health system. Often, they tend to be process-focused, expensive, burdensome, and disease or condition-specific. What’s needed are standard metrics to assess health care value that works with existing cost and quality metrics and don’t require extra data collection and reporting on the part of the health system or ACO.  Introducing Oriel – a proprietary, census and AI-based index engine that delivers efficient, continuous, and objective indexes that serve as a proxy for value-based care performance, volatility, and risk/return exposure and financial metrics.

Learn more: www.oriel.ai

SwitchPoint has engaged with CaringWays, an innovative healthcare technology company that helps patients pay medical bills with greater ease, confidence, and security via an accountable, HIPAA-compliant crowdfunding platform. SwitchPoint is assisting CaringWays with the development of software tools and interfaces that certify patient medical needs and associated fund flows between donors and healthcare providers.

Learn more: www.caringways.com

SwitchPoint is supporting Fresh Technology, a provider of digital tools to the restaurant industry. The focus of the collaboration has been on developing highly accurate predictions of order prep times, which enhance efficiencies in commercial kitchens and facilitate the presentation of orders across mult iple distribution channels.

Learn more: www.fresh.technology

Nolan is founding COO of SwitchPoint Ventures and is responsible for defining AI solutions, overseeing their development, and ensuring their successful implementation. Prior to SwitchPoint, Nolan was Vice President of Operations at Intermedix/R1 where he was responsible for operationalizing analytics products. Before joining Intermedix, Nolan was COO of WPC Healthcare, where he was responsible for machine learning solution implementations. Nolan has 25 years of experience in technology implementation and operations, as well as project management experience with companies like McKesson, Virgin Mobile, Hilton Hotels, and Asurion. Nolan holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia and an MBA from the University of Memphis. Nolan also received a certification in Systems Analysis and Design from the University of California at Berkeley.

Damian is founding Chief Data Scientist of SwitchPoint Ventures and is responsible for architecting database designs, conceiving and developing AI solutions, and ensuring those solutions satisfy practicable business objectives. Prior to SwitchPoint, Damian was Chief Data Scientist at Intermedix/R1, where he led the data science team and oversaw the company’s machine learning strategy. Before joining Intermedix, Damian was Chief Data Scientist of WPC Healthcare, where he developed machine learning solutions. Damian has 20 years of experience in finance, healthcare, and technology, working across a diverse set of industries with Morgan Stanley, HCA, and Aetna. Damian is an adjunct professor at Lipscomb University, where he teaches data science. A former NTC Data Scientist of the Year, Damian is ranked in the top one percent of data scientists internationally (Kaggle). Damian is a frequent author and speaker on artificial intelligence.

Caleb is the Senior Vice President of Innovation and is responsible for the alignment of SwitchPoint’s solutions to health system partners and portfolio companies. Prior to SwitchPoint, Caleb has served in a variety of leadership roles for Sema4, Ascension, Tenet Healthcare, and others. His over 20 years of healthcare experience includes building venture studios, operations and analytic teams, managing product strategy and development, and operationalizing multiple technologies within the healthcare landscape. Caleb was named a Nashville Business Journal “40 Under 40” winner, serves on the board of directors of TN HIMSS, and is an advisor to multiple early-stage companies. He earned his degree in Recording Industry Management from Middle Tennessee State University and MBA from Union University.