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Health Futures’ Jeff Goldsmith is an active advisor to and investor in small innovative companies working in active health management. These firms have in common that they are developing tools for helping health systems, employers or health plans achieve changes in health outcomes for patients, subscribers or ordinary citizens by using state of the art clinical information technology. Most of these firms are early stage, pre-public companies on whose Advisory Board Mr. Goldsmith serves. These firms include: |
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Advanced ICU Care is a St. Louis based company which provides intensive care physician coverage for hospital Intensive Care Units (ICU’s). AICU was the first non-hospital enterprise to license software from VISICU, now a division of Phillips, whose software enables ICU physicians to monitor and manage critically ill hospitalized patients from a remote command center. AICU is providing physician coverage for hospitals in Boise, Idaho, Grand Ronde, Oregon, Weston, Wisconsin, Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Jefferson City, Missouri from its St. Louis control center. Founded by Mary Jo Gorman, M.D., immediate past Chair of the Society for Hospital Medicine. CEO is David Schopp. |
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Eliza supplies intelligent voice response technology to the healthcare industry. Eliza’s speech recognition-enabled outbound telephone care management solutions serve a wide array of health plans, disease management firms, pharmacy benefits management firms and pharmaceutical firms. Eliza can engage subscribers and patients in intelligent, structured conversations about their health risks and behavior, and has achieved remarkable increases in health promoting behavior stimulated by those conversations. Eliza has also built tools to help health plans demonstrate better connection to their subscribers both for administrative and HEDIS compliance purposes. Founded by John Kroeker, Ph.D. an CalTech trained mathematician and Alexandra Drane. CEO is Lucas Merrow. |
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Myca is a Canadian based virtual physician practice company with three product lines: Sante San Filles, a Canadian internet based physician consultation service providing 24/7 physician consultation via text and video conferencing, Hello Health, a US based virtual physician group practice which provides Internet-enabled comprehensive, neighborhood based primary care services and MyFoodPhone, a nutrition advisory service tailored to the cell phone. All these services are enabled by the Myca platform, an ultramodern integrated patient health record (PHR)/communications platform enabling Internet-based connectivity between patients and caregivers. CEO is Nat Findlay. |
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Pharos provides daily chronic care disease management services for health plans and health systems. Chronic care management is provided through telephone connectivity to patients at risk of serious complications from congestive heart failure, asthma, diabetes and other chronic diseases. Pharos has been able dramatically to reduce dramatically both costs and hospital admissions for congestive heart failure, the highest cost disease to Medicare, through sophisticated clinical protocols and nurse management. Founded by Randy Williams, M.D., cardiologist. |
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In addition to these companies, Mr. Goldsmith advises: |
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Burrill Biotechnology Capital Fund is one of a family of venture funds raised by Burrill and Company, a merchant bank founded by J. Stephen Burrill, formerly the Technology practice leader for Ernst and Young. Burrill Biotechnology Capital Fund invests in early and mid stage biotechnology companies in human pharmaceuticals, medical diagnostics agricultural biotechnology, and innovative functional food and nutrition. CEO is J. Steven Burrill. |
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Founded in 1999, Essent Healthcare owns and operates five acute care hospitals in New England, Pennsylvania and Texas. Essent’s hospitals are small, sole community providers in rural or exurban settings, and generated $320 million in revenues in FY 2007. CEO is Michael Browder, Chairman is Bryan Cressey of Thoma Cressey Bravo, a Chicago based private equity firm. |
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