Meet Pamela Gould
Meet Pamela Gould, RN, MHA, Chief Growth Officer, AristaMD
Pamela Gould, RN, MHA, is a registered nurse with an extensive clinical background who brings over 20 years of healthcare industry experience in nursing and innovative healthcare sales leadership. Pamela’s healthcare career began with clinical nursing in the acute, sub-acute, home-health care, and case management settings. As her experience grew, she transitioned her focus to healthcare sales, sales management and training within the specialty pharmacy, provider and payer contracting industries.
Throughout Pamela’s career, she has had proven success in team leadership, strategic planning, market analysis and business development, significantly growing employer revenues and profit margins. Prior to joining AristaMD, Pamela served as the senior vice president of payer strategies for Happify Health, a digital therapeutic solutions company headquartered in New York, NY. At Happify, she oversaw national sales efforts to managed care insurers. Pamela holds a master’s degree in healthcare administration from Worcester State University and a registered nurse (R.N.) degree from Becker College. She is an active member of the American Nurses Association, the American College of Healthcare Executives, and The Project Management Institute.
Pam is a nature buff who enjoys spending her free time hiking, gardening, or partaking in winter sports with friends and family. She also enjoys antiquing and integrating new finds with her love of interior design.
Why Healthtech Needs More Female Leaders
By Pamela Gould
Women occupy 65% of the healthcare workforce yet seem to be missing in C-suite roles, holding approximately 30% of senior leadership positions and a mere 13% of coveted CEO titles. With female consumers making the majority of buying and usage decisions when it comes to healthcare products and services, the disparity between female leaders and end users in the industry is difficult to ignore.
In fact, we must pay attention to this gap that is slowly closing at a snail’s pace, as fortune 500 healthcare company boards slightly grew female leadership from 22.6% in 2018 to 26% the following year. And although U.S. hospitals tend to have more women at the top, a 2019 Rock Health report revealed that the metric of female representation is just over 37% in this arena. Certainly, progress is being made, but the diversity of welcoming women into leadership roles in all facets of healthcare – particularly healthtech – is crucial to meeting the diverse care needs of all patients and consumers across the board.
Diversity is a Must in the Industry
Spanning all industries, diversity is crucial at all levels of the workforce. Not only is it socially the right thing to do, but studies prove that a diverse workplace improves financial returns by 35%. Additionally, having a variety of perspectives boosts innovation, creativity, decision making, and opportunities to reach new customer demographics like never before.
Inclusive companies are almost two times more innovative and are better at making decisions 87% of the time. Similar to how diverse voices drive business outcomes, gender diversity is needed to continue pushing tech advancements in healthcare to deliver improved care for people of all backgrounds.
Healthcare Technology: Managing Through Difficult times
Incorporating New Healthcare Data and Tools to Make Your Job Easier
Incorporating new healthcare data and tools to create practice efficiency is the topic of this presentation. Unprecedented times call for new and innovative approaches to delivering care. Healthcare professionals and organizations continue to struggle with staff turnover, increased patient demand, and changing care delivery expectations and reimbursement models.
Pam Gould, RN, MHA, Chief Growth Officer and Jon Gautsch, Senior Vice President of Engineering at AristaMD, suggest practical solutions for payers, health systems, ACOs and, most importantly, providers use to overcome these challenges. Particularly those that prevent patients from getting the care they need when and where they need it. During this presentation, you will learn how to leverage healthcare data and technology to:
- Reduce the impact of staff turnover and provider shortages.
- Optimize the selection and direction of in-network referrals.
- Improve care coordination and outcomes.
- Manage wait times for specialty care.
AristaMD Leverages New Technology to Deliver Quality Healthcare
Pamela Gould, RN, MHA, Chief Growth Officer at AristaMD discusses how AristaMD leverages new technology to deliver quality healthcare while maintaining HIPAA compliance and efficiency on the Coruzant Technologies Digital Executive Podcast. Coruzant Technologies is a digital publication aiming to deliver high-quality content from technology professionals worldwide.
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What Tends to Go Wrong With Medication Adherence?
This is the third article in a series about problems people have taking their medication. The previous article categorized various ways that information technology can help. This article looks at special conditions that weren’t covered in previous articles.
Interventions Must Be Tailored
Reminders lie at the core of many IT solutions to medication adherence. But a mechanistic delivery of generic messages with no particular appeal to a patient’s needs and values will usually be a waste. As Bryan Hill, VP of digital health and innovation at Cognizant, says, “Nudge, but don’t nag.”
I am personally annoyed by the messages my pharmacy and insurance company send me to remind me to order my medication. These messages arrive when a couple months of my current prescriptions remain, so they’re asking me to get medication that will age before I take it. More pointedly, I’ve been taking some of these drugs for more than 20 years and I have never missed a renewal, so you think the insurer would notice and let me alone.
AristaMD helps doctors connect with specialists in more than 70 specialties and do online consultations. This service can improve prescribing by applying the specialist’s expertise. Medicaid now allows specialists to bill for these eConsults.