Former Cerner president leads apree health at its m.Integrated Digital Navigation and the Challenges of Building a Leader in the Advanced Primary Care Category
Seattle When San Francisco, September 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Vera Whole Health, Inc. and Castlight Health, Inc. today announced Donald Trigg As Chief Executive Officer, he launched a new corporate brand, apree health. Starting this week, Trigg will serve as CEO and join the company’s board of directors.
“apree health is uniquely prepared to transform the healthcare industry with an end-to-end solution that integrates navigation, advanced primary care, and financial models with incentives to transform lives through better health. I have.” Ronald Williams, Chairman of the Board of the company that merged Vera Whole Health and Castlight Health. “Don is a proven industry leader who has spent nearly 20 years at the intersection of healthcare and IT helping improve health outcomes. He’s the right CEO to drive our efforts to: patients, plan sponsors, and health plans.”
Ravi Sakdev, a partner at lead investor Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, added: With Don taking over as CEO, he has reached a major milestone towards that goal. “
Trigg most recently served as president of Cerner Corporation. The company experienced more growth during his tenure. $800 million Almost $6 billion in earnings. As President, Trigg will provide full P&L across all of Cerner’s business groups, from the clinical EMR and revenue cycle to a suite of strategic growth businesses beyond his EMR, including the provider health network strategy for value-based care. I was responsible.
“There is an affordability crisis in US healthcare that will define this decade,” said Trigg. “The market is fed up with point solutions that fail to deliver a people-centered system of care with world-class experiences, improved outcomes, and low costs.apree health has an end-to-end strategy for digital navigation.” We have the opportunity to provide advanced primary care and member risk management that will improve the lives of millions of Americans and transform healthcare in the United States.”
More about Donald Trigg
Donald Trigg Most recently, he served as President of Cerner Corporation. As Cerner’s president, Don was responsible for general administration, P&L, and operations across Cerner’s business groups. These groups consisted of Cerner’s basic electronic medical record (EMR) and revenue cycle.They also included mostly billion dollars Strategic growth businesses ranging from real-time health systems (RTHS) within hospital four walls, health networks beyond hospital four walls, behavioral health, LTPAC and workforce health businesses, real world data Clinical trial business in revenue.
During his ten-plus years at Cerner, Trigg held various leadership roles throughout the business. His responsibilities, from Cerner’s Strategic Growth Business Executive to his Vice President, England When Ireland operation in London, England He became Cerner’s first Vice President of Government Affairs, as General Manager of the Midwest region of the US market.
Outside of Cerner, Trigg has extensive experience scaling early stage growth businesses. From 2010 to 2012, he led the implementation of rapid growth plans for natural language processing supplier CodeRyte, leading to its strategic acquisition. 3M Served as Director of Referral Management Leader in 2012, bostonAs a director of Medicare Advantage solution provider to the healthcare system, as well as Kyruus, based in St. LouisLumeris on the base.
Trigg also washington dc he worked for four years George W. Bush in the 2000 presidential election Austin, Texasand his first presidential term was washington dc He has also held various senior policy roles in the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
Trigg has a bachelor’s degree. St. Lawrence University of Canton, New YorkCo-author of . The New Health Economy: Basic Rules for Leaders (Georgetown University press).
About App Health
apree health is the first end-to-end product that redefines the care experience and transforms how patients access and engage with care, how providers deliver care, and how employers and other purchasers pay for care. Our mission is to build end healthcare solutions. apree health does this by combining best-in-class navigation and data-driven insights, cutting-edge primary care models, and value-based risk models to unlock health outcomes and empower the people we serve. make life better.
About Vera Whole Health
Vera Whole Health is leading a critical shift to value-based care. usaVera is the only model of care that can deliver system-wide health to diverse patient populations from a single care center. Vera models are uniquely designed to help people achieve optimal social, psychological and physical well-being. This is neither possible nor affordable in the current system of care for the sick.
About Castlight Health
Castlight is on a mission to make healthcare access as easy as possible for people so they can live happier, healthier and more productive lives. As a leader in healthcare navigation, Castlight offers a world-class digital platform with a team of clinical and benefits professionals to help members easily connect and participate in the right programs and care at the right time. It offers. Castlight partners with Fortune 500 companies and health plans to transform employee and member benefits into her one comprehensive health and wellness experience, enabling better health and a return on healthcare investment. Maximize.
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