Connective Health

ABOUT US

OUR Backstory

After decades of progress, healthcare data is more available than ever, however it is still not made meaningful. Connective Health’s vision is to ensure every clinician understands the story of every patient in 30 seconds, with treatment support options at their fingertips. This has historically been a missing step in achieving more integrated care, and therefore better outcomes at a lower cost.

Today, the service provides a complete clinical picture across the patient’s care team as well as predictive insights and care collaboration tools. Connective Health’s technology is used by at-risk primary and specialty care providers as well as accountable care organizations to drive better health outcomes at a lower cost. The company was founded by a veteran team of healthcare interoperability innovators.

Founding Team

Chris has spent his career delivering technology solutions and is passionate about advancing healthcare. He held product roles at Surescripts and Optum focused on interoperability, value based care, and clinical operations. He also served as an advisor to technology executives at Booz Allen Hamilton for seven years.

Joseph Athman

Cofounder, CTO
Chris has spent his career delivering technology solutions and is passionate about advancing healthcare. He held product roles at Surescripts and Optum focused on interoperability, value based care, and clinical operations. He also served as an advisor to technology executives at Booz Allen Hamilton for seven years.

Joseph Athman

Cofounder, CTO
Chris has spent his career delivering technology solutions and is passionate about advancing healthcare. He held product roles at Surescripts and Optum focused on interoperability, value based care, and clinical operations. He also served as an advisor to technology executives at Booz Allen Hamilton for seven years.

Joseph Athman

Cofounder, CTO

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Chris has spent his career delivering technology solutions and is passionate about advancing healthcare. He held product roles at Surescripts and Optum focused on interoperability, value based care, and clinical operations. He also served as an advisor to technology executives at Booz Allen Hamilton for seven years.

Joseph Athman

Cofounder, CTO
Chris has spent his career delivering technology solutions and is passionate about advancing healthcare. He held product roles at Surescripts and Optum focused on interoperability, value based care, and clinical operations. He also served as an advisor to technology executives at Booz Allen Hamilton for seven years.

Joseph Athman

Cofounder, CTO
Chris has spent his career delivering technology solutions and is passionate about advancing healthcare. He held product roles at Surescripts and Optum focused on interoperability, value based care, and clinical operations. He also served as an advisor to technology executives at Booz Allen Hamilton for seven years.

Joseph Athman

Cofounder, CTO
Chris has spent his career delivering technology solutions and is passionate about advancing healthcare. He held product roles at Surescripts and Optum focused on interoperability, value based care, and clinical operations. He also served as an advisor to technology executives at Booz Allen Hamilton for seven years.

Joseph Athman

Cofounder, CTO

Founding Team

Ryan Hess

Cofounder, CEO
Ryan has spent his career bringing interoperability to life in healthcare and making it meaningful. He spent eight years at Surescripts as VP of Product, nine years with Bain & Co as an advisor to healthcare executives and three years in investment banking with VCS Capital Partners.

Chris DiBlasi

Cofounder, Head of Product
Chris has spent his career delivering technology solutions and is passionate about advancing healthcare. He held product roles at Surescripts and Optum focused on interoperability, value based care, and clinical operations. He also served as an advisor to technology executives at Booz Allen Hamilton for seven years.

Joe Athman

Cofounder, CTO
Joe was a Senior Enterprise Architect at Surescripts for more than a decade, serving as the technical lead for products that scaled to billions of healthcare transactions per year. Prior to Surescripts he led engineering initiatives at Travelers Insurance.

Advisory TEaM

James Bradley

Strategic Advisor
James formerly served as CIO of UnitedHealthcare and CTO of McKesson as well as chairman of NCQA, the University of MN Medical Center, Health Data Consortium and several healthcare technology company boards. He also founded companies such as Abaton.com and RxHub (now Surescripts).

Paul Uhrig

Strategic Advisor
Paul is currently the Chief Legal & Digital Health Officer at Bassett Health. Previously, Paul held several C-Suite and board member roles in the healthcare policy, privacy and security field. Notably he was Surescripts’ Chief Administrative, Legal, & Privacy Officer and for a period its Acting CEO.

Dr. Mehdi Qalbani

Clinical Advisor (Behavioral Health)
Mehdi is a board-certified physician with 20+ years of experience in behavioral health, substance use disorder, and telepsychiatry. He is currently the Psychiatric Medical Director for Upward Health and previously the Founder and Managing Partner of Integrated Behavioral Health, now part of Optum.

Dr. Joel Diamond

Clinical Advisor (Primary Care)
Joel previously served as CMIO and chairman of the Physician Advisory Board at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, St. Margaret Memorial Hospital. He was the cofounder of dbMotion, a health data solution acquired by Allscripts. He is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh, diplomat of the American Board of Family Practice and fellow in the American Academy of Family Physicians. He continues to treat patients at the Handelsman Family Practice.

Advisory TEaM

James Bradley

Strategic Advisor
James formerly served as CIO of UnitedHealthcare and CTO of McKesson as well as chairman of NCQA, the University of MN Medical Center, Health Data Consortium and several healthcare technology company boards. He also founded companies such as Abaton.com and RxHub (now Surescripts).

Paul Uhrig

Strategic Advisor
Paul is currently the Chief Legal & Digital Health Officer at Bassett Health. Previously, Paul held several C-Suite and board member roles in the healthcare policy, privacy and security field. Notably he was Surescripts’ Chief Administrative, Legal, & Privacy Officer and for a period its Acting CEO.

Dr. James Taylor

Clinical Advisor (Value Based Care)
Jim is a board-certified family physician and certified coder. His leadership activities include serving on Kaiser Permanente’s National Revenue Cycle board, co-chairing Kaiser’s ICD-10 Compliance Committee, and chairing the 1,200 physician Colorado Permanente Medical Group. He served as National Medical Director for Iora Health, assisting in starting their MA program and served as National Medical Director for Humana’s Partners in Primary Care.

Dr. Mehdi Qalbani

Clinical Advisor (Behavioral Health)
Mehdi is a board-certified physician with 20+ years of experience in behavioral health, substance use disorder, and telepsychiatry. He is currently the Psychiatric Medical Director for Upward Health and previously the Founder and Managing Partner of Integrated Behavioral Health, now part of Optum.

Dr. Joel Diamond

Clinical Advisor (Primary Care)

Joel previously served as CMIO and chairman of the Physician Advisory Board at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, St. Margaret Memorial Hospital. He was the cofounder of dbMotion, a health data solution acquired by Allscripts. He is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh, diplomat of the American Board of Family Practice and fellow in the American Academy of Family  Physicians. He continues to treat patients at the Handelsman Family Practice.

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Glenn Winokur

Strategic Advisor

Glenn is Managing Director of Emerson Street Partners, an active pre-seed and seed digital investor/advisor. Glenn connects early stage technology companies with health systems and provider groups looking to improve productivity and quality through the identification and adoption of innovative solutions.