Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Richard A. Kimball Jr. Puts His Stake in Telemedicine

Americans are now seeing positive effects of Telemedicine. Thanks to healthcare leaders like Richard A. Kimball Jr., who is revolutionizing the industry by continuously investing in high technology and research to provide the best services to patients and their families.

Richard A. Kimball Jr., or simply Rick, is the CEO and Founder of HExL, a healthcare startup specializing in providing capital, strategic advice and senior industry access to companies transforming how we deliver and consume healthcare. Furthermore, HExL will advise companies in its investment portfolio to deliver continuum mobile care through effective and convenient home based, high touch and high tech solution that is tailored for a capitated environment.  HExL will bring about the much needed changes to enable the US healthcare system to migrate away from volume and towards value.

The Stanford Distinguished Careers Institute (DCI) fellow believes that prevention is always better than cure.  However, HExL will now assist in giving the US population the tools it needs to properly deliver preventive methods. With the emergence of technology in healthcare, HExL has a plan for efficient remote monitoring.

The HExL co-founder was a former partner and co-head at the Global Healthcare Investment Banking and Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS). He also led the Healthcare Equity Capital Markets and Healthcare Services Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley for 17 years.  So it is no secret that Kimball has been an advocate of cheaper and convenient healthcare for the Americans. His expertise in investment and healthcare has helped him formulate operative solutions addressing long-overdue issues of patient care in the country.   With the growing need for affordable and remote care in the U.S. Richard A. Kimball Jr., through his company HExL.com, will help revolutionize healthcare.

The CEO’s most recent stint was with Accretive Health, one of United States’ leading technology healthcare companies. Richard was Chief Strategy and Growth Officer at Accretive, in-charge of strategy, sales and marketing, business provider and population health solutions. He contributed to the company’s revenue cycle management business in facilitating patient engagement.

Rick is a Fellow in the Distinguished Careers Institute at Stanford University and a member of Advisory Boards for the Population Health Sciences Institute, Clinical Excellence Research Center and the Health Policy and Outcomes Research Institute at Stanford. Rick is an Honorary Trustee of the Brookings Institution where he is a member of the Metropolitan Studies Leadership Council. Rick was previously Chairman of the Finance Committee of the board of the Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention in Harlem, a single member corporation of Memorial Sloane Kettering. Rick is a member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO). Rick received a B.A. in Economics from Yale University in 1986.