Monthly KC Digital Drive Health Innovation Team Meeting
KC Digital Drive's Health Innovation Team invites you to join our 2026 virtual meetings on digital health. We have held nearly-monthly meetings for 13 years, concentrating on how digital health can have an impact on wellbeing in the community (medical, mental, and social). These meetings are dedicated to :
1.) Building community – and, ultimately, action – around good ideas happening locally related to digital health, though we bring in global, national, and regional perspectives to keep alert and fresh
2.) Keeping a mindset around “The Connected Health Community/The Connectable Moment”
3.) Driving an ethos, forum, and engine for digital health
AGENDA
For our January meeting, we see two different perspectives on the business side of health.
First we will see a radical attempt to change the entire flow of price transparency, adjudication, surprise billing, delayed reimbursements, and issues related to prior authorization. PIM.health is a payment and infrastructure modernization platform for healthcare administrative functions that can reduce administrative overheads by $300B-$500B annually. It offers real-time adjudication of claims, eliminate sprior authorization, speculative coding, claims denials, appeals, and post-encounter patient collections. It does all this using existingt echnologies stitched together specifically for the healthcare industry through a portfolio of 12 patents.
Our discussion will be led by founder Don Peterson. Don is a serial entrepreneur having built multiple successful companies, especially in health care. After a stint at AMD, he built his own specialized workstation company. He founded and ran a mobile imaging company, and is one of the founders of the industry for free-standing infusion centers. He has supported other startups through his work in big data and the Launch Health Accelerator. You can even hear him on his own podcast, Divided Attention.
In our second discussion, we will look at the challenge of having the right clinicians at the right place and time, all while allowing clinicians to curate their careers with an app that matches their needs with those of health organizations. MedCurate eliminates the need to go through agencies to reach a good match. For hospitals and healthcare organizations, MedCurate is working to overcome a looming healthcare crisis—a shortage of nurses, nurses retiring or switching to contract labor—which is straining budgets and limiting services provided.
Ashley McClellan, founder and CEO of MedCurate will explain how it all works. She is no stranger to this domain having over 20 years of leadership experience in healthcare across multiple delivery types and roles including Chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive Officer. She has a doctorate in health administration, an MBA, and degrees in Finance and Spanish. She is a Fellow and board certified by the American College of Healthcare Executives and serves on boards such as SMU Cox School of Business Alumnae, Young Men's Service League, and Children's Mercy Health System.