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About Don McDaniel

An industry leader and serial entrepreneur with more than 25 years’ experience, Don McDaniel has experienced healthcare’s dysfunction from many seats. 

He has launched several healthcare businesses, is a former hospital, health services, technology, and insurance industry executive, and operating partner. Consistent across his diverse background is helping disruptive healthcare companies of all sizes and at various stages succeed.  

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Discover why Elements is the best marketing agency

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Testimonials

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Featured Engagements

  • Advancing Healthcare Through Digital Transformation Summit – Quisitive, Microsoft Cloud Partner
  • Healthcare Insider Symposium – Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney
  • Panel on Healthcare at Home – McGuireWoods, Private Equity Conference 
  • Top Issues for Federally Qualified Health Centers – athenahealth 
  • Act Like a Doctor, Think Like a Health Plan: How Physician Enterprises Can Become Cost-of-Care Leaders – Centricity Health User Group
  • The Power of Real-Time Analytics at the Point of Care – Moderated Session; HIMSS 
  • Making Value-Based Care Less Novel, More Normal – Philadelphia Collaborative Roundtable for Healthcare Executives, sponsored by Philips 
  • Industrializing Healthcare: How Transparency, Efficiency and Markets Will Transform the Industry – Jefferson College of Population Health 
  • Driving Healthcare Innovation: Accelerations, Funding and Commercialization – Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
  • Going Beyond Meaningful Use – Whitepaper, GE Healthcare 

Speaking Topics

Healthcare Strategy & Economics

  • Megatrends that Affect the Future of Healthcare 
  • Health Economics, Policy and Markets 
  • The Hospital of the Future  
  • Formation of Viable Health Care Organizations 
  • Strategy, Leadership and Innovation 
  • Consumer-Driven Innovation and Expectations 

Healthcare Capital Markets

  • Private Equity: friend or foe; Private Equity and Value-Based Care Investment 
  • Private Equity Insurgence into BioTech and Health Tech 
  • Health @ Home Economics and Innovation 
  • Rural Healthcare Opportunities 
  • FQHC Market Expansion for Health Equity 

Healthcare Challenges

  • Workforce Issues in Healthcare 
  • The State of the Industry (or segments – State of Payer in America, State of Physician Group, etc.) 
  • Custom Programs Utilizing Current Innovative Thinking 
  • Value-Based Care: How to implement to get an ROI 

Healthcare Technology Innovation

  • Digital Transformation: How to implement smartly and efficiently 
  • Healthcare IT Innovation in the Practice Setting 
  • Remote Patient Monitoring 
  • Deployment of Clinical Decision Support Systems 
  • Deployment of Physician Practice Management Systems 
  • Building and IT Centric Organization 
  • Strategic Information Systems Planning 
  • Selection and Implementation of Health Care Information Technology 

Speaking Topics

  • Megatrends that Affect the Future of Healthcare
  • Health Economics, Policy and Markets
  • The Hospital of the Future  
  • Formation of Viable Health Care Organizations 
  • Strategy, Leadership and Innovation 
  • Consumer-Driven Innovation and Expectations 
  • Private Equity: friend or foe; Private Equity and Value-Based Care Investment 
  • Private Equity Insurgence into BioTech and Health Tech 
  • Health @ Home Economics and Innovation 
  • Rural Healthcare Opportunities 
  • FQHC Market Expansion for Health Equity 
  • Rural health innovation 
  • Health@: next generation business development 
  • How to develop an innovation agenda 
  • The Future of Healthcare 
  • Workforce Issues in Healthcare 
  • The State of the Industry (or segments – State of Payer in America, State of Physician Group, etc.) 
  • Custom Programs Utilizing Current Innovative Thinking 
  • Value-Based Care: How to implement to get an ROI 
  • Digital Transformation: How to implement smartly and efficiently 
  • Healthcare IT Innovation in the Practice Setting 
  • Remote Patient Monitoring 
  • Deployment of Clinical Decision Support Systems 
  • Deployment of Physician Practice Management Systems 
  • Building and IT Centric Organization 
  • Strategic Information Systems Planning 
  • Selection and Implementation of Health Care Information Technology 

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Healthcare Strategy & Economics
  • Megatrends that Affect the Future of Healthcare
  • Health Economics, Policy and Markets
  • The Hospital of the Future  
  • Formation of Viable Health Care Organizations
  • Strategy, Leadership and Innovation
  • Consumer-Driven Innovation and Expectations
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Heathcare Capital Markets 
  • Private Equity: friend or foe; Private Equity and Value-Based Care Investment 
  • Private Equity Insurgence into BioTech and Health Tech 
  • Health @ Home Economics and Innovation 
  • Rural Healthcare Opportunities 
  • FQHC Market Expansion for Health Equity 
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Innovation
  • Rural health innovation 
  • Health@: next generation business development 
  • How to develop an innovation agenda 
  • The Future of Healthcare 
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Healthcare Challenges 
  • Workforce Issues in Healthcare 
  • The State of the Industry (or segments – State of Payer in America, State of Physician Group, etc.) 
  • Custom Programs Utilizing Current Innovative Thinking 
  • Value-Based Care: How to implement to get an ROI 
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Healthcare Technology Innovation 
  • Digital Transformation: How to implement smartly and efficiently 
  • Healthcare IT Innovation in the Practice Setting 
  • Remote Patient Monitoring 
  • Deployment of Clinical Decision Support Systems 
  • Deployment of Physician Practice Management Systems 
  • Building and IT Centric Organization 
  • Strategic Information Systems Planning 
  • Selection and Implementation of Health Care Information Technology 

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