Leadership, AI, and Private Equity with Bo Bartholomew, CEO of EvidenceCare 2-13-25
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What is the background of Bo Bartholomew?
Yes, thank you, Scott. And couldn't be more Honored to be included. Love your podcast and love all that y'all do. I am, as they say, a recovering hospital administrator. I've spent just under a decade initially getting into healthcare on the construction side. I was project manager to build a brand new hospital and then got asked to stay on after we opened the hospital to help run it. and then bounced around a number of hospitals before we got asked to move to very four undesirable locations. And my wife decided I could go without her and that wasn't going to work. So I became, as they say, a forced entrepreneur and co-founded a medication management software company that we sold to private equity. I joined another a private equity company focused on nursing.
And we sold that and then started a venture fund. And our second or third investment was in evidence care in 2020. And the founding CEO and physician, Dr. Brian Fingler, who is still with us and is happy as a lark as our chief medical officer, decided he would rather someone else take the CEO range, and the board asked me to step in. Evidence Care is a 10-year-old business that is a dedicated and anchored business. on empowering better care decisions. We service the hospital and health systems around our country. We are software that's embedded inside the electronic health records. And everything we do is designed to improve the physician workflow. and bring the right tools at the right time to make the best decisions possible while also benefiting the hospital's bottom line.
Thank you so much. In a moment, I'm gonna talk about what trends you're watching in healthcare, but let me take a step back. You're about as good in principle the guy as I know, just a terrific, terrific leader and person. You live at this intersection of healthcare, venture capital, private equity, You've worked with private equity some. You've invested some.
How has private equity influenced healthcare?
And yet, more recently, private equity seems to be taking on the chin in the public domain. Talk to us a little bit about what's real, what's not real. Maybe just a moment on the good, the bad, and the ugly and how the public should think about private equity in health care.
Great question, Scott. 15 years ago, I was up on Capitol Hill testifying on behalf of our private equity firm, how they were bringing benefit. I think that the headlines right now, what I would say is anytime there are bad actors in any industry, the media will jump on that and so will Congress.
What are the pros and cons of private equity in healthcare?
We have some bad actors in the hospital health system world that just happen to be for profit and private equity. That being said, some of the best hospitals and systems in the country in terms of quality care, patient outcomes are also for profit with very good moral ethical leaders at the top of the helm. So there's a bit of a black eye there. I do think the way that healthcare incentives are aligned and the way the payer games force hospitals to price and to market, it highlights some things that are very difficult to navigate. So there's pros and cons. I think when you have the right leaders with the right character, whether it's private equity or non-for-profit, you are going to have good outcomes that benefit and improve our healthcare system.
Thank you. And talk about, Beau, and I think you nailed that exactly right. There's going to be good players and bad players. Good ones can really do a lot of good. Bad ones make over leverage and put people in a more challenging spot, particularly in tougher margin businesses. Take a second on that. What are the core trends that you're watching this year that you're most focused on?
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the background of Bo Bartholomew?
0:26–3:09
2
How has private equity influenced healthcare?
3:09–3:56
3
What are the pros and cons of private equity in healthcare?
3:56–5:27
4
What trends are currently shaping the healthcare industry?
5:27–6:17
5
How is AI transforming healthcare solutions?
6:17–8:21
6
What challenges does the healthcare workforce face today?
8:21–9:05
7
What types of investors are impacting healthcare innovation?
9:05–14:54
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