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Nectar Strategic Consulting brings global healthcare leaders together in a boutique consulting environment to offer a unique perspective on unifying best in class technology to drive true business model transformation.

• Practical leadership expertise in corporate, clinical, and value-based care environments
• Proven methodologies for creating shared services and digital processes to achieve greater economies of scale and effectiveness
• Design and implementation planning for care delivery programs that actually deliver results

Nectar is a member of the Pixel Health ecosystem, a unique collection of information technology consultancies committed to optimizing the use of technology to improve the delivery of care.

VertitechIT places a keen focus on the people, processes, and technology that allow for successful healthcare digital transformation.The company designs and implements IT roadmaps for health systems across North America and is the leading HIMSS Analytics Infrastructure Adoption Model (INFRAM) consultant in the world.

baytechIT is one of the country’s only healthcare-centric, hospital grade MSPs, offering IT and user service desk support and field services.

Liberty Fox leverages extensive analytics, automation, and cloud technologies to create customized software applications for EMR, revenue cycle management, CRM, and business intelligence processes.

akiro is all about the “business of healthcare,” providing revenue cycle, financial management, and complex M&A transaction support to health systems, medical practices, and private equity investors.

As an accomplished strategist and business advisor with nearly three decades of diversified health care, managed care, technology, and management consulting experience, Barbara Casey is the visionary behind Nectar Strategic Consulting.

As the Global Healthcare Leader for Cisco, Barbara lead a team of industry experts, architects, project managers and analysts to deliver digital transformation for providers and payers alike.

Prior to joining Cisco, Barbara led corporate strategic planning at HCA, Inc. where she facilitated the company’s broad Patient Experience strategy and served as a consultative resource to the Central Group (55 hospitals in the Central US and 6 hospitals in London) and its divisions’ senior management teams. Barbara was also the Chief Marketing Officer for the Sarah Cannon Research Institute, an Oncology Research and Drug Development organization where she was responsible for sales, business development, marketing, public relations, and communication functions. She assisted in the development and management of strategic relationships with large pharmaceutical and biotech sponsors.

With over a decade of experience in clinical informatics, Dr. Neil Kudler, M.D. is keen to develop innovative solutions that improve care through enhanced IT infrastructure, optimized clinical workflows, and effective utilization of IT solutions, e.g. EHR, patient engagement platform (portal), risk stratification models, etc.

Prior to joining Nectar Strategic Consulting as Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Kudler was Chief Operating Officer of Baycare Health Partners, the largest physician-hospital organization (180,000 patients) in Western Massachusetts where he was responsible for strategic development, operational execution, alignment initiatives, and financial oversight. He also served as Chief Medical Information Officer for Baystate Health, a diversified health system comprising a tertiary care academic medical center, three community hospitals, and a medical group with 950 employed providers. He began his career as a general internist with expertise in the care of HIV-infected and opioid-dependent individuals.

Mike was the co-founder and President of Software Logic before joining Nectar and Pixel Health as Executive Vice President, Business Development.  For over two decades, he has developed technology solutions in a variety of industries including healthcare, financial services, and education, with specific expertise in the integration of Microsoft-centric hybrid cloud solutions. Mike has worked collaboratively with leading technology firms, such as Microsoft, HP, and Cisco, while establishing award winning sales and customer service programs. Prior to Software Logic, Mike served in a variety of CIO and Director positions at CGI, Cigna, and GE.

Having spent more than 30 years in the marketing and communications industries as a television reporter, production agency founder, and multimedia network executive, Steve brings his creative talents to Nectar Strategic Consulting and its parent company Pixel Health, as Executive Vice President, Marketing and Communications. A nationally renowned corporate storyteller and Emmy Award-winning producer, Steve works in developing new business opportunities and heads up branding and marketing efforts as well as communications. In addition to his internal duties, Steve consults with technology clients across the country in developing effective strategies for communicating IT organizational change.

Having gained a national reputation for negotiating complex IT and networking arrangements and helping to lead numerous companies through the merger and acquisition process, Attorney Brad Mondschein serves as Vice President and Corporate Counsel as well as a principal in Nectar’s sister company, akiro Consulting. Before joining the company, Mondschein served in private practice for more than two decades. He was the in-house counsel for Southern New England Telephone Company (now Frontier Communications-Connecticut), and was general counsel to corporate and technology clients across the country. Brad is a graduate of Union College and received his law degree from Western New England University.

Having overseen the implementation of innovative healthcare strategies into clinical and operational workflows for some of North America’s most prestigious healthcare institutions, Teresa DeLappe serves as an Executive Project Officer for Nectar Strategic Consulting and its sister company, VertitechIT.  She has championed the design, marketing, and launch of strategic business, technology, and clinical initiatives for Sutter Health System, Seattle Children’s Hospital, St Charles Healthcare, Airlift Northwest, Harborview Medical Center and Baystate Health System. Teresa’s trademarked strategy “Beyond the Technology Management™ (BTM) encompasses an approach that recognizes that while technology is often the catalyst for change, it is only one of the many tools and influences built into the human aspect of delivering healthcare.