Arbital Health names Robert
Stewart as Chief Technology Officer, leveraging his
extensive experience in data-intensive health technology platforms.
Stewart's immediate focus includes leading the development of
adjudication for Medicare Advantage full-risk value-based care
contracts, driving immediate accleration and success of value-based
care.
SAN
FRANCISCO, April 26, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ --
R&D Leader and software architect with more than three decades
of experience designing, developing, and deploying data-intensive
health applications leveraging machine learning.
"My goal at Arbital is to continue building
the Arbital Health Adjudication Platform to establish the neutral
third-party platform for value-based care contract adjudication,"
said Robert Stewart, CTO of Arbital
Health.
Arbital Health, a technology company focused on accelerating the
healthcare industry's transition to value-based care, today
announced the appointment of Robert
Stewart as the company's first Chief Technology Officer.
Stewart brings a wealth of experience to Arbital having
successfully managed large, distributed engineering teams and
delivered complex products to production. His experience includes
building and scaling large-scale software and data platforms for
multiple healthcare and technology organizations.
"We are extremely pleased to add Robert to the company's
executive team," said Brian M.
Overstreet, President & CEO of Arbital Health. "He is a
proven leader and technology visionary who is passionate about
making a difference through delivering better healthcare. Robert
has the experience and track record to build an exceptional
engineering team and execute our product roadmap."
Stewart possesses an extensive skill set in healthcare
information technology (HIT), technical recruiting, and data
science. He comes to Arbital from apree health (formerly Castlight
Health) where he served in various positions over thirteen years
including CTO, Chief Architect, and VP, Engineering.
He is an innovator in the field having led the engineering teams
that built Castlight Action, the first-in-the-industry healthcare
personalization engine to use claims and demographics data,
surveys, and application activity data to identify and predict
medical conditions for individuals and then deliver timely,
meaningful, personalized recommendations.
"My goal at Arbital is to continue building the Arbital Health
Adjudication Platform to establish the neutral third-party platform
for value-based care contract adjudication. I've seen in my prior
roles how difficult it is to properly design and adjudicate
value-based care contracts. I believe that what we are building at
Arbital Health will become a critical part of ensuring the success
of the U.S. healthcare system," Stewart said.
Some of the immediate key initiatives Stewart will lead at
Arbital include the next product release focused on
interim-adjudication for Medicare Advantage full-risk value-based
care contracts. The launch of this product feature enables
providers to assess contract performance on a monthly or quarterly
basis, providing the insights required to optimize their
value-based care strategies immediately resulting in major
financial savings and improved outcomes.
Stewart served in a variety of technical positions with Avaya,
Lucent, Voxify, Mosaix, and ViewStar. He earned a degree in Physics
at Rice University and studied
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin.
About Arbital Health
Arbital Health's vision is to become the neutral third-party
adjudicator of outcomes-based contracts, unlocking and accelerating
the $1 trillion shift to value-based
care in the U.S. healthcare system. We aspire to be the trusted
umpire adjudicating every outcome-based contract in healthcare,
whether contracts are between life sciences companies and payers,
payers and providers, or employers and digital health companies. We
will make it simple to adjudicate contracts and unlock the
trillion-dollar shift to value-based care. In doing so, we will
help to solve healthcare's biggest problem. For more information,
and to explore career opportunities available, visit Arbital Health
at https://www.arbitalhealth.com or follow on LinkedIn.
Arbital Health, co-founded by Travis
May and Brian Overstreet,
launched in November 2023 and
recently announced its $10M Series A
Financing Round and the acquisition of Santa Barbara Actuaries.
Media Contact
Jesica Freeman, Arbital Health, 1
858 229-9357, press@arbitalhealth.com
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