TRANSFORMING VALUE IN HEALTHCARE
eLuminate Health understands how healthcare choices are made – and how it can be done better. We are dedicated to improving the value of healthcare and creating a new healthcare experience based on informed choice and simplicity.
Mission
To give every healthcare participant – consumers, providers, and payers – the tools to be more satisfied and successful. We do this by providing timely and relevant information regarding price, quality, and customer satisfaction and by eliminating confusing and ineffective payment processes.
Beliefs
- Healthcare does not operate in a free market fashion because of a lack of transparency. Transparency can be applied to healthcare in a manner that gives every stakeholder the opportunity to be more satisfied and successful.
- Healthcare decisions are unique and personal. Everyone needs quality, customer satisfaction, and pricing information in order to make their own decision - as a purchaser and as a provider.
- Aligned incentives between payers, providers, and consumers improve effectiveness.
- Consumers value and deserve the right to have abundant and informed choices in healthcare.
- The current healthcare ecosystem is unsustainable. This can be addressed by collective support for innovation that may require everyone to change a little, but also gives everyone an equal opportunity to be more successful.
Our People
Tami Hutchison, President and CEO
Tami has more than 25 years of healthcare leadership experience working in executive positions for successful companies such as Cerner Corporation, Tenet Health, Triad Hospitals, and Washington Regional Medical System.
Through each of these senior positions, she navigated some of the provider industry’s largest strategic transitions by utilizing her talent to help others innovate and realize their potential. Realizing that many of the healthcare industry’s problems would not be solved from within, Tami developed a business plan for eLuminate Health in early 2009.
Utilizing a three-year plan, she worked to establish the knowledge, relationships, and funding to drive eLuminate’s mission.
Tami’s dedication to eLuminate Health reflects her passion to simplify the complexities of the healthcare system for the next American generation.
Tami completed her MBA and was named the Outstanding Graduate at the Top 25 Ranked University of Arkansas Walton College of Business in 2009.
Brian Killen, Chief Technology Officer
Brian's highly regarded expertise and skills in the oversight and development of mobile applications, software project management, user interface design, and business intelligence make him an ideal Chief Technology Officer for eLuminate Health's culture of innovation.
As a product innovator with almost 30 years of experience developing and leading engineering teams, Brian works with eLuminate Health’s team to build outstanding software solutions.
Brian developed his experience at major firms such as Boeing and General Dynamics. Later, he took an interest in entrepreneurship and helped develop a wide range of successful B2C and B2B products for upstarts such as Timbuktu, Replica, Netopia Virtual Office, Formula One, Actuate e.Spreadsheet, and BIRT onDemand.
Additionally, in 2008 Brian developed Grocery iQ, a mobile application ranked 7th overall in the Apple App Store after its release.
Brian is a Computer Science graduate of Kansas State University.
Peter Yates, Director, Operations
Peter ensures that eLuminate Health can operate at scale. This includes everything from enrolling new providers and payers to ensuring all of our users receive the support they need to make smart decisions about their care. Prior to joining eLuminate Health, Peter worked for Cerner, a leading EMR company, where he was responsible for business strategy and solution design for several products. Peter attended Princeton University, where he graduated with a BSE in Operations Research and Financial Engineering.
Our Investors
Tami Hutchison, CEO & Founder, eLuminate Health
Tom Debacco, Chairperson
Tom Debacco is co-founder of iModules Software where he served as its President and CEO from 2002 to 2012. Tom is an industry leader and serial entrepreneur having founded two other software companies prior to iModules. He began his software career in 1981 as a sales and marketing executive for Innovative Software and has set up international operations for Innovative Software, Informix Software, and Fox Software. Tom is a graduate of Rockhurst University.
Mark Demetree
Mark is a co-founder and Operating Partner of Silverhawk Capital Partners. Previously, Mark served as Chairman of Texas Petrochemicals, Inc. (TXPI) (2004-2009), was a Director of American Italian Pasta Co. (AIPC) (1998-2010), and was Chairman and CEO of British Salt Holdings, LLC and its affiliate US Salt, LLC. From 2002-2004 he was Chairman and CEO of American Grinding Systems, LLC. From 1993 to 1997 he was President of North American Salt Company, a subsidiary of Compass Minerals, Inc. (CMP). Mark earned his B.S in Industrial Management from Georgia Tech and his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Curtis Krizek
Curtis is Chairman, Managing Director and a founder of Prairie Capital and for more than twenty years has founded and advised successful private equity firms. Prior to forming Prairie Capital, Curtis practiced law for over a decade. Curtis serves, or has served, on the boards of various organizations, including The University of Virginia Jefferson Scholars Foundation Advisory Board, The REACH Healthcare Foundation, and the Kansas State University Foundation. He graduated from Kansas State University with a B.S. in Life Sciences (Honors Program, Phi Kappa Phi), and received a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law
Brian Kaufman
Brian is President, Managing Director and a founder of Prairie Capital and for more than twenty years has founded and advised successful private equity firms. Prior to forming Prairie Capital, Brian practiced law for over a decade. His practice emphasized tax law, securities law, and venture capital. Prior to practicing law, Brian was a certified public accountant who practiced with a Big Six accounting firm. He received a B.S. in Accounting and Business Administration (with Highest Distinction) from the University of Kansas, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.