RN

Rick Newell

Chief Transformation Officer at Vituity, CEO at Inflect Health, & CEO at MOOV

San Francisco Bay Area

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Education

Work Experience

2007

  • Chief Transformation Officer

    2017

    As Chief Transformation Officer, Rick is responsible for the development, implementation, and execution of strategies, programs, and technologies that enhance and transform enterprise-wide healthcare delivery. He oversees innovation, startup company investments and partnerships, outpatient & lifestyle medicine, acute psychiatry, neurology, telehealth, payer alignment strategies, consulting, tech partnerships, care coordination, and complex care management. Vituity is a nationwide, multispecialty partnership of top physicians, advanced providers, and industry professionals. Providing a wide range of acute integrated care, Vituity proactively leads positive change in the business and practices of healthcare. Vituity’s footprint continues to rapidly expand as it partners with and supports hospitals, health systems, clinics, payers, and employers.

  • Physician Partner

    2007

  • Chief Executive Officer & Board Member

    2023

    A leader in Lifestyle and Movement Medicine that identifies, researches, leverages and embraces innovative technologies and services to pair them with targeted physician-backed health coaching. MOOV turns traditional healthcare upside down and makes a big promise: we will help you be your best and healthiest version of yourself, moving better, sleeping better, managing your weight better, feeling stronger and just feeling right at every stage of life.

  • Board Member

    2023

    Rely Health is the national leader in care coordination and navigation. Their fabulous navigation platform leverages AI and creates the foundation for their compassionate health navigators to support patients and families through even the most complex healthcare journeys.

2023

  • Board Member

    2023

  • Chief Executive Officer

    2023 - 2024

  • Chief Executive Officer & Chairman of the Board

    2020

    Inflect Health is a nationwide, multispecialty healthcare innovation and investment hub. Owned and led by physicians and healthcare business leaders, we’re agile and robust, with global reach and a startup ethos. At our core, we’re driving seamless connections between health-tech innovators, the capital to bring their ideas to market, and the physicians and patients who rely on these game-changing breakthroughs to deliver high-quality, next-generation care.

2021 - 2023

  • Chief Executive Officer & Chairman of the Board

    2021 - 2023

    Tech enabled care coordination/navigation startup to mitigate social and economic barriers to care by seamlessly guiding patients and families through the healthcare ecosystem to minimize waste, inefficiency, and patient frustration. Healthful’s proprietary patient navigation platform was among the first to leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning to help team members accurately determine the needs and resources for the patients who will benefit most from care navigation. Led Healthful from ideation, to startup creation, through rapid growth cycle, to merger to become Rely Health.

  • Member of the Board of Trustees

    2014 - 2020

2007 - 2017

  • Director of Quality & Performance

    2015 - 2017

  • Board Member

    2013 - 2017

  • CMS Program Director

    2008 - 2016

  • Medical Director - Emergency Department

    2010 - 2014

  • Assistant Medical Director

    2008 - 2009

  • Administrative Fellow

    2007 - 2008

2004 - 2007

  • Emergency Medicine Resident

    2004 - 2007

    Harbor - UCLA Medical Center

2002 - 2003

  • Teaching Fellow

    2003 - 2003

  • Healthcare Management Intern

    2002 - 2003