In this episode Heather interviews healthcare maven Jamey Edwards, CEO of Cloudbreak Health, a unified telemedicine company.
Tune-in to hear their conversation on:
#HumanizeHealthcare: Jamey's work with Cloudbreak to create disparity solutions with the goal of ensuring health equity for underserved patients.
Entrepreneurial ADD: What led Jamey to the healthcare industry and his thoughts on navigating the challenges of healthcare entrepreneurship.
Why not me?: Jamey's advice for entrepreneurs to focus on the 1 or 2 reasons something will work versus the 100's of why it won't work.
#Pinksocks: Why he wears them and the important connections they help create.
To connect with Jamey:
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jameyedwards/
Twitter - @jameyedwards
Cloudbreak
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Jamey Edwards
James “Jamey” Bradley Edwards
Co-Founder & CEO
Cloudbreak Health, LLC (www.cloudbreak.us)
Father | Husband | Founder
As the CEO of Cloudbreak Health (“Cloudbreak”), Jamey is on a mission to #HumanizeHealthcare. Cloudbreak is a healthcare solutions innovator delivering over 1 million telemedicine encounters per year to over 1,200 healthcare facilities nationwide over Cloudbreak Connect, a private path broadband network optimized for secure and high-quality healthcare collaboration. It’s novel approach to unified telemedicine has been recognized with a Patrick Soon Shiong Innovation Award and the Company acknowledged as one of the top entrepreneurial companies (#25) in the nation by Entrepreneur Magazine and as a finalist for the E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year Awards. Cloudbreak’s has also been recognized as a best video conferencing solution and best overall medtech software by MedTech Breakthrough and as a finalist in the telemedicine category for the UCSF Digital Health Awards.
Prior to Co-founding Cloudbreak, Jamey was the CEO of Emergent Medical Associates (www.ema.us), a multi-specialty medical group in the Southwest providing ER, Hospitalist and Anesthesia services. During his tenure at EMA, EMA grew into an industry leader serving almost 1 million patients per year at over 40 programs in multiple states. EMA was honored as a 4x Inc. 500 | 5000 Company, a 2x finalist for Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year & named 2x to Modern Healthcare Hottest companies list. He remains with EMA as a Board Member responsible for M&A and strategy.
Prior to EMA, he was a member of the Investment Banking Division of Lehman Brothers. Based in New York, he consummated transactions totaling more than $8 billion for leading companies including dj Orthopedics, InterActive Corp, Greenfield Online, Premier Retail Networks, Six Flags, Viasystems, YouBet.com, Sirius Satellite Radio and Google. While at Lehman, he served as captain of the Cornell Recruiting Team and on the firm’s Global Advisory Council.
Prior to joining Lehman Brothers, Mr. Edwards served as a Fund Manager for BR Venture Fund (www.brventurefund.com), the seed stage venture capital fund for Cornell University. Before BR Venture Fund, Mr. Edwards was the Director of Business Development for VirtualTourist.com (www.virtualtourist.com), an award winning online travel community solution provider and leader in collaborative social networking and user generated content. Prior to VirtualTourist, Mr. Edwards was an Associate with Caltius Mezzanine Partners where he evaluated potential investment opportunities, and an Analyst with U.S. Bancorp Libra, a boutique investment bank focused on the middle market.
Mr. Edwards has been a speaker for the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference, National Association of Seed and Venture Funds, Entrepreneurship @ Cornell, the Southwest Telemedicine Resource Center, the AICPA and the Connect. Communicate. Care. Conference.
Jamey is a Health Transformer for Startup Health, one of the leading healthcare incubator/accelerator’s in the country and was recognized as one of the top 40 health transformers nationwide by MM&M Magazine. He also was recognized as a Change Maker nationally by HIMSS in 2019. He is a proud member of the #pinksocks tribe of innovators looking to improve our nations healthcare system (www.pinksocks.life).
Mr. Edwards graduated a Tradition Fellow from Cornell University in 1996 and received his MBA from Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management in 2003. He is a member of the Cornell University Council and is also an alumni of the Design Thinking Bootcamp at Stanford University’s d.school.
Mr. Edwards is currently Chapter Chair of the Santa Monica Bay Chapter of YPO and serves on the board of the American Red Cross of Los Angeles and the Partners in Care Foundation as well as on the Executive Leadership Team for the American Heart Association. Mr. Edwards is also an angel investor and mentor to startup companies, a co-founder of Noll Surfboards (www.nollsurfboards.com) and a Principal with Avanti Hospitals, LLC (www.avantihospitals.com).
Mavens Do It Better original theme music composed by Jesse Case with voice over by Julia Francis.