WiserCare Appoints Daniel J. Castillo, MD, MBA as Chief Executive Officer
January 17 2018 - 9:44AM
Business Wire
WiserCare, a leading digital patient decision support platform,
announced today the appointment of Daniel J. Castillo, MD, MBA, as
the company’s CEO. Dr. Castillo joins WiserCare after spending
three years as the Chief Strategy Officer at Evolution Health, a
division of Envision Healthcare, and prior to that, as National
Medical Director of Healthcare Quality Evaluation at the Joint
Commission. Dr. Castillo is also a practicing emergency physician,
currently at NorthShore University Health System in Evanston,
Illinois.
WiserCare’s patient decision support solution helps patients and
their families express their values and preferences, review
personalized risks and benefits of treatment options, prepare for
meetings with clinicians and make personal healthcare decisions. It
helps clinicians better understand their patients’ goals and
preferences, enabling them to have more productive and satisfying
visits. WiserCare’s platform covers the entire patient journey,
from primary and specialty care to advance care planning, and has
improved financial and clinical outcomes with health systems
nationwide. In addition, researchers using WiserCare have submitted
nearly two dozen abstracts and presentations.
“WiserCare’s ability to drive clinical and financial results for
all actors through better treatment decisions made this opportunity
particularly compelling for me,” said Dr. Castillo. “As a
practicing physician, I’ve seen many well-intentioned products that
don’t scale in clinical practice. WiserCare is a rare find –
designed to work for patients and for physicians, reflecting the
way we actually practice.”
Dr. Castillo joins WiserCare at a time of significant momentum.
Last month, the company announced a strategic relationship with
Elsevier, which now offers WiserCare as part of its Patient
Engagement Suite of solutions. “WiserCare has built significant
traction in the market, as patient goals and preferences have
emerged as a critical – and often deciding – factor to consider
when making treatment decisions,” said Ted Meisel, WiserCare’s
co-founder and executive chairman. “As we work with key leaders at
health systems, health plans and other solutions companies to
increase access to the personalized guidance that WiserCare
provides, Daniel’s strong network, deep expertise in population
health and quality, and experience in driving growth will prove
instrumental to our continued success.”
About WiserCare
WiserCare’s patient decision support platform uses a
patented intelligent agent to analyze a patient's clinical
situation, goals, preferences and barriers to provide personalized,
evidence-based guidance on what treatments fit best. This equips
patients and physicians with new insight in advance of the visit,
and helps them make smarter, more confident decisions in less time.
The company works with health systems across the U.S. to improve
clinical and financial outcomes by increasing the quality of
treatment decisions at scale.
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