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The Most Innovative Companies Bringing AI to Healthcare hypertension, joint replacement, and many more. Conversa is poised for growth and adoption, by provider customers, health IT partners, pharma, and payer groups. Enthralling Journey of Conversa Established in 2013, Conversa Health (known as Conversa), and its pioneering technology delivers an advanced automated patient engagement platform to help clinicians manage their relationships with patients. The company’s cloud-based Conversa Conversation Platform augments care management and clinical understanding through deep integration with over 400 biometric devices as well as patients’ electronic health records (EHRs) and other clinical systems. As a result, Conversa’s patient-profile driven technology can help care teams identify and focus on patients who will benefit from extra coaching and assistance. Clients can use the company’s flexible conversation platform for a variety of clinical applications, ranging from post-discharge and medication adherence to marketing. Healthcare providers can also use the solution for wellness, prevention, and lifestyle coaching to provide educational content and insights to foster understanding of disease processes and reduce patient anxiety. In 2017, Conversa embarked on a strategic partnership with Allscripts using its technology to enhance Allscripts’ population health, care management, and patient engagement capabilities—providing Conversa access to Allscripts’ client base of over 2,500 hospitals and healthcare systems. This year, Conversa received top accolades from several industry analysts, including Frost and Sullivan’s Top Patient Engagement Technology Leadership Award. From the industry report: “Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents this award to a company that has developed a pioneering technology that not only enhances current products but also enables the development of new products and applications. The award recognizes the high market acceptance potential of Conversa’s technology. Overall, Conversa’s proven outcomes, ease-of-use, and visionary innovation have resulted in best-in-class patient engagement, remote in- home monitoring, and significant clinical and financial outcomes for its clients, catapulting the company into the market leadership position.” DECEMBER 2018 An Experienced Leader West Shell III, the Co-founder, CEO and Chairman, is a 5-time serial entrepreneur. He is a creative, high-energy leader with a background in strategic marketing and a successful track record of building high growth, innovative companies with passionate employees and committed customers. West co-founded Pacic Marketing Group (PMG), which over eleven years grew to be the largest independent marketing agency on the west coast. As an early Internet pioneer, he also grew Netcentives, an e- marketing leader delivering CRM, loyalty, and email direct marketing solutions. After his success with the aforementioned companies, West then built Sapias, Healthline Networks, before moving on to, Conversa Health, which he co-founded. Client Success Stories Conversa was recently recognized as a Top Patient Relationship Management Solution by Chilmark, and a Top Patient Engagement Solution by IDC Research. Use of Conversa shows“97% of the patients that engage in Conversa’s chat experience on behalf of a hospital partner find the chats helpful.” 19