Dr. Brad Diephuis, MD, MBA, is a primary care physician and Chief Business Officer at Thyme Care, a value-based oncology management platform. In this role, he focuses on the company’s go-to-market strategies including commercial growth, corporate development and new strategic initiatives. Before joining Thyme Care, Brad served as a Senior Advisor at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), where he helped lead the development of Medicare’s vision for future total cost of care alternative payment models. Previously, Brad served as Co-Founder and CEO of Herald Health, an early stage health IT startup developing customizable clinical alerting solutions, and later as Associate Vice President for Healthcare and Life Sciences at Persistent Systems, a large IT vendor that acquired Herald Health. Dr. Diephuis is clinically trained in internal medicine from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and has received an BA/MS in electrical engineering and computer science, and an MD/MBA degree from Harvard University. Brad maintains a small primary care practice in Boston, MA.
As a primary care physician and cancer survivor, I’ve seen and experienced the physical and emotional toll the disease takes on patients and caregivers. Fortunately, great progress has been made on the clinical front, and cancer death rates are declining; yet, the financial toll of this disease keeps growing. Cancer care costs have risen from […]