Improving Healthcare Starts With Understanding What Works—and Why It Falls Short

ReImagine Healthcare exists to strengthen healthcare systems by aligning insight, incentives, and lived experience.

We believe healthcare is filled with capable professionals, effective tools, and genuine progress. At the same time, even strong systems can struggle when incentives misalign, information fragments, and complexity outpaces coordination.

Our work is not about replacing healthcare—it’s about helping it function better.

Our Starting Point

Many things in modern healthcare work well:

  • Advanced diagnostics and imaging
  • Skilled specialists and dedicated clinicians
  • Life-saving acute and surgical care
  • Growing scientific understanding of pain, metabolism, and chronic disease

Yet for millions of people living with chronic pain and complex illness, these strengths don’t always translate into sustained improvement.

Why?

Because the challenges are rarely clinical alone. They are:

  • Structural
  • Incentive-driven
  • Informational
  • Coordinational

ReImagine Healthcare was founded to work in this space—between what we know and what we consistently deliver.

A Bridge Between Experience, Evidence, and Strategy


We operate at the intersection of:

  • Lived patient experience
  • Emerging scientific evidence
  • Healthcare economics and incentives
  • Policy and system-level decision making

Rather than advocating against the system, we focus on making the system more intelligible to itself.

That requires:

  • Better translation of science
  • Better visibility into real-world outcomes
  • Better alignment between prevention, treatment, and reimbursement

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How Our Work Creates Leverage for Systemic Improvement

Our initiatives are designed as listening and learning platforms, not isolated services. Each one generates insight that informs higher-level strategy and reform.

Pain Science & Health Education

For consumers, clinicians, and health leaders
We translate modern pain science, neuroscience, and metabolic health research into accessible, practical understanding.
This work supports what already works in healthcare by:
Improving communication between patients and providers
Reducing unnecessary fear, imaging, and interventions
Supporting evidence-based, conservative care when appropriate
Why it matters systemically:
Shared understanding improves decision quality across the system—from clinic visits to coverage policies.

Chronic Pain & Complex Illness Community Networks

For individuals navigating long-term conditions
These communities provide connection and support, while also helping us observe how healthcare functions in real life.
We learn where:
Care coordination succeeds—and where it breaks down
Specialty care is accessible—and where delays cause harm
Insurance policies support recovery—or create friction
Why it matters systemically:
This creates grounded insight that complements clinical trials and claims data, helping leaders see how policies play out beyond spreadsheets.

Prevention & Metabolic Health Education

For individuals and organizations focused on long-term outcomes

Healthcare excels at crisis response. Prevention, however, often falls between silos.

We focus on:
Metabolic and lifestyle factors that influence pain and chronic disease

Education that supports resilience and recovery
Practical prevention strategies that complement—not replace—clinical care

Why it matters systemically:
Prevention strengthens existing care models by reducing downstream burden and cost.

Education for Informed Healthcare Consumers

For people who want to engage healthcare thoughtfully

We help individuals understand:

Treatment tradeoffs
Incentive structures
When escalation helps—and when it doesn’t
This does not undermine care. It supports better collaboration between patients and clinicians.

Why it matters systemically:

Informed demand improves system performance without mandates or regulation.

From Programs to Strategy

ReImagine Healthcare does not view these efforts as endpoints.

Together, they allow us to:

  • Identify where systems already perform well
  • Surface where structural friction undermines outcomes
  • Translate lived experience into strategic insight
  • Convene informed conversations across sectors

This is how incremental improvement becomes durable change.

A Sustainable Model for Independent Insight

We believe that credible system analysis requires independence.

To support this work, ReImagine Healthcare is building an earned-revenue model that includes:

  • A premium healthcare strategy and insight newsletter
  • Ethical sponsorships aligned with thoughtful partners
  • Educational licensing and executive briefings
  • Curated conferences for leaders across healthcare

This approach allows us to:

  • Remain constructive rather than adversarial
  • Engage decision-makers as collaborators
  • Scale insight without compromising mission

Who We Work With

Our work serves and engages:

  • Individuals navigating complex health decisions
  • Clinicians seeking better alignment between care and outcomes
  • Employers managing rising healthcare costs
  • Funders interested in pragmatic, system-level improvement
  • Leaders who value nuance, evidence, and long-term thinking

Our Guiding Principle

Healthcare doesn’t need to be torn down to be improved.

It needs:

  • Clearer feedback loops
  • Better-aligned incentives
  • Broader access to understanding
  • Spaces where experience, science, and strategy can meet

ReImagine Healthcare exists to help build those bridges.

Our Partners

ElevenLabs Impact Program

We are grateful to be part of the ElevenLabs Impact program and using their exceptional technology to help our community.

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Phoenix, OR

Call Us

+1 541 622 2102

Email Us

director@reimagine-healthcare.org