Build in Healthcare

This should be a golden era of human health and healthcare services. 

 Modern technological possibilities and scientific knowledge are seemingly limitless.  Yet, complexity, institutional inertia, and the difficulty of change in healthcare companies, large and small, holds us back. 

You know your healthcare organization can offer so much more to your patients, clients, and stakeholders.  

You just don't have all the clinical innovation and transformation expertise you need.  You need a trusted partner to help you help your frontline clinical and operational teams adapt to new technologies, incorporate new ways of using data, AI, and new models of care delivery to produce even better outcomes for your patients and institutional stakeholders.

You need an experienced clinician creative. 

A leading healthcare innovation studio and consulting firm

 working with clients of all stages and sizes

Our team bestowed the name “Papa O'Brien'' because of Dr. O’Brien’s genuine engagement, authenticity, and curiosity he had with our project and team! 


Jhonatan M. Nagasako; Co-Founder of Emma's Story, Winner of Yale CBIT 2023 Health Hackathon

Dr. Michael O’Brien is a wealth of knowledge and exceptionally brilliant at anything healthcare. I always walk away learning something new from our conversations.

Dr. Fawwaz Haq; Strategy Director Whole Health Technology, Elevance Health

 Dr. O'Brien was one of our most engaged, supportive, and enthusiastic SMEs supporting technologists, start-up founders, and investors ... He's continued to be a voice of clarity.

Amy Story, PA; Founder, Humans in Healthcare; Program Director at OnDeck Health

Supporting Healthcare Innovation Across the Ecosystem 

Learn how we can help your healthcare company or care delivery system remain competitive in this rapidly changing time

Learn how we can help your start-up or technology company break through the complexity of healthcare

 Your healthtech start-up needs clinical leadership, but is not ready for a full c-suite hire.  Learn about our Fractional CMO Services

Learn about our protfolio companies and in-house start-up creation process

A Clinician Creative

Michael R. O'Brien, MD, is a Yale-trained physician executive with a unique background spanning non-profits, academic health systems, private practice, Fortune 500 corporations, and start-ups. 

He revitalizes care delivery models for a value-based world, creates and implements new technology and data systems for clinical operations, trains frontline clinical staff, and delivers improved patient and institutional outcomes.