Peter Strecker’s healthcare story began in high school. With exposure to pre-hospital care as an EMT in his late teens, Peter ultimately chose nursing school and gained invaluable experience in critical care and ED nursing. However, it wasn’t long before Peter’s passion for improving healthcare access led him beyond the bedside.
Clinical Program Manager, Caregility
As an educator, Peter quickly realized he could have a greater impact by helping other nurses provide better care. “On a unit, I could impact a handful of patients,” Peter recalls. “But in education, I was teaching hundreds of nurses across the country how to provide better care for their patients.” This shift from direct patient care ignited a passion to improve access to the best possible care for as many patients as possible.
That passion evolved to virtual care about 10 years ago. Leveraging experience from roles with both vendors and health systems, Peter helps healthcare systems develop, implement and ultimately drive adoption of their virtual care strategy. “I love that every day I get to use technology to improve access to quality care for patients, anywhere, anytime.”
As the newest Clinical Program Manager at Caregility, Peter supports integrating virtual care into hospital workflows with a focus on leveraging the Control Hub to monitor and quantify the benefits of the Caregility Cloud™ virtual care platform. Drawing on his clinical background and experience in business development and healthcare IT working with many of the top health systems in the nation, Peter brings a unique perspective to his role.
Peter emphasizes that “patients want to see clinicians and clinicians want to see patients. The more conveniently we can facilitate that connection, the more likely we are to achieve successful and sustainable adoption.”
Looking ahead, Peter envisions a healthcare landscape that continues to move beyond the hospital walls to offer patients and care teams more flexibility.
“As reimbursement models and incentives continue to evolve, healthcare will naturally gravitate to providing the right level of care to the right patients at the right time.”
– Peter Strecker
Peter sees a future where care is delivered more efficiently and conveniently outside of the 4 walls of a healthcare facility in 8-minute appointment blocks. “With the explosion of chronic health issues, particularly in the US, wellness is largely about human behavior and helping individuals make better choices,” Peter notes. “While AI and ML improve by leaps and bounds every day, comforting patients and families, changing behaviors, and reinforcing long-term accountability will largely rely on human interactions for the foreseeable future.”
For healthcare organizations looking to implement virtual care programs, Peter offers practical advice. First and foremost, he emphasizes the importance of having stakeholders clearly define and articulate the problems they want to address. From there, robust ideation led by those stakeholders and end users will yield the most sustainable results. Peter also encourages organizations to be open to leveraging outside expertise.
Demonstrating meaningful outcomes—clinically, operationally, and financially—is critical; establishing benchmarks and baselines to measure success is essential. Develop a solid plan and strategy that meets those explicit objectives and goals.
In a field as dynamic and complex as virtual care, credibility is paramount and something Peter takes very seriously. Peter’s lifelong dedication to healthcare—from EMS to bedside nursing to being a trusted guide, helping navigate the evolving landscape of virtual care—is a testament to Peter’s commitment to bringing positive change in healthcare.
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