About Breakthrough Healthcare
Who We Are
Breakthrough Healthcare provides clinical registry services, clinical dataset and measures development, program and service design, and organizational strategy services. Our clients include nonprofit medical societies, healthcare membership associations, government agencies, and data-driven healthcare enterprises.
Who We Serve
Medical Societies & Healthcare Associations
Our solutions for healthcare associations leverage expertise and direct experience as medical society and healthcare association consultants and employees. Our team specializes in patient registries, quality measurement, research, technology, and education programs.
Patient Advocacy Organizations
With experience in nonprofit strategy, clinical program design, and technology, our team is positioned to deliver success to your advocacy organization and meet your community’s needs.
Healthcare Enterprises
Expertise in policy, quality, education, and technology informs our healthcare solutions, with consulting services that serve organizations from startup ventures, to government agencies, to Fortune 500 healthcare enterprises.
Leadership
Sam Walters, MBA, CAE
President
In his 20-year career, Sam has worked across diverse healthcare organizations in the domains of clinical registries, quality measurement and improvement, research, technology, clinical guidelines, marketing, and organizational strategy. He has worked as both an employee and consultant to over 25 healthcare organizations, including medical societies, healthcare technology and analytics providers, accreditation organizations, health systems, government agencies, and patient advocacy foundations. His diverse skillset includes strategic and business planning, market research, patient registry and clinical dataset design, quality measure design, quality improvement program design, digital product development, research program development, data analytics, corporate relations, and business process improvement.
In addition to his role leading Breakthrough, he is also a co-founder of The Quality Collaborative, a peer-to-peer community and educational platform for healthcare quality professionals.