Nashville Technology Council

Christopher Parks, Co-Founder and CEO, established change:healthcare in 2006. Parks’ career spans more than twenty years in healthcare, sales, operations and consulting. His first position was a Program Manager for disease management firm Healthways, where he led the launch and management of two inpatient/outpatient hospital-based chronic disease clinics. Four years later, he became a senior consultant at HealthCare Microsystems, responsible for the company’s business with HCA. Then, as Regional Director of Operations for National Seating & Mobility, he increased same store sales and total market revenues and oversaw the Kaiser southern California seating & positioning capitated agreement. His most recent position was with Global Healthcare Exchange (previously Neoforma), a billion dollar healthcare technology and services organization, where he held a series of national services and sales positions. 

He is a graduate of Middle Tennessee State University and in 2008 was named by the Nashville Business Journal as one of four top healthcare innovators in Middle Tennessee.