Becker's Healthcare February 8, 2025
It’s been one year since Minneapolis-based Allina Health shifted around 2,000 IT and revenue cycle employees to Optum, UnitedHealth Group’s healthcare services arm, to enhance AI, automation, and the patient digital experience — a transition that Allina Health’s CFO Doug Watson told Becker’s CFO+Revenue Cycle podcast is going “remarkably well.”
“That has been part of a strategy to understand how we can get the best opportunities to be able to pilot and test things as they are coming along, but to do it in an environment where we’ve got the right expertise and are able to scale as we need to,” Mr. Watson said.
Mr. Watson was named permanent CFO in May 2024 after serving in an interim capacity since...