Meet the Team

 

 
 

 

About Us

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We are all owners. Our staff treats the business as if it was theirs, because it is.

We believe in ourselves, enough to do our own thing: to own our autonomy, to own our freedom, to own our future, and most importantly to own our role as inspiration to you and your team to own YOUR greatness as leaders in healthcare IT.

That’s Downshift.

 

 

Our Core Principles

Experience is the foundation of our confidence.We have great foresight because we pause, reflect on, and capture hindsight.We take the long-view.When we get the answer, we hang up the phone.We have chops when it comes to deconstruction of problems a…
We go fast with mindful urgency.We excite our co-workers to achieve.We are balanced; our calm is contagious.We tell the truth even when it hurts; we bill only what we work.We are supportive and empathetic in our language, particularly when written.W…
 

 

Our Leadership

 
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C.J. Duax, Founder & President - A thought leader in the Epic population health space who wrote the software giant’s original white paper on the Medical Home and meeting NCQA requirements (in total the foundational analysis and recommendation package that would become Epic’s Healthy Planet), C.J. has contributed to Epic’s continued population health evolution for the better part of the last decade. He oversaw the first-ever Healthy Planet and Payer Platform implementations at the foremost healthcare organization in the world.

With a knack for appropriate communication styles at all levels of the HIT and operational hierarchy, a deeply technical & broad Epic knowledge base, and a passion for transforming healthcare and inspiring teams to do the same, he brings unsurpassed value to engagements and a singular voice of authority to Downshift.

 
 

 

Our Approach

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We understand the challenges that executives and physicians face on a day-to-day basis.

We work with you to create and enhance productive work environments to achieve ambitious goals.

High quality, leadership-driven, organization-specific solutions are still the best answer for the world’s top providers and payers.

You’ve got a vision? We’ll help you execute it.

 

 

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