richard uptonFor the past 16 years, Richard "Dick" Upton has served as founder and management lead at UPTONGROUP, a strategy and business development advisory firm focused on creating innovative growth opportunities and differentiated market positions for its clients.
Having spent a significant portion of his career in executive management positions with two of the most acclaimed advertising agencies in the country, Dick formed UPTONGROUP to focus his time, experiences and insights on helping "time-famished" management teams achieve greater institutional productivity, market differentiation and enterprise profitability. As a contributing author on matters of strategy, technology, communications and organizational change-management within the healthcare and legal sectors, Dick's articles have appeared in numerous media outlets including Forbes, EDGE International Review, Group Practice Journal - American Medical Group Association, Yahoo.com, Managed Healthcare News, Hospital & Health Networks, Healthcare Marketing Abstracts, KevinMD.com, Legal IT-International and Law360. A recent member of HIMSS Value of Provider-Patient Engagement Task Force and Patient Generated Health Data Task Force - Upton formerly served on the Technical Expert Panel (TEP) for Patient Generated Health Data (PGHD) established by the National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) in support of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). |