Healthcare Innovation Consulting

Transforming Healthcare Through Strategy, Equity, and Experience

Healthcare organizations face unprecedented challenges: rising costs, evolving regulations, changing patient expectations, and the urgent need to advance equity. At Timshel Tarbet Consulting, we partner with healthcare providers, health plans, and mission-driven organizations to design and implement healthcare innovation strategies that improve outcomes, strengthen patient experience, and build organizational resilience.

With decades of executive leadership in healthcare innovation, Human resources, and enterprise risk management, we bring both the strategic insight and the operational expertise to help your organization move from complexity to clarity.

Our Approach to Healthcare Innovation

We believe innovation is not just about technology — it’s about people, equity, and systems working together. Our consulting framework integrates:

Strategic Transformation

Building roadmaps that align your organizational vision with measurable outcomes.

Patient & Member Experience

Leveraging data, feedback, and human-centered design to improve quality ratings and satisfaction.

Health Equity & Inclusion

Embedding equity into every initiative to ensure access and fairness across all communities served.

Operational Excellence

Reducing inefficiencies, breaking down silos, and driving enterprise-wide adoption of best practices.

Proven Impact in Healthcare Innovation

Led by Timshel Tarbet, MBA, our practice is grounded in real-world success at some of the nation’s largest nonprofit health plans:

Providence Health Plan: Spearheaded initiatives to transform healthcare experience for 660,000 members, mitigating ~$57M at risk annually and setting the path to regain CMS 5-star quality ratings.
SCAN Health Plan: Drove +17% membership growth (~40,000 new members) with targeted outreach to diverse communities; strengthened executive team diversity by over 40%.
Cambia Health Solutions: Built an award-winning Ethics & Risk Management program recognized by Ethisphere as one of the “World’s Most Ethical Companies.”