Kent Dicks

Entrepreneur

Kent E. Dicks is a successful serial entrepreneur and healthcare executive with 30 years of experience providing dynamic and strategic leadership in new and emerging markets. Too often, the word “innovative” is used without the credibility to back it up – but Kent Dicks is a driven leader with the tenacity it takes to get results even in the most challenging environments. While Mr. Dicks has a broad range of experience across several business sectors, he has most recently established himself as one of the true thought leaders in the emerging mHealth (Mobile Health) space. In 2006, Dicks founded MedApps and immersed himself in the world of healthcare technology, specifically dedicating himself to improving telehealth systems which had shown much promise to benefit the chronic care population worldwide, with patient-centered solutions that could also provide relief to an over burdened healthcare system. Although Telehealth demonstrated success in improving patient outcomes, widespread adoption was elusive. The existing technology was expensive and complex – especially for the patient population that typically consumes the most healthcare dollars. Ubiquity of cellular technology with increasingly lower costs inspired Dicks to attack the problem head on by developing more automated and cost-effective remote patient monitoring solutions that could help enable the Medicare and Medicaid populations who need the most help – a notable 20% of the US population that consumes 80% of all healthcare dollars spent.