The New York healthtech behind Teamwrks - AI that helps hospitals improve their margins without cutting a single staff role.
The Teamwrks wordmark - RV Healthcare Solutions' flagship platform, photographed on the company's signature navy.
What the company does
RV Healthcare Solutions - known corporately as RVH Solutions - sells a single idea to American and British hospitals: you are already good at running efficiently, some of the time. The job of its software is to find those good days and make them ordinary.
The company operates Teamwrks, an artificial-intelligence and machine-learning suite built for hospitals, health systems, academic medical centers and skilled nursing facilities. It ingests operational data most hospitals already collect but rarely use, then converts it into department-level targets, root-cause diagnostics and frontline workflows.
What separates the pitch from the crowded field of healthcare dashboards is a deliberate refusal: RVH does not sell layoffs. Where many cost-cutting vendors begin by asking which roles to eliminate, RVH's entire value proposition is improving financial and quality performance without reducing labor or risking patient outcomes.
The platform benchmarks a hospital against its own internal standards rather than a national average that ignores its case mix and geography. A department head does not see how they compare to a hospital two states away - they see how this Tuesday compares to their own best Tuesday, and exactly which lever moved the number.
Speed is the other differentiator RVH leans on. The company says Teamwrks can go from an initial data request to a full-system command center in about 72 hours - a striking claim in an industry where enterprise software rollouts are usually measured in quarters.
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Products & services
Teamwrks is not a single dashboard but a set of modules that share one data layer - each aimed at a different person in the hospital, from the frontline nurse to the executive floor.
Operational workflow optimization and rapid process redesign tools built for non-technical staff to use directly.
A centralized department command platform where leaders and staff see their targets and live performance in one place.
An organization-wide dashboard for monitoring performance metrics and steering initiatives across the whole system.
A team-coordination tool that keeps the frontline aligned around the day's targets and priorities.
An evaluation and staff-performance system that feeds real-time data back into the rest of the suite.
A services layer built on a proprietary Operational Efficiency Diagnostic covering 100+ areas of hospital performance.
Expertise, by weight
A rough read of the company's stated specialties and platform emphasis. Bars are illustrative of focus, not audited metrics.
Customers & market position
The customers. Hospitals, health systems, academic medical centers and skilled nursing facilities across the United States and United Kingdom. Named clients include Doylestown Health, Emerson Hospital, Inspira Health Network and Richmond University Medical Center. Predecessor programs served more than 300 hospital systems.
The problem it solves. Hospital margins are under sustained pressure, yet most operational data sits unused. RVH's answer is translation - turning that data into a single, specific next action for the person who can act on it, without the political fight of headcount cuts.
The competition. RVH sits among hospital operations and workforce-analytics vendors - Strata Decision Technology, Syntellis, Premier Inc., LeanTaaS and Hospital IQ - as well as traditional performance-improvement consultancies such as Huron and Kaufman Hall.
The twist. Its largest backer, Vizient, is also one of the biggest names in the same performance-improvement market. RVH turned a potential rival into an investor and a distribution channel in a single 2021 deal.
Business model & history
RVH runs a B2B SaaS-plus-services model: the Teamwrks suite is sold to health systems, usually bundled with an operational-efficiency diagnostic and a fast implementation, and priced against measurable returns. The company cites 10-to-1 or greater returns, and its predecessor program reported returning an average of roughly 9% of revenue annually to hospitals' bottom lines.
Charlie Dawson launches the consulting and software firm focused on hospital labor and operational efficiency.
In January 2016 the firm becomes RV Healthcare Analytics; Jason Palmer joins as President.
RVH starts enhancing Vizient's Workforce Solutions offerings for member hospitals.
A strategic funding round funds expansion of the Teamwrks platform across US and UK health systems.
The people & the numbers
Jason Palmer - a business leader with roughly 20 years of experience and a J.D. from UCLA Law School, CEO since taking the helm of the company's leadership.
Grew out of Workforce Prescriptions, founded by Charlie Dawson (2005), with co-founder Dean Kristiniak. Chaired by Rizk Ventures founder Tom Rizk.
570 Lexington Ave, Suite 2600, New York, NY 10022 · +1 212-980-0100
11-50 employees. Backed by Rizk Ventures and a Vizient-led Series B. Estimated annual revenue around $11M.
Frequently asked
It builds Teamwrks, an AI- and machine-learning-driven suite that helps hospitals improve financial and quality performance by turning operational data into department-level targets, insights and workflows - without reducing staff.
Teamwrks is RVH's flagship platform, bundling modules including Workflow, Home Base, Command and Control, Staff Huddle and eVal into one system that can deploy from data request to command center in as little as 72 hours.
It is backed by Rizk Ventures, which acquired the predecessor company in 2016, and by Vizient, which led a strategic Series B round in July 2021 and partners on distribution to member hospitals.
Jason Palmer is CEO. The company grew out of Workforce Prescriptions, founded by Charlie Dawson with co-founder Dean Kristiniak, and is chaired by Rizk Ventures founder Tom Rizk.
Its headquarters is at 570 Lexington Ave, Suite 2600, New York, NY 10022, and it serves hospitals across the United States and United Kingdom.
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Compiled from public sources. Figures such as return multiples and hospital counts are company-stated and approximate.