Meet Kevin Hunter, Theranos Lab Consultant from The Dropout

Meet the Real-Life Kevin Hunter

Theranos Lab Consultant featured on The Dropout Podcast & Hulu Series

The popular Hulu series The Dropout follows the story of Elizabeth Holmes and the unfolding of events regarding her company, Theranos. In episode four of the series, Kevin Hunter is introduced as a lab consultant hired by Walgreens to inspect the validity of the Theranos technology and labs.

Kevin Hunter is the founder and CEO of Colaborate, a laboratory consulting company specializing in independent and hospital-based laboratories. Colaborate has served over 500 institutions across the United States, including major health systems, academic medical centers, hospitals, corporate campuses, clinical laboratories, pathology groups, and more.

About Kevin Hunter

Kevin has over three decades of experience in leading operations improvement efforts at some of the nation's largest health systems and academic medical centers. He has implemented multimillion-dollar laboratories for numerous hospital systems, physician practice management companies, and large physician groups with profit margins more than twice the industry average.

A significant portion of his lab and healthcare work has been completed for hospitals, health systems, and commercial labs in situations in which rapid improvement was critical, and he has provided interim leadership and service in coaching and mentoring roles for many large labs across the country.

Areas of Specialty

Assessments
Implementations
Integrations
Consolidations (core laboratory development)
Outreach Assistance
Interim Management

Accounting
Pricing and Compensation Analysis
Laboratory Information System Analysis
Billing
Compliance

Contact the Lab Consulting Team at Colaborate

If your organization is interested in starting a conversation about how the Colaborate team can guide you to quality improvement and sustainable growth, we would love to chat. Together, we will review systems, workflow, profitability, and other key indicators of laboratory health to create an action plan to improve performance and profitability.

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