HoloMD Appoints Veteran Med-Tech Operator Jim Pearson as Executive Chairman

Strategic Insights -

Veteran med-tech operator Jim Pearson has been appointed Executive Chairman of HoloMD, an AI-powered remote therapeutic monitoring (RTM) platform for psychiatry. Pearson, who has a 20-year history with longtime collaborator Joseph ("Joe") Mark, will lead capital formation, customer execution, operational discipline, and team growth at HoloMD. The appointment marks the pair's third partnership building category-defining healthcare companies that have delivered strong investor returns. As Executive Chairman, Pearson will work alongside HoloMD's Founder and CEO, Dr. Bruce Alan Kehr, to scale the company into the leading AI-powered behavioral health platform.

HoloMD's AI-powered platform addresses the significant unmet need in mental health, with millions of patients struggling in silence between appointments and clinicians being overextended. The platform, anchored by Dr. Holo[TM], a virtual psychiatric assistant, provides ongoing, personalized support for patients and visit-ready insights for clinicians, delivered safely and at scale. The AI-powered platform delivers measurable value across the healthcare ecosystem, enhancing outcomes for patients, insight for providers, and efficiency for organizations and payers.

Key Takeaways:

  • HoloMD's AI-powered platform is designed to conduct an initial intake, extend it across 190 empathy-mapped contexts, and continuously monitor care-plan and medication adherence.
  • The platform provides measurable value across the healthcare ecosystem, enhancing outcomes for patients, insight for providers, and efficiency for organizations and payers.
  • Patients receive personalized daily engagement that adapts to each individual, with Dr. Holo learning every patient's goals, symptoms, and barriers from intake onward.
  • Providers receive a between-visit lens on the human behind the symptoms, summarized by AI for review during the clinic visit.
  • Provider Organizations (Owners/Health Systems) can standardize quality at scale with RTM-driven economics, automating intake, adherence tracking, and documentation.
  • Payers & Systems receive actionable intelligence that helps lower total cost of care, identifying risk early, supporting timely intervention, and strengthening adherence to evidence-based treatment plans.

Statistics:

  • 20-year history of taking on hard clinical problems and turning them into scalable businesses that improve patient care (Pearson and Mark's partnership)
  • 190 empathy-mapped contexts supported by HoloMD's AI-powered platform
  • 3 trademarks pending and 7 provisional patents pending related to HoloMD's technology
  • Full HIPAA- and HITECH-compliance
  • Supports Medicare RTM billing

Sources:

  • Business Wire: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251028597093/en/