Driving Better Health Through Strategic Communications Heather Vee February 23, 2026
From Insight to Action Advocacy

Progress takes discipline, and a shared commitment to something greater than you. Strategic communications via advocacy bring those ideas to life. I focus on advancing healthcare communities—ensuring that communication and technology translate into clearer decisions, stronger systems, and better outcomes for the people they serve.

Jennifer C. George

Elevate Your Voice to Improve Healthcare

Create

Turn data into evidence that supports action and policy

Align

Build actionable stories for stakeholders.

Build Data

Turn data into evidence that supports action and policy

Unify Voices

Turning individual perspectives into a unified direction that moves as one.

Make it Visible

Share broadly to make the solution's impact known and drive change. 

20+ years of experience in web design, graphic design, motion design, production
Heather Rhine
Digital Design Maven

Expert at creating innovative branding, ads, and animations for startups to SMB, Kaiser Permanente, and Stryker, blending storytelling with high-impact visual execution.
Amazon Web Services

James Weaver AWS & Cloud Software Engineering Leader
Expert in building and leading custom solution development across AI-driven platforms, SaaS architectures, and scalable cloud systems.

Poplar Access Advisors

Ali Samiian, JD, MBA, MSc
Medtech, Biotech, Diagnostics market access expert with 20+ years of leadership across global markets [Abbott, Cala Health, Novartis etc]. Covers clinical evidence, payers, policy, and commercial strategy.

25+ years of experience
Bronwy Communications

Bronwyn Saglimbeni
Communication, PR & Speaker

Highly respected leader and motivational speaker who has shaped over 150 TEDx, TEDGlobal, and TED Talks. Recognized for transforming complex ideas into stories that resonate.

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20+ years of experience

Brian Careway
Design and Illustration
Incredible creative design partner with experience in healthtech, medical devices, and SaaS. Always thinking one step ahead, translating complexity into clear, compelling visual systems.

20+ years of experience. Medical, Health, Tech including Intuit.

Lena Cuartas-Ward
Creative Director

20+ years of building brands for Fortune 500 and start-ups. Digital, ads, brand strategy, guides, buyer journey, through design-led thinking, and high-impact creative execution.

CEO of Eminence Clinical Research

Kelly Elliott, RN, MS & CEO of Eminence Clinical Research

Leader in the healthcare research field. Kelly has 40+ years of guiding medical device and diagnostics companies through trials and regulatory pathways. Read more about her impact.
See research page. 

U.C. Santa Barbara film school graduate
Mad Rocket Films

Sean Skelton, Video Storytelling
[based in Los Angeles]

Deep expertise in film and video production. Works within B2B and consumer spaces.  Expert at script development, production, and execution, with an emphasis on simplicity.

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A Shift in Thinking

About a decade ago, I began to rethink what scale actually means. Traditional communication strategies weren’t built for the systemic change happening in healthcare, so I asked a different question: what if communication were driven by data, aligned with industry forces, and designed to shift market framing? Could it accelerate platform adoption, improve workflows, enhance safety, and lower costs?

At the time, the HITECH Act (2009, with major adoption between 2010–2015) was driving rapid investment in electronic medical records, alongside a growing emphasis on interoperability. The opportunity wasn’t to communicate more, but to communicate differently, grounded in data and built to influence real-world adoption and outcomes.

It raised a few questions:
1. What if the path to adoption wasn’t just through sales but through legislation, policy, and shared frameworks? 

2. Could data or product insights be used to drive or develop this level of messaging? Could they contribute to discussions in Sacramento or Washington, shaping how value is understood at scale?

Over time, what became clear is that in the healthcare ecosystem, advocacy matters.

The systems are complex. The communities are complex. If we want stronger, more connected care, we have to be willing to bring forward a cohesive story: grounded in data and carried into where decisions are made.

With the rise of AI and many companies looking to remove humans from clinical decision-making, this conversation matters more than ever.

Nurse in PP# Ad

Vocera / Stryker - 2021

Clinical Nursing Burnout

I built the digital experiences that brought leading healthcare systems into a focused conversation on clinician burnout, safety, and workload—capturing and elevating the realities faced by nursing teams and care staff.

Those stories were then translated into materials used in discussions with legislators, connecting frontline conditions to policy-level decision-making. What this work enabled:

Aligned with Legislative Funding Priorities
Identified where investment was being directed toward technologies that reduce nursing burden, including communication and voice solutions.

Supported Legislative Awareness and Momentum
Contributed to advocacy efforts aligned with national focus on clinician well-being, including discussions that informed legislation such as the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act (2022).

Impact Gallery

I used research to shape positioning and extend it to strategic conversations.

Peer-reviewed studies, earned media such as Modern Healthcare, and product storytelling are building blocks, bringing forward the voices of healthcare leaders and reinforcing the importance of communication in advocacy.

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