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Kelsey Hirt

Chief Executive Officer

RHIA

Kelsey Hirt is a healthcare executive with nearly two decades of experience helping health systems and healthcare organizations improve clinical, operational, and financial performance. As Chief Executive Officer of Secondwave Delivery Systems, she leads the organization's vision, growth strategy, and commitment to delivering innovative solutions that strengthen documentation integrity, revenue optimization, quality performance, and value-based care outcomes.

Throughout her career, Kelsey has built a reputation for transforming complex healthcare challenges into scalable solutions that drive measurable results. She has held executive leadership roles across healthcare delivery, revenue cycle management, health information management, consulting, and healthcare technology, leading large-scale operational and financial initiatives for some of the nation's most respected healthcare organizations.

Her experience spans provider and payer environments, giving her a unique perspective on the evolving demands of healthcare reimbursement, compliance, technology, and performance improvement.

Prior to joining Secondwave, Kelsey served in senior leadership positions with Optum, Allina Health, Accuity Delivery Systems, and other healthcare organizations, where she led multidisciplinary teams responsible for revenue cycle optimization, clinical documentation improvement, operational transformation, and technology-enabled performance enhancement.

She is recognized for her ability to build high-performing teams, foster trusted client partnerships, and align strategy with execution to achieve sustainable outcomes. Grounded in a strong foundation in health information management and healthcare operations, Kelsey is passionate about advancing a more connected healthcare ecosystem where clinical documentation, quality improvement, revenue integrity, and value-based care strategies work together to improve both patient and organizational outcomes. Her leadership is driven by a belief that healthcare organizations achieve their greatest success when people, processes, data, and technology are aligned around a shared purpose.

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