I'm Bob Holzer. I spent 30+ years in healthcare IT, mostly at HCSC (Blue Cross Blue Shield), where I built teams and practices that didn't exist before I got there. Now I'm building my own ventures through Next Horizon Innovations LLC.
I've spent my career seeing what organizations need before they know they need it, then making the case to leadership and building it.
Taking 30 years of enterprise experience and putting it into products that solve real problems in healthcare, personal safety, and enterprise innovation.
Strategic thinking, technical depth, 21 years of healthcare payer knowledge, and the track record of actually building the things I talk about.
Innovation pipelines, responsible AI governance, generative AI adoption, and technology experiments. I don't just evaluate tech, I run the pilots.
Three-year plans, tech radars, delivery roadmaps, and the work of turning a C-suite vision into something teams can actually execute against.
Solution, data, and information architecture across multi-plan healthcare organizations. I built the EA practice at HCSC from scratch.
Data platforms, data governance, synthetic data, and the data foundations that make AI work. I led the original big data strategy at HCSC.
21 years on the payer side. Claims, prior auth, provider data, CMS mandates, FHIR interoperability, and regulatory compliance. I know the territory.
LLC formation, business planning, patent development, and hands-on product building. I'm not just advising on innovation anymore, I'm doing it.
Three times at HCSC, I saw something missing, made the case to leadership, and built a new team or practice from nothing. I don't wait to be asked.
I connect business strategy, technology, data, and people into plans that actually hold together. Then I structure the path with clear milestones so everybody knows what's expected.
From strategic foresight and signal monitoring to building apps with Claude Code, I stay hands-on. You can't advise leadership on technology you haven't touched yourself.