Bird Blitch

Bird Blitch is the Chief Payments Officer at Waystar, a technology company that helps healthcare providers of all kinds simplify and unify healthcare payments. He leads the Innovation team, responsible for nurturing the groundbreaking solutions integral to Waystar’s mission to drive growth for clients and transform the healthcare revenue cycle. Before joining Waystar, Bird founded and served as CEO of Patientco, a cloud-based patient payments vendor that was acquired by Waystar in 2021. Previously, he co-founded leading telecom expense management company  BroadSource.

Bird has served as the chair of the HIMSS Revenue Cycle Improvement Task Force and as an advisory board member for the Advanced Technology Development Center, a start-up accelerator that helps entrepreneurs launch and build successful technology companies. A graduate of Georgia Tech, he was awarded the university’s Outstanding Young Alumnus/Alumna award in 2010 and is a member of the Council of Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni.