Colin Beatty has made a highly successful career out of questioning the healthcare status quo — identifying some of the industry’s most insidious, systemic shortcomings and coming up with innovative solutions to address them. Despite a successful, decade-plus career as a healthcare industry consultant, when a personal tragedy struck Colin and his family in 2011, he felt compelled to take action. Having seen first hand the enormous shortcomings of modern addiction care, Colin was determined to develop an alternative. At the core of Colin’s vision was a system that treated its patients as people — individuals with unique physiological, psychological, and socioeconomic circumstances that must be understood and taken into account in order to treat them effectively. In 2015, Colin brought this vision to life with the founding of Column Health — a non-traditional outpatient facility for the treatment of substance use disorders, which utilizes a holistic, data-driven, biopsychosocial model of care to improve patient outcomes. Despite its novelty, it didn’t take long for this new approach to prove successful. Over just seven years, Column Health grew from just a single facility into 11 in 2022. This runaway success led Column Health to be acquired by Brightview Health in August of that year. Now, Colin is looking to bring this same innovative, integrated, tech-enabled approach to the nascent field of psychedelic assisted treatment (PAT) — with the primary aim of helping some of the tens of millions of Americans currently living with these conditions. Colin's latest PAT startup is currently in stealth mode.
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The FDA's recent denial of MDMA for PTSD treatment raises concerns for the future of psychedelic therapy approvals. This decision, driven by safety and efficacy issues, underscores the challenges faced by substances like psilocybin in gaining FDA approval.
Colin Beatty, co-founder and chief executive officer of Column Health, spoke with HCPLive to give his thoughts on the recent Reagan Udall Foundation for the U.S. FDA's meeting to discuss advancing treatments for PTSD.