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Embel Assist

About Embel Assist

Healthcare challenges require more than technology.

Embel Assist helps healthcare organizations bring together the right strategy, partnerships, technology, and execution to solve meaningful challenges across engagement, action, prevention, and proof. Through Workforce Concierge, we also help organizations across industries access specialized talent and build stronger teams.

Our mission

Making meaningful healthcare solutions possible.

To help healthcare organizations solve meaningful challenges by bringing the right capabilities, expertise, and execution to bear—turning new possibilities into practical solutions that improve how healthcare works.

Who we are

A different kind of healthcare consulting partner

Embel Assist is a healthcare services company that helps organizations turn meaningful challenges and emerging capabilities into practical, measurable solutions.

We work across strategy, design, implementation, operations, and specialized workforce support. We bring together healthcare context, enterprise platforms, strategic partnerships, and specialized talent based on what the work requires—and remain engaged through execution.

Our experience spans intelligent engagement, experience orchestration, agentic action, prevention and earlier intervention, payment integrity and defensible proof, applied AI, data, technology, and transformation.

  • Established

    2000

  • Ownership

    Privately held

  • Based in

    Minneapolis / St. Paul

  • Engagement

    Strategy through operations

  • Reach

    Healthcare services and specialized workforce solutions across industries

How we are different

Built around the challenge—not a single platform

  1. 01

    Challenge

  2. 02

    Capabilities

  3. 03

    Execution

  4. 04

    Accountability

  • Challenge First

    We begin with the healthcare problem, the people affected, and the outcome the organization needs to achieve.

  • Right Capabilities Assembled

    We bring together healthcare expertise, strategic partnerships, enterprise platforms, frameworks, and specialized talent based on what the challenge requires.

  • Execution Focused

    We help clients design, integrate, implement, operationalize, and sustain solutions—not simply recommend them.

  • Personally Accountable

    Our leaders remain directly engaged in client relationships, solution direction, delivery oversight, and the outcomes we commit to achieve.

Leadership

Experienced leadership. Personally engaged.

Embel Assist is led by experienced healthcare and technology professionals who remain directly involved in client strategy, solution development, and delivery.

Ryan Vaske

Ryan Vaske

Founder and CEO

Ryan founded Embel Assist in 2000 and has spent more than 25 years helping organizations apply data, engagement, and enterprise technology to meaningful healthcare and business challenges. He remains directly involved in client relationships, strategic direction, partnerships, and delivery oversight. Previously, Ryan held consulting roles at Accenture and boutique consulting firms.

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Mike Hamsund

Mike Hamsund

Partner and Chief Solutions Officer

Mike is a Partner and Chief Solutions Officer with more than 20 years of experience across healthcare technology, engagement solutions, data integration, solution architecture, and applied AI. He leads solution development and helps clients translate emerging capabilities into practical, integrated solutions. Previously, Mike held roles at Cargill, Interelate, Microsoft, and Unica.

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What clients say

Embel Assist has been instrumental in the successful deployment of our predictive marketing platform. We will not hesitate to hire Embel Assist in the future and would recommend them to any organization that needs subject matter experts in marketing and analytics.

VP, Technology Enablement
National Health Insurance Company

I would recommend Embel Assist to any organization that needs subject matter experts in marketing execution and consumer engagement.

Sr. Manager, Consumer Engagement Operations
National Healthcare Product & Services Company

They take the time to understand the company needs, processes, the workstyles and helped to identify how we can incorporate technology to achieve our process goals.

Sr. Director, Marketing Operations
National Health Insurance Company

They provided not only the technical expertise in developing the reports but were able to work with our internal stakeholders in understanding our needs and guide us down the right path.

Sr. VP of Marketing Technology
Regional Healthcare Provider

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Let’s solve what matters next.

Whether you are improving healthcare engagement, enabling action, strengthening prevention, creating defensible proof, or building the right team, Embel Assist can bring together the capabilities and execution needed to make the solution operational.