WHO WE ARE

Innovations is a firm composed of founding pioneers in the field of telehealth. With an expert team of attorneys, policy experts, physicians, and business consultants, we are equipped to help you with it ALL.

We are a diverse telehealth and e-Health consulting firm providing legal, regulatory, policy compliance, business development, and marketing expertise in all facets of telehealth. Innovations is a wholly-owned, for-profit subsidiary of the Center for Telehealth and e-Health Law (CTeL), a nonprofit founded in 1995.

Innovations works with organizations of all sizes and backgrounds, from those new to the market to veteran telehealth pioneers. If your organization is looking to develop or evaluate a telehealth program, Innovations can save you time and money via our unparalleled legacy of proprietary research, program development, technology insights, and government relations services.

We help our clients avoid unnecessary risk, facilitate key networking relationships (state, federal, international, medical, legal,  and beyond), understand complex policy requirements, and perform day-to-day activities with confidence. Innovations offers its clients unprecedented access to the very best in the telehealth marketplace.

In short, we know telehealth better than anyone else.

THE INNOVATIONS ADVANTAGE

Depth of Telehealth Knowledge: Innovations has an unparalleled 60-plus years of combined experience monitoring and interpreting the telehealth landscape. With an industry as young as telehealth, changing conditions are a given. Innovations can help you navigate the rocky terrain associated with this dynamic and rapidly changing industry as it develops.

Diverse Client Experience: We work with everyone from the smallest start-ups to the largest Fortune 500 companies.

A Respected and Well-Connected Resource: Innovations is a well-respected resource providing policy, business, government relations, and industry intelligence to our clients. Our unsurpassed knowledge of state and federal laws and regulations, and our well-established and wide-ranging relationships with key stakeholders, make us uniquely skilled in offering our clients sound guidance.

Integrity: Our mission is to uphold the “gold standard” of telehealth through quality healthcare delivery. We are committed to shaping a positive future for telehealth and its providers by offering expertly developed and researched consultative services.

Greg T. Billings
Chief Executive Officer

Greg Billings has served as the Executive Director of the Center for Telehealth and eHealth Law (CTeL) for nearly 10 years. Greg saw the need to create an organization which was agnostic in nature and provided factual, current, and game-changing information to those in need. Utilizing his government relations experience, legislative expertise, and wealth of knowledge of telehealth, Greg created the only non-profit helping telehealth practitioners practice the smart way and the legal way.

With over 40 years of government, non-profit, and hands-on consulting experience, Greg brings a vast experience unmatched in the field. Greg knows Washington: Prior to CTeL Innovations, he served as a senior government relations director at a Washington, D.C. law firm, was the senior aide and deputy chief of staff to two senior U.S. Senators, and was chief of staff to the administrator of the Farm Service Agency, the largest agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), with over 13,000 employees in all 50 states and U.S. territories.

Mr. Billings has translated decades' worth of relationships and intimate understanding of federal policy work to help clients navigate telehealth and operate in competitive markets to the best of their ability. He has helped shape policy at the state and federal levels, working with all the bodies with jurisdiction over telehealth, state medical boards, and beyond. Telehealth policies are very complex; utilizing his wealth of knowledge, Greg can simplify this process, guide clients through the policies, and ensure they are performing telehealth the most effective way possible.

Whether you are a start-up or an established telehealth company, Greg can help you restructure, focus your objectives, and efficiently use available resources in the most appropriate manner, just as he has done for some of the largest federal agencies. Greg can help clients identify pockets in their business which can actually SAVE money.

Christa Natoli
Vice President

As Vice President of CTeL Innovations, Christa oversees all business development efforts and strategic operations. She is the mastermind behind the annual CTeL Summit, an agnostic, discussion-based conference which brings together industry leaders from across the U.S. to discuss the major game-changing issues in the field of telehealth.

Christa is a master relationship builder who has established valuable connections with large insurance companies, diverse industries, and state and federal-level government officials and representatives. She has extensive experience in policy matters and has developed strong relationships with all 50 state medical boards, senior members of Congress, foreign embassies, the United Nations and the World Health Organization.

Her expertise focuses on practitioner-patient relationships, one of the largest issues facing telehealth today, and telehealth in the international environment. Christa has deep knowledge of mHealth, reimbursement, physician and nurse licensure, and international telehealth issues.

Ms. Natoli helps clients navigate through the difficult legal and regulatory research and assessments each telehealth entity must understand. Her expertise helps clients identify how they can perform telehealth duties legally and efficiently wherever they are located and conduct business.

Christa’s experience in all facets of telehealth helps her develop impactful strategy documents for clients which identify essential business practices, existing competitors, and important policies they need to be aware of. Ms. Natoli utilizes her relationships with experts in the field to ensure your practice thrives.

Before joining CTeL, Ms. Natoli, a Harvard graduate, worked as business development director and public relations and marketing advisor with companies and nonprofits. She has experience with state-level and congressional campaigns, grassroots organizing, strategy, and research. Christa is also a published author and noted lecturer and speaker, with a wealth of public relations and media relationships. She devoted two years to conducting ground-breaking research on international telehealth adoption and acceptance in remote, rural regions of Pakistan.

CTeL Innovations’ experienced team of advisers share a deep understanding of telehealth and related issues, and are committed to providing the diverse range of services our clients need. Our Board of Directors includes experts and industry leaders from within and outside the telehealth community. These notable individuals work in large health systems, technology companies, Fortune 500 corporations, and other organizations. Based in the U.S. and internationally, they are telemedicine experts, medical and legal professionals, financial management experts, and healthcare executives.