Enterprising Women Magazine Winter 2025

AI, Automation and Secure Cloud! 941-328-8601 hello@tech-house.com Schedule a call! Innovative Solutions, Practical Software, Friendly Support. E-mail hacks? Failed audits? Scattered spreadsheets? AI chaos? A solution? Our Aware Report. Our Aware Reports provide clear, simple views of your status and best practice steps. Available for Security, AI, and more. Now on Microsoft’s Marketplace! Women in business can drive that progress. We bring empathy to data, culture to compliance, and humanity to design. We ask questions others might overlook: Who is missing from this table? Who might be excluded by this technology, this trial, or this funding decision? At Precision, our Mentorship Program trains youth from historically underutilized business zones in data analytics, marketing, and compliance to build skills that lift entire communities. Through our collaborations with multiple organizations young women from diverse backgrounds see themselves as future leaders in science and technology. That is what sustainable equity looks like—creating pathways, not just projects. A call to women founders Health equity is not just the next frontier for healthcare, it is the next frontier for entrepreneurship. Consumers, corporations, and communities alike are demanding more transparency, accountability, and measurable impact. Businesses that integrate equity into their operations will be those that thrive in the decade ahead. So, to my fellow women founders: look deeply at your models and ask, “Where can I close a gap?” It might be a forgotten clientele, a new service that improves accessibility, or an internal practice that creates opportunity. Health equity is not someone else’s responsibility—it is our generation’s opportunity to innovate and leave something better behind. VANESSA BEST is the CEO and Founder of Precision HealthCare Consultants, a global health-equity-focused consulting and clinical operations firm serving 39 U.S. states., 11 countries and three continents. She is a 2025 EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women honoree, a two-time Inc. 5000 awardee, 2025 WPO Chase Women to Watch, EY Entrepreneur Access Network Alumni, 2025 Enterprising Women of the Year Award Winner, and a member of the Enterprising Women Advisory Board. Learn more at www.precisionhcc.com and connect at vbest@precisionhcc.com. References 1. World Economic Forum. (2023). Global Health and Healthcare Strategic Outlook 2023: Shaping the Future of Health and Healthcare. 2. W .K. Kellogg Foundation & Altarum Institute. (2018). The Business Case for Racial Equity: A Strategy for Growth. 3. N ational Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities. (2018). The Economic Burden of Health Disparities in the United States. 4. A ccenture. (2023). Health Equity: Unlocking Business Value through Inclusivity. 5. H arvard Business Review. (2024). When Health Equity Becomes a Growth Strategy. 6. M cKinsey Health Institute. (2023). Closing the Health Equity Gap: Driving Inclusive Innovation. enterprising Women 69

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