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Healthcare research support without adding headcount

Whether you're a practice owner evaluating EHR vendors, a healthcare consultant building a market analysis, or a clinic administrator tracking regulatory changes from CMS, research work piles up fast and rarely fits neatly into anyone's job description. A Nacho EA can take on the sourcing, organizing, and synthesizing so your clinical and operational staff stay focused on patient care. This is structured delegation, not a search engine substitute.

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Can a Virtual Assistant handle research for healthcare providers?

Yes. Nacho matches healthcare providers with a vetted, 100% US-based Specialist who owns research week after week, not a one-off task. You start with a $300 Delegation Strategy Plan, set a monthly Talent Budget from $1,000, and we match you in about a week.

How it works

How your Specialist owns research for healthcare providers

A Nacho EA handling healthcare research typically works from a brief you provide: a question, a decision you need to make, or a topic you need to understand better: and returns organized, sourced findings in whatever format works for your workflow, whether that's a Google Doc summary, a structured spreadsheet, or a slide-ready brief. Day-to-day, this looks like pulling peer-reviewed literature from PubMed or Google Scholar, cross-referencing CMS guidelines or state health department databases, compiling competitive intel on other practices or health tech vendors, and flagging anything that needs your clinical judgment before a decision moves forward. Your EA uses tools like Notion, Airtable, or Excel to keep findings organized and traceable, and they'll flag sources so you can verify anything that matters. Your role is to review outputs and make the calls, the EA handles the hours of digging that precede that decision. Your dedicated Client Success Manager helps scope the research workflow during onboarding so your EA isn't guessing at what level of depth or format you need.

Off your plate

What your Specialist takes off your plate

The most common mistake first-time delegators in healthcare make is handing off a vague topic instead of a specific question: 'research telehealth' produces a 40-tab browser session, while 'find the top 5 telehealth platforms used by independent psychiatry practices under 10 providers, with pricing and HIPAA compliance status' produces something you can actually use. Before your first research task, write down the decision you're trying to make or the document you're trying to produce, and work backward from there to define what your EA actually needs to find. That framing takes five minutes and saves hours of back-and-forth.

  1. EHR and Health Tech Vendor Comparison

    EA researches and builds a side-by-side comparison of EHR platforms (e.g., Epic, Athenahealth, Kareo) based on your practice size, specialty, and integration requirements.

  2. CMS and Payer Policy Monitoring

    EA tracks updates from CMS, MAC contractors, or specific commercial payers and summarizes relevant reimbursement or compliance changes that affect your billing or operations.

  3. Clinical Literature Sourcing

    EA pulls and organizes peer-reviewed studies from PubMed or similar databases on a specified condition, treatment protocol, or clinical question, formatted for quick review by a clinician.

  4. Competitive Landscape Analysis

    EA researches other practices, health systems, or digital health companies in your market: pulling data on services offered, patient reviews, pricing signals, and positioning.

  5. Healthcare Conference and CE Opportunity Research

    EA identifies relevant industry conferences, CME or CEU opportunities, and speaking or sponsorship prospects based on your specialty and goals, compiled into a prioritized list.

Your stack

Tools our team works with

We adapt to your existing stack, no forced migrations.

Apollo.io
Statista
SimilarWeb
G2
Claude
Gemini

...and many more!

Client proof

Trusted by healthcare providers

Nacho supports healthcare providers including Assisting Hands Home Care, Infant Feeding Care, handling everything from research to broader operational support.

The model

What delegating to Nacho actually looks like

This is ongoing delegation to one vetted, US-based person, not a task posted to a marketplace.

  1. Start with a Delegation Strategy Plan

    A one-time $300 onboarding fee pairs you with a Client Success Manager who maps what to hand off first. See the full process.

  2. Get matched in about a week

    We match you with a vetted, 100% US-based Specialist in your time zone. If the fit is not right, the Nacho Guarantee re-matches you free.

  3. Set a monthly Talent Budget

    Budgets start at $1,000 a month and draw across Executive Assistants from $40/hr, Specialists from $65/hr, and Fractional Executives from $125/hr. Up to $200 of unused budget rolls over each month. See pricing in detail.

  4. Three months, then month to month

    The initial term is three months so the working relationship has time to compound, then it rolls month to month. Book a discovery call to size yours.

Talent Budget

What delegating research costs for healthcare providers

Drag the sliders to build a monthly plan that fits your workload.

Executive Assistants
from $40/hour
10 hours $400
Specialists
from $65/hour
20 hours $1,300
Fractional Executives
from $125/hour
0 hours $0
Your monthly budget
$1,700

Starting at $1,000/month. One-time $300 onboarding fee includes your Delegation Strategy Plan.

Good questions

Frequently asked questions

Can an EA handle research that involves HIPAA-sensitive information?
Nacho EAs are not covered entities and are not positioned to handle PHI as part of research tasks: this service is best suited for operational, market, regulatory, and clinical literature research that doesn't involve patient data. If your research workflow touches PHI, that portion should stay in-house with appropriately credentialed staff.
How does an EA know which sources are credible for healthcare research?
During onboarding, your Client Success Manager helps establish source standards for your specific use case: whether that means sticking to peer-reviewed journals, official CMS publications, or specific industry databases. Your EA works within those guardrails, and anything requiring clinical interpretation gets flagged for your review rather than summarized as a conclusion.
Is 36 time entries enough to know this works for healthcare research?
It's an honest number, Nacho has logged 36 research time entries across all industries, which means this is a proven workflow but not one with hundreds of healthcare-specific case studies behind it. What that means practically is that the delegation model is well-tested, but you should expect to invest a session or two early on calibrating the depth and format of outputs to your specific needs.

Ready when you are

Put your next research project in better hands

Nacho matches healthcare businesses with US-based EAs who can start handling research tasks within your first billing month. Onboarding includes a Delegation Strategy Plan so your first research brief is scoped correctly from day one.

Not sure yet? See how it works, compare the Executive Assistant, Specialist, and Fractional Executive roles, or read why we stayed 100% US-based.