Company leader
Robert A. Frist Jr.
Co-founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer
HealthStream
Robert A. Frist Jr. is the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive of HealthStream, a Nashville company that sells training, credentialing, and scheduling software to hospitals. He has led it since it was founded in 1990.
Founding HealthStream
Frist co-founded HealthStream in 1990 and has served as its CEO and chairman since, according to his HealthStream biography. He earned a bachelor of science in business from Trinity University and received an EY Entrepreneur of the Year award for the Southeast.
HealthStream now has more than 5,000 customers and more than 5.5 million healthcare professionals on its platform, according to its about page, and expects $331 million to $333 million in revenue in 2026.
Nashville's Health Care Business Community
Frist co-founded the Entrepreneur Center in Nashville, Tennessee, and served as its chair. He is also a former chair of the Nashville Health Care Council, according to his biography.
The Workforce Platform
In September 2026, HealthStream announced what it calls the Enterprise Clinical Workforce Platform, which it places alongside the EHR and ERP in a hospital's core systems. "The clinical workforce is the heartbeat of American healthcare, and HealthStream is building the infrastructure it runs on," Frist said in the company's third quarter 2026 results.