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Updated: November 9, 2025

Prescription for change: 'Practice in a Box' aims to ease burden for independent health care providers

Ashleigh Briggs and Dr. Ron Watson of Biggs Solutions for Business Photo / Courtesy of Briggs Solutions for Business Ashley Briggs-Davis, left, has teamed with chiropractor Dr. Ron Watson to offer operational support to independent health care providers.
By Renee Cordes

As Maine grapples with clinic closures and health care workforce shortages, a Bangor-based business consultancy aims to help independent providers launch — and sustain — practices of their own.

Developed by Ashleigh Briggs-Davis of Briggs Solutions for Business in collaboration with chiropractor Dr. Ron Watson, the new program offers a suite of operational support services for mental health providers, physical therapists, primary care doctors and others.

The initiative, dubbed “Practice in a Box — with a Community By Your Side," combines customer relationship management systems designed with national standards in mind, fractional operational support and a free statewide peer network on Slack.

“Every week, we hear about clinics closing or services being cut, but the patients don’t disappear, and neither do the providers,” said Briggs-Davis, who is also the owner of Rize CoWorking & Collaboration Space in the Queen City and a Mainebiz 40 Under 40 honoree in 2025.

“Many are stepping up to open their own practices, but they’re doing it without the support, systems, or community they need," she noted. "We’re here to change that.”

Cost benefits 

Launched last month, “Practice in a Box” uses software licensed to Briggs Solutions for Business, which in turn creates sub-accounts customized to individual practices.

Briggs-Davis said that while practices could also pay for their own subscriptions, they would lose the benefits of cost-sharing that Briggs is able to offer via its master account.

The arrangement, “allows us to provide a much stronger service” for early-stage and smaller practices, she told Mainebiz. 

Briggs-Davis estimates that there are more than 1,000 independent providers in Maine as she continues to research the market.

In addition, while there are similar support systems out there for independent providers, they are often extremely cost-prohibitive for new or small practices, she said. 

Rural focus 

Briggs-Davis said that she is self-funding the solution, which is “extremely tailored to the needs of this specific industry," particularly in rural areas.

"It's more of a passion project," she said. "We want to solve for community health care needs, and what we can do to help ensure that it is available in these rural communities."

Early feedback from users in Maine suggests the model helps reduce administrative burnout, improve patient engagement and create new revenue streams for practices that often feel left behind by large health care systems, she said.

Longer term, Briggs-Davis said she hopes to offer the solution to health care providers outside of Maine, and potentially also to independent practitioners in other sectors.

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