# Geoffrey Rutledge

> Geoffrey William Rutledge, MD, PhD, FACMI, is HealthTap's co-founder and chief medical officer, a physician and medical informatician whose career has followed one persistent question: how can technology give more people useful access to a doctor? From building a computer in medical school and creating an early consumer health website at Healtheon/WebMD to launching HealthTap's virtual-care platform and testing a supervised AI assistant, he has spent decades turning clinical information into practical care infrastructure.

- **Role:** Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer at HealthTap
- **Organizations:** HealthTap, Epocrates, Wellsphere, San Mateo Medical Center, Healtheon/WebMD, First Consulting Group, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Stanford University, Harvard Medical School, University of California San Diego
- **Education:** MD, McGill University, Residency training in Internal Medicine, University of California San Diego, PhD in Medical Computer Science, Stanford University
- **Known for:** Created an early consumer health website and personal health record at Healtheon/WebMD., Co-founded HealthTap in 2010 and helped launch its live video service in 2012., Built a hospital information system at San Mateo Medical Center that he reported eliminated $250,000 in annual transcription costs.

## Career timeline

- **Before 2004** — Held medical-informatics and executive roles including chief of medical informatics in emergency medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and positions at Healtheon/WebMD and First Consulting Group.
- **2004-2007** — Served as chief medical information officer at San Mateo Medical Center and practiced emergency medicine with CEP America.
- **2006-2009** — Worked at Wellsphere, developing online health and wellness communities.
- **2009-2010** — Served as chief medical officer and EVP of product development at Epocrates.
- **2010** — Co-founded HealthTap and became its chief medical officer.
- **2012** — HealthTap launched live video consultations.
- **2014** — Elected a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics.
- **2024** — Co-authored and presented an evaluation of HealthTap's generative-AI virtual physician assistant at the AAAI Spring Symposium.
- **2025** — Discussed telehealth adoption, continuity, and patient satisfaction in a two-part AJMC interview.
- **2026** — Continued public work on AI in primary care, including clinical validation, physician supervision, and post-deployment monitoring.

## Achievements

- Created an early consumer health website and personal health record at Healtheon/WebMD.
- Co-founded HealthTap in 2010 and helped launch its live video service in 2012.
- Built a hospital information system at San Mateo Medical Center that he reported eliminated $250,000 in annual transcription costs.
- Was elected a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics in 2014.
- Co-authored the 2024 paper 'A Generative AI-Based Virtual Physician Assistant,' reporting evaluation results for a supervised pre-visit workflow.
- Served on clinical and teaching faculties at Harvard, Stanford, and UC San Diego medical schools.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Spoke about the current and future state of AI in primary care at the InnovatorMD World Congress, whose 2026 theme was 'AI in the Care Loop.'
- **2026-07** — Appeared in a MarketScale interview about virtual care, AI, and access.
- **2026-07** — Published LinkedIn commentary proposing workflow definition, ground-truth validation, public evidence, and continuous monitoring for clinical AI.
- **2025-07** — Discussed HealthTap's development, virtual primary care, and AI-assisted pre-visit interviews in a CE App interview.
- **2025-03** — Appeared in a two-part AJMC interview on telehealth's evolution and patient response.

## Links

- Website: https://www.healthtap.com/blog/team/geoffrey-rutledge/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffreyrutledge
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AuA6hiHrsY

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Last updated: 2026-09-27