healthcare-interoperability
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Clay Ritchey
Clay Ritchey is the Chief Executive Officer of Verato, a Tysons, Virginia healthcare technology company whose referential identity matching platform helps hospitals, life science firms and government agencies resolve who is who across fragmented records. A Penn State electrical engineer and Harvard MBA, he has spent more than two decades building and scaling healthcare software businesses, including a turn as CEO of Evariant, which merged with Healthgrades in 2020. He took the helm at Verato in 2021 and has become a frequent voice on why patient matching sits at the center of healthcare's digital transformation.
Redox
Redox is a Madison, Wisconsin-based healthcare technology company that runs a cloud network for exchanging clinical and administrative data between health systems, digital health vendors, payers, and life sciences companies. Founded in 2014 by three former Epic Systems engineers, Redox lets a customer connect once to a single API and then reach thousands of healthcare organizations across dozens of electronic health record systems, rather than building and maintaining hundreds of point-to-point integrations. The platform handles standards like HL7v2, CCD, X12, and FHIR, and processes billions of data transactions a year.
Verato
Verato is a healthcare-focused identity data company that helps organizations answer a deceptively hard question: who is who? Founded in 2012 and based in McLean, Virginia, Verato pioneered Referential Matching - a technique that compares fragmented records against a proprietary reference database spanning the U.S. population with up to 30 years of historical demographic data. Its cloud platform, now sold as Verato MDM Cloud, links and cleans patient and member records across hospitals, health systems, payers, life sciences firms, and government agencies, reducing duplicate records, claims denials, and safety risks while enabling a single 360-degree view of each person.
Cozeva
Cozeva is a cloud-based, real-time data platform built by Applied Research Works that helps health plans, physician organizations, and their partners move from fee-for-service to value-based care. It unifies quality measurement (HEDIS, Medicare Stars, P4P), risk adjustment (HCC coding and recapture), and population health analytics in a single, EHR-interoperable system that lets clinicians act on care gaps at the point of care. Founded in 2012 and based in San Ramon, California, Cozeva serves 25M+ lives and 97,000+ providers, holds NCQA and HITRUST certifications, and earned Best in KLAS recognition in 2025 and 2026. In October 2025 it merged with Vatica Health to combine top-ranked quality and risk-adjustment platforms.
Trip Hofer
Trip Hofer is the CEO of Redox, the healthcare data interoperability company that moved more than 15 billion healthcare transactions across 12,000-plus organizations and 90-plus EHR systems in a single year. A near-25-year veteran of healthcare who started at Booz Allen and the Washington, D.C. mayor's office, he ran the largest mental-health provider in the United States as CEO of Optum Behavioral Solutions and sold virtual-care company AbleTo to Optum in 2020 before taking Redox's helm in November 2023. He is also a Venture Partner at .406 Ventures.
Canvas Medical
Canvas Medical builds programmable EMR infrastructure for the companies reinventing how care gets delivered. Its ONC-certified electronic medical record pairs a FHIR API and a Workflow SDK so clinicians and developers can extend the chart like software, then layers AI agents - led by the open-source Hyperscribe ambient copilot - that listen, document, place orders, and prep claims in real time. Founded in 2015 in San Francisco, Canvas powers primary care, behavioral health, weight loss, longevity, and other modern clinics that want their EMR to bend to their workflows instead of the other way around.