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DrDoctor wants the NHS to stop wasting the next appointment
The founders planned an app. Patients wanted a useful text. That small correction became a business built around a costly NHS problem: getting the right person into the right appointment.
RioMed and the patient record that stays
Fifteen years of clinical history can make software hard to replace. From Welsh rheumatology clinics to Guyana’s national EHR project, RioMed’s Cellma shows why the patient record is only the beginning.
Ali Zaman Has Spent a Decade Making Healthcare Technology Make Sense
From a medication device and cancer-data research to interoperability, children's books and AI economics, Zaman's career follows one stubborn idea: complicated systems still need a clear human story.
Auna Emery Makes the Invisible Work of Healthcare Data Legible
For years, Auna Emery has translated laboratory systems, clinical data exchange and interoperability into language people can act on. Her rise through ELLKAY shows what happens when a marketer stays close to the machinery.
CitiusTech Bet Everything on Healthcare. Now It Has to Make AI Behave.
For two decades, CitiusTech refused to become a general-purpose IT shop. That stubborn focus built a valuable healthcare specialist - and now gives it a credible shot at making enterprise AI survive contact with clinical reality.
DSS Spent 35 Years Making the VA's Old Software Useful - Now It Wants to Be the Cloud Underneath It
The Florida health-IT firm built a business around a stubborn idea: hospitals do not always need a new record system - they need the one they have to stop fighting the people who use it.
ELLKAY’s $5 Million Case for Boring Healthcare Software
It started in a New Jersey basement, cleaning up lab orders. Today ELLKAY sits beneath 58,000-plus practices and a national exchange reaching 261 million people - proof that the dullest layer of healthcare can carry the clearest ROI.
Julie Freguia Is Marketing What Happens After the Fax
After more than 25 years selling the machinery behind business communication, Julie Freguia has learned that the interesting part begins once the document arrives, when the information inside has a chance to become useful.
Michelle Blackmer Knows the Hard Part of Healthcare AI Is Everything Before the AI
After 25 years in healthcare data, Rhapsody's chief marketing officer has learned to look past the glossy interface and ask the stubborn question underneath: can the systems actually understand one another?
IMO Health Quit Building the Medical Record - and Became the Dictionary Inside Nearly All of Them
The Chicago health-tech company spent a decade trying to build the whole medical record. Then it kept the least glamorous piece - the dictionary - and turned that narrow wedge into a clinical-data business valued at more than $1.5 billion.
Elation Health Bet the EHR Was the Problem. Now It Wants AI to Give Primary Care Its Evenings Back.
Two siblings built a chart for their father's clinic, then spent 16 years turning that family workaround into the operating system for independent primary care. The new wager is bigger: AI should finish the paperwork without hijacking the visit.
Healthcare Couldn't Kill the Fax. Concord Taught It to Read.
The Seattle company built a durable business moving regulated documents. Its more interesting bet is what happens next: turning billions of stubborn pages into usable healthcare data before a human has to touch them.
Healthcare’s AI Dreams Keep Tripping Over Bad Plumbing. Rhapsody Wants to Fix the Pipes.
Hospitals do not need another dazzling demo if yesterday’s lab result is still trapped in the wrong system. Rhapsody has spent decades turning that unglamorous mess into a business - and now it is teaching an AI agent to mind the pipes.
Latif Khalil Spent Decades Making Data Behave. Then His Company Became Part of the System.
Before interoperability became a boardroom word, Khalil was building the unfashionable machinery underneath it. InteropX turned that long apprenticeship into a company - and a 2026 acquisition into its next chapter.
InteropX Sold the Plumbing: How a Five-Person Health-Data Company Made Stale Records Useful
Health plans had APIs, repositories and a stubborn problem: the records still arrived stale, duplicated or trapped in documents. InteropX built the virtual pipe between payers and providers, priced retrieval as low as $1 a chart, and eventually sold the system to Onyx.
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.