healthcare-interoperability
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Andrew Goldberg and the Art of Making Fragments Agree
HealthVerity's co-founder built a career out of joining what institutions leave scattered. His operating philosophy begins with a modest idea: before data can tell a story, somebody has to make the pieces trustworthy.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.