Alara Imaging is a San Francisco healthcare technology company building a private compute platform for radiology. Its flagship product, the Alara Medical Imaging Gateway, is edge-orchestration software that sits inside a hospital and moves imaging data securely and bidirectionally between facilities and the cloud. Founded out of UCSF research, Alara serves as a CMS measure steward, giving health systems a HITRUST-certified, HIPAA- and SOC 2-compliant way to calculate and report new radiology quality measures - including a CMS-endorsed measure to standardize CT radiation doses and reduce avoidable cancer risk.
Vital is a digital health company that uses artificial intelligence and large language models to improve the patient experience inside emergency departments and hospitals. Founded by Mint.com creator Aaron Patzer and emergency physician Dr. Justin Schrager, its consumer-grade software predicts ER wait times, translates clinical jargon into plain language, automates discharge and follow-up communication, and reduces clinician workload. Vital reads directly from hospital EHRs through FHIR/HL7 integrations and is used by 100+ hospitals and roughly 20-30 health systems, serving more than 5 million patients a year.
Spruce Health is an all-in-one, HIPAA-compliant communication platform built for healthcare practices. It rolls calls, voicemails, texts, secure messages, fax, video visits and team chat into a single inbox so clinicians can talk to patients - and to each other - without juggling six different apps.
Rich Waller is President and CEO of WellStack, a Madison, Wisconsin-based healthcare data platform that helps provider and payer organizations build a unified data ecosystem for AI, analytics, and population health management. A 20-year veteran of healthcare technology, Waller co-founded VisiQuate - a healthcare revenue cycle analytics company - before joining WellStack to lead its expansion into enterprise healthcare data infrastructure. He is known for his client-centered philosophy and belief that growth strategy is a team sport.
David Craig, MD is the CEO of Spruce Health, a San Francisco-based HIPAA-compliant healthcare communication platform serving 25,000+ healthcare providers. A Stanford-trained emergency medicine physician who began coding in his teens, Craig brings rare dual fluency in medicine and software engineering. He joined Spruce in 2014 as Chief Medical Officer before taking the CEO role in late 2021, and still works weekly ER shifts to keep his clinical perspective sharp while leading a team building the communication infrastructure for modern healthcare.