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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?
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.