Donald Trump has made public his appointees for Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

Ladies and gentlemen, please acquaint yourselves with six-term Republican Congressman (GA), David Price, and high flying healthcare consultant, Seema Verma.

Thanksgiving is upon us! To kick off the holiday season I polled the Redox office with a simple question: "What are you thankful for?"

At Redox, we’re building a multi-sided network of health systems and healthcare technology vendors on a foundation of interoperability and ease of adoption. The value props for each side are simple but powerful: health systems get a single connection to cloud-based applications, eliminating redundant infrastructure costs and reducing the interface management headache, while applications get a single API to connect to that allows them to interoperate with dozens of systems being used at the hospitals and provider groups they sell to.

I’ve probably seen 20 different articles since the election talking about echo chambers and the idea that social media (along with the people we surround ourselves with) simply echo back to us what we already believe to be true.

Have you ever returned a punt in a football game? It’s terrifying.

Not only are you wearing one-size-fits-all pads that are meant for someone six inches taller than you, but there are eleven guys running as fast as they can toward you who’s sole purpose in life is to hit you with such force that you…

I had the pleasure of camping in the high desert Tuesday night as the rest of the world watched, one jaw-dropping state at a time, as Trump was elected president. In the morning I drove into town and turned on the radio to be shocked by the news, all at once. I began to race through the rhetoric of Trump's campaign, the policies he vowed to extinguish and the power he’ll have with a congress behind him: supreme court, trade policies, immigration, national security, social policy, healthcare—holy crap, he’s going to repeal Obamacare. As with much of his campaign promises, he vowed to remove legislation without a plan as to what would replace it. So what will Trumpcare look like?

"Blockchain" has become a familiar buzzword in healthcare IT. While I think the interest in this amazing new technology is fantastic, I also think that some sense of perspective has been lost in the process of gaining recognition.

The blockchain design pattern is a great idea, but technology exists to solve problems, and the blockchain pattern is a low-level technology that requires a lot of implementation-specific care to actually do that.

Before joining Redox, I had no real idea what the phrase “healthcare interoperability” meant. Sure, I might have been able to parse out what it meant in the most superficial sense possible, but like many large-scale, nation-affecting problems, I could probably only tell you the general gist of it (and if pressed to explain in detail, I’d get incredibly flustered, mumble out something barely intelligible, and then promptly pretend to faint in order to avoid the question).

CARLSBAD, Calif., Nov. 1, 2016, PRNewswire, — Breg, Inc., a premier provider of integrated solutions that help improve the quality and lower the cost of the orthopedic episode, and Redox, the leading electronic health record (EHR) integration platform, today announced a partnership. The agreement enables Breg's Vision Cloud Connect software to connect quickly and easily to Epic, Cerner and all other EHRs using Redox's Application Program Interface (API) as a bridge between systems.

"So, what’s with the bear?"

We get this question a lot, probably as often as “what’s Redox all about?” or “can I get a picture with Niko?”. The story of Candi, like most symbols of company culture, started accidentally before quickly becoming iconic in the annals of Redox lore. And as with most Redox lore, it all started with tacos...

The empowered patient is a dream of many healthcare technologists. Watch our co-founder Niko Skievaski outline how the work we are doing today to integrate enterprise digital health solutions is actually laying the groundwork for the future of consumer health.

To get a better idea of what Redox can do to meet health system's integration needs, please take a quick four minutes to watch our Chief Customer Officer, Devin Soelberg pitch to the Texas Medical Center accelerator back in 2015.  

Enjoy!