The world of interoperability changes fast - and at Redox we're always trying to stay one step ahead.

If you're reading this you most likely have a need to integrate your application with EHRs across the country (maybe even the world!). There are a handful of API companies out there, with us at Redox pushing the pack. As you review available solutions, it is important to ask the right questions and get past the marketing. This post overviews some really tough decisions we have had to make in designing our product and why we made the choices we did.

I speak with digital health companies every day. The conversation is rooted in talks of data integration, but necessarily follows to application workflows and what health systems are coming down their pipeline.

SXSW is one of our favorite places to be. Between connecting with people heavily embedded in the innovation scene, checking out the newest and coolest technologies, and hitting every taco stand/shop/truck in Austin, there’s never any shortage of things to do and people to meet.

After serving stints with healthcare giants J&J and CR Bard, I’ve been to a handful of pretty cool healthcare conferences: AORN (the big nursing conference), RSNA (the big Radiology conference), ASHP (Pharmacists) and AAOS (Orthopedists) all come to mind.

When I got my job offer from Epic in 2010, I googled frantically to find out what life was like there. Epic's recruiting game has gotten much stronger since 2010, but I've been itching to drop my perspective, chenqui.

#I14YNow is trending at HIMSS and an absurdly vague interoperability pledge has been signed by a bunch of vendors. I thought this an appropriate time to reflect on just how much your developers are going to need to learn to interoperate tomorrow. This article is going to focus on how you would get a CDA document from a network like Commonwell, Healtheway, or just straight from Epic themselves.

Today we announced a partnership with Salesforce’s as they launch their Health Cloud product at HIMSS this week. In our early discussions, the first thing I wanted to understand was what the world leading CRM tool was doing in healthcare? After a demo and some discussion, I started to draw the similarities in activities between the jobs of a sales person and a case manager:

After a long couple of weeks on the road, I sat down in my window seat and closed my eyes for a quick flight back to Madison. It was then that the familiar urge from my pocket beckoned me to check my notifications.

In 2013 I left big business and started my first company. I abruptly discovered that all the stuff I learned in business school was not applicable. You can’t market a product that doesn’t yet exist. You can’t manage employees when you don’t have any. You can’t create analyses and forecasts when there’s absolutely nothing predictable. I learned that another set of skills was required for startups, skills more appropriate for the tasks of proposing and testing hypotheses than for efficiently managing an enterprise. I found that a startup is not a business at all; it’s an entity searching for a scalable business model. 

Dear Friends, 
We wanted to write a quick note to say thanks, and share some gratitude for the inspiration you give us on a daily basis. A year ago, we had zero customers, a shell of a website, and were packing our car to move to Baltimore. We didn’t have developer accounts, installing customers, a gallery, or project plans. We had around six followers on social media, a couple blog posts outlining our dreams, and a handful of people who kind of knew what we were setting out to do.

This is the first of a few blogs on our recent experience raising money. I'll work to highlight how we approached things, what worked for us, and maybe most importantly, what didn’t.