On this week’s episode, we welcome Leland Brewster back on the program for the second part of our series around interoperability in healthcare! Leland is the Director of Fund Management for Healthbox and supports Intermountain Innovation Fund-related activities and heads Healthbox's seed investments in addition to supporting portfolio management efforts across all of its investment vehicles. Prior to joining Healthbox, Leland worked for Clarion Healthcare, a boutique life sciences consultancy in Boston. At Clarion, he was involved in multiple product commercialization and launch readiness projects, as well as the design and launch of a one-of-a-kind patient and physician support program. Leland received his BA in Economics and Chemistry from Williams College and received his MBA from Chicago Booth.

In this episode, Chuck and Leland discuss:

• The Intermountain Innovation Fund and the areas the fund is interested in investing
• What the evolution of the thesis of the fund has looked like and what led to that progression
• How the Intermountain fund differentiates from other strategic hospital funds and how they work with other strategic hospital funds
• How the relationship between Redox and Healthbox came to be and how that evolved into an investment
• How Leland looks at the current state of interoperability
• How Intermountain became interested in making an investment in Redox
• What about Redox and the team made Leland say “yes”

Connect with Leland

• LinkedIn
• Twitter

Connect with Healthbox

• Follow us on Twitter and @ChuckFeerick
• Subscribe and leave a review on Apple Podcasts
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This week’s episode is the first part of our new podcast series around Interoperability. Joining host Chuck Feerick on the program is Niko Skievaski, the Co-founder and President of Redox. Based in Madison Wisconsin, Niko started Redox in 2014 to reduce barriers to entry in healthcare technology and has thus created a Modern API for EHR integration. Niko is a board member and co-founder of 100State, Wisconsin’s largest co-working space as well as co-founding BreadcrumbsQA, a searchable Q&A knowledge management platform originally deployed at Epic.

In this episode, Chuck and Niko cover:

• Niko’s background and the path that led him to start Redox
• The problem Redox solves, how Redox works, and why a solution like Redox is so important
• Redox’s partnership with CloudMine and what the partnership looks like, as well as other partnerships
• What the current state of the interoperability market looks like today and what sets Redox apart
• The interplay between FHIR and the APIs the government promised in the 21st Century Cures Act, as well as the new marketplaces from companies such as Athena, Cerner, and Epic
• What Niko says has been the hardest part about building the company
• What the fundraising process was like for Redox and how Niko helped investors understand the magnitude and ROI on this problem
• Why Niko and team decided to found the company in Madison, Wisconsin and how Madison is in terms of its startup community and resources

Connect with Niko

• LinkedIn
• Twitter

Connect with Redox

• Website
• Twitter

Connect with Healthbox

• Follow us on Twitter and @ChuckFeerick
• Subscribe and leave a review in iTunes
• Have guest suggestions or topic ideas for the podcast? Send them to us at ideas@healthbox.com

Listen to this episode on iTunes, SoundCloud, or Libsyn