Jordon Ritchie is helping patients use personal health information to improve their health outcomes with health technology. He’s currently the CEO at AiMedica, a software company on a mission to simplify healthcare data. Jordon shares why he felt called to serve the healthcare industry by not being a doctor and also explains how AiMedica plans to tackle the seemingly insurmountable challenge of healthcare data and privacy. Listen in for a great interview with Ray and Jordon!

Topics Covered:

• Jordon shares how his background in computer programming and software development got him interested in electronic health record systems.
• How his dad, Bryan Ritchie, introduced him to Bitcoin and why he immediately saw solutions for the healthcare industry.
• Why Jordon thinks that AI will play a big role in the future of digital healthcare.
• The relationship between security and access and the challenges it’s creating for healthcare data.
• How AiMedica’s suite of products helps providers make better healthcare recommendations based on otherwise hard-to-access data.
• Why the current electronic health record systems are not as secure as we believe them to be.
• The reason that the healthcare industry doesn’t obey traditional economic signals.

Connect with Jordon

• Aimedica
• Connect with Jordon on LinkedIn

Resources Mentioned

• Simba Chain
• Book of Mormon
• Crucial Conversations

News Corner

On June 24, 2022, the majority of the U.S. Supreme Court voted to abolish the constitutional right to abortion. The 6-3 majority decision overturned the landmark ruling of the 1973, Roe V. Wade, which generally protected a pregnant woman’s right to choose to have an abortion. This decision is expected to have negative cascading effects across the U.S. healthcare system.

• HHS Issues Guidance to Protect Patient Privacy in Wake of Supreme Court Decision on Roe | HHS.gov
• Period tracker app Flo dev 'anonymous mode' : NPR
• The Supreme Court Decision That Defined Abortion Rights for Thirty Years | The New Yorker

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