20+ years in orthopedic technology and health system partnerships. I grew BrainLAB's orthopedic vertical to $250M by speaking surgeon fluently and technology fluently — at the same time. Multiple healthcare M&A exits including HCA Healthcare and Anytime Fitness. Five patents in image-guided navigation. Currently: Founder of co-op.care — and I do clinical AI evaluation and safety testing embedded in engineering teams at healthcare AI companies.
Two jobs, one skill. I take health-technology companies into the U.S. market — commercialization, health-system partnerships, reimbursement. And I embed with AI and deep-tech teams as the clinical translator who turns lab science and models into signed, reimbursed, adopted care.
I've spent 20+ years building relationships between technology companies and health systems. I know how deals get done, where they stall, and why. From pilot programs to system-wide adoption, I speak the language on both sides.
I've been in the room when healthcare companies get acquired. InVivoLink (HCA Healthcare), PumpOne (Anytime Fitness), Disior (Paragon 28) — I've helped navigate the diligence process, validate market positioning, and close deals.
I built BrainLAB's orthopedic navigation vertical from zero to $250M. I know what it takes to bring surgical technology to market, gain surgeon adoption, and scale globally.
Right now I'm looking to go deep with a small number of teams — a health-technology company taking on the U.S. market, or an AI / deep-tech group that needs a clinical translator in the room, not on a call. Fractional, embedded, or full-time. If that sounds like your team, let's talk.
Start a conversation →Healthcare doesn't have an app shortage — it has a systems shortage. I don't build another interface. I architect the whole chain, where every layer serves a clinical purpose and a human owns every decision that carries liability. Three I've built:
The system: the technology that tells a surgeon where to place the instrument — imaging, planning, sensors, and the OR workflow, integrated into one trusted loop. What it proves: I've architected clinical technology in the highest-stakes room there is, and gotten surgeons to trust it. Grew that vertical to $250M across two continents; five patents in the method.
The system: assessment → care plan → delivery → billing for home-based care, mapping soft home visits into hospital-grade structured data (Omaha System → FHIR). What it proves: I ship, now — a deployed platform, not a deck. Every layer earns its place, clinically and financially.
The system: an on-device model for orientation, sensors for signal, and a physician for every decision that carries liability — the machine never becomes the source of a medical fact. What it proves: I design at the current frontier, and I put human accountability at the exact seam where it belongs. Proven end-to-end on Apple's on-device model.
The pattern never changes: connect biology, sensors, AI, clinicians, and reimbursement into one chain — and keep a person accountable where it counts. That's the job. If you're building a system like this, I want to be in the room.
Let's build one →Twenty years at the boundary between surgeons and technology — one continuous thread, not a list of jobs. Tap any stop to see what it taught me about getting innovation adopted.
Every role below is the same job in a different costume: translate between the people who hold the scalpel and the people who build the technology. Tap a stop to follow the thread.
Founder, co-op.care (aging-in-place care cooperative). Clinical AI evaluation and safety testing for healthcare AI companies. Building SolvingHealth's physician-facing product stack — every card below is a real live domain.
Wonder Bill catches the billing codes your EHR template skipped. Prior Auth drafts letters in 60 seconds. Pocket PWA hands patients a tap-to-refer rail. Zero EHR integration required — enter your NPI, profile live in 10 seconds.
AI generates clinical content; licensed physicians review and attest with a swipe, earning $12–400 per review. OIG audit-defensible via Advisory Opinion 25-03. WORM-anchored to Cloudflare R2 with 7-year object lock.
$59/month membership plus a $199 physician-signed Letter of Medical Necessity unlocks HSA/FSA eligibility for companion care. The caregiver stays. The family stays. The physician oversees. Boulder-first, national-next.
The canonical Sage chat bar that lives at the bottom of every site in the ecosystem. 241 MCP tools across 14 modules. One-click Claude Desktop install. Built for builders, free-to-start, open-schema.
40 projects. 50 sessions. Context erodes every 200k tokens and none of your AI sessions know about each other. chanio is the tree they all reference into — a private knowledge graph organized into project channels, compiled nightly to your disk. You don't need another AI. You need one that governs all of them.
Free sweat-rate calculator gives you exact sodium, potassium, and magnesium targets — then routes to a real-food cart (Skratch + bulk minerals) at ~$1.50 per session. No supplements, no manufacturing, no FDA. Content and affiliate model, Parker Warkentine as the founding distance athlete (4:19 mile).
A $79, whisper-quiet, 78% recycled home growing system. 2-minute setup. 62% gross margin. For people who want to grow functional mushrooms at home, not buy supplements. Kickstarter-bound.
Every project above is a channel in chanio — compiled nightly, open loops surfaced, context held across sessions.
chanio.com — the governing layer →Clinical training, business foundation, and deep domain expertise in orthopedic technology.
Fractional strategy, advisory board, healthcare M&A consulting, or just a real conversation about the agentic care stack. I read everything.