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Blaine Warkentine MD, MBA

The clinical translator. Human-in-the-loop for the AI era.

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 Faculty Physician at Automate Clinic — where I do clinical AI evaluation and safety testing embedded in engineering teams.

MD — Medical College of Wisconsin
MBA — University of Utah
BrainLAB: built ortho vertical to $250M
M&A exits: HCA Healthcare · Anytime Fitness

What I Do

I help health systems adopt innovation safely, and I help innovators navigate health systems successfully.

Health System Partnerships

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.

Healthcare M&A Advisory

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.

Medical Device Commercialization

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.

Available for fractional strategy, advisory board seats, and M&A consulting engagements.

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The arc

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.

The throughline

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.

What I'm building now

Founder, co-op.care (aging-in-place care cooperative) and Faculty Physician, Automate Clinic (clinical AI evaluation). Building SolvingHealth's physician-facing product stack — every card below is a real live domain.

Surgeons

SurgeonValue

Nine AI agents for an ortho practice

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.

Physicians

ClinicalSwipe

Physician attestation marketplace

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.

Families

co-op.care

Worker-owned aging-in-place care

$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.

Developers

HarnessHealth

Cross-brand MCP primitives

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.

Builders

chanio

The governing layer for your AI projects

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.

Athletes

SweatSciences

Metabolic health of athletes

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).

Hardware

Sh-Room

The silent mushroom incubator

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 →

Education & Credentials

Clinical training, business foundation, and deep domain expertise in orthopedic technology.

MD
Medical College of Wisconsin
Full medical degree with deep clinical training in orthopedic medicine and surgical technique.
MBA
University of Utah
Business foundation in strategy, finance, and healthcare commercialization.
Orthopedic Residency (Incomplete)
University of Maryland
Four years of orthopedic surgical training — trauma, sports medicine, joint reconstruction — before leaving in year four to join BrainLAB. I am not a practicing orthopedic surgeon; I am a clinical translator between surgeons and technology.
Surgical Navigation Fellowship
Long Beach Memorial / DePuy BrainLAB
Industry-sponsored fellowship in image-guided surgery and intraoperative navigation — the launchpad into twenty years at the boundary of orthopedic technology.
B.S. Business Administration
University of Colorado Boulder
Undergraduate foundation in business, economics, and organizational leadership.
5 Patents
Surgical Navigation & Imaging (assigned to BrainLAB)
Five issued patents in image-guided navigation, intraoperative guidance, and surgical workflow — developed during the BrainLAB orthopedic vertical build-out.

Get in touch

Fractional strategy, advisory board, healthcare M&A consulting, or just a real conversation about the agentic care stack. I read everything.

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