Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for Insiders · 2026-02-19 · 39 min
The daughter of a hospital administrator, Amy Gleason never considered a career in the public sector - she went straight into healthcare. As an emergency room nurse, she started to see the dangers that unfold when healthcare providers don’t have access to the information they need to treat patients. Those experiences drove her towards a tech career in the emerging electronic health records space before a very personal experience altered her professional path yet again. Amy’s active and healthy 10-year old daughter began suffering unusual healthcare events, from rashes and headaches to broken bones. Eventually, she couldn’t walk. It took more than a year from the start of these symptoms for doctors to diagnose her with a rare autoimmune disease. Even then, it was an accidental diagnosis from a dermatologist conducting a skin biopsy. Amy attributes the delayed diagnosis to siloed data, not unsimilar to the challenges she experienced as a nurse and was working to solve in the EHR space. It motivated her to co-found a company focused on helping patients with chronic diseases access their data to share it with the providers and family members helping to navigate complex care journeys.
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