ColoradoBiz: Tech Startup – BurstIQ
INITIAL LIGHTBULB: After working together at other data-centric companies, Frank Ricotta and Brian Jackson co-founded BurstIQ to tackle issues with health data.
“We felt there was a whole new wave of information-sharing and whole new access model that we were on the verge of entering into with health around precision medicine, IoT, and even machine intelligence,” Ricotta says.
“Everyone wanted to just keep the data and not share the data,” Jackson says. “There was a lot out there, and over the last few years, almost too much data out there.”
With the right tools, the data could be leveraged to improve treatment and outcomes, he adds. ” How do we put that data back in the patient’s hands?”
Ricotta and Jackson, the 20-employee company’s respective CEO and president/COO, anticipate hiring 20 more employees in 2020.
Read the full article in ColoradoBiz July/August 2020 issue.
About BurstIQ
BurstIQ is the leading provider of blockchain-enabled data solutions for the identity, healthcare and life sciences industries. The company’s secure data exchange network combines blockchain, multi-layered governance and best-in-class security to build multi-dimensional profiles, called LifeGraphs®, of people, places and things, and empower the connections between them. LifeGraph® Network allows organizations to manage the ownership and sharing of sensitive data, with consent, governance and process automation built in. The result is a global, secure data network that allows health systems, payers, digital health companies, pharma & life science companies and governments to collaborate, share, discover and build the impossible.
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