Company leader
Niko Skievaski
Co-founder and President
Redox
Niko Skievaski is a co-founder of Redox, which lets a health app reach many electronic records through one connection. He joined Epic to get at medical data, discovered the data sat in hospital basements, and left to build a way to get it out.
Studying Economics
He studied economics at Arizona State University and Boston University. He then spent four years as an operations analyst at Wells Fargo before graduate school.
Discovering Where Epic's Data Lived
"I actually went to Epic to get my hands on the data," he said of joining the electronic record company, where he taught healthcare economics. He found that Epic did not hold the data at all. It sat in data centers that health systems ran around the country, and outside software needed a custom interface for each one.
Founding Redox
In 2014 he co-founded Redox in Madison, Wisconsin, with Luke Bonney and James Lloyd, both also from Epic. A developer connects to Redox once instead of building a custom interface for every hospital. He also wrote Struck by Orca, a book on the ICD-10 diagnosis codes, and founded 100state, a coworking community in Madison.
Mountain Biking in Boulder
After ten years in Madison he moved to Boulder, Colorado. He raced mountain bikes all through college and moved there to get back to it. "So I moved to Boulder for the mountain biking," he said.