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The 2025 DirectTrust Annual Conference
2025-08-04 - 2025-08-07    
12:00 am
Three of the most interesting healthcare topics are going to be featured at the DirectTrust Annual conference this year: Interoperability, Identity, and Cybersecurity. These are [...]
ALS Nexus Event Recap and Overview
2025-08-11 - 2025-08-14    
12:00 am
International Conference on Wearable Medical Devices and Sensors
2025-08-12    
12:00 am
Conference Details: International Conference on Wearable Medical Devices and Sensors , on 12th Aug 2025 at New York, New York, USA . The key intention [...]
Epic UGM 2025
2025-08-18 - 2025-08-21    
12:00 am
The largest gathering of Epic Users at the Epic user conference in Verona. Generally highlighted by Epic’s keynote where she often makes big announcements about [...]
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Epic UGM 2025
18 Aug 25
Verona

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Akiri to Create First NaaS Platform Optimized for Healthcare

Akiri™ launched today to bring the first network-as-a-service (NaaS) platform to the entire healthcare industry. Development is currently underway for its initial product, Akiri Switch™, which is a subscription-based data network that enables any type of health information to move seamlessly and securely throughout the U.S. healthcare system.

Akiri was the first company to spin out of Health2047, an integrated innovation enterprise whose founding investor is the American Medical Association. Formerly known as Health2047 SwitchCo, the new company began with a $10 million Series A investment, a core group of founding executives, and significant market interest in its open approach to building trusted infrastructure for private data transport. Now Akiri, the company has quickly built out its engineering bench, attracting key engineering talent from Apple, Cisco, GE Healthcare, Stanford, VMWare, and other recognized market innovators.

Akiri Switch will be a vendor-agnostic solution using software-defined network (SDN) and secure routing protocol technology optimized for healthcare data. It employs blockchain technology to help securely transmit information through a standardized system of codes. The company’s first collaborator is Celgene Corporation.

“Akiri is distinctively positioned to support security, identification, authentication, compliance, analytics, and applications,” said Adriaan Ligtenberg, Akiri’s CEO. “Akiri Switch verifies healthcare data sources and destinations, allowing trusted applications to be developed and validated for patients, physicians, providers, pharma, payers and other healthcare enterprises.”

Facilitating the flow of healthcare transaction data in real time, Akiri Switch’s benefits extend beyond those offered by health information exchanges (HIEs), extract, transform, load (ETL) processes, and electronic medical record (EMR) systems.

“We must advance and embrace new technologies that have the potential to create truly meaningful market impact at the system level,” said Dr. James L. Madara, CEO of the American Medical Association (AMA). “The data liquidity problem that physicians and other healthcare stakeholders currently face needs to be solved because it’s one of the biggest barriers to improving the patient-physician relationship.”

About Akiri
Akiri Inc. provides the trusted network-as-a-service platform for the healthcare ecosystem. Akiri helps patients, physicians, providers, pharma and other healthcare enterprises travel safely on their digital journeys. For more information, visit https://akiri.com.

About Health2047
Health2047 is a Silicon Valley-based innovation enterprise developing and commercializing solutions in the areas of data liquidity, chronic care, productivity, and payments to significantly change U.S. healthcare at the system level. The company’s deep relationships with both the American Medical Association (AMA) and its network of strategic partners create a unique force multiplier that helps drive large-scale changes in healthcare. For more information about the company, please visit http://www.health2047.com.

Media Contact for Akiri:
Ashley Nakano
Sterling Communications, Inc.
(408) 395-5500
anakano@sterlingpr.com