What if the most broken part of healthcare isn’t the medicine—but the paperwork quietly suffocating it?
Ryan Eder has spent his career staring directly at that invisible bottleneck. Now, as the founder of LainaHealth, he’s building infrastructure to fix one of healthcare’s least glamorous—but most consequential—problems: how data, billing, and administrative workflows actually move (or don’t).
Ryan is the co-founder of LainaHealth, a company rethinking healthcare operations from the ground up. With a background at the intersection of healthcare and technology, he’s tackling a system where inefficiency isn’t just costly—it’s existential. LainaHealth sits in a critical layer of the stack, helping providers operate faster, smarter, and with fewer administrative headaches at a time when margins are tighter than ever.
In Today’s Episode We Discuss
- 00:01– The Hidden Crisis in Healthcare Operations
- 02:10– Ryan Eder’s Background & Path to LainaHealth
- 05:00– Why Healthcare Feels Broken (But Isn’t Where You Think)
- 08:15– The “Unsexy” Opportunity in Admin & Workflows
- 11:40– Understanding Healthcare’s Complex Stakeholders
- 15:05– Why Innovation Struggles to Scale in Healthcare
- 18:20– Building in a Highly Regulated Industry
- 22:10– Founder Mindset: Patience vs Speed
- 25:30– Identifying Infrastructure Plays Early
- 29:00– Misaligned Incentives Across the System
- 32:15– How LainaHealth Approaches Workflow Redesign
- 36:00– Lessons from Building in Healthcare
- 39:10– Contrarian Bets in HealthTech
- 42:00– The Future of Healthcare Operations
- 45:00– Final Thoughts & Advice for Founders
Along the way, Ryan shares a perspective many founders miss: sometimes the best startups don’t invent something new—they untangle something old.
“The real problem isn’t lack of innovation—it’s that the system can’t absorb it.”
“If you fix the workflow, you don’t just save time—you unlock the entire system.”
Ryan didn’t set out to make healthcare more efficient. But somewhere along the way, he realized that fixing the pipes might matter more than inventing the next drug—and that’s exactly where LainaHealth is placing its bet.
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