Healthcare Innovation August 8, 2025
David Raths

Kyna Fong, Ph.D., Elation Health’s co-founder and CEO, says providers face issues of cost and complexity with EHR add-ons

Provider organizations of all sizes are starting to deploy AI solutions as add-ons to their EHR. But one EHR vendor focused on primary care, San Francisco-based Elation Health, is stressing the importance of AI features built natively into the EHR platform.

Kyna Fong, Ph.D., Elation Health’s co-founder and CEO, says that historically it has been a challenge for incumbent EHR vendors to innovate on their platforms. Building new expertise and skill sets within your organization, and iterating and rapidly releasing innovations to customers hasn’t been a strength of legacy EHR vendors traditionally, says Fong, who co-founded Elation Health in 2010....

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