Chris Betz

Summary

Engineering leader with two decades in healthcare technology, twice a CTO. I build teams and production systems for hard, regulated problems: applied AI with real evaluation and governance, EHR interoperability, and products across web and mobile.

Experience

• Head of Engineering · Altitude

  Lead engineering, data, security, and AI strategy; led the pivot from rule-based engines to LLM- and agent-driven clinical pipelines.

  2025 to Present

• CTO · aptihealth

  Owned product and technology vision; built the team, data platform, and the security and compliance foundations.

  2023 to 2025

• Senior Director of Engineering · Brightside Health

  Led 30+ engineers building mental-health software; drove EHR interoperability and HITRUST certification.

  2022 to 2023

• CTO · New Ocean Health Solutions

  Built the engineering org from the ground up: B2C, B2B, and B2B2C products, FHIR APIs, and native iOS and Android apps.

  2013 to 2022

• Senior Software Engineer · Take Care Health (acquired by Walgreens)

  Built enterprise APIs and data layers across web and early mobile; lead developer on an EMR/EHR web app.

  2006 to 2013

Focus areas

• Applied AI in healthcare ·
• Engineering leadership ·
• Full-stack product engineering ·
• Mobile apps ·
• EHR integration (Epic, athenahealth, SMART on FHIR) ·
• Security and compliance (HITRUST, HIPAA)

Selected projects

• Trove Open-source lookup tools and Claude skills for public healthcare data (CMS cost reports, IRS 990s, FDA approvals).
• Last EHR Low-code platform for composing a headless EHR with AI agents.

Education

B.S. Computer Engineering · Lehigh University