About JardogsHealth
We've spent decades inside healthcare technology.
We've built, run, and scaled the technology healthcare depends on. Along the way, we saw what happens when every new challenge adds another disconnected system, workflow, and handoff. So we came back to build what comes next: the AI operating layer for healthcare.
We've done this before
Different era. Same instinct: connect what healthcare keeps apart.
We didn't start with the latest wave of AI. Founder and CEO Jim Hewitt developed TouchWorks™ EHR, then founded the original Jardogs and created FollowMyHealth, an EHR-agnostic patient-engagement platform that grew to approximately 45 million users. After its acquisition by Allscripts, the team kept building healthcare technology at enterprise scale. Years later, Jardogs returned, not to rebuild the EHR, but to build what healthcare needs around it.
- 1990sEarly health ITBuilding foundational EHR technology, including TouchWorks™ EHR.
- 2010JardogsFounded to tackle healthcare fragmentation.
- 2012FollowMyHealthEHR-agnostic patient engagement, grown to roughly 45 million users.
- 2013AllscriptsBuilding and leading healthcare technology at enterprise scale.
- 2025JardogsHealthBuilding the AI operating layer for healthcare.
What we believe
Healthcare technology should remove complexity. Not relocate it.
The EHR should remain the system of record. New intelligence shouldn't require replacing the infrastructure healthcare already depends on, and solving one workflow shouldn't create another disconnected destination for data or work.
Technology should understand the context, automate what can be automated, and help move the work forward.
Build around what works. Connect what doesn't.
Experience matters
Software alone doesn't understand healthcare.
Good healthcare technology starts with understanding the work: the clinician finishing a chart, the staff member managing the next task, the revenue team tracing a problem upstream. That's why our team spans clinical care, EHRs, interoperability, enterprise software, operations, finance, and implementation.
We don't build for healthcare from the outside. We build from inside the work.
Leadership
The people building what comes next.
Clinical. Technical. Operational. Financial. Commercial. Different disciplines, one goal: make healthcare work better.
Jim Hewitt
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
35+ years in enterprise healthcare technology. Developed TouchWorks™ EHR, held CIO roles at Springfield Clinic and Allscripts, and founded the original Jardogs, creator of EHR-agnostic FollowMyHealth, used by 45M+ nationwide.
Kim Franks, BSN, RN
Chief Clinical Officer
A registered nurse who puts clinical experience at the center of product strategy. Shaped the original Jardogs clinical strategy and guided documentation transformation nationwide.
Jordan Hewitt
Chief Operating Officer
Leads operations and execution across product, technology, and strategy. Enterprise program leadership at Andor Health, with Microsoft, Walgreens, and Orlando Health, and product leadership at Karmak.
Julie Abel
Chief Financial Officer
20+ years of financial leadership, including 10 as a CPA in public accounting. Leads financial strategy and infrastructure as the company grows.
Jeff Di Rado
EVP, Sales and Business Development
30+ years leading global sales, business development, and go-to-market transformation. Leads commercial strategy and partnerships.
Blake Nickerson
Vice President of Engineering
10+ years building enterprise software, data systems, and automated platforms, including engineering work for Microsoft and Riot Games.
Laura Hamilton
Vice President of Marketing
15+ years of experience bringing innovative solutions to market. Part of the original Jardogs team that launched FollowMyHealth, she now leads go-to-market strategy and execution for JardogsHealth and its next generation of healthcare technology.
Matt Harbarger
Director, Implementations
15+ years implementing solutions across complex clinical environments. Formerly Director of Professional Services at Veradigm. Leads implementation and adoption.
Big technology. Small-town address.
Healthcare innovation doesn't need a Silicon Valley ZIP code.
We're headquartered in Hillsboro, Illinois. From a small Midwestern town, we're building technology for some of healthcare's biggest operational challenges, less interested in where innovation is supposed to happen, more interested in technology that actually works.
Welcome to SiliCORN Valley.
What we're building
The AI operating layer for healthcare.
One connected, EHR-agnostic platform bringing intelligence, automation, and action together across healthcare.