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Nils Effertz
Making Health Data Work
Nils Effertz is a German-American software executive who has spent more than two decades in healthcare IT and biomedical data, primarily in Silicon Valley. He has led companies in the United States and Europe spanning genomics data analytics, personal health records, data interoperability, and Salesforce-based SaaS, and earlier developed sales and pricing strategies behind some of the largest U.S. healthcare outsourcing and applications deals.
His experience connects how health technology is built with how it is bought, priced, and scaled. Now focused on biomedical data infrastructure, AI applications, and health IT software, he is recognized by Icons of Industry for his leadership in building the data foundations of modern healthcare, from genomics to patient records to enterprise platforms.
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