VP of Solutions and Partnerships
Orthogonal
Randy Horton is VP of Solutions and Partnerships at Orthogonal, a software development consulting firm. Orthogonal helps MedTech firms improve patient outcomes faster by accelerating their development pipelines for Software as a Medical Device (SaMD), digital therapeutics (DTx) and connected medical device systems. Orthogonal works with a range of firms building medical device software including VC-backed startups, enterprise medical device and pharmaceutical companies, software platform providers and consumer technology firms.
Randy is passionate about helping organizations break through to their “what’s next” by building new capabilities and launching new products and services that are both innovative and successful. Much of his career has focused on using digital health solutions to help healthcare organizations tackle The Quadruple Aim.
Horton co-chairs AAMI’s Software Management Working Group #10, AAMI Consensus Report #510 and forthcoming AAMI TIR #115. All are focused on the appropriate use of cloud computing in the operation of medical devices. He co-authored the AAMI BI&T Journal's Best Article of the Year titled, "Hey You, Get On the Cloud: Safe and Compliant Use of Cloud Computing with Medical Devices"
Randy has presented in a range of conferences including Medcon, AAMI/FDA/BSI International Standards Conference, HLTH/VIVE, MD&M, Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care (HFES) and RAPS.
He has also given talks about AI, medical device design, digital health and healthcare transformation at Northwestern University, University of Chicago, University of Michigan, and University of California - Berkeley/San Francisco.
Horton earned a BA from the University of Michigan and was in the first graduating class of Master’s students from Michigan's School of Information. However, he credits his passions for creative business thinking and being a connector of people and ideas to his time at a Montessori pre-school in the 1970s.
Randy takes his work very seriously but tries not to take himself too seriously.
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Sunday, September 11, 2022
8:30 AM – 4:00 PM MST