Meet the team
The Cortex team is driven to assist post-acute providers in their mission to care for patients. We are originally known for making follow-up calls to patients after discharge from the hospital. Since that time we have become a full-featured software platform for post-acute providers, sitting alongside the EHR to generate opportunities for positive healthcare outcomes.
Riley Adamson
Founder and CEO
Sarah Stevens, RN
VP of Innovation
AJ Smith, RN
VP of Clinical Managed Services
Alyssa Pitts, RN BSN
VP of Customer Success
Nolan Essigmann
Software Architect and Engineering Manager
Pluto
Chief Happiness Officer
Brandon Olson
Software Engineer
Sara Carpenter
Call Team Manager
Jesika Crouse, MSN, MBA
Healthcare Outcome Consultant
Alexandria Laughlin, CHW
Healthcare Outcomes Consultant
Jeremy Adamson
Data Integrations Expert
Kristen Hijek, LPN
Customer Success Manager
April Hall, RN, BSN
Operations Manager
Megan Leishman
Customer Success Manager
Clarissa Youngberg
UX Designer
Caitlyn Bennett
Project Manager
About Cortex
Great clinical outcomes, patient experience, and employee retention are necessary to exist as a modern post-acute provider.
Our software enables post-acute providers to impress network partners with these improved outcomes and identifies past patients with new care needs.
Our software enables post-acute providers to impress network partners with these improved outcomes and identifies past patients with new care needs.
An idea!
Riley Adamson graduated from college as a product designer in spring 2015 and founded Cortex that fall. The idea came from knowing that readmission penalties were a tough problem. He believed calling patients during their recovery would help solve some of the issues and highlight the data to improve systematically.
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2015
2016
First Home Health Customer
Our first customers were home health agencies who wanted to measure their NPS score with current and former patients while identifying opportunities to provide more care.
First Skilled Nursing Customer
Our first SNFs were looking for ways to stand out against their competition. They systematically tracked and improved core satisfaction measures to become best-in-state.
2017
2018
First Hospital Customer
Our first hospital customer was St. Marks Hospital in Salt Lake City Utah. Bob Bassett was Director of Case Management and helped us tremendously. Unfortunately he passed away unexpectedly a few years after.
Investment from Susa and Ludlow Ventures
We're extremely grateful to Susa and Ludlow Ventures, both top tier venture capital groups, who believed in our mission and team.
2018
2020
COVID Call Centers
During COVID we employed hundreds of RNs to help staff remote call centers for 5 States. This was extremely helpful for Cortex, the RNs and the people across America who needed guidance from a clinical expert.