Shalom Reinman didn't set out to build a healthcare technology company.
He set out to find a job. His brother talked him out of his entrepreneurial ideas and into a billing role at a nursing home. $23,000 a year. 2008. He figured he'd learn the business.
He learned more than that.
He taught himself accounting. He fixed a company-wide billing glitch on a Sunday because it needed fixing. He mastered IBM business intelligence systems. He built Excel workbooks so sophisticated they started to break. And when they did, he pushed to hire a programmer — to a boss who asked him, straight-faced: "How is a programmer going to help me fix a boiler?"
Two years later, that same boss was asking job applicants what they knew about a data warehouse.
Shalom eventually built one of the most advanced analytics platforms in long-term care from inside a nursing home company. When the opportunity came to take it to the broader industry, he left and started Megadata.
Today, Megadata has 80-plus integrations, a Series A from Blueprint Equity, and data warehouse customers who are building AI-powered workflows on top of their data — without writing a single line of code.
In the newest episode of Care, Code, and Capital, Dan Brody sits down with Shalom to talk about what 18 years on the inside of long-term care data actually taught him:
- Why the user interface of healthcare technology is about to look nothing like it does today
- How Megadata's team used oxygen saturation data to detect Covid outbreaks before anyone in the building knew they had one — and how that story ended up on ABC Nightline
- What the combination of a data warehouse, 80-plus integrations, and tools like Claude actually unlocks for a nursing home operator
- Why the operators moving on AI now are the ones who will set the pace — and what happens to those who don't
One line that stuck with us: "The humans who use AI most effectively are going to be the most valuable people in the room. The ones who avoid it — they get left in the dust."
Worth your time, whether you're an operator, a technologist, or anyone trying to understand where healthcare data is actually going.
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Care, Code, and Capital explores how healthcare, technology, and investment intersect to shape the future of the industry. Host Dan Brody speaks with founders, operators, and investors about what’s actually working in health tech — and what it takes to turn innovation into real-world impact.