This is a Q&A Session from June 27, 2020, where Thomas Kalil Chief Innovation Officer of Schmidt Futures interviews USDR UI Lead Reshma Khilnani. Q. Tell me a bit about your background, and why you decided to join the U.S. Digital Response. I’m Reshma — a software engineer and entrepreneur…

Tens of millions of Americans have lost their jobs in the past month. Not only have local businesses closed, but countless others who work as part of the “gig economy” have lost their sources of income because of the COVID-19 crisis. Overall, over 26M people have made unemployment benefit claims…

This fall, I joined the board of the University of Nebraska Lincoln Raikes School. The Raikes School is a combined Computer Science and Management undergraduate honors program and serves some of the top students in Nebraska and nationwide. …

Why is exchanging health data so hard? — A realistic deployment diagram I have had a few friends ask me why we see some strange things in healthcare. For example: Health data is exchanged by fax, CD/DVD, or on a sheet of film using patients as mules It’s more efficient to make you rewrite all your medical history…

Without making the community hate you — /r/radiology Reddit is both an amazing and terrifying website. It is the 58th biggest site on the internet, has amazing communities in specific topics, but companies trying to get visibility on the website run a very real risk of backlash. Backlash recipients range from Google to Woody Harrelson. My company…

Products I use to run my (regulated, enterprise) business — Brain MRI in the MedXT Viewer I’m Reshma, Co-Founder of MedXT, a web and mobile RIS/PACS (diagnose patients remotely using medical imaging like X-Ray, CT Scan etc). MedXT is enterprise medical software (read: lots of regulatory requirements.) Not only do we have to be HIPAA compliant, but we also have…

Top Bitcoin questions I’ve been asked — Bitcoin Birthday Cake Who are you? Why are you writing about Bitcoin? Do you ever feel like there is that person who is un-naturally enthusiastic about a new currency even though they have no idea how/why it will be used? That’s me! For years I have been into virtual/crypto/digital currencies of different kinds. Including, but not limited to: letting…