The person behind the system.
I'm Blaine Warkentine, MD. I spent 20 years watching healthcare technology fail the people it was supposed to help. BrainLAB taught me how to build at scale. Three exits taught me what creates value. Leaving residency taught me that I'm a builder, not an operator.
SolvingHealth isn't a startup pitch. It's the output of a specific frustration: I watched surgeons leave real money on the table because their documentation systems were built for compliance, not for revenue capture. I watched families pay full price for care that should have been HSA/FSA eligible -- because nobody told them about Letters of Medical Necessity. I watched caregivers earn poverty-level wages with no benefits while doing work that keeps people out of the hospital.
The health system isn't broken because of bad doctors. It's broken because the infrastructure around them was built for billing, not for care. I'm building the infrastructure that should have existed all along.
I'm not a designer. I'm not a frontend engineer. I'm a clinical translator who learned to code with Claude because nobody else was going to build this. Every product below solves a problem I watched go unsolved for two decades.
Grew the orthopedic vertical from zero. Worked with 500+ surgeons across the US and Europe on image-guided navigation. 5 patents. This is where I learned that the best technology in the world is useless if clinicians don't adopt it.
PumpOne (8 years as CMO, acquired by Anytime Fitness). InVivoLink (perioperative analytics, acquired by HCA Healthcare). WellDoc. Disior (3D surgical planning, acquired by Paragon 28). Each one taught me something about what makes healthcare technology stick -- and what makes it fail.
Founder attempts. Pristine Surgical (7 years). JointCoach (3 years, shelved -- no customer, too many pivots). CareGoals (absorbed into co-op.care). Honest accounting: none of these generated meaningful revenue. But every failure sharpened the thesis that became SolvingHealth.
The system. 7-layer agentic healthcare AI stack. ClinicalSwipe MCP server with 38 passing tests. Evidence Engine querying PubMed and OpenFDA. PROMIS scoring with G-code mapping. 13 websites. 805 tests passing in CareOS. One surgeon pilot about to go live. Built with Claude Code, deployed on Vercel and Railway. This is the thing all the other things were preparing me for.
Every site serves a role. Patient tools generate data. Data feeds the surgeon platform. Surgeon platform funds the care cooperative. One system.
For Surgeons- surgeonvalue.com -- eleven physician-attested agents. PROMs, prior auth, coding capture under the surgeon's own NPI.
- jointcoach.com -- RTM funnel. MediaPipe movement tracking. Open-source.
- clinicalswipe.com -- Physician attestation. 60-tool MCP server. OIG audit defense.
- accessmo.de -- CMS ACCESS Model explained. Practice readiness calculator.
- orthoinjury -- Orthopedic injury guide. 8 conditions. Questions for your surgeon. Built; its domain does not currently resolve, so there is no link to give you.
- arthritisrisk.com -- 10-question arthritis risk quiz. Personalized score.
- healthgait.com -- 5-test gait assessment with stopwatch. The sixth vital sign.
- kineticfirst.com -- Movement assessment platform. Kinetic Care Loop.
- co-op.care -- Worker-owned cooperative care. W-2 caregivers with equity.
- fallrisks.com -- Home safety walkthrough. Room-by-room. Fix costs.
- qualitydeath.com -- Advance care planning. 8-question conversation starter.
- caregoals.com -- advance care planning as a conversation. Advance directives. Family readiness.
- comfortcard.org -- Digital health wallet. QR emergency access.
- solvinghealth.com -- The platform. 7-layer stack. SDK. 20 data ventures.
- sh-room.com -- Silent mushroom incubator. Kickstarter Fall 2026.
The Honest Version
I have an MD but I'm not a licensed physician. I left orthopedic residency in year 4. I never took Step 3. I never practiced on my own license. My superpower is "clinical translator" -- I understand how surgeons think and I can build technology they'll actually use. That's different from being a surgeon.
My exits were real but my roles varied. BrainLAB was the big one -- six years, a vertical built from zero, my fingerprints on every deal. The others I contributed to but didn't run. I don't inflate.
I've been building founder-stage companies since 2017 without meaningful revenue. SolvingHealth is the one that's different because the timing is right (CMS ACCESS launching July 2026), the technology is right (Claude Code lets a clinical translator ship production software), and the market is right (96% of CCM-eligible patients aren't enrolled). But I've been wrong before.