Kyna Fong Honored as One of the Top Women Leaders in Healthcare Technology of 2025

Elation Health is proud to share that Co-Founder and CEO Kyna Fong, PhD, has been named one of The Top Women Leaders in Healthcare Technology of 2025 by The Healthcare Technology Report. The annual list recognizes women who are not only driving innovation, but also turning complex technology into systems that work for patients, clinicians, and health organizations in the real world.

Across diagnostics, data infrastructure, patient services, and clinical development, this year’s honorees are reshaping how care is delivered. Kyna’s inclusion highlights the growing recognition that primary care—and the technology that supports it—belongs at the center of that transformation.

About the award

Each year, The Healthcare Technology Report reviews nominations from across the industry to highlight leaders who are advancing healthcare through:

• Operational and strategic impact inside complex organizations

• Technology that works at the point of care, not just on paper

• The ability to navigate regulatory, policy, and market shifts while keeping patients and clinicians at the core of their work

The 2025 list includes C-suite executives, founders, and functional leaders at startups, nonprofits, and global enterprises. Many have led their organizations through major milestones in the last year—from FDA clearances and clinical trial breakthroughs to national platform expansions and AI rollouts.

Kyna Fong’s path: from independent practice to national platform

Kyna’s connection to primary care started long before Elation. As a teenager, she helped run her father’s independent primary care clinic—answering phones, managing charts, and handling billing. That experience showed her both the power of a trusted primary care relationship and the toll that broken systems and paperwork take on clinicians and patients alike.

After studying computer science and economics at Harvard and earning her PhD in economics from Stanford, Kyna became a health economics professor at Stanford. She ultimately left academia to tackle the problem she saw up close: technology that pulled primary care physicians away from their patients instead of supporting them.

In 2010, Kyna and her brother, Conan Fong, co-founded Elation Health to build a clinical-first EHR for their family’s own practice—designed around the exam-room relationship rather than billing screens. What started in a single clinic has grown into the largest and most trusted clinical technology platform built solely for primary care in the U.S., used by more than 47,000 clinicians caring for over 24 million patients.

Leading the clinical-first, AI-powered future of primary care

Under Kyna’s leadership, Elation has taken a clinical-first approach to AI: embedding intelligence directly into the EHR and billing platform instead of bolting on disconnected tools. That strategy has produced:

• EHR-native AI documentation tools like Note Assist that listen to the visit and draft structured notes and follow-ups, saving physicians roughly 12–13 minutes per visit—about two extra hours per day—while keeping clinicians fully in control of the record.

• A unified EHR + billing platform that helps independent practices sustain themselves financially, with outcomes like 4x faster claim submission and significant staff time saved at practices such as Harmony Healthcare.

• Clinical-first AI features delivered at no additional cost to customers, reinforcing Elation’s belief that AI should strengthen primary care, not add a new financial burden.

These results have been validated externally: Elation has earned back-to-back Best in KLAS awards for Small Practice Ambulatory EMR/PM and has been named among TIME’s World’s Top HealthTech Companies, recognitions based heavily on customer feedback and outcomes.

A national voice for primary care and responsible AI

Beyond Elation, Kyna has become a widely recognized voice for primary care investment and responsible AI. Her writing and commentary have appeared in Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Forbes, and she has spoken at forums such as ViVE, HLTH, and the Primary Care for America Summit.

She was also invited to the White House as part of a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Health Tech Ecosystem initiative, joining a select group of public and private leaders working to make it easier and more secure for patients and clinicians to access the information they need. Across these platforms, Kyna has consistently argued for:

• Rebuilding U.S. healthcare around strong, well-supported primary care

• Designing AI as a “scalpel, not a sledgehammer”—augmenting clinical judgment rather than replacing it

• Aligning payment and technology so that primary care becomes one of the best-compensated and most influential specialties, reflecting its outsized impact on cost and outcomes

What this recognition means for Elation’s community

Being named one of the Top Women Leaders in Healthcare Technology of 2025 is a personal milestone for Kyna, but it also reflects the work of the thousands of clinicians and staff who use Elation every day.

For Elation’s customers and partners, this recognition affirms that:

• Primary care has a seat at the table in national conversations about AI, interoperability, and payment reform.

• The technology they rely on is being shaped by leaders who understand independent practice firsthand and are committed to reducing, not adding, administrative burden.

• The future roadmap—deeper automation across visits and billing, stronger specialty support, and richer practice-level insights—will continue to be grounded in a simple promise: more time with patients, more sustainable practices, and technology that stays in service of the physician–patient relationship.

About Elation Health

Elation Health is the clinical-first AI platform for primary care success, trusted by more than 47,000 clinicians caring for over 24 million patients nationwide. Elation’s EHR and billing solutions combine proven clinical workflows with responsible, embedded AI—purpose-built to save time, protect revenue, and sustain the meaningful relationships at the heart of medicine.

To learn more about Elation and its clinical-first AI platform, visit elationhealth.com.