Simon Woodside

Co-founder & CTO, MedStack

Healthcare compliance softwareTorontoOn TechTO stages since 2017

Simon Woodside co-founded MedStack in Toronto in 2015 with Balaji Gopalan and is its chief technology officer and chief information security officer. MedStack wraps digital health applications in the security controls and privacy paperwork that HIPAA, PIPEDA and SOC 2 demand. He had earlier founded Semacode and Monolith Interactive.

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Pitch of the Month from Simon Woodside of Medstack

HealthTO · March 2017

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MedStack's Simon Woodside: CTOs must only build things customers wantBetaKit

2019

Quick answers

Who is Simon Woodside?

Co-founder, CTO and chief information security officer of MedStack, the Toronto healthcare-compliance company he started with Balaji Gopalan in 2015. Before that he founded Semacode, an early mobile barcode company, and Monolith Interactive.

What is MedStack?

A platform that hosts digital health applications with inheritable security controls and policy templates, so a developer can prove HIPAA, PIPEDA, GDPR and SOC 2 compliance and sell into hospitals and insurers. Launchit Solutions acquired it in November 2024.

What did he present at TechTO?

He pitched MedStack at HealthTO's Pitch of the Month in March 2017, describing the company as a "DevOps compiler" that handles the physical, technical and administrative sides of healthcare compliance for app developers.

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