Zarmik
Zarmik builds financial intelligence for healthcare providers, starting with community hospitals. Its product, Zarmik Financial Intelligence, is one view of the whole hospital: revenue cycle, clinical operations, payroll, accounts payable and payer contracts, read together, built from the data the hospital already has and natively built on InterSystems IRIS for Health. It is in production at a community hospital and two ambulatory surgery centers in California, and it arrives for community hospitals in January 2027.
Zarmik was founded in 2023 by Roman A. Pourmand and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.
From the founder
The U.S. is the only advanced economy without a national health system. What it has instead is fragmentation, and friction in every transaction, and the people who deliver care pay most of the price, in dollars and lost time.
I have spent over thirty years on the provider's side of that table: trained as an auditor at PwC and a financial analyst at Digital Equipment Corporation, then healthcare finance and revenue operations, including fifteen years founding and leading the revenue cycle firm behind the largest heart transplant program in the world.
Provider margins are already strained, so any new solution has to be paid for with existing dollars. Those dollars come from only two places: preventing the leaks in today's systems, and productivity gains. I think about both the way an engineer does. Every denied claim, every underpaid contract, every unplanned overtime hour, every overpriced purchase is caused by a defect, and a provider's yield, as on any production line, is the share of its work that comes out right the first time. A defect cannot be fixed until it is seen. Once seen, it can be designed out, first by people, then by systems that do the work at a fraction of the cost.
Every real gain in productivity I have witnessed came from the application of tools. I see technology as a multiplier, and AI is the largest multiplier of my working life. It is democratizing technology, for better or worse: a small team can now build what once took hundreds of people, allowing a community hospital to see what only the giants could.
Zarmik is the codification of those thirty years into a platform. Zarmik Financial Intelligence is one view of the whole hospital: revenue cycle, clinical operations, payroll, accounts payable and payer contracts. I founded and lead Zarmik to improve the business of medicine and the lives of the people who run our healthcare.
Roman A. Pourmand, Founder and CEO
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