The Doctor Who Left the Operating Room to Fix Healthcare’s Most Broken Link

How Dr. Sheldon Weiss is Revealing the Future of Patient Care, One PDF at a Time

Imagine spending your career delivering babies, performing surgeries, and saving lives every day—only to realize the healthcare system itself was failing your patients in ways you couldn’t fix from the exam room.

That was the pivotal moment for Dr. Sheldon Weiss, an OB-GYN turned healthcare tech founder, who today leads Reveleum, a company quietly revolutionizing how hospitals handle their most hidden, overlooked assets: electronic faxes.

“We reveal what matters,” says Weiss.

Why Hospitals Are Bleeding Money They Didn’t Know Existed

For most physicians and administrators, electronic medical records (EMRs) are a daily frustration. They store documents but rarely integrate data from outside providers. In fact, the single most common method of transferring patient information between hospitals, specialists, and practices remains the humble electronic fax—essentially a secure PDF snapshot that disappears into a medical record side-panel, unsearchable and unstructured.

“It’s like throwing 20 pages into a file cabinet without a folder or a title,” Weiss explains. “The first doctor might read it, but months later no one knows where it is.”

Reveleum tackles this head-on with a suite of tools that convert e-fax PDFs into indexed, word-searchable, hyperlinked documents, complete with a custom table of contents. It sounds simple, but the impact is massive:

1. Doctors find what they need instantly, whether it’s lab results, imaging summaries, or consult notes.
2. Hospitals recover millions in lost revenue by identifying “transitional care management” (TCM) opportunities.

Here’s why that second point matters:

For Medicare patients discharged from a hospital, there’s a 16–20% chance of being readmitted within 30 days—a cost Medicare won’t cover, leaving hospitals with the bill (an average $15,000 per readmission). But when patients have a TCM visit with their primary care doctor within seven days, readmission rates can drop by up to 80%.

The catch? Hospitals often don’t know who those discharged patients are because their data is hidden in faxes.

Reveleum’s proprietary software identifies these patients immediately, generating call lists for care managers to schedule follow-ups before the window closes. One 120-bed hospital using Reveleum saw savings of $200,000 per month—over $2.4 million a year—by reducing readmissions and capturing TCM revenue.

From Delivering Babies to Delivering a Better Healthcare System

Why would a practicing OB-GYN with a successful career choose to leave the certainty of medicine for the chaos of startups?

“I still practice medicine, but I realized I could have far greater impact through technology,” Weiss says. “As a doctor, I helped patients one by one. But with Reveleum, I can help thousands of patients every day by making sure their care is connected and their doctors have the information they need.”

His journey wasn’t accidental. As an early EMR adopter, Weiss saw firsthand how poor interoperability endangered patient safety and frustrated providers. Later, as a Chief Strategy Officer in a hospital system, he learned lean processes and saw the gaps technology could fill.

But it’s his doctor’s heart that drives him:

“This isn’t about software. It’s about making healthcare less frustrating for physicians and better for patients. Everyone wins when data works for people, not the other way around.”

Why It Matters Now

Hospitals are under financial siege, squeezed by rising costs and Medicare penalties. Reveleum’s tools offer a rare trifecta: cost savings, revenue growth, and better care outcomes. Yet adoption remains a challenge.

“Some administrators just don’t believe a small startup can solve a problem this big,” Weiss says. “But when they see how easy it is to implement and the ROI within weeks, they realize this isn’t just another vendor product. It’s a process change that transforms their care continuum.”

The Bottom Line

Dr. Sheldon Weiss isn’t the first doctor to build a tech startup. But unlike many who digitize medicine for convenience, he’s on a mission to uncover hidden truths in data that directly save lives and reduce suffering.

Because as Weiss knows, saving a life doesn’t always require a scalpel—sometimes, it just takes revealing what matters.