About Communify
Communify's platform has been developed by a team composed of lean-based trainers and coaches, engineers (operations research, biomedical, and human factors), and executives with technology, finance, venture capital, and private equity backgrounds.
We specialize in how infrastructure intersects with processes and culture to give management and front-line teams new ways of understanding and transforming complex organizations.
ImprovementFlow, the healthcare version of Communify's platform, contains components that are a joint venture with UNC Health Care.
Leadership
Chris Relyea, CFA
President and Founder
Chris has over 20 years of experience in entrepreneurship, venture capital and middle-market private equity. In addition to process improvement systems, he has led development teams for medical diagnostic imaging and oncology research devices from concept through development and FDA 510(k) approvals. Chris has an engineering/economics degree from Dartmouth and an MBA from Columbia University, where he received funding from the university's startup fund. He is also a CFA Charterholder and a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma academic honor society.
Lukasz Mazur, PhD
Director, Cultural Transformation
Lukasz is the Director of UNC Health Care's Division of Healthcare Engineering which leads process improvement efforts across 160 UNC sites. He is an assistant professor in the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Library and Information Science and in the UNC-Chapel Hill Radiation Oncology Department. His research interests include healthcare engineering management as it pertains to continuous quality and patient safety efforts, and human factor engineering with a focus on workload and individual performance. His research has been funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Lukasz was awarded the prestigious Alumni Outstanding Extension Service Award from North Carolina State University for his outreach work in healthcare.
Alison Amos, PhD
Director, Training and Implementation
Alison is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the UNC-Chapel Hill Radiation Oncology Department and a member of the Department's Division of Healthcare Engineering. She implements, trains, and coaches on infrastructure for continuous quality improvement in 11 UNC oncology groups utilizing Lean-based process improvement and patient safety methodologies. Her research interests include developing tools to assess the implementation and sustainment of quality and safety programs. Alison earned her BE in biomedical engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology and her PhD in biomedical engineering from North Carolina State University and UNC-Chapel Hill.
Start with what you need today
Most customers begin with safety reporting or huddle boards and expand from there. No enterprise commitment required.