Healthcare founders are often judged by what they build, but the more revealing measure is the problem they choose to stay with. The strongest digital health leaders pay attention to the moments where technology stops being useful, where a patient still cannot be examined, where a clinician lacks the information needed to make a confident decision. Their work begins with those limits. It takes patience to understand them, discipline to test assumptions, and enough proximity to healthcare to know that convenience alone cannot define progress.
Alex Koshykov has built his career around that practical view of digital health. As Founder and CEO of YODD, Founder of Health2Tech, and Co-Founder and COO of BeKey, he works across medical devices, healthcare software, community building, and industry conversations. His path has moved from delivering technology for healthcare organizations to responding to an urgent humanitarian need, and then toward a larger question: how can remote care give physicians more than a face on a screen?
A real gap
Telehealth made distance less restrictive, but Alex Koshykov saw an important limitation in the experience. A video appointment allows a physician and patient to speak, observe, and exchange information, yet many routine clinical assessments still depend on physical examination. A doctor may need to listen to the heart or lungs, inspect the ear or throat, measure oxygen saturation, or look closely at a visible symptom.
That gap became central to YODD. The company is developing a modular remote-diagnostic device designed to extend what a physician can assess during a remote consultation. Its configuration brings together a digital stethoscope, otoscope, overview camera, pulse oximeter, thermometer, ECG, and blood pressure monitor, giving clinicians access to a broader range of diagnostic information during a remote consultation.
The idea is grounded in a simple clinical reality. Remote access becomes more useful when the doctor has better inputs for judgment.
Born in crisis
The roots of YODD reach back to 2022, when Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine disrupted ordinary access to healthcare. People were sheltering, displaced within the country, or living abroad after leaving their homes. Reaching a clinic could be difficult or impossible.
Alex Koshykov and the BeKey team responded with Doctors4UA, a humanitarian telehealth platform built in roughly two weeks. The service connected Ukrainians who needed medical help with doctors willing to provide consultations remotely. For people unable to reach conventional care, a digital connection could become an immediate route to medical guidance.
Doctors4UA demonstrated what telehealth could accomplish under extraordinary circumstances. It also exposed what remained difficult. A physician could talk with a patient from another location, but the physical examination was still largely missing. That experience gave Alex a problem worth pursuing beyond the emergency itself.
Listening first
Rather than treating the initial idea as proof of a finished solution, Alex took it back to the people expected to use it. The development of YODD was informed by more than 400 customer discovery interviews with physicians and healthcare organizations.
A technically impressive product can still miss the realities of how physicians examine patients, how organizations deliver care, or how people behave outside a clinic.
The interviews helped shape YODD around actual use rather than assumption.
One device
YODD’s modular approach is intended to make several common examination functions available during remote care. The overview camera supports visual assessment, while the otoscope allows physicians to examine areas such as the ear. The digital stethoscope brings auscultation into the remote encounter, while the pulse oximeter measures oxygen saturation. The thermometer, ECG, and blood pressure monitor add further vital measurements to the consultation. Together, these modules give physicians a broader set of clinical inputs, bringing the remote interaction closer to an in-person examination.
In 2026, YODD received the Grand Prize, Judges’ Pick, at the HealthTech Impact Award. The award followed its selection among medical device finalists.
Digital health at a glance
| Platform | Role | Focus |
| YODD | Founder & CEO | Modular remote diagnostics |
| Health2Tech | Founder | Digital health events, interviews, and community |
| BeKey | Co-Founder & COO | Healthcare software and medical device development |
| Doctors4UA | Humanitarian initiative | Remote medical consultations for Ukrainians |
| 2026 Recognition | Grand Prize, Judges’ Pick | HealthTech Impact Award |
Beyond product
Alex’s role in digital health extends beyond YODD. In 2024, he launched Health2Tech, an international community built around bringing healthcare founders, clinicians, investors, executives, and other industry participants into the same conversation.
Since then, Health2Tech has expanded its event presence across more than 13 U.S. cities. It creates spaces where people working on healthcare problems can meet, exchange experience, and challenge ideas.
Alex Koshykov also hosts an executive interview series and co-hosts the Digital Health Inside Out podcast and YouTube channel. These conversations give him another view of the sector, one shaped by the people building companies, practicing medicine, investing in new approaches, and making decisions inside healthcare organizations.
Building community
Health2Tech complements Alex’s product work because healthcare rarely changes through one company working alone. Medical technology must eventually meet clinicians, health systems, investors, technical teams, regulators, and patients.
Creating a community around those perspectives allows Alex to stay close to the questions influencing digital health while giving others a place to compare experiences. The format has grown from events into interviews and media, turning Health2Tech into a continuing industry conversation rather than a one-time gathering.
His position as both builder and host is useful here. He is not observing digital health from outside. The product decisions, customer conversations, operational challenges, and healthcare requirements discussed at these gatherings are issues he encounters through his own companies.
Operating depth
That operating experience has been built over years at BeKey, the international healthcare software company Alex co-founded and serves as COO. With a team of around 50 people, BeKey develops digital health, AI, and medical device software for clients across North America, Europe, and Asia.
The company places Alex Koshykov on the delivery side of healthcare technology as well as the founder side. Building for clients requires translating an idea into software that works within real organizational and technical conditions. It also exposes teams to the distance between an appealing concept and a product that can be implemented, maintained, and used.
For him, useful health technology has to survive contact with the clinic, the organization, and the patient. That background helps explain why his work around YODD has relied so heavily on discovery. Years spent building healthcare technology make one lesson difficult to ignore: the problem must be understood before the product can earn its place.
Connected work
Seen together, Alex’s three principal roles form a connected body of work. BeKey gives him an operating base in healthcare software and medical technology. Health2Tech places him in recurring conversations with people shaping digital health. YODD turns a specific problem, sharpened through Doctors4UA and hundreds of discovery interviews, into a medical device company focused on remote diagnostics.
The connection is less about holding several titles and more about how one experience informs another. Humanitarian telehealth exposed a clinical limitation. Customer discovery tested its relevance. Software delivery provided technical grounding. Community conversations widened the range of perspectives around healthcare adoption.
This is what makes his story more substantial than a conventional founder narrative. YODD did not begin as an abstract attempt to enter a growing market. Its direction emerged from a healthcare access problem witnessed under extreme conditions and refined through sustained contact with clinicians and organizations.
Remote possibility
Remote care will continue to depend on trust, clinical judgment, and the quality of information available to the physician. Video solved an important part of access by allowing patients and doctors to meet across distance. Alex’s work asks what must come next if that encounter is expected to support more meaningful clinical assessment.
YODD is his answer in progress: a modular device designed to give physicians additional examination capabilities without requiring the patient and doctor to share the same room. Health2Tech broadens the conversation around such challenges, while BeKey keeps him grounded in the work of building healthcare technology for organizations across markets.
For Alex Koshykov, the path from Doctors4UA to YODD carries a clear continuity. A crisis demanded immediate access to doctors. That response revealed the limits of remote consultation. Instead of accepting those limits as permanent, he chose to work on them. In digital health, where ambitious claims can easily outrun clinical usefulness, that focus gives his leadership its clearest definition: start with the real problem, listen closely, and build until distance becomes less of a barrier to care.
