Company leader
Brandon Hamilton
Co-Founder and CEO
Relevant Healthcare
Brandon Hamilton is co-founder and chief executive of Relevant Healthcare, a New York company that builds reporting and analytics software for community health centers. Relevant was founded in 2015 by health center veterans and, as of November 2025, worked with 85 health centers, independent practice associations, health center controlled networks, and primary care associations. Hamilton started in healthcare on a Fulbright Fellowship at a maternal and child health nonprofit in Calcutta, India, then worked in data roles at federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) before co-founding Relevant.
Philosophy and Health Center Data
He studied philosophy at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and found that health care IT gave logic, language, and ethics a practical outlet.
After the Fulbright he returned to the United States, worked with FQHCs, and took every data role on offer, from solo analyst to manager of a data and analytics team.
Two Products by 2021
By 2021 Relevant ran two products: an analytics platform for health centers and a care management platform, Relevant Health Homes (RHH), for New York State's Health Home program. In a February 2021 post, Hamilton and his co-founder Jacob Hodes wrote, "We began working on RHH nine years ago, as an internal project at Community Healthcare Network. Now the platform supports 40% of the Health Home membership in New York State."
Becoming CEO and Narrowing the Focus
In February 2021 Relevant Health Homes was moving with its team to Foothold Technology, a behavioral health software company in New York. Relevant was not looking to sell. Hamilton and Hodes wrote that the talks with Foothold's leadership began about six months earlier and that moving the platform made sense.
Hamilton, who continued to lead the analytics team, also became CEO. Of the focus on health centers they wrote, "That's why we founded Relevant, and supporting their work has always been a major focus. Going forward, it will be our only focus."
Hodes planned to spend much of his time at Foothold leading the Health Homes team and to keep a leadership role at Relevant.
Talks on Health Center Dashboards
Hamilton speaks to health center audiences about executive dashboards. At the National Association of Community Health Centers' Financial, Operations Management/Information Technology (FOM/IT) conference in October 2024, he presented "Which Needles to Move: Designing a Simple, Effective FQHC Executive Dashboard" with Alice Riener of CrescentCare. At the Community Health Center Association of Connecticut conference on November 13, 2025, he gave "Vital Signs: An Opinionated Guide to FQHC Executive Dashboards." The talk covered five measures: visit volume, no-show rates, third next available appointment, provider productivity, and quality measures.
Two ideas run through the Connecticut talk: big numbers presented with context, and good data visualization. On no-shows, his deck put it plainly: "Every no-show is a person who intended to get care and didn't." On provider productivity, Relevant's approach is to skip patients per hour, set targets by discipline that allow for administrative time, quality improvement work, and vacation, and prorate them across the year.
Living in Providence
He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.