Falko Buttler is the Chief Technology Officer at Lantern, a specialty care network that helps self-insured employers cut healthcare costs for surgery, cancer, and infusion.
At Lantern, Falko leads more than 110 engineers. His team drives platform upgrades, AI adoption, and the infrastructure that supports strong year-over-year growth. He reports directly to the CEO.
Falko has guided engineering through major changes at Accolade and PlushCare. He has led platform rebuilds, post-merger team integration, and company-wide AI rollouts. Before that, he built one of the first health apps for the iPhone. It reached over a million paid downloads and topped the app store ahead of Angry Birds for three days.
On Go Beyond the Connection, Falko explains why small, incremental changes reduce risk in healthcare IT. He also covers how fragmented data drives up costs and why technology must be treated as a business driver, not a support function.
Falko Buttler, CTO at Lantern, explains why healthcare modernization works better in small steps, how fragmented data creates real operational costs, and why technology leaders need to earn a seat at the strategic table.
