Digital Health Founders: Adrian Schauer, AlayaCare
From From the Burgundy Chairs by Santis Health
March 9, 2026 · 27 min · Episode 46
About this episode
Adrian Schauer discusses the founding and growth of AlayaCare and the future of digital health in Canada.
Digital Health Founders is a Santis Health series featuring one-on-one conversations with leaders from across Canada’s digital health ecosystem. From transformative startups to public sector changemakers, these episodes explore how innovators are shaping the future of care through collaboration, technology and bold thinking. In this episode, we sit down with Adrian Schauer, Founder and CEO of AlayaCare, Canada’s leading software provider for the home care sector. Adrian shares the story of AlayaCare’s founding and growth, the key challenges and opportunities for digital health in Canada, his own experience as a Canadian innovator growing both here and abroad, and where he sees the digital health landscape going in the future. -- Adrian Schauer, Founder and CEO, AlayaCare Adrian Schauer is the founder and CEO of AlayaCare, a home healthcare software company that has grown to over 600 employees in eleven years and is delivering its disruptive solution across the globe. AlayaCare’s purpose is to enable the type of care that we would all want our loved ones to receive at home rather than in a hospital or long-term care facility. By combining virtual care tools with the supporting…
People in this episode
Guest: Adrian Schauer
Topics covered
- digital health
- home care
- innovation
- technology
- healthcare
- entrepreneurship
Keywords
- digital health
- AlayaCare
- home care
- healthcare technology
- value-based care
- entrepreneurship
- Canada
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: AlayaCare
Places: Canada
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