

Meet Dr. Erkeda DeRouen
Dr. Erkeda DeRouen is a triple-board certified physician executive, digital strategist, and risk manager helping organizations future-proof health innovation at scale.
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As the founder of Digital Risk Compliance Solutions, she empowers leaders in health tech, care delivery, and digital medicine to execute bold strategies without creating blind spots in equity, risk, or compliance.
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Her clients include fast-moving digitally-enabled organizations with total valuations over $5 billion. She has co authored 2 books, one including a chapter on How to Navigate Telehealth published by The Mayo Clinic. Dr. DeRouen also released the book "Risk Proofing Digital Health: A Guide to Quality and Compliance." When not consulting or writing, she has served on on several boards and speaks on keynote stages internationally. She also sparked over 100 thousand conversations on the TEDX stage with her talk "Did Disney Just Save Healthcare? Imagine This."
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Dr. DeRouen brings a unique combination of clinical experience, health tech fluency, and strategic foresight.
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📣 Why She Does This Work
Dr. DeRouen believes the future of healthcare must be:
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Ethical by design
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Scalable with safety
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Led by people who understand both patients and platforms​
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She’s on a mission to ensure that health systems and digital health teams don’t have to choose between innovation and integrity.
“The future of healthcare won’t be built by tech alone. It will be led by those who center safety, integrity, and imagination.”
-Erkeda DeRouen, MD, CPHRM
