John Hui Honored Among AABDC's 2026 Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business

John Hui, Co-Founder and Chief Development Officer of Rendr, has been named one of the 2026 Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business by the Asian American Business Development Center (AABDC), recognizing his leadership and contributions to healthcare innovation and community-based care.

With more than two decades of experience in healthcare, Hui has focused his career on identifying real-world challenges and building practical solutions, from improving communication between ambulances and emergency departments through Twiage, a digital health company, to helping build Rendr into the largest integrated medical group serving New York’s Asian community.

Earlier this year, Hui was also named a Notable Leader in Health Care by Crain’s New York Business.

Expanding Access to Integrated Care

For many Asian immigrants, language and cultural barriers and unfamiliarity with the U.S. healthcare system can make accessing and navigating care difficult.

As an immigrant himself, Hui recognized these challenges firsthand. He saw the important role community physicians played in caring for Asian patients, while many independent practices faced limitations in technology, infrastructure, administrative support, and access to broader clinical resources.

In 2019, Hui joined a group of Asian American physicians and CityMD's co-founder Richard Park, MD, to establish Rendr. Their goal was to bring community practices together and strengthen care through standardized operations, modern infrastructure, and greater clinical resources.

Today, Rendr has more than 100 clinics, over 270 providers across 20 medical specialties, and serves nearly 200,000 patients.

Rendr is also advancing an integrated care model that emphasizes prevention and chronic disease management. By strengthening coordination between primary and specialty care, the model is designed to provide patients with more convenient, continuous care and better support their long-term health.

Solving a Critical Gap in Emergency Care

Before Rendr, Hui co-founded Twiage, an award-winning digital health company. The company grew from another healthcare challenge.

Hui saw that hospitals often received limited patient information before an ambulance arrived, leaving emergency teams with little time to prepare. In 2015, Hui and his co-founders launched Twiage to enable emergency medical teams to transmit critical patient information to hospitals while patients were still in transit.

The technology was adopted by healthcare organizations including Mayo Clinic, Yale New Haven Health, and HCA Healthcare. In 2024, Hui led Twiage’s acquisition by TigerConnect, a private equity-backed healthcare technology company.

Keeping Innovation Focused on Patients

While Twiage and Rendr were created to solve different healthcare challenges, Hui’s approach has remained consistent: start with a real need and build solutions that make healthcare work better for patients and clinicians.

As digital health and artificial intelligence continue to reshape healthcare, Hui believes innovation should be measured not by how new a technology is, but by whether it improves outcomes, reduces costs, streamlines workflows, and ultimately benefits physicians and patients.

New technologies, he believes, should also be introduced thoughtfully—beginning with a clearly defined need, testing solutions on a smaller scale, measuring their impact, and expanding them when they demonstrate meaningful results.

No matter how technology evolves, Hui believes healthcare ultimately remains about people.

“The most advanced healthcare must ultimately come back to the most fundamental human values: making sure patients feel understood, respected, and well cared for,” Hui said.

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