Flow Health CEO on AI, innovation under Trump and what it means to win a VA contract

When the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs awarded a five-year contract to Flow Health for advancing artificial intelligence, the startup stepped into the national health IT spotlight. Healthcare IT News caught up with Flow Health CEO Alex Mishkin to discuss his vision for AI, cognitive computing and machine learning, what a federal contract means to a young company and what the incoming Trump administration might mean for innovation in America. Q: What does winning a VA contract mean to an emerging company like Flow Health? A: The VA approached us and said'imagine what you can help us do with our data.' It's super exciting to be working with the largest integrated clinical data set in the United States: 22 million unique people, spanning 20 years so it's a rich longitudinal data.