Opinions abound on what's right and wrong with our U.S. healthcare system, but there's one thing most can agree on: There's a need to transform the experience for patients, providers and payers. The Covid-19 pandemic served as a catalyst for us to relook at and reimagine the digitization of the healthcare system. The strategic adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) could be transformational, but technology leaders at healthcare organizations are constrained by stringent compliance requirements and security concerns. And their fears aren't unfounded--any data breach could be catastrophic. Trust in AI doesn't come easily--one must tread cautiously, particularly in this industry.

Gagan is a leader with 20 years of experience in Healthcare across Providers, Insurers, Pharma, Med Devices, and Digital Health. He thrives in growth focused Healthcare businesses that sit at intersection of healthcare and technology trends reshaping the industry. His is the Co-Founder and CEO of Exacta.Health, a digital health analytics company focused on enabling Providers, ACOs and Payers to predict and manage high risk patients with high quality, cost-effective care. Exacta is building a proprietary, patent protected intelligent health stack that unifies health data across multiple health facilities and patient generated sources, and uses AI, machine learning, cloud edge computing paradigms to provide predictive analytics and critical insights into patient, population level health. This helps healthcare entities provide right interventions at right setting of care to balance cost, quality and profitability.

As for healthcare, it has been a slow journey into the digital world. While medicine has seen incredible advances in diagnostics, treatments, and therapies, the practice of medicine needs an overhaul. It has taken over ten years to implement electronic medical records even with substantial government incentives. I'm often reminded of the work still to be done every time I see a clipboard or a fax machine in a doctor's office. Today we see healthcare costs continuing to rise, growing concerns about physician burnout, forecasted shortages of both nurses and physicians over the next decade, and rural hospitals closing at alarming rates.