March 23, 2026

How Optura Is Helping Healthcare Organizations Actually Transform

24 minutes

In this episode, host Sandy Vance and Andy Fanning, the CEO & Co-founder of Optura.ai, sit down to talk about why so many healthcare organizations are making AI headlines without actually transforming anything. Andy breaks down how Optura helps payers, providers, and life sciences companies move from a scattered list of AI ideas to a prioritized, production-ready roadmap with measurable return on investment. From crowdsourcing use cases across an entire organization to aligning AI investments with executive strategy, this episode is packed with practical insight for any healthcare leader who wants AI to actually move the needle.

In this episode, they talk about:

Most healthcare leaders feel they are not moving fast enough with AI, despite the headlines

Shadow AI is just an unmet need, and governance is the answer

Crowdsourcing AI ideas from the bottom up reveals hotspots that leadership often cannot see

Aligning AI use cases to existing strategic initiatives makes adoption dramatically easier

Point solutions do not share context, and that missing context is where the real value lives

Return on AI investment requires defining what value actually means for your specific organization

Agentic AI is the next big wave, and organizations need to decide where they sit on the risk spectrum

Trust at the frontline is built by showing workers how AI follows their own standard operating procedures

If finance cannot see the ROI, they will conclude that AI does not work

A little about Andy:

Andy is the Co-Founder and CEO of Optura.ai, where he's on a mission to help healthcare organizations stop dabbling in AI and start seeing real returns from it. His team built an AI Orchestration Platform designed from the ground up for healthcare, giving organizations the infrastructure, trust, and clarity to turn AI ambition into measurable ROI.

The platform does it all in one place: spotting high-value AI opportunities, building and deploying custom agents, unlocking data without the ETL headache, auto-generating workflows from existing SOPs, and tracking return on AI investment in real time. No black boxes, no guesswork. Just AI that actually proves its worth.

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