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The revenue cycle is one of healthcare's most expensive blind spots. Health systems pour everything into clinical excellence and then leave money on the table through billing leakage, under-coded claims, denied authorizations, and documentation gaps that erode reimbursement for genuinely complex care. Nitesh Shroff, co-founder and CEO of Arintra, has spent five years building the AI infrastructure to close that gap.

Nitesh came to healthcare from an unexpected place. He was an early AI engineer at Zoox, the autonomous vehicle company now owned by Amazon, where the work was perception models, real-time object detection, and safety-first architecture. 

The throughline to Arintra is direct: just as a self-driving car cannot afford to misread a pedestrian, an AI coding system cannot afford to hallucinate a medical code. Every code Arintra generates is fully explainable, tied back to the source documentation, and auditable. Clients have started using that audit trail as evidence in denial appeal letters to payers — a use case Nitesh didn't design for but has now built into the workflow.

• [00:03:18] What Arintra Does: How a network of clinical and financial AI agents reads physician notes and converts them into accurate medical codes — the backbone of every insurance claim.
• [00:05:56] Why Hallucination is Not an Option: The case for explainable AI in revenue cycle, and how redundancy in the system exceeds human coding accuracy.
• [00:09:06] From Autonomous Vehicles to Healthcare AI: The perception model work at Zoox and why safety-first thinking translates directly to medical coding.
• [00:11:00] The Denial Letter No One Expected: How hospitals are using Arintra's code explainability as evidence in insurance denial appeals.
• [00:13:58] How Fast Arintra Scales: A new location turns on in five minutes. A new specialty is built from scratch in three to four weeks.

Health systems provide exceptional care. The billing infrastructure around that care should match. That's what Arintra is building.

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About Nitesh Shroff

Nitesh Shroff is the CEO and co-founder of Arintra, an autonomous coding platform that combines GenAI with deep clinical expertise to help health systems get paid accurately and efficiently for the care they deliver. 

Nitesh holds a Ph.D. in Machine Learning from the University of Maryland and is an inventor with 30+ patents and publications. Throughout his career, Nitesh has applied AI and cutting-edge technologies to solve high-impact problems where precision and reliability are essential. 

As an early engineer at Zoox and Light, he developed foundational technologies critical to the performance and safety of autonomous vehicles. 

A "glow up" signifies a positive transformation, reflecting the journey of becoming a better, more successful version of oneself.

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In our podcast, we engage with innovators to discuss their transformative ideas, the challenges they face, and how they create value for future success. 

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Most AI reads your words. Attune Media Labs built one that reads your body, your mannerisms, your culture. David and Robert Bosnak, the father-son co-founders and HLTH Foundation Techquity Impact Award recipients, spent decades waiting for the technology to catch up with their idea. 

When GPT-3 arrived in 2020, they launched MIM, an artificial emotional intelligence companion that processes the tone, pitch, cadence, facial expressions, and body language that make up 93% of human communication.

Robert has been a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst for 55 years and first developed emotion recognition at the MIT Media Lab in the 1990s, when computers were too slow to run it in real time. David studied electrical engineering, spent a decade in LA writing and acting, then returned to engineering. 

Together they set out to close the mental health supply-demand gap by putting emotionally intelligent AI in the hands of people who need it most, starting with the unhoused community in Los Angeles and scaling now to frontline healthcare workers in Cameroon, where the doctor-to-citizen ratio reaches 50,000 to one.

Episode Key Moment Highlights:

• [00:03:13] The MIT Media Lab origin: how 55 years of psychotherapy and a 1990s research project became the foundation for artificial emotional intelligence.
• [00:05:37] Beyond sentiment analysis: how MIM reads nonverbal biomarkers and detects the dissonance between what you say and how your body actually feels.
• [00:12:01] The public benefit corporation decision: why Attune was built around user wellbeing from day one, not advertising or engagement.
• [00:15:30] The Cameroon pilot: 1,000 frontline health workers, a 50,000 to one doctor ratio, and what it means to build MIM for a culture you know nothing about yet.
• [00:22:47] The guardrails: 18 and over only, usage caps, and why people report feeling compelled to reconnect with real people after using MIM.

Their vision is not a digital therapist. MIM learns who you are, adjusts to your culture, and is designed to be pro-social, making real human connection more possible, not less necessary.

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Most CEOs at VIVE were talking about what AI could do. Brent Dover, CEO of Carta Healthcare, came back to the Tech Glow Up with receipts. Since we last spoke in October, Carta grew revenue 50% in a single quarter, retained every customer, and is now in conversations with major health systems about platforming their entire abstraction operations at scale.

The work is specific and the impact is real. Hospitals spend $15 billion a year paying nurses to log into patient records, scan through dozens of entries, and manually abstract the data that goes into clinical registries. 

That data drives 30 years of quality benchmarking across the country. It is how hospitals know whether their knee replacements, their stents, and their stroke care are actually measuring up. Carta's AI tools cut that process from two hours to 40 minutes per form, surface findings a human abstractor might have missed, and do it while keeping the nurse's hands on the keyboard the entire time.

Episode Key Moment Highlights:

• [00:02:38] The $15 billion problem: why hospitals spend a fortune on clinical data abstraction and what is actually at stake in the quality data it produces.
• [00:05:52] What effective AI looks like in practice: from two hours to 40 minutes per form, better answers, and less cognitive burden on the people doing the work.
• [00:08:51] The cake mix design principle: why Carta deliberately slows the AI down just enough to keep humans cognitively engaged and in the driver's seat.
• [00:11:57] The update: 50% revenue growth since October, zero customer churn, and a path to doubling or tripling the business again within a year.
• [00:15:05] The Glow Up for 2026: closing the loop so abstracted data feeds back into hospital data science initiatives within an hour of the case, while the patient is still in the building.

Brent calls the standard approach to business backwards thinking. Most companies prioritize the company first and treat customers and employees as means to that end. Carta is building the other way around, and the growth numbers are making the case.

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In our podcast, we engage with innovators to discuss their transformative ideas, the challenges they face, and how they create value for future success. 

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What if the biggest barrier to healthcare AI wasn't the technology, but it was the workforce not yet equipped to use it? Dr. Pavitra Krishnamani is the newly appointed Director of AI and Digital Health Education at MD Anderson Cancer Center and an emergency physician who's been at the intersection of clinical care and digital health innovation for nearly a decade. Her answer to that question is the job she was literally just handed.

Pavitra's path here started in a fellowship at Jefferson, where she was the clinical voice embedded in a team of designers and developers. That team built a VR code blue simulator that was later patented. In one year. 

That origin story shaped everything: her belief that getting the right people at the table early, clinicians, developers, designers, (all of them) is what separates innovation that gets translated into real healthcare settings from the ideas that never make it out of the lab.

Episode Key Moment Highlights:

• [00:04:06] The AI and Digital Health Journal Club: how MD Anderson gets clinicians, technologists, and business leaders in the same room to dissect what's actually working — and what isn't.
• [00:05:21] Inside the hackathon: why MD Anderson opened it to residents, fellows, and trainees — because innovation comes from collaboration first, not seniority.
• [00:09:27] The VR patent story: how one fellowship produced a patented VR code blue simulator and a cardiac rehab virtual reality research program.
• [00:16:07] Where healthcare AI is actually delivering ROI today: predictive analytics, clinical decision support, and freeing up human capital to do what AI can't.
• [00:22:04] "Innovate with purpose": Pavitra's call for translational innovation — starting with a problem and a person, not a product.

Pavitra coined a phrase in this conversation I haven't been able to shake: translational innovation. Asking from day one how your solution will actually be adopted, not just whether it works in a lab. 

Her work at MD Anderson is building the culture and curriculum to make that the norm.

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In our podcast, we engage with innovators to discuss their transformative ideas, the challenges they face, and how they create value for future success. 

If you're a founder or product leader seeking your own glow up, or a seasoned entrepreneur with stories to share, we invite you to join our guest list via this link.

The reality of health equity starts not in a clinic but in the community, addressing fundamental needs like housing, food, and transportation that doctors and nurses can't solve. These critical factors, known as Social Determinants of Health (SDOH), are the true barriers to living healthier and happier lives. 

But who is on the ground, doing the vital work of connecting people with these resources and building the necessary trust? Community Health Workers (CHWs)—trusted community members with invaluable lived experience—have been the hidden backbone of this effort, often operating with just paper and spreadsheets.

 Founder Colby Takeda of Pear Suite is on The Tech Glow Up to talk about the technology he built to incorporate these local experts into the official healthcare system and, most critically, finally get them paid. This episode is a deep dive into how Pear Suite, a 2026 HLTH Foundation Techquity Award winner, is driving value-based care in local communities.

Pear Suite’s philosophy is elegantly simple: healthcare should be done in the community, and those with the most relevant experience must be empowered to lead. Takeda explains that their solution not only uplifts the CHWs’ work by providing a practice management software to organize their efforts but also allows them to handle the compliance, billing, and claims that are essential to unlocking reimbursement opportunities and value-based care contracts.

Episode Highlights

• Social Determinants of Health Focus: The platform helps local workers address critical factors like housing, transportation, and food security that doctors and nurses are unable to directly assist with.
• Value-Based Care Success: A partnership with Health Net in California saw over 800 CHWs onboarded in 12 months, leading to reduced ER admissions and increased vaccinations and cancer screenings for over a million members.
• Enhancing the Workforce with AI: Pear Suite is actively working to integrate AI not to replace the essential human element of CHWs but to enhance their capacity, reduce mistakes, and save them time.
• The Power of Lived Experience: Takeda built the company on the principle that the lived experience CHWs bring to the table "can't be bought or taught," making them the most qualified navigators for hard-hit communities.

Takeda's compelling approach is a masterclass in building a successful and equitable business model: act as the intermediary that translates the on-the-ground successes of nonprofits into the language of health plans (metrics and cost savings), ensuring the community's work is both valued and financially compensated. 

By starting from the community and building trust, Pear Suite is proving that investing in this workforce is an investment in the health outcomes and long-term sustainability of the entire system.

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A "glow up" signifies a positive transformation, reflecting the journey of becoming a better, more successful version of oneself.

At The Tech Glow Up, we humanize the startup and innovation landscape by focusing on the essential aspects of the entrepreneurial journey. Groundbreaking ideas are often ahead of their time, making resilience and perseverance vital for founders and product leaders.

In our podcast, we engage with innovators to discuss their transformative ideas, the challenges they face, and how they create value for future success. 

If you're a founder or product leader seeking your own glow up, or a seasoned entrepreneur with stories to share, we invite you to join our guest list via this link.

Healthcare has a data problem, but not the kind most people assume. The information exists. It's scattered across dozens of systems that don't talk to each other, and every provider encounter requires reconstructing your story from scratch. In this live Vive 2026 episode, I sit down with three leaders each working on a different layer of that gap.

Joe Hickey, VP of HIE and Provider Solutions at Verato, makes the case that stable patient identity is the foundation everything else is built on. Healthcare poured billions into EMRs, CRMs, and data lakes over the past decade and got fragmentation in return. 

Patty Hayward, GM of Healthcare and Life Sciences at Talkdesk, returns to the show with a view of where AI earns its keep (scheduling, reminders, billing) while keeping clinical decisions with humans. 

Lathe Bigler, SVP of Business Strategy at Buzz Health, closes with the case for price transparency as a patient right. Buzz Health embeds affordability intelligence as an API layer so providers and patients see the same price at the moment it counts.

Key Moments:

• [00:04:26] Identity as Infrastructure: How a decade of data investment created fragmentation, and how Verato unifies patient identity across the enterprise.
• [00:16:00] The AI Signal Worth Noticing: Physicians who planned to retire in two years now have three to five more, because ambient listening transformed their daily workload.
• [00:20:59] Where AI Belongs Right Now: Patty draws the line between what AI handles in patient communications and where human judgment stays essential.
• [00:25:00] The Change Management Blind Spot: Bring physicians into contact center projects early or they become the biggest blocker — Patty's most consistent advice.
• [00:34:10] The Prescription Abandonment Numbers: 75% of providers say cost barriers prevent patients from picking up prescriptions. Buzz Health puts the solution inside the prescribing workflow.

Three conversations, one clear thread — the gap between what patients need and what they get comes down to information that exists but isn't connected, surfaced, or trusted. 

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A "glow up" signifies a positive transformation, reflecting the journey of becoming a better, more successful version of oneself.

At The Tech Glow Up, we humanize the startup and innovation landscape by focusing on the essential aspects of the entrepreneurial journey. Groundbreaking ideas are often ahead of their time, making resilience and perseverance vital for founders and product leaders.

In our podcast, we engage with innovators to discuss their transformative ideas, the challenges they face, and how they create value for future success. 

If you're a founder or product leader seeking your own glow up, or a seasoned entrepreneur with stories to share, we invite you to join our guest list via this link.

One pattern keeps showing up in the hundreds of conversations I have with CEOs and clinical innovation leaders: the companies that last are the ones that stay in service of the human relationship. Dr. Louise Chang, Global VP of Clinical Strategy at Elsevier and practicing internal medicine physician, is one of the clearest examples of that principle in action.

"What if AI could actually take the jargon and confusion out of healthcare — so patients and clinicians could finally talk like real people?" 

Louise has spent 20+ years asking that exact question. She's building toward AI that bridges the gap between the clinician's workflow and the patient's journey, making care feel more human, not less.

She's moved through startups and scale-ups, nonprofit and for-profit, consumer to provider to payer. And she's watched wave after wave of hype roll through the industry. What she's learned: staying grounded matters more than staying ahead. 

Episode Key Moment Highlights:

•  [00:05:26] Healthcare AI today: why we're seeing a wide range of outcomes, from "working fast and failing fast" to genuine clinical value at the point of care.
• [00:06:37] ClinicalKey AI in action: how physicians are using it to access patient-specific insights instantly, enabling quick decisions and deeper learning at the same time.
• [00:08:22] The Glow Up for 2026: Louise's vision for AI that doesn't flash — it smooths, bridging the patient and clinician workflow so care actually feels more connected.
• [00:10:18] Closing the care loop: Louise and Nathan align on the big idea — patient AI research and clinician AI tools eventually speaking the same language.
• [00:13:39] Contact lenses, not glasses: Embedding AI so naturally into clinical workflows that it stops feeling like a tool and starts feeling like part of you.

Louise is the clinician who became the strategist — the translator between how medical minds work and how product teams build. Her personal mission is making sure someone is on the clinician's side, and that drives everything she does.

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About Our Guest:

Louise Chang, MD, FACP is a physician executive and internal medicine physician with over 20 years of experience at the intersection of clinical care, digital health, and healthcare innovation. She currently serves as Global Vice President of Clinical Strategy & Partnerships at Elsevier, where she leads clinical strategy for a global portfolio of evidence-based clinical decision support and workflow solutions, including the development of responsible, AI-enabled tools used by clinicians.

Dr. Chang has held senior clinical and product leadership roles across startups, scale-ups, and established organizations, including Babylon Health, WebMD, and the American Cancer Society.

A "glow up" signifies a positive transformation, reflecting the journey of becoming a better, more successful version of oneself.

At The Tech Glow Up, we humanize the startup and innovation landscape by focusing on the essential aspects of the entrepreneurial journey. Groundbreaking ideas are often ahead of their time, making resilience and perseverance vital for founders and product leaders.

In our podcast, we engage with innovators to discuss their transformative ideas, the challenges they face, and how they create value for future success. 

If you're a founder or product leader seeking your own glow up, or a seasoned entrepreneur with stories to share, we invite you to join our guest list via this link.

Rural communities often face a grim choice: drive three hours for a specialist or wait nine months. This massive barrier to specialty care is one of the biggest drivers of health inequity. 

What if a primary care provider could get a specialist consult and a clear next step for their patient in a matter of seconds, right there in the exam room? Reza Sanai, a cardiologist and founder of Picasso MD, is on The Tech Glow Up to detail the curbside consult platform that’s transforming specialty access.

Picasso MD’s three-pronged approach is designed to reinforce the primary care office, the most critical space in the world, by eliminating a significant percentage of unnecessary referrals and optimizing care. Reza explains that the technology is designed for physician adoption: three clicks, and a provider is live-chatting with a specialist in an average of 17 seconds. 

This ensures a patient walks out with an answer, not a phone number and a nine-month wait. The philosophy driving the company is simple: connect with your community and practice value-based care. 

By making specialists more accessible, Picasso MD is not only improving patient outcomes but is also optimizing the patient before their in-person visit, which is a key value proposition for the entire healthcare system.

Episode Highlights

• Techquity Definition: Tech equity in healthcare means technology that drives better access, personalized care, and inclusion of marginalized populations.
• Specialty Access Gap: The Picasso MD platform was created to bridge the 9- to 12-month wait times often seen for specialty care in rural and underserved communities.
• Physician-Designed Workflow: The platform is engineered for speed, allowing a PCP to connect with a specialist in under 20 seconds for real-time clinical decision support during a normal 15-minute patient visit.
• Referral Optimization: A sophisticated algorithm prioritizes provider favorites and local networks for referrals before relying on the platform's network, ensuring local care is always first.
• Patient Navigation: The company believes the next major wave of health innovation is helping patients navigate their path from an initial AI/LLM inquiry to thoughtful, value-oriented specialist throughputs.

Reza’s origin story, rooted in giving out his mobile number to colleagues to build trust and cut down on unnecessary ER visits, proves that scaling impact begins with prioritizing the provider and patient experience.

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A "glow up" signifies a positive transformation, reflecting the journey of becoming a better, more successful version of oneself.

At The Tech Glow Up, we humanize the startup and innovation landscape by focusing on the essential aspects of the entrepreneurial journey. Groundbreaking ideas are often ahead of their time, making resilience and perseverance vital for founders and product leaders.

In our podcast, we engage with innovators to discuss their transformative ideas, the challenges they face, and how they create value for future success. 

If you're a founder or product leader seeking your own glow up, or a seasoned entrepreneur with stories to share, we invite you to join our guest list via this link.

Recorded live at the VIVE event: The healthcare industry is hungry for AI standards, governance, and certification, making the need for genuinely trustworthy tech more urgent than ever. CEOs Dr. Tim O’Connell of emtelligent and Oren Nissim of Brook Health return to the show to cut through the hype and share where the industry is actually going and what applications are delivering real results today. 

We dive deep into the next big applications for AI—from saving a doctor half their time on consult chart review to tackling the isolation and loneliness epidemic of chronic illness—and how to ensure this technology remains effective and responsible for everyone in the care loop.

Episode Key Moment Highlights:

• AI-Assisted Chart Review: AI-powered chart review software is already cutting a clinician's patient review times by half, dramatically speeding up decision-making for solo practices reviewing 40-page consult requests [00:01:03].
• Data Extraction Accuracy: After 10 years in business, emtelligent is seeing spectacular, state-of-the-art results for the accuracy of coding complex, unstructured medical data into clear, organized information [00:05:00].
• Loneliness Gap: For older patients with chronic conditions, having a reliable AI conversation partner 24/7 genuinely helps bridge the isolation and loneliness gap caused by their illness [00:10:05].
• Regulatory Confidence: Policy and government intervention, including increased reimbursement and new access models, are currently pushing the industry toward safe digital health in a positive direction, which Tim and Oren are encouraged by [00:14:04].

This conversation is a bold, enthusiastic look at how we build the next generation of safe digital health—one that uses effective, governed technology to genuinely support caregivers and empower patients to confidently manage their chronic conditions and navigate complex lifestyle changes at home.

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About Oren Nissim: 

Oren Nissim is the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Brook Health, a pioneering healthcare technology company dedicated to transforming chronic disease management through AI-driven, always-on remote care.

Brook’s platform blends advanced artificial intelligence with compassionate human clinical support to help individuals better manage chronic conditions, improve health outcomes, and extend access to personalized care beyond traditional clinical settings.

About Tim O'Connell:

Dr. Tim O’Connell is a practicing radiologist in Vancouver and cofounded emtelligent in 2016. He has served as vice chair of medical informatics in the University of British Columbia’s Department of Radiology since 2017. 

Prior to his clinical and entrepreneurial careers, Dr. O’Connell worked as an IT professional for Nortel Networks and Bell, where he was director of engineering for the Bank of Montreal account.

A "glow up" signifies a positive transformation, reflecting the journey of becoming a better, more successful version of oneself.

At The Tech Glow Up, we humanize the startup and innovation landscape by focusing on the essential aspects of the entrepreneurial journey. Groundbreaking ideas are often ahead of their time, making resilience and perseverance vital for founders and product leaders.

In our podcast, we engage with innovators to discuss their transformative ideas, the challenges they face, and how they create value for future success. 

If you're a founder or product leader seeking your own glow up, or a seasoned entrepreneur with stories to share, we invite you to join our guest list via this link.

Live from The VIVE Event, powered by HLTH and CHIME: The average cancer patient makes 500 decisions during their treatment journey, often in rushed, 10-minute appointments, feeling lost without a map. Samira Daswani, CEO of Manta Cares, turned her own frustration with a broken system into a mission to build a platform that puts the patient first, full stop. 

On this episode of The Tech Glow Up, live from the Vive Event, Samira shares how she's redefining the healthcare industry by creating an "objective fourth pillar" that drives patient incentives, starting with breast and lung cancer.

Samira's unique approach blends human-centered design with rigorous research, starting with a paper planner based on over a hundred peer-reviewed papers to help patients manage their 63 appointments in the first year. 

Now, her AI partner, Hope, provides contextually relevant, personalized support, mapping out the 500 decisions so patients have confidence they are getting the right care. For Samira, if you lose sight of the patient story, there's no point in building the product, even while acknowledging the need for business growth and scale.

Episode Key Highlights:

• [00:06:06] Paper Planner Success: How a paper product based on clinical research still serves a population of patients aged 70+ who find digital tools difficult 
• [00:07:24] AI Partner Hope: The use of Hope AI to detect and help grade symptoms like pain or nausea using the P-R-O-C-D-C-A standard to ensure patients know when to call their doctor.
• [00:11:54] Patient-Driven Gravity: Samira's goal is to create a place for patients so powerful that the economic gravity of the system (payers, providers) is forced to realign to patient needs.
• [00:12:40] Financial Toxicity: Why removing the high likelihood of cancer patients going bankrupt is the one blocker Samira would erase with a magic wand.
• [00:19:39] The Patient from Hell: The philosophy behind the name of Samira's other podcast, arguing that a patient must go against the system's "cohort" structure as an imperative for survival.

By prioritizing the patient's needs and leveraging purpose-built, narrow AI tools—like Hope, which handles 90% of its use cases around treatment decision-making—Manta Cares is forcing a necessary Glow Up in healthcare. It's a fundamental shift away from simply being "patient-centered" to being truly "patient-first," creating a better system for everyone.

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Samira Daswani is the founder and CEO of Manta Cares, the most comprehensive platform for cancer patients, care partners, and clinicians. A stage 2B breast
cancer survivor diagnosed at 30, Samira transformed her firsthand experience of the fragmented and chaotic cancer experience into a mission to revolutionize cancer care.

A "glow up" signifies a positive transformation, reflecting the journey of becoming a better, more successful version of oneself.

At The Tech Glow Up, we humanize the startup and innovation landscape by focusing on the essential aspects of the entrepreneurial journey. Groundbreaking ideas are often ahead of their time, making resilience and perseverance vital for founders and product leaders.

In our podcast, we engage with innovators to discuss their transformative ideas, the challenges they face, and how they create value for future success. 

If you're a founder or product leader seeking your own glow up, or a seasoned entrepreneur with stories to share, we invite you to join our guest list via this link.