The Future of Healthcare AI

Blending his experience as a physician and AI researcher, Muthu Alagappan founded Counsel Health on the belief that healthcare should work like the rest of modern life: mobile, immediate, and on demand. Counsel's AI-powered, messaging-based platform augments physician capacity, expands patient access, and reimagines care delivery for a digital-first world.

Leading Google Cloud’s evolution into a healthcare intelligence layer, Aashima Gupta discusses how agentic AI is transforming access and personalization across care touchpoints. She references partnerships like CVS Health alongside Google’s efforts to operationalize Gemini and DeepMind innovations into scalable tools for providers, payers, and innovators.

Reimagining the future of payers, Andrew explores what it means to be truly AI-native at Clover Health: connecting fragmented data for earlier intervention, creating an API-to-truth, and sidestepping bot-on-bot warfare. From positioning the doctor as the primary UI to balancing patient privacy with innovation, he brings a technologist’s perspective to the top of healthcare’s capital stack.

Leveraging a career focused on the biology of aging, Jacob Kimmel explains how NewLimit uses advanced AI to navigate vast genetic combinations and prioritize experiments that reprogram cells to more youthful, functional states. With a large-scale data library, a small team, and a novel approach, NewLimit is developing therapies to enable longer, healthier lives.

Working at the intersection of chemistry, machine learning, and AI, Jacob and Eli Berlin discuss how Terray is transforming drug discovery. By building and testing small molecules at a massive scale, Terray accelerates candidate discovery in uncharted chemical space and redefines what an AI-native biotech can achieve.

Beginning his career in Salesforce optimization, Jassi has always worked at the intersection of technology and commercial operations. Today, Axtria helps pharma companies reach the right patients faster by leveraging AI to aggregate and synthesize vast datasets, unlocking patterns that identify unmet patient needs.

With a background in human genomics and a career devoted to patient safety, Aman leads ArisGlobal, an enterprise software company supporting safe, compliant, and efficient drug development. Driven by a collaborative, global, and tech-forward mindset, ArisGlobal unifies drug data to uncover patterns and enable smarter, faster decisions.

From coder to C-suite, Greg understands the pace of technological change, prioritizes highest value over lowest cost, and stays close to innovation. At BMS, he’s advancing both in-house AI applications and AI-powered R&D—unlocking hidden data patterns that can turn serendipity into systematic discovery.

We speak with biopharma leaders about how AI is decoding vast datasets across the discovery, development, and delivery phases to enable more effective therapies faster, safer, and at lower cost.

Bringing a practitioner's perspective, Philip understands the urgency to ensure healthcare is always on. He shares how PartsSource evolved from an OEM marketplace to an AI-powered platform that keeps essential equipment—and hospital systems—running with predictive maintenance, training, and decades of operational data.

A pioneer of surgical robotics, Robert Cohen discusses how ORs are transforming with tech-enabled innovations, from Makos to mixed reality goggles. He shares how Stryker leverages AI to integrate data from its equipment across the patient journey, enhancing provider insight, surgical precision, and outcomes.

Leveraging 18 years of McKinsey consulting experience, with a focus on airline yield management, Mohan is uniquely qualified to solve hospital traffic flow. He discusses founding LeanTaaS, an AI-powered capacity management software, and why in-depth, ongoing support is essential for adoption.

Starting his career as a software engineer, Aaron brings a technologist’s perspective to healthcare operations. He discusses evaluating AI applications for Baptist, shares advice for entrepreneurs, offers insight from his roles setting state and federal HCIT standards, and prioritizes people in every tech initiative.

In speaking with healthcare luminaries, we’re exploring AI’s impact on complex hospital and healthcare systems, with a focus on scaling provider adoption and optimizing workflows to unlock capacity and maintain momentum.

Exploring the abundance that AI can bring to the healthcare sector, Munjal discusses Hippocratic AI’s ability to deliver high EQ agents with infinite time and memory, resulting in improved human and health experiences at lower costs. Is agentic AI the killer app that will unlock value-based care? With a prominent background in AI research and a track record of cutting-edge ventures, Munjal leverag...

Optimizing the physician workflow starts with a passion for the provider. Paul discusses the importance of working closely with the physicians athenahealth serves. The company’s open ecosystem enables providers to operate at the sharpest edge of technology, or as close as they choose to come, with the goal of keeping care simple. Paul is a pioneer of the healthcare technology industry. Before join...

Leading e-commerce, social media, gaming, and telecoms initiatives at tech giants, Punit knows how to make an app sticky. He talks about applying his experience to create the ambient listening tool, Suki Assistant, available on athenahealth, and his vision for the future of interoperability. From leading product development at Google to scaling operations at Flipkart in India, Punit brings a consu...

Moving from practicing immunologist to hospital system president and CEO, Rod has remained focused on patient needs and provider support across his 45-year career. Rod shares how he approached AI assessment for Providence and the tech-enabled career opportunities he envisions for rising doctors and nurses. Rod has led several large healthcare systems, most recently Providence Health & Services. In...

Through our conversations with leaders in the field, we’ll explore how AI applications are transforming the patient and provider experience by reducing administrative sludge and elevating the automated nudge. 

Bain Capital brings a distinct, cross-platform perspective to healthcare IT, enriched by three decades of investing in the healthcare space. Hear from the co-head of Bain Capital Private Equity, Chris Gordon, as he discusses our heritage in and outlook on investing across the global healthcare ecosystem with Devin O’Reilly and Paul Moskowitz.