Healthcare expertise. Technical depth.
A relentless focus on outcomes.
Qualified Health is built by leaders who have spent their careers inside the systems we now serve: former health system executives, frontline physicians, clinical transformation experts, enterprise operators, and engineers who have scaled mission-critical platforms.
We bring the domain knowledge, technical rigor, and operational discipline required to deploy AI safely and deliver measurable value at enterprise scale.
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Our clinical leaders have practiced medicine, run service lines, improved care delivery, and navigated the realities of regulated environments. Our operators have built and managed large health system programs. This firsthand experience shapes every aspect of our platform, from governance guardrails to workflow design to performance measurement.
Our engineering, product, and data science teams come from the forefront of AI and have built secure, scalable AI systems used by millions. Together, we translate frontier models, modern data infrastructure, and enterprise architecture into solutions that work reliably in clinical, operational, and financial workflows.
Our team works side-by-side with clinicians, analysts, operators, and executives to ensure AI aligns with real needs, integrates with existing systems, and drives sustained improvements. We don't just hand over tools; we deliver outcomes.
Health systems must act now on AI or fall behind.
Generative AI is no longer a pilot experiment. It’s becoming core infrastructure for how modern health systems deliver care, manage operations, and protect financial performance.
But adopting AI in healthcare is uniquely hard, and the gap between ambition and reality is widening.
Today's reality is fragmented and risky.
Labor shortages, payer friction, and administrative overload are tightening margins. Health systems need productivity gains and revenue recovery now.
78% of your employees are already using ungoverned AI tools. Every day without governance means exposure to data leaks, clinical errors, and compliance violations.
Data silos, security requirements, workflow integration, and stakeholder alignment routinely prevent even the best AI initiatives from scaling.
Point solutions, one-off builds, and disconnected systems drain resources, drive up cost of ownership, and create endless oversight burden, while ROI stays stuck in pilot purgatory.
Your competitors are moving. Resource-constrained teams can't afford to "wait and see." Every month of delay is proven value left on the table.
There’s a better way to scale AI.
AI will only transform healthcare if it is deployed safely, governed rigorously, and aligned with the workforce it aims to support. That belief guides how we architect our platform, how we partner with health systems, and how we measure success.
We’re not here to add another point solution. We’re here to provide the operating layer that makes enterprise-wide, governed AI possible.
Meet our fearless leaders.
Justin is also an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, focusing on AI in healthcare and digital health. Previously, Justin invested in healthcare AI companies as a Partner at GSR Ventures, a venture capital firm with $4B in assets under management. Prior to GSR Ventures, Dr. Norden was the founder and CEO of Trustworthy AI, which was acquired by Waymo (Google’s self-driving car division). Dr. Norden received an MD from the Stanford University School of Medicine, an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, an M.Phil in Computational Biology with distinction from the University of Cambridge and a BA in Computer Science with distinction from Carleton College.
Kedar is the Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Qualified Health AI, a digital health company deploying the critical infrastructure needed to create the AI-enabled hospital of the future. Prior to founding Qualified Health, he served as President and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, the world’s leading organization for healthcare quality and patient safety. He is also a member of the faculty at Weill Cornell Medicine and co-hosts the podcast Turn On The Lights with Don Berwick, which explores some of healthcare's toughest challenges. Kedar’s career spans global public health work with Partners In Health, hospital leadership at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and global policy engagement at the World Health Organization. His mission has always been to spark bold, inventive ways to improve health outcomes and to support anyone, anywhere working to ensure every person receives the best possible care.
Shantanu is a seasoned healthcare leader with experience as a data scientist, operator, strategist, and entrepreneur. Shantanu has built and grown 3 mission driven health care companies, Haven, Evolent Health (IPO 2015) and Resolution Health (Acquired by Elevance) He was the Chief Data Science Officer at Haven, the healthcare venture created by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JP Morgan Chase, and part of the founding team at Evolent Health [NYSE: EVH], a leader in value-based care. Shantanu has been trained in machine learning at Stanford and holds Masters and Bachelors degrees in engineering.
Dr. Norgeot’s work has significantly advanced the capabilities of clinical AI applications, personalized medicine, business operations, and ethical AI practices. He was previously the Vice President of AI at Elevance Health (NYSE: ELV), where he developed generative AI products. Prior to that, Dr. Norgeot pioneered the development of human-in-the-loop clinical AI systems as Chief Data Officer at Lucid Lane, including a generative AI therapist that significantly improved clinical efficiency and patient engagement. Beau completed his PhD at UCSF at the intersection of AI/ML and personalized medicine. At UCSF, he developed software to remove personally identifiable information from clinical notes, ensuring HIPAA compliance and facilitating safe interactions with commercial language models.
Meet our trailblazing investors and advisors.
Amir Dan Rubin is the CEO & Founding Managing Partner of Healthier Capital, a venture capital firm backing early and growth-stage companies that leverage technology and new business models to improve health outcomes and experiences. Previously, Amir served as CEO of One Medical | Amazon, where he expanded the member-based primary care organization to 31 markets nationwide, advanced its technology platform, grew its consumer and enterprise reach, and launched services for seniors in Medicare Advantage. Under his leadership, One Medical completed a $350 million private financing, a $1.7 billion IPO in 2020, and a $3.9 billion acquisition by Amazon,at the time Amazon’s third-largest acquisition. Before One Medical, Amir was an Executive Vice President at UnitedHealth Group’s Optum division, leading a $30 billion portfolio spanning care delivery, behavioral health, and specialty networks. He earlier served as President & CEO at Stanford Health Care, where he elevated patient experience and quality scores to national best-in-class levels, quadrupled income, expanded the system’s regional network, and helped pioneer one of the first video-visit programs on an EHR platform. Amir also held executive roles as COO at UCLA Health,whose transformation was chronicled in Prescription for Excellence,and COO at Stony Brook University Hospital, with earlier leadership at Memorial Hermann Health System and APM/CSC. He has twice been named EY Entrepreneur of the Year (Northern California), recognized among Modern Healthcare’s Most Powerful Leaders, and honored as a Top Business Leader in San Francisco. Amir holds MBA and MHSA degrees from the University of Michigan and a BA from the University of California, Berkeley.
Frank Williams is co-founder and board director of Evolent Health (NYSE: EVH), a company that assists payers and providers in improving health outcomes through value-based care transformation. During his tenure, the company completed an IPO, grew to $1B+ in annualized revenue and served over 15MM+ patients. Evolent was also named to Forbes list of America’s most promising companies, as well as a top 3 Employer in the United States. In addition, Frank was selected as the top CEO nationwide by Glassdoor. Prior to Evolent, Frank served as chairman and CEO of The Advisory Board Company (NASDAQ: ABCO), a global research and technology firm that served over 5,000 organizations across the health care sector. During Frank's tenure as both its chairman and CEO, The Advisory Board completed an initial public offering and grew to $450M+ in annual revenues with over 2,500 employees and $2B+ in market capitalization. Along with Evolent Health, Frank currently serves on the boards of Helix, Nayya, Syapse, Trusted Health and Wellth. He also serves as a senior advisor to ICER, Blackbird and the President's Advisory Council for the School of Public Health at Brown University. A native Californian, Frank received a BA in Political Economies of Industrial Societies from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Andy Slavitt was President Biden’s White House Senior Advisor for the Covid response. He is currently a member of a President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) working group on public health. He has led many of the nation’s most important health care initiatives, serving as President Obama’s head of Medicare and Medicaid and overseeing the turnaround, implementation and defense of the Affordable Care Act. Slavitt is the “outsider’s insider”, serving in leading private and non-profit roles in addition to his government services. He is founder and Board Chair Emeritus of United States of Care, a national non-profit health advocacy organization as well as a founding partner of Town Hall Ventures, a healthcare firm that invests in underrepresented communities. He co-chaired a national initiative on the future of health care at the Bipartisan Policy Center. He chronicles what goes on inside the government and across the nation at town halls, in USA Today, on his award-winning podcast In the Bubble, and on Twitter. He is the author of Preventable, a best-selling account of the US’s Coronavirus response released in 2021. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Business School, he and his wife have two grown sons.
Eric is a national healthcare strategist, author, and advisor to CEOs and boards of global healthcare companies. For 25 years at The Advisory Board Company (including five years as President and now President Emeritus), he led the development of best practices to improve U.S. and global healthcare. After the company’s acquisition by Optum (UnitedHealth Group) in 2017, he co-led health system partnerships at Optum and shaped market strategy at UnitedHealth. Eric is active in healthcare venture capital,serving as Venture Partner at Thrive Capital and SignalFire,and sits on the boards of R1 RCM, Fuze Health and Thrive Global (supporting Arianna Huffington). He’s also served on boards in digital health and AI-powered care, including companies focused on kidney value-care and hospital-at-home innovation. Beyond healthcare, Eric chairs the board of Washington National Opera and is a trustee of The Washington Ballet. A graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service (1995), he and his wife Susi live in Washington D.C. and San Francisco with their three teenage children, and have traveled to 100 countries across all seven continents.
Dr. Lungren is Chief Scientific Officer at Microsoft Health & Life Sciences, where he leads the integration of generative AI and cloud technologies into healthcare. A physician and clinical machine learning researcher, he also serves as an adjunct professor at Stanford University. Previously, he led Stanford’s Center for AI in Medicine and Imaging and held a clinical AI leadership role at Amazon Web Services. Author of over 200 publications, Dr. Lungren advises startups and global companies on healthcare AI strategy. His work has been widely featured in national media, and he teaches top-rated AI in healthcare courses for non-technical audiences.
Bill builds and transforms software companies across scale, stage, and sector. Over the past three decades, he has led and contributed to products and businesses used by billions of people and millions of companies. His experience spans nearly every function and level,from engineering and product to go-to-market, and from frontline operator to President, CEO, Co-Founder, and Board Chair. Bill has worked inside Fortune 10 enterprises as well as early-stage startups, navigating waves of technological and organizational change. He has founded ventures, scaled high-growth companies, and led complex turnarounds. What drives him is working with passionate teams on ambitious quests, aligning product, go-to-market, and people systems to unlock growth, build markets, and help organizations and individuals know more, do more, and be more.
Meera is a physician and General Partner at Town Hall Ventures. She was previously a Senior Partner in McKinsey & Company’s healthcare practice and leader of their Medicaid practice. Meera brings over a decade of experience across the healthcare value chain, including with regional and national health insurers, health systems, State and local health and human services agencies, pharmacy benefit managers, and institutional investors. Meera brings a longstanding commitment to health equity, especially for underserved communities. In launching and scaling up the Medicaid practice nationally, Meera has established herself as one of the national leaders focused on the programs that serve vulnerable Americans. She is a trusted partner to public and private sector institutions across strategy, product development, commercial contracting, and value-based care transformation. Meera has been a featured speaker or panelist at numerous industry events, including the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association National Summit, the National Governors Association, and Medicaid Health Plans of America.
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Sooah joined SignalFire in 2023 as a Partner focused on investments in early-stage health and life sciences tech. Prior to SignalFire, she was a product leader at CVS Health, where she launched nationwide prescription delivery and virtual care products, and Devoted Health, currently valued at over $12 billion.
At Underscore VC, she invested in fast-growing B2B software startups, including life sciences tech products used by leading biopharma companies across the drug development cycle from R&D to commercial stages. She began her career at Michael Porter’s strategy firm where she advised healthcare & biopharma executives.
Sooah has a joint-degree MBA | MPP from Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School, where she worked with startup founders at the HBS Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and built her digital health investment thesis as a Rock Venture Partner with Bain Capital.
As a product builder, GTM strategist, and policy nerd turned investor, she partners with founders at the earliest stages of their discovery, building, and scaling journey. She’s excited to reimagine how we develop, deliver, & pay for healthcare today and usher in a new era of AI-enabled health and longevity for all.
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Navid is a Managing Partner with Frist Cressey Ventures. Before joining FCV in 2019, he served as a partner with Morgan Noble Healthcare Partners, a Washington, D.C. based firm investing in companies determined to transform the delivery of healthcare. Prior to Morgan Noble, he was with Enhanced Healthcare Partners, a healthcare-focused private equity firm based in New York, as well as Lehman Brothers in the health care investment banking division, Ernst & Young’s Transaction Advisory group and Arthur Andersen’s health care practice.
Currently, Navid serves as a director or observer on the boards of the Nashville Health Care Council, Bicycle Health, Carta Healthcare, Dexcare, Lynx, Memora Health, Oshi Health, Psych Hub, RightMove, Spectrum AI, Thrive Mobile, Vim and Visana. He also serves on the advisory board of The Hilltop Institute, a research and data analytics organization dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of communities. In recognition for his exceptional work in pushing innovation toward better healthcare for all, Navid was named as a 2022 Top 50 in Digital Health honoree by Rock Health.
Navid holds an MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business and a BA from Loyola University in Maryland.
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