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Prashant Samant discusses how Akido Labs is leveraging AI to scale healthcare and improve access for vulnerable populations.

Medicaid reimbursements are shrinking, providers are pulling back, and vulnerable populations are losing access to care. Akido Labs is betting that AI can expand care capacity fast enough to reverse that trend. This week, Halle sits down with Prashant Samant, co-founder and CEO of Akido Labs, to discuss what it actually takes to scale care with AI. They explore why Akido built a full-stack healthcare company, how its AI operates inside real clinical workflows, and why the hardest patients are the best place to test whether this model works. We cover: Why he chose to build a full-stack care model How AI changes who can deliver care, and where Why most healthcare AI tools fail once they hit real clinical workflows Why the doctor shortage cannot be solved by training more doctors How the bottleneck in healthcare AI is absorption, not innovation About our guest: Prashant S. Samant is CEO and co-founder of Akido , a healthcare technology company that builds clinical AI and operates a multi-state medical network serving hundreds of thousands of patients. He co-founded Akido in 2015 through USC’s Digital Health Lab. In 2023, he and his co-founders received the EY Entrepreneur of the…

People in this episode

Host: Halle

Guest: Prashant Samant

Topics covered

• AI in healthcare
• scaling care
• healthcare technology
• clinical workflows
• Medicaid
• access to care

Keywords

• AI
• healthcare
• scaling care
• clinical workflows
• Medicaid
• access to care
• doctor shortage
• healthcare technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Akido Labs, USC’s Digital Health Lab, EY, Grid110

Places: Greater Los Angeles, multi-state

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