Shantanu Phatakwala

Building mission driven healthcare companies. Previously at Haven, Evolent Health and Anthem

[C.C. Gong @CCgong]

Thrilled that we are investing in Qualified Health's $125M Series B - congrats to the team now supporting 400,000 users representing ~5% of U.S. hospital revenue.

Healthcare AI adoption has grown 7x in the past two years, one of the fastest acceleration rates of any industry. However the gap between interest and execution is massive. Health systems want to go enterprise-wide with AI, but they're dealing with fragmented data, legacy EHR infrastructure, heavy regulatory requirements, and no room for error when patient safety is on the line.

That's why Qualified Health is not building another point solution, they're building the platform layer with data integration, governance, monitoring, and evaluation that lets health systems deploy AI safely across clinical and operational workflows at real scale.

Healthcare is at an inflection point with AI. The winners won't be the health systems that adopt the most AI tools, they'll be the ones that build the infrastructure to adopt AI well. That's exactly what @JustinNordenMD, @shantanubuilds, @BeauNorgeot, @KedarMate and team are enabling. I'm excited to be supporting their vision at @MenloVentures .

[Sooah Cho @SooahCho]

🔥𝗕𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗶𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗔𝗜 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲 - 𝗦𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗙𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗼-𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 $𝟯𝟬𝗠 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵
"𝘞𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘜.𝘚. 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘐. 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺, 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘈𝘐 𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘴𝘰 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘢 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘢𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘶𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘙𝘖𝘐 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘺-𝘸𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘎𝘋𝘗. 𝘘𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩'𝘴 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘶𝘯𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘶𝘦 𝘰𝘧 #GenerativeAI 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘺."
-@EricJLarsen, President, TowerBrook Advisors and President Emeritus of @AdvisoryBd

Congrats to @JustinNordenMD, @shantanubuilds, @BeauNorgeot, @niravrshah, and @KedarMate for embarking on this journey together! 🎉I’m thrilled to join the board and lead Qualified Health’s seed round alongside incredible partners: Amir Dan Rubin - Healthier Capital, Navid Farzad/Olivia Capra - Frist Cressey Ventures, Meera Mani, MD-PhD - @townhallvntrs, Ian Chiang - @FlareCapital, Nickolas Mark - Intermountain Ventures. We’re grateful to partner with many incredible angels & advisors on Qualified Health’s impactful mission as well: Frank Williams (Ex-CEO of @EvolentHealth), @justinkan (CEO/founder of @Twitch), Bill Veghte (Ex-SVP @Microsoft, EVP Hewlett Packard Enterprise), @varsharao (CEO of Nurx), @ASlavitt (Ex-CMS Admin), Senator @bfrist, Trevor Price - @OxeonPartners, Stuart Bowers - AI at Apple, @KevinBanMD - Ex-CMO of @athenahealth/@Walgreens, @PatrickConwayMD - CEO OptumRx, @saagrawa - Founder/COO LeanTaaS, @mattlungrenMD - Chief Scientific Officer Microsoft Health, Lee Fleisher - Ex-CMS Chief Medical Officer, Martin Doerfler - EVP Truveta and SVP @NorthwellHealth, Matthew Hobart - TPG, and more.

This is more than an investment for us all—it’s a step toward a future where #AI enhances #healthcare responsibly, at scale. 🚀@SignalFire's blog in comments below 👇

#GenAI #HealthTech #Innovation

[brayden @braybraywoowoo]

i hiked seven days straight for this view

[Rik Renard @rikrenard]

Some CEOs should better spend their time fixing their company instead of being part of a panel at HLTH

[Shantanu Phatakwala @shantanubuilds]

@StuartBlitz Well said!

[Shantanu Phatakwala @shantanubuilds]

@bijans Thanks for sharing. I missed that detail and I am sure there are many others.

[Shantanu Phatakwala @shantanubuilds]

@bijans Getting an appointment itself is exhausting experience.

[Shantanu Phatakwala @shantanubuilds]

@MSchlueterMoore @chrissyfarr @olea_health Great overview and thank you for including my comments in the article.

[Shantanu Phatakwala @shantanubuilds]

@sacjai Monopolies in so many segments

[Shantanu Phatakwala @shantanubuilds]

@jfschneidr Home visits for full service diagnostic services.

[Shantanu Phatakwala @shantanubuilds]

@jfschneidr https://t.co/2a4ooA2Dj0 is missing.

[Shantanu Phatakwala @shantanubuilds]

@kasshout @modrnhealthcr Congrats Taha. Hope you’re well.

[Shantanu Phatakwala @shantanubuilds]

@healthcareandy Totally agree.. seed round announcements are the worst.

[Shantanu Phatakwala @shantanubuilds]

@jfschneidr This is solved to a great extent by companies like Datavant

[Shantanu Phatakwala @shantanubuilds]

@jfschneidr The bigger WASTE is a) high risk, high need patients don’t get labs done regularly and end up in ED/ IP b) no easy way to access labs in evenings and weekend, and patients end up getting charged for a visit c) turnaround times for labs are so high leading to waste.

[Shantanu Phatakwala @shantanubuilds]

Right on!

[Stuart Blitz @StuartBlitz]

Health tech sales circle of life

[Shantanu Phatakwala @shantanubuilds]

@DrNundy Care needs to go to such patients instead of patients chasing care. In most cases, it would take them 1 visit to doctor, 1 visit to lab, 1 visit to pharmacy - a minimum of 3 trips to get care let alone time, scheduling, energy, money.

[Shantanu Phatakwala @shantanubuilds]

@healthcareandy 1/ Exclusive contracts for essential services. 2/ Services and products cheaper without insurance

[Shantanu Phatakwala @shantanubuilds]

@morgancheatham Happy to chat about it if it is helpful.

[Shantanu Phatakwala @shantanubuilds]

@morgancheatham Hey Morgan, we at https://t.co/zH9MLaekox have an offering (I.e. mobile diagnostics) in this space and are expanding.