healthcare-operations
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HCA Healthcare Built a Hospital Network Big Enough to Learn From Itself
The Nashville company turned a 1968 experiment in shared hospital resources into a vast care network. Its real edge is what happens when local medicine, centralized operations and 47 million annual patient encounters begin teaching one another.
Arctic Health
Arctic Health is a New York healthcare startup (YC P26) that automates provider credentialing and payer contracting. It pairs credentialing experts with an AI platform to get healthcare providers in-network across all 50 states and 300+ insurance networks, handling documentation, CAQH profiles, payer submissions, rate negotiation, and ongoing compliance so clinics and health systems can get paid faster.
MochaCare
MochaCare is a San Francisco startup in Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch that runs the back office of home care agencies. It pairs AI agents with human operators to handle hiring, scheduling, and client intake end to end, so agency owners can spend less time on operations and more time growing and serving their communities.
100ms
100ms builds voice-first AI agents for U.S. healthcare operations. Founded in 2020 as a low-code live video and audio infrastructure platform, the company pivoted to healthcare, applying its real-time communications expertise to automate patient access workflows - benefits verification, prior authorization, referral intake, scheduling, and intake - so care teams spend less time on phones and patients start treatment faster. Its agents are built to be HIPAA-compliant, with clinical safety guardrails and human escalation.
Sandy Health
Sandy Health is a San Francisco healthtech company building an AI-powered operations platform that acts as the financial layer for healthcare. It connects scheduling, intake, eligibility verification, prior authorization, an AI clinical scribe, and revenue intelligence into one system so providers can predict reimbursement before, during, and after every visit. Founded by cancer survivor and MIT-trained engineer Diego Saavedra-Kloss, Sandy targets the administrative friction that drains time and revenue from patient care.
Veeraj Shah
Veeraj Shah is the co-founder and CEO of Vitalize (YC W23), a San Francisco company building software to fix hospital operations, starting with staffing and scheduling. A 2021 Gates Cambridge Scholar who walked away from a Cambridge PhD to run the company full-time, he is a three-time healthcare founder whose earlier work spanned the U.S. Surgeon General's office, IBM Watson Health, and the National Cancer Institute. Vitalize is now live across more than 20 hospitals.