Healthcare technology and data company Innovaccer is going all in on artificial intelligence one month after closing a sizable funding round.
The company said Monday it is launching a series of AI agents focused on patient scheduling, referrals and care management. Innovaccer will begin selling the tools to its provider customers by the end of the second quarter.
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Many companies are developing chatbots and agents to reduce labor costs by letting AI handle time intensive tasks such as scheduling patient appointments.
Innovaccer is currently testing the tools with around six customers but declined to name specific health systems, said Co-founder and CEO Abhinav Shashank in an interview. Innovaccer plans to have between eight and nine agents available by the end of 2025. The agents will be pre-built and can be deployed quickly to health systems that already use the company’s data tools, Shashank said.
“We have all of this [data] infrastructure ready,” Shashank said. “We [will] be cranking out these out at such a massive pace.”
The company is also working with both Kaiser and Banner Health to help the systems build out AI for specific care pathways, Shashank said.
Innovaccer announced a $275 million funding round last month led by Oakland, California-based Kaiser Permanente. Phoenix-based Banner Health joined the round with several venture capital firms. The company said it will use the funds to scale a developer ecosystem that can allow health systems to implement AI tools with other third-party vendors.
Innovaccer joins a growing number of companies seeking to establish a technology and AI platform for providers. Other large vendors, including Royal Philips, GE HealthCare and Epic, have previously expressed interest in creating platforms.
