Naheem Noah is a PhD Candidate in Computer Science at the University of Denver's Ritchie School of Engineering & Computer Science, where his research spans privacy-preserving systems, security, artificial intelligence, and healthcare coordination.
As Co-founder and CEO of Carenector, Naheem is translating research into practice by building AI-powered referral infrastructure for patients and care facilities. Carenector operates a live consumer platform helping families navigate post-acute care options, while building an institutional coordination platform with care facilities to solve referral breakdowns across the continuum. The platform uses privacy-preserving matching, real-time status tracking, and outcome-informed learning to address coordination gaps.
We've automated everything but the one workflow that most directly determines whether patients actually get the care they need. The gap between knowing what works and implementing it at scale reveals the real problem that healthcare treats referrals as an administrative burden to manage, not a critical workflow to optimize.