Prashant Natarajan is Vice President of Strategy & Products at H2O.ai where he is responsible for AI solutions serving industry verticals such as health, life sciences, & government. He is passionate about helping healthcare organizations maximize their technology investments to improve personal wellness, care access & affordability, clinician satisfaction, and health policy. Prior to joining the H2O.ai team, Prashant contributed to award-winning roles as a product manager, domain specialist, and expert consultant at Oracle, McKesson, Siemens (now Cerner), Healthways, and eCredit.com. His current areas of focus are health insurance, drug discovery & safety, precision medicine, population health, and opioid crisis. He is a recognized executive leader, industry/domain expert, and hands-on solutions designer with an undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from Manipal University. Prashant is a best-selling author and contributor to books on business intelligence, big data analytics, applied machine learning, and head & neck cancer.
While many healthcare companies have used artificial intelligence for some time now for features like machine learning interpretability required by the healthcare industry for compliance purposes, AI-based healthcare solutions also have the potential to make healthcare more affordable and more accessible, thus helping to improve equity in healthcare.