E562 Building Safe, Trustworthy AI in Healthcare with Qualified Health's Kedar Mate

E562 Building Safe, Trustworthy AI in Healthcare with Qualified Health's Kedar Mate

Author: Alldus International June 15, 2026 Duration: 26:12

Today's guest is Kedar Mate, Founder and CMO at Qualified Health. Founded in 2023, Qualified Health AI is a healthcare-native enterprise AI platform helping health systems deploy, govern and scale artificial intelligence safely across clinical, operational and financial workflows. The company provides the infrastructure, governance and expertise needed to turn AI pilots into enterprise-wide transformation, delivering measurable outcomes while maintaining compliance, trust and patient-centered care.

Kedar is a recognized leader in healthcare quality, patient safety and health system transformation. He previously served as President and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and is currently a Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and a Senior Scholar at Stanford University. His career spans healthcare delivery, global public health and policy, including leadership roles with Partners In Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital and the World Health Organization.

In the episode, Kedar discusses:

0:00 His journey from driven by inequity to founding Qualified Health

4:57 An insight into the company’s expert, multidisciplinary team

8:33 Building an AI platform to solve healthcare adoption barriers with data, apps and governance

13:05 How AI deployment improved workflows, revenue and saves heart patients

17:17 Data and governance is key to successful healthcare AI adoption

19:58 Why AI healthcare needs cross-disciplinary talent through fast-paced, mission-driven work

23:56 How Qualified Health’s culture is shaped by leaders’ actions, not words


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