

Shankar Saibabu joins BUDDI AI from Audacious Inquiry, one of the fastest growing Healthcare Information Exchanges in the country. I believe the applications of our world-class AI engine are expansive across the healthcare ecosystem.”

“BUDDI AI’s platform is unique in that it has nearly a decade of learning experience and knowledge, which is unmatched in the industry. “Healthcare organizations across the board struggle with structuring and contextualizing their data in a way that improves their business and clinical outcomes,” said Vipul Kashyap, Head of Clinical Informatics at BUDDI AI. Kashyap is a former fellow for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and has a Ph.D. Kashyap also held leadership positions at Northwell Health, Cigna and Partners Healthcare. Vipul joins BUDDI AI from Optum where he was a director and led the development of their clinical decision platform to guide patient care pathways based on clinical guidelines. He has worked across the healthcare ecosystem in diverse sectors ranging from healthcare providers to payers and life science companies. Vipul Kashyap is an innovative clinical informatician with 24 years of experience and achievements at the intersection of Clinical and Biomedicine and Information Technologies – through strategic application of novel technologies and paradigms – AI, Ontologies, Machine Learning, Knowledge Representation and IoT. “Given our tremendous growth in the last five years, we are excited to expand our executive leadership with a team that will help us innovate the platform even further and develop new product solutions for some of today’s most pressing issues faced by healthcare organizations of all sizes and scope.” “Through our AI engine we have created a first-of-its-kind contextual data lake that has the ability to structure and automate complex unstructured healthcare data with incredible speed and accuracy, previously unattainable,” stated Ram Swaminathan, Co-Founder and CEO of BUDDI AI. BUDDI AI plans to expand into additional RCM areas including, autonomous prior authorizations, autonomous billing, autonomous contract management and real-time clinical documentation improvement. The platform has demonstrated an average of 98.2% accuracy with CPT, ICD-10 & Modifier codes across several specialties such as Radiology, Emergency, Pathology, Ambulatory Surgery, Anesthesia, Evaluation & Management and more. BUDDI AI currently automates more than 2.6M medical records per month and is responsible for automating 10 percent of all radiology medical coding volumes in the U.S. More than 270 healthcare provider sites now utilize BUDDI AI automation services for coding and revenue cycle management. The new executives will further the innovation and expansion of BUDDI AI’s product suite, a proprietary cloud-based platform that helps healthcare organizations structure their data, simplify workflows and tackle ‘big data’ with speed, security and accuracy. Kashyap and Saibabu join BUDDI AI with a collective 50 years of experience in building the technology platforms behind some of the world’s most respected healthcare companies including Optum, GE and Microsoft. NEW YORK, J/PRNewswire/ - BUDDI AI, the leading provider of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered healthcare solutions, has announced that Vipul Kashyap has been appointed as Head of Clinical Informatics, Shankar Saibabu as Chief Operating Officer and Jeff Nussbaum as Chief Revenue Officer.
