Podcasts & Interviews
Inside Analysis | AI for Good: Building Trust in Healthcare Data
Dive into this thought-provoking episode of Inside Analysis as host Eric Kavanagh welcomes Prashant Natarajan, Chief AI Officer at Velatura, to discuss the evolution of AI in healthcare and the responsibilities of data stewardship.
Learn the nuances of AI model development – challenging assumptions about data accuracy, model size, and trust, especially in the high-stakes world of healthcare. Get all the insights on how AI, ethics, and infrastructure intersect to reshape public health.
Tech Talks with David Savage | Personal AI, Trusted Data, and the Future of Healthcare
In this episode, David Savage sits down with Prashant Natarajan, Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer at Velatura, to explore how AI is reshaping the healthcare industry from the inside out. From democratizing AI tools across departments to building scalable, secure, and human-centered solutions, Prashant explains how trust, governance, and individual empowerment must underpin every technological advance.
HIMSS25 | Healthcare AI’s Growing Maturity
Prashant Natarajan, Chief AI Officer at Velatura Public Benefit Corporation, says AI’s dominant presence in HIMSS25 presentations and forums demonstrates that the technology is now poised to deliver real value for healthcare organizations.
Blog Posts
Deep Cogito: A Breakthrough in Open-Source AI That Challenges the Giants | July 31, 2025
Velatura emerges as an AI governance trailblazer, becoming one of the first organizations globally to implement ISO 42001:2023 AI Management System standards. Through a comprehensive 10-month journey, they achieved 94% remediation success across 27 critical governance areas, demonstrating that systematic AI governance enhances rather than hinders innovation in healthcare AI development.
Deep Cogito: A Breakthrough in Open-Source AI That Challenges the Giants | July 31, 2025
Deep Cogito achieved frontier-level AI performance for under $3.5 million using Iterated Distillation and Amplification, creating a model matching DeepSeek’s capabilities and approaching OpenAI’s o3. This breakthrough could democratize advanced AI development, potentially marking “America’s DeepSeek moment” in cost-efficient innovation.
White House Unveils American AI Action Plan: 8 Key Impacts on Healthcare Innovation | July 23, 2025
The White House’s “America’s AI Action Plan” accelerates U.S. AI leadership through deregulation, infrastructure investment, and streamlined policies. For healthcare AI, this enables faster FDA approvals, enhanced computing for genomics/drug discovery, and uniform national regulations—potentially unleashing innovation while raising oversight concerns.
Personal AI, Trusted Data, and the Future of Healthcare | June 11, 2025
Velatura’s Chief AI Officer champions “Personal AI”—patient-controlled systems versus “Personalized AI.” Using America’s largest multi-jurisdictional health information exchange, the company develops products like Consent Manager+ and achieved multi-hundred percent productivity gains through their “Humans and AI First” initiative, emphasizing patient empowerment.
AI Heats Up: Velatura’s Consent Manager+™, DeepSeek’s R1-0528, and the Global Race for Innovation | June 2, 2025
DeepSeek’s R1-0528, a 685-billion parameter open-source reasoning model, rivals OpenAI’s o4 mini and major competitors while achieving 93% lower inference costs. The China-based model’s strong benchmark performance and MIT licensing raise geopolitical concerns about AI leadership and security, as Chinese firms leverage it to circumvent U.S. chip restrictions while advancing their industrial AI capabilities.
AI at HIMSS 2025: A Chief AI Officer’s Perspective | March 13, 2025
HIMSS 2025 in Las Vegas showcased healthcare AI moving from experimental pilots to enterprise-wide adoption, with ambient AI, generative chatbots, and document intelligence leading the charge. AI governance emerged as a critical theme, implementation maturity varies widely, highlighting the need for comprehensive frameworks as healthcare transitions from AI experimentation to production-ready capabilities.
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: A Critical Look at Anthropic’s Latest AI Release | Feb. 26, 2025
Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet, released February 24, 2025, introduces hybrid reasoning with dual modes for speed versus depth, plus a new coding tool called Claude Code. While showing strong performance in coding benchmarks and reduced over-cautious responses, questions remain about whether the “most intelligent model” claims match reality, especially given premium pricing and inherited limitations from its predecessor.
Other Notable Appearances
Artificial Intelligence at VA: Exploring its Current State and Future Possibilities | Congressional Testimony
Prashant Natarajan testified before Congress advocating for “Personal Health AI” that veterans create and control, rather than “Personalized AI” designed for them. Using his 11-year-old daughter’s AI baking success as an example, he proposed a Veterans’ AI Collaborative with light regulatory oversight, veteran ownership of AI creations, and open-source platforms to empower both veterans and VA clinicians in developing their own AI solutions.