Predicting Health Risks: Harnessing Geospatial Intelligence to Save Lives with Ajay Gupta

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Episode Overview: 

Geospatial intelligence and AI are revolutionizing how we predict and respond to health crises. 

Our next guest, Ajay Gupta, brings nearly three decades of cybersecurity and IT expertise to healthcare transformation as co-founder and CEO of HSR.health. 

After identifying critical gaps in healthcare analytics, Ajay built an innovative geospatial platform that predicts health risks based on social and environmental determinants of health.

From supporting WHO's COVID-19 response across multiple continents to helping communities prepare for natural disasters before they strike, HSR.health's technology enables organizations to anticipate disruptions to operations, assets, and populations they serve. 

Join us as Ajay shares how his team combines cutting-edge technology with healthcare expertise to create a more resilient global health system and drive meaningful impact where technology meets public health. Let's go!

Episode Highlights:

• Courage and imagination drive HSR.health's innovative approach to healthcare challenges using geospatial analytics.
• Their platform guided WHO's COVID-19 response and vaccine allocation across multiple continents.
• They discovered how coordinating school and construction schedules significantly reduced pediatric hospitalizations.
• Their technology predicts health needs before disasters strike, enabling proactive resource positioning.
• Ajay envisions combining geospatial analytics, AI, and emerging technologies to transform health risk prediction.

About our Guest: 

Over a near 30-year career in cybersecurity and information technology, Ajay has seen organizations create true competitive advantage from successful management of security and technology initiatives. At the same time, healthcare is burdened with outdated technology infrastructure and inefficiencies - which are often measured in human lives. Ajay decided to take his understanding of technology and implementation to disrupt and innovate healthcare.

In launching HSR.health, Ajay leverages the best of tech to transform American healthcare into a system that innovates healthcare delivery achieving improved quality, lower costs, and health equity. Under Ajay's leadership, HSR.health pivoted to support COVID response in the US and globally. And through its lessons learned has developed insights into how health risks impact broader markets. The company has discovered a means of predicting future health risks based on social and environmental determinants of health – and works with public health, government at all levels, and businesses to assess the impact of those risks to their operations, assets, and the populations they serve. 

In addition to his work at HSR.health, Ajay Chairs the Health Domain Working Group for the Open Geospatial Consortium, the global standards setting body for all things Geo; is a Commissioner on the newly formed Commission on Nurse Reimbursement; serves as the Co-Lead for the Healthcare Infrastructure work group of the UN-chartered Group on Earth Observation (GEO) Health Community of Practice (CoP); and is a member of the College Board of Visitors for Wake Forest University. 

Ajay also serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Holy Cross Health in Maryland, and in this role let the health system through a merger with Trinity Health hospitals in Pennsylvania and Delaware to establish Trinity Health Mid Atlantic, a multi-state, multi-hospital, social safety net health system, and a growing...