Inside Elevance Health's push to keep humans at the center of ai-driven care.
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Inside Elevance Health's push to keep humans at the center of ai-driven care. As AI transforms healthcare operations, the industry's most consequential challenge has shifted from building models to deploying them responsibly in regulated workflows where trust, accuracy and human judgment must coexist. This is where human-centered AI healthcare becomes essential, ensuring automation supports faster decisions without displacing the expertise and empathy required in care-related workflows. The challenge is especially acute in payer operations, where complex administrative functions can directly affect how quickly providers respond to members' needs. Notably, provider inquiries, claim research and correspondence management remain labor-intensive, multi-handoff processes that delay care, according to Danny Brakebill (pictured, left), staff vice president of business operations at Elevance Health Inc., a health insurance and benefits company. "We took... one of our processes that has a lot of handoffs, requires a lot of research and also is kind of painful," Brakebill said. "Instead of [providers] having to recreate a claim and understand what happened to answer a question, we get them 90% of the way there and they can just answer the question quickly and get back to providing care to our members." Brakebill, Venkat Alladi (center), staff vice president for technology at...
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To address the challenge of labor-intensive, multi-handoff provider inquiries, Elevance Health and Deloitte partnered to build a solution on Google's Agent Development Kit, an open-source framework for deploying multi-agent workflows at enterprise scale.
