Why Healthcare AI Needs a New Category of Infrastructure
In fintech, the infrastructure came before the applications.
Stripe did not build payments on top of the existing banking system. It rebuilt the rails. Once those rails existed, thousands of applications became possible that could not have been built before.
Healthcare AI is at the same inflection point.
The existing infrastructure, including CROs, hospital IT systems, and regulatory workflows, was built for a different era. It was designed for human coordination at human speed. It was not designed to move AI generated evidence through clinical validation at scale.
What the industry needs is not more point solutions. It needs a new coordination layer that is purpose built for regulated healthcare and designed to connect pharma, hospitals, labs, regulators, and patients around a shared set of rails.
When that layer exists, the cost and time required to develop and validate healthcare AI programs drop by an order of magnitude. Not because the science changed, but because the infrastructure finally caught up.
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