Qualified Health

Qualified Health is a public benefit corporation that supplies health systems with a single enterprise AI platform intended to replace fragmented, department-level AI tooling. The platform combines one data integration into core clinical, operational and financial systems (EHRs, data warehouses, claims and operational sources) with a library of pre-validated AI solutions, no-code assistant and workflow builder tools, workforce training, and a governance layer spanning audit trails, HIPAA-aligned data protections, role-based access controls, human-in-the-loop guardrails, post-deployment monitoring and leadership dashboards.

The company positions itself as an operating layer rather than a point solution: health systems integrate once, deploy out-of-the-box workflows, extend them with custom agents, and track financial and clinical outcomes, model drift and adoption continuously. Work spans clinical, administrative and revenue-related workflows, and the company also provides strategy and change-management support to health system leadership alongside the software.

Founding story

Co-founder Justin Norden, a computer scientist and Stanford-trained physician who had previously sold Trustworthy AI to Waymo, formed the idea at the 2023 HIMSS conference after hearing health system technology leaders say that an influx of third-party AI tools had left them without control over their technology roadmap and that they wanted to build solutions with a partner instead. The founders concluded in early 2023 that health systems wanted a platform-first approach with safety, governance and evaluation at the core.

Business model

Qualified Health sells its platform to health systems as an embedded, long-term partner, consolidating multiple AI vendors and use cases onto one governed platform covering deployment, agent building, governance, monitoring, workforce education and outcome measurement.

Enterprise platform engagements with health systems, positioned around measurable ROI such as run-rate financial impact from deployed workflows.

Traction

Partners include Mercy, Emory Healthcare, University of Rochester Medicine, Jefferson Health and all eight health institutions of the University of Texas System (UT Medical Branch, UT Health San Antonio, MD Anderson Cancer Center, UT Health Houston, UT Southwestern Medical Center, UT Health Tyler, UT Rio Grande Valley and Dell Medical School at UT Austin). At UT Medical Branch, the company established a secure data foundation across EHR and non-EHR sources and generated more than $15 million in measurable run-rate impact within six months. The company's site cites more than 500,000 users on the platform, 15,000 users live at an academic medical center in under a month, 400+ hours saved weekly at a regional academic health network, and $37 million in run-rate value identified in 10 days at a regional clinically integrated network.

Latest developments

On March 25, 2026 the company announced a $125 million Series B led by NEA, with NEA co-CEO Mohamad Makhzoumi joining the board; proceeds are earmarked for product development and engineering, deeper work with existing health system partners, and expansion across the U.S. hospital market.