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Founder & CEO, Steer Health

The future of healthcare isn’t more software. It’s an AI workforce.

Sridhar Yerramreddy is building the autonomous workforce that ends the grind of healthcare operations — so clinicians can practice medicine, and patients can simply get care.

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Sridhar Yerramreddy, Founder and CEO of Steer Health, 2026 Hearst Health Prize winner
Sridhar Yerramreddy Irving, Texas

Field note No. 01

Healthcare operators don’t say “transformation.” They say “grind.” Every day. Out loud.

01The story

He didn’t come to healthcare AI from a lab. He came from the grind.

A physician charting alone at a computer late at night in a dim hospital corridor
Still charting at 10 PM. The work Steer was built to take over.

Medicine was never abstract to Sridhar Yerramreddy. He grew up in a family of physicians, fluent in the language of care, and watched up close what the system did to the people delivering it.

At Oculus Health, his previous company, the problem became impossible to ignore. Hospitals paid a dozen vendors to do what one platform should. Clinicians charted until 10 PM. Front desks drowned in calls they could never answer fast enough. And millions of patients fell through the cracks of a coordination layer that was never designed to keep them engaged.

So in 2021 he founded Steer Health on a single conviction: the grind is not a staffing problem. It is an architecture problem. The answer isn’t another dashboard, another chatbot or another AI feature bolted onto twenty-year-old plumbing. It is an autonomous AI workforce that takes over the work that never should have required a human in the first place.

Roots
Raised in a family of practicing physicians
Previously
Founded Oculus Health, a healthcare staffing and operations company
Experience
23+ years in healthcare and insurance technology

We started Steer Health because too many patients fall through the cracks of a system that was never designed to keep them engaged.

Sridhar Yerramreddy, Founder & CEO, Steer Health

02The road here

Enterprise systems first. Then healthcare.

Before healthcare, Sridhar built enterprise systems where reliability and security are not optional: commerce and portal platforms at BroadVision, then architecture and security for a Fortune 50 insurer at Liberty Mutual. He arrived in healthcare with an architect’s instinct: fix the plumbing first.

Career

  1. 2021 to now Steer Health Founder & CEO The AI workforce for healthcare operations. Irving, Texas.
  2. Apr 2014 – Mar 2022 Oculus Health Founder Healthcare staffing and operations, where he lived inside the grind.
  3. Feb 2010 – Apr 2014 Liberty Mutual Insurance Sr. Director, Architecture & Security Led architecture and security for a Fortune 50 insurer.
  4. Apr 1996 – Jan 1999 BroadVision Principal Engineer Enterprise software for large-scale commerce and portals.

Education

  • Master’s University of Colorado Computer Engineering
  • Bachelor’s JNTU College of Engineering Electrical & Computer Engineering

03What he believes

Seven convictions behind everything he builds.

  1. The front door is where health systems lose patients.

    Calls go unanswered. Referrals go unscheduled. About 40% of referrals are never completed. You can’t hire your way out of that. It is an operations problem, and operations problems are solvable with software.

  2. Healthcare doesn’t need more AI that advises. It needs AI that executes.

    The era of AI as a passive assistant, summarizing charts and flagging risks for a human to act on, is over. A true system of action books the appointment, completes the follow-up and recovers the revenue. The metric that matters isn’t queries processed. It is patients scheduled, revenue recovered and friction removed for good. Anything less is expensive noise.

  3. Speech is the new UX.

    Every previous interface asked patients to come to the technology: learn the portal, download the app, navigate menus designed for regulators instead of people. Voice inverts that. The technology comes to the patient, in the language they already speak, on the phone already in their pocket. The 74-year-old who never logged into a portal will answer a call. In a sector defined by health equity challenges, that is not a minor point. It is the whole point.

  4. Beware the CapEx trap.

    Healthcare AI is stuck between two losing bets: legacy vendors AI-washing decades of technical debt, and garage-built point solutions that automate a sliver of a task while demanding half a million dollars in integration. A new interface on old plumbing doesn’t transform care. It modernizes the bottleneck. Demand architecture that is cloud-native, interoperable and built to execute, not to chat.

  5. Size your team to exceptions, not volume.

    The honest answer to “Will AI replace healthcare workers?” lives in the middle. AI absorbs the volume: the calls, reminders, follow-ups and data entry. Your people keep the exceptions: the judgment calls, the relationships, the medicine. That isn’t replacement. It’s liberation.

  6. Build for the scheduler, not the demo.

    The first question Sridhar asks of any feature: does it take work off a front-desk team’s day? That standard is why Steer customers run schedules that are 98% full, with 76% less repetitive work for staff. The industry is drowning in demos. He publishes outcomes only from deployments with six or more months in production, because trust compounds and overclaiming erodes it.

  7. Integration is the product.

    Before Steer, he ran architecture and security at a Fortune 50 insurer. In regulated industries, software is only as good as its plumbing. That is why Steer connects natively to Epic and more than 50 other EHR systems, and why security is an engineering discipline, not a compliance checkbox.

04Proof

The outcomes behind the ideas.

Every figure comes from live deployments with six or more months in production. No pilots. No projections.

Capacity

98%

Full schedules across customer practices, vs. an 81% specialty clinic average.

Attendance

2.2%

No-show rate, vs. an 18 to 20% national average.

Staff

76%

Less repetitive work for front-office teams.

Clinicians

2+hrs

Saved per clinician, every day.

Revenue

$72M+

In revenue driven each year at Prime Healthcare.

Patients

99%

Satisfaction across 6,900+ appointments booked at OC Surgeons.

Access

36%

Of bookings captured after hours.

At scale

19M

Patient lives covered

2.6M

Active users, as of August 2026

45+

Hospitals in production

470+

Locations live across the U.S.

50+

EHR integrations, including native Epic

05Speaking

Put the grind on the agenda.

Sridhar speaks with health system leaders, operators and investors about what it really takes to put an AI workforce into production.

Talks

  1. I.The front door is where health systems lose patients
  2. II.AI that executes, not advises
  3. III.Speech is the new UX
  4. IV.Beware the CapEx trap
  5. V.Size your team to exceptions, not volume

Keynotes · Fireside chats · Panels · Executive briefings

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Sridhar Yerramreddy?

Founder and CEO of Steer Health, an AI-native growth platform for health systems headquartered in Irving, Texas. He founded the company in 2021 after building Oculus Health and leading architecture and security at Liberty Mutual.

What does Steer Health do?

It provides an autonomous AI workforce that handles patient calls, scheduling, referrals, and follow-ups for health systems, integrating with Epic and more than 50 other EHRs.

Will AI replace healthcare workers?

AI absorbs the volume (calls, reminders, data entry) while staff keep the exceptions: judgment, relationships, and medicine.

Can I book Sridhar Yerramreddy to speak?

Yes. He gives keynotes, fireside chats, panels, and executive briefings. Use the request form on this page.