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I write about applied AI, governance, and the integration work that determines whether AI reaches production.

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Badri Raghavan, Ph.D.

Five pieces covering the questions I am asked most: what survives diligence, why pilots fail, and what it takes to run AI inside a regulated business. Each extract is the piece's own opening; the full text is on Substack.

From Diligence to Deployment: The Two-Sided AI Playbook in Healthcare

What survives diligence in healthcare AI, and what it takes to build it after the close.

Healthcare private equity is paying for AI. The sector set a record in 2025, with Bain counting about $191 billion in disclosed deal value across roughly 445 buyouts, with exits rebounding to $156 billion from $54 billion the year before.

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From FemTech and AgeTech to EquityTech: Where AI Meets Health Inequity

Health equity, chronic disease, and what AI can really fix.

When people hear that I work on artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare, the question I get more and more is: “Is AI actually going to fix health inequity—or just give nicer tools to people who are already well served?”

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Bodies, Bolts, and Bits

Aging in the era of multimodal AI.

By the time I’m old enough for the senior menu, my android co-author will almost certainly have followed me home.

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These are the pieces I point people to. The rest of the archive, and everything new, lives on Substack.

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