Title of the Talk
Making Healthcare AI Work for Real People: Lessons from Medicare, Medicaid, and Modern Care Platforms.
Abstract
Healthcare AI is no longer a future concept - it is already embedded in the systems that serve hundreds of millions of Americans through Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial health insurance programs. But deploying AI at that scale is fundamentally different from deploying it in a controlled research environment. This keynote draws on over a decade of hands-on experience building and modernizing national-scale care platforms to share what actually works, what fails, and why the hardest problems are rarely about the model itself. The talk covers how hybrid cloud architecture, real-time data integration, and governance infrastructure form the foundation that makes AI usable in clinical and operational settings - and how those same foundations become even more critical when AI is embedded in medical robotics and autonomous care systems. Attendees will leave with a practical framework for deploying healthcare AI that is safe, equitable, explainable, and built to last.
Brief Profile
Tirumala Ashish Kumar Manne is a cloud modernization leader for healthcare platforms with over eleven years of experience designing enterprise technology solutions for complex, large-scale healthcare institutions. He currently serves as a Principal Cloud Architect at Optum, a UnitedHealth Group company, where his work focuses on modernizing legacy healthcare systems into secure, scalable cloud, AI, and real-time digital platforms across caregiver digitalization, Personal Support Network capabilities, clinical analytics, claims intelligence, real-time prior authorization, and healthcare data exchange. His expertise brings together cloud architecture, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, interoperability, DevSecOps, predictive analytics, and enterprise application modernization to support Medicare and Medicaid platform enhancements, digital access, operational efficiency, reimbursement accuracy, and improved healthcare experiences. Ashish is a published researcher with peer-reviewed publications in IEEE and Scopus-indexed venues, and his innovation contributions include AI-enabled healthcare analytics, caregiver access modernization, real-time prior authorization workflows, and AI-based patient monitoring. He has participated in international technology forums including ICTAIDACS 2025, TechFusion 2025, and ICMLAS 2026, and contributes to the broader technology community as a keynote speaker, session chair, technical program committee member, editorial board member, peer reviewer, awards judge, and mentor. An IEEE Senior Member and a fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health, Soft Computing Research Society, and Global Association for Research and Innovation, he has been recognized for his contributions to cybersecurity, AI, cloud innovation, and healthcare technology.