Vasu Avadhanula
Product leader in healthcare and AI
Former Chief Product Officer · 3 exits · 25+ years in product and technology
I turn complex technology and data into products people adopt and businesses pay for: each patient's longitudinal record, the next best action, and AI that hands off to people when it should.
Open to conversations about product leadership roles in healthcare and AI.
About
I've led product teams since 2006, taken products from 0-to-1 three times, and been part of three exits. The last decade has been in healthcare and AI: a patient care center and longitudinal patient record at Susan G. Komen, FDA-cleared AI at 4,000+ sites as Chief Product Officer of iCAD, and CareTogether, an AI-native care platform I co-founded and built hands-on.
I started as a software engineer and architect, so I work credibly with engineering teams, make architecture and build-versus-buy calls, and still build.
What I do
0-to-1 patient and caregiver platforms
Komen's patient care center and CareTogether: designing out friction so patients and families actually use the product.
Longitudinal patient records
One chart for each patient, built from every provider they've visited plus claims, with consent and NLP on unstructured records.
Next-best-action, four times
From data to the next step: patient navigation at Komen, care-team alerts at CareTogether, radiology triage at iCAD, and machine learning at SigmaFlow.
Clinical and generative AI, responsibly
FDA-cleared AI at 4,000+ sites, and production LLM agents with guardrails, evaluations, and human escalation.
Product leadership and operating models
Transforming product management at iCAD, outcome-based teams, and a test-and-learn cadence that scales without slowing teams down.
Technology I bring
Hands-on stories: an AI-native platform I built myself, governed AI-written code, cloud modernization, an FDA-auditable data pipeline, and enterprise IT.
Experience
AI-native care platform for seniors, families, and home care agencies. Built the product hands-on from discovery to production, sold direct to consumers and through agencies.
Advisory to healthcare enterprises and boards on AI strategy, patient-facing offerings, and platform modernization.
Led Product, R&D, and AI. Moved a legacy medical technology company to a cloud AI platform and rebuilt product management around outcomes.
Built the patient care center and Komen Health Cloud, the consented patient-records platform behind navigation, financial assistance, and the ShareForCures research registry.
Compliance and operations SaaS for energy operators, acquired by IPKeys.
Senior architect, then head of product architecture, then VP of Product across four product lines and seven products.
Public references
Press and media
- iCAD names three new top executives (MedTech Dive, April 2023)
- Data-Driven Breast Care (Radiology Today, March 2025), citing my comments on ProFound Detection 4.0
- Identity and access management at Susan G. Komen (BizTech, November 2020), citing my comments
- iCAD appoints Vasu Avadhanula Chief Product Officer (iCAD press release, April 2023; SEC filing; my post)
Product launches, partnerships, and deals I led or contributed to at iCAD
Coverage of the work; most articles don't name individuals.
- FDA clears ProFound Detection 4.0 (Radiology Business, November 2024; my post)
- iCAD launches ProFound Cloud with Google Cloud (iCAD announcement, April 2024)
- Google Health and iCAD extend their AI partnership to 20 years (Radiology Business, August 2023; also MedTech Dive)
- iCAD teams up with Microsoft (MD+DI, April 2025)
- GE HealthCare launches MyBreastAI Suite with three iCAD applications (Radiology Business, December 2023)
- iCAD's breast cancer risk and breast arterial calcification AI (MassDevice, November 2023)
- RadNet to acquire iCAD for $103M (Radiology Business, April 2025; also Fierce Biotech)
- iCAD sells its Xoft business to Elekta (MassDevice, October 2023)
Susan G. Komen, SigmaFlow, and CareTogether
- Komen personalizes patient care with Health Cloud (Salesforce customer story on the patient care center platform)
- How Susan G. Komen uses technology at the intersection of nonprofits and healthcare (my post, November 2020)
- IPKeys acquires SigmaFlow (Washington Technology, February 2019)
- CareTogether founding team
Writing on product and AI
- From outputs to outcomes in healthcare product leadership: why product leaders should own outcomes, not shipped features
- AI collapsed the cost of building; judgment is the only moat left: why product management matters more, not less
- Do foundation models increase AI adoption in healthcare?: accuracy gets AI cleared, workflow gets it used, ROI gets it bought
- Foundation models in radiology: it's all about the economics: value proposition, not hype, decides adoption
- Where AI earns its value in radiology: AI as the driver of decision support
Expertise
- Product leadership
- Product strategy and visionRoadmaps and prioritizationPortfolio governanceDiscovery and validationPricing and packagingGo-to-marketP&L ownershipM&A and divestituresBuilding product teams
- Healthcare, every side
- Patients and caregiversProviders and cliniciansHealth tech vendorsNonprofit and research
- Healthcare data
- Longitudinal patient recordsResearch registriesEHR and claims dataFHIR, HL7, DICOMNLP on clinical records
- AI
- Clinical AI (FDA-cleared)Generative AI and LLM agentsNext-best-actionPredictive analytics
- Business models
- B2BB2B2CB2CSaaS subscriptions
- Transformations
- AI transformationDigital transformationCloud migrationsProduct operating models
- Regulated environments
- FDA-cleared AIHIPAANISTISO 27001GDPRNERC CIP
- Industries
- HealthcareB2B SaaSEnergyCompliancePayments
Education
- BS, Computer Science and Engineering
Certifications
- AI in HealthcareVerify credential
- Pragmatic Marketing Certified
- Idea to Revenue MasterclassVerify credential
- Business Analytics: Making Data-Driven Business DecisionsVerify credential
- Executive Data Science SpecializationVerify credential
- Accelerating Digital Health Transformation Globally