# What It Takes To Scale Care With AI | Akido Labs CEO Prashant Samant Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-heart-of-healthcare-a-digital-health-podcast-4062107/what-it-takes-to-scale-care-with-ai-akido-labs-ceo-prashant-samant Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-heart-of-healthcare-a-digital-health-podcast-4062107/what-it-takes-to-scale-care-with-ai-akido-labs-ceo-prashant-samant.md Podcast: [The Heart of Healthcare | A Digital Health Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-heart-of-healthcare-a-digital-health-podcast-4062107) Published: 2026-05-11T06:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://rss.art19.com/episodes/b0d26557-f3d2-407d-a166-ad805de8b929.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0 Audio file: https://rss.art19.com/episodes/b0d26557-f3d2-407d-a166-ad805de8b929.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-heart-of-healthcare-a-digital-health-podcast-4062107/episodes/what-it-takes-to-scale-care-with-ai-akido-labs-ceo-prashant-samant Duration seconds: 2373 ## Resource Medicaid reimbursements are shrinking, providers are pulling back, and vulnerable populations are losing access to care. Akido Labs is betting that AI can expand care capacity fast enough to reverse that trend. This week, Halle sits down with Prashant Samant, co-founder and CEO of Akido Labs, to discuss what it actually takes to scale care with AI. They explore why Akido built a full-stack healthcare company, how its AI operates inside real clinical workflows, and why the hardest patients are the best place to test whether this model works. We cover: Why he chose to build a full-stack care model How AI changes who can deliver care, and where Why most healthcare AI tools fail once they hit real clinical workflows Why the doctor shortage cannot be solved by training more doctors How the bottleneck in healthcare AI is absorption, not innovation About our guest: Prashant S. Samant is CEO and co-founder of Akido , a healthcare technology company that builds clinical AI and operates a multi-state medical network serving hundreds of thousands of patients. He co-founded Akido in 2015 through USC’s Digital Health Lab. In 2023, he and his co-founders received the EY Entrepreneur of the Year–Greater Los Angeles Award. Samant is also a co-founder and board member of Grid110, a nonprofit accelerator supporting early-stage entrepreneurs. He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis. —  Show Notes: Akido’s recently-published white paper on street medicine —  🙏 Do you like this podcast? An easy and free way to help keep the show going is to leave us a review on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you're listening. —  📍 Connect with us: Heart of Healthcare website LinkedIn YouTube   See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Cal… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-heart-of-healthcare-a-digital-health-podcast-4062107/episodes/what-it-takes-to-scale-care-with-ai-akido-labs-ceo-prashant-samant/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-heart-of-healthcare-a-digital-health-podcast-4062107/what-it-takes-to-scale-care-with-ai-akido-labs-ceo-prashant-samant.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.