OUR VISION
Ushering a world where no patient deteriorates unseen between moments of care.
Vasant Kumar
Founder & CEO
“Everyone deserves continuous, connected care.”
CareCentra began with my father. He was a 90-year-old patient living in India with congestive heart failure and a respiratory illness. He wouldn't weigh himself every day. He knew it could help spot the need for diuresis early and prevent an ER visit. But he saw it as the first step toward prolonged hospital stays.
Then something changed. I placed a connected weighing scale by his bedside that built a line graph on his iPad each time he stepped on it. The nudge worked! Every evening at 7:30 PM in New York, my phone would ping. It was 6 AM in India, and my 90-year old father had stepped on a connected scale.
Dad never knew his actual weight, nor did he care. Yet, in the early days, there were many pings in a day as he built that graph with childlike wonder. But over six years, wonderment gave way to routine, and the habit kept him stable. He didn't visit the ER. He went in for preventive diuresis only twice during that time - a simple process.
For me, one daily ping became his heartbeat from 10,000 miles away. Until there were none. He passed away in his sleep shortly after he turned 96.
My mission has been to replicate that remote, connected monitoring at scale. We aim to have the doctor's office reach the patient before they experience a flare up. It is the human voice and touch that is magical. We make it possible to reach out to patients even before they know they need it.
Putting a smile on an aging face that looks up from a device and says, “What would I do without you?” is priceless!
— Vasant Kumar, Founder & CEO
WHAT WE STAND FOR
Our Principles
These are the unchanging principles that guide every decision we make and every product we build.
Patients First
CareCentra exists because of patients like Vasant's father. Every decision we make, every feature we build, starts with one question: will this help keep patients healthier? Patient outcomes drive everything we do.
OUTCOMES OVER EVERYTHING.
Machine Intelligence + Human Compassion
Technology should amplify human care, not replace it. Our AI handles routine monitoring so care teams can focus on what matters most — the complex interventions that require clinical judgment and human connection.
AI THAT MAKES CARE MORE HUMAN.
Proven Partnership
We only succeed when our health system partners succeed. That means measurable outcomes, sustainable economics, and seamless integration. We're in this together for the long term.
YOUR SUCCESS IS OUR SUCCESS.
MIND THE GAP
The Problem Isn't the Visits. It's Everything Between Them.
Today's respiratory care is built around encounters — a 15-minute check-up every few months, then silence. Between visits, patients manage alone: symptoms go unreported, exacerbations build undetected, and clinicians lose sight of the people who need them most.
Remote monitoring added data points, but not understanding. Devices collect readings that pile up in dashboards no one has time to review. The signal is there — but no one is translating it into action.
CareCentra was built to close that gap entirely. Our AI-driven platform doesn't sample a patient's health — it tracks it continuously, turning daily vitals, medication adherence, symptom patterns, and environmental triggers into precision nudges for patients and timely clinical escalations for care teams. No gaps. No guesswork. Just the kind of care chronic respiratory patients were always supposed to get.
Our Mission
Healthcare is fundamentally human. At its core, it's the business of humans helping other humans live well for as long as they can.
But too often, patients with chronic conditions fall through the cracks. They're seen for 15 minutes every few months, then left to manage complex conditions on their own. By the time symptoms escalate, they end up in the emergency room.
We believe there's a better way. Continuous monitoring that catches problems early. Predictive AI that identifies risk before symptoms escalate. Human care teams that intervene at exactly the right moment.
This is the motive behind CareCentra — to wield technology not as a means to replace the humanity of healthcare, but to amplify its impact. To extend its reach. To ensure that every patient has a care team watching over them, ready to help whenever they need it.
The DNA of CareCentra is making healthcare more human.
Years partnering with health systems
Patients who have trained our algorithms
Reduction in hospitalizations
Peer-reviewed clinical trials
LEADERSHIP
We are a team of leaders united by a common purpose born from personal experience
To take care of our families, and yours.
Vasant Kumar Ramaswamy
Founder & CEO
Serial Entrepreneur · Health Economist · Behavioral AI Architect
- Built two healthcare companies over 25 years
- Former CIO & Chief Strategy Officer at Ranbaxy Laboratories and Financial Economist at the World Bank, bringing a rare mix of pharmaceutical strategy, health economics, and behavioral science.
Dr. Paresh Shah
Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer
Clinical Co-Founder · Health System Operator · National Health Informatics Architect
- Co-founded both companies with Vasant Kumar and designed the care logic, precision nudging architecture, and digital care pathways that CareCentra now operationalizes as AI.
- Has been central to ensuring the platform augments clinicians at every touchpoint and never attempts to replace clinical judgment, preserving health system trust.
Pradip Kumar Ramaswamy
Co-Founder & Head of Development Center
Captive Center Architecture · Engineering Operations · Variable-Cost Delivery
- Former General Manager at TCS and Infosys before building CareCentra’s India development center from scratch.
- Architected a captive delivery model that gave us enterprise-grade engineering at India cost, a key reason the company reached clinical trial scale and production readiness without institutional capital.
Raghu Nathan
Chief Technology Officer
Platform Architecture · Clinical-to-Technical Translation · Government Health AI
- Holds Master’s degrees in Computer Science and Statistics and has spent over a decade on the CareCentra journey, beginning at Scriplogix.
- Has played the critical role of translating clinical requirements from three trials and two major programs into precise technical specifications for the engineering team.
Keven Gessner
Chief Commercial Officer
25 Years Commercial Expertise
- 25 years building and closing complex payer and provider commercial relationships in pharma and digital health.
- Led US Digital Health at Teva and AstraZeneca — both with major respiratory portfolios — giving him direct experience negotiating outcomes-based contracts for connected care programs with the exact payer counterparties CareCentra is now engaging.
Abhishek Sanghvi
CFO & Corp. Strategy
Finance & Strategy Expert
- Led the scale-up of WhiteHat Jr from seed to $300M BYJU’S acquisition in 18 months — one of the fastest productized-services exits recorded in India’s edtech cycle; 13K active teachers at peak.
- Architected multiple cross border M&A deals; built India’s leading startup M&A practice.
Join us in transforming respiratory care
If you share our vision of continuous, connected, compassionate care, we'd love to hear from you.