The people behind the platform.

Dan Caron is the Founder and CEO of Health Universe, an AI infrastructure platform backed by Kleiner Perkins building autonomous and human-in-the-loop agents to transform research & enterprise healthcare workflows.

Previously, he co-founded Arrive Health, a prescription optimization engine that prices over 400 million drug transactions annually, acquired by Bain Capital. He also reverse-engineered the Omnipod insulin pump, contributing to the development of the first FDA-approved open-source artificial pancreas system, now used by more than 40,000 people worldwide.

At Health Universe, Caron is building the infrastructure layer for health AI — a platform that enables health systems, academic medical centers, and life sciences organizations to deploy AI agents safely into real clinical environments. His approach is defined by a rare combination of deep technical fluency, clinical empathy rooted in lived patient experience, and the operational intensity required to bring regulated AI from concept to production at scale.

Doug Fridsma, MD, PhD, FACP, FACMI, FAMIA, is the current Chief Medical & Science Officer at Health Universe. Previously, he was the President and Chief Executive Officer of AMIA, and the former Chief Science Officer for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC).

Health Universe is a one-of-a-kind infrastructure platform that speeds the development and deployment of AI agents and tools into clinical environments. As Chief Medical & Science Officer, Dr. Fridsma has maintained the certification of this platform with ONC regulations, established evaluation and monitoring of these tools as a fundamental part of the infrastructure, and serves as the medical expert for use cases and the user experience.

In prior roles, Dr. Fridsma was the president and CEO of AMIA (the American Medical Informatics Association), where he led the effort to define the field of clinical and health informatics through a systematic review of the skills, knowledge, and competencies for informatics professionals. This work, published in JAMIA, was used to update the clinical informatics medical board specialty, the accreditation standards for clinical fellowships, and the development of a new certification for nurses and other non-board-eligible health informatics professionals.

Dr. Fridsma served as the Chief Science Officer for ONC during the first and second Obama administrations, with key responsibilities for the portfolio of technical resources needed to support the meaningful use program and health information technology for the United States. While at ONC, he accelerated the development of standards through the standards and interoperability framework, a novel crowd-sourced approach to government engagement. He was the ONC champion of the JASON report that now serves as the foundation for API-based information exchange across the Health IT industry, and was the key ONC liaison to workforce development, the innovation community, and international HIT collaborations. He developed the CCDA (consolidated CDA) that now is used in over one billion transactions monthly, and served as the project officer for SMART on FHIR when it was still a government project.

Dr. Fridsma has held academic appointments at the University of Pittsburgh, Arizona State University, University of Arizona, and Mayo Clinic, and had a part-time clinical practice at the Mayo Clinic Scottsdale. He has served as a board member of SNOMED International, HL7, and the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), where he was instrumental in developing standards for real-world evidence that bridge clinical care and clinical research. That standard has been adopted in Europe as the ISO-certified BRIDG model. He has served as the chairman of the board of directors for the Center for New Data, a non-profit organization he helped to found that is dedicated to using novel forms of data to support public policy and social good. He is a sought-after speaker and biomedical informatics expert.

He is a graduate of the University of Michigan LSA Inteflex program and the University of Michigan Medical School (1990) and completed a PhD in Biomedical Informatics from Stanford University (2003).

Jim Muir is Chief Technology Officer at Health Universe, where he leads software engineering and technical strategy for the infrastructure that lets health systems, academic medical centers, and life sciences organizations deploy AI agents safely into regulated clinical environments.

Jim brings 20 years of software engineering experience spanning AI/ML systems, mobile platforms, product UX, and full-stack development. Most recently, he led software engineering for a voice AI platform at iyO, work that was ultimately showcased on the TED stage. Prior to that, as Lead Mobile Engineer at Rise Science, he helped ship an Apple Design Awards-finalist sleep app used by hundreds of thousands of people.

Jim's healthcare technology roots run deep: over more than six years at CoverMyMeds, rising from Staff Software Engineer to Director of Product & Engineering, he launched multiple HIPAA-compliant products, including a direct-to-consumer medication platform and pharmacy alert systems still relied on by pharmacies today. Earlier in his career at The Ohio State University, he led development of a mobile platform connecting students to campus life, and built go.OSU, a beloved campus tool that remains in daily use more than a decade later. Along the way, he also founded and built Snap, a BlackBerry 10 app that grew to 130,000 monthly active users and 10 million Android app downloads.

An engineer at heart, Jim has coded professionally since the early 2000s and continues to work hands-on across architecture, backend systems, and product design. He lives in Columbus, Ohio, where he coaches youth hockey and spends his free time fly fishing, building on his backyard ice rink, and tinkering with 3D printing projects.

Suzy Bureau builds the systems that turn ambiguity into scale. As Chief Product Officer at Health Universe, she leads product for a platform that helps health systems, academic medical centers, and life sciences organizations deploy AI agents safely into regulated clinical environments.

Her work starts with user behavior and data. She believes healthcare technology has spent too long asking clinicians to serve computers instead of patients, and that products built the right way give that attention back — freeing clinicians to focus on people instead of paperwork. The outcome is not just happier clinicians: it is better care, faster problem solving, and lives saved.

She built and led the founding product function at CoverMyMeds, first driving user engagement and growth product from early stage through scale, then leading two additional multi-million-dollar innovations — including a Clinical Alerts program that generated more than $10M in revenue in the year leading into the company's $1.3B acquisition by McKesson. Along the way, the platform she helped build grew to serve 900,000+ clinical users, connect to over 90 percent of U.S. pharmacies, and support 100+ life sciences customers with integrations across the majority of U.S. payors.

She then led product for IYO, born out of Google X's moonshot factory, through a launch on the TED stage to more than 25 million viewers. At Thirty Madison, a $150M consumer health company, she led mobile product and helped close a multi-million-dollar revenue gap for Keeps, the company's core business, through patient-first enhancements that drove a 39 percent increase in AOV.

Bureau holds a simple standard: healthcare has accepted clunky, frustrating software for too long, and clinicians and staff deserve better. She brings 15 years of early-stage and growth product leadership to that standard, and serves on the Innovation Fellowship Advisory Board at The Ohio State University College of Nursing, helping integrate innovation into clinical environments.

Ross Cantor, Chief Commercial Officer of Health Universe, has spent more than 20 years at the intersection of healthcare, data, and technology, building and commercializing solutions that connect clinical information with the people and workflows that depend on it.

Previously, he launched and commercialized Proscia's real-world data business, developing partnerships with academic medical centers, commercial laboratories, and life sciences organizations to advance oncology research and drug development. Earlier, he led digital transformation and data-exchange initiatives for more than 200 health systems and laboratories, including workflows that supported the real-time exchange of over 40 million patient records during the COVID-19 pandemic.

At Health Universe, Cantor leads commercialization and strategic partnerships, working with health systems, laboratories, and life sciences organizations to deploy AI agents safely into real clinical environments. His work spans oncology, diagnostics, clinical research, and revenue cycle, always with the same focus: turning fragmented clinical data into decision-ready workflows that improve speed, accuracy, and outcomes.

Doug Cassidy leads Health Universe's work with health systems, life sciences organizations, and academic medical centers. A biomedical engineer and computer scientist, Doug has spent almost 30 years in healthcare IT with the belief that technology can break down barriers to care and support those who provide care.

Previously, he served as President at Deep 6 AI (acquired by Tempus AI), as GM at Manifold AI, and held senior positions at Orion Health (NZ), Dedalus (Italy), Hyland, and CIOX. Prior to that, Doug was “hands on keyboard” for Noteworthy Medical Systems (acquired by CGM) building an EMR, and for Qualia Computing (acquired by iCAD) building breast cancer detection algorithms in the 90s.

In his volunteer work, Doug co-founded World Health Chart, a free tablet-based EMR for global clinical volunteers, used by Operation Smile and Médecins Sans Frontières. He was a healthcare IT advisor for the Vatican and a guest lecturer at Emory University. He currently mentors for the United Women in Business Foundation and remains a frequent speaker on the healthcare IT circuit.