Bridging Medicine and Technology – Exclusive Interview With Dr. Sreeram Mullankandy
Sree is a medical doctor, technologist and startup mentor on a mission to revolutionize healthcare. He combines his medical expertise with tech innovation to create digital health solutions that bring healthcare right to patients. His goal is to make healthcare more accessible and affordable for everyone. Currently, he is working on exciting AI-based health-tech projects in the home healthcare space, while mentoring future innovators in digital health startups.
Dr. Sreeram Mullankandy, Director of Product Management & Clinical Quality
Introduce yourself! Please tell us about you and your life, so we can get to know you better.
I'm Dr. Sreeram Mullankandy, a physician who found my passion at the intersection of healthcare and technology. Outside work, I'm an avid reader—from medical journals to economics—and a bit of a coffee enthusiast. When not working, I'm either taking long drives or staying active through CrossFit. And yes, I have a weakness for gadgets; I'm always first to try new health tech, partly for professional research and partly because, who doesn't love new tech?
Can you describe your core mission?
Everything I do revolves around making healthcare better, more accessible, and more personalized. We're living in an incredible time where AI, remote monitoring, and data analytics can transform healthcare delivery, but only if implemented thoughtfully. My focus is on home-based healthcare. I love creating systems that make healthcare easier—tools that help clinicians make better decisions and empower patients.
Take our work at Biofourmis with Mayo Clinic—we weren't just building another monitoring system but creating a solution detecting subtle changes in patient conditions before they became emergencies. The mission isn't just about technology; it's about people. It's about ensuring a patient in a rural area receives the same quality care as someone next door to a major medical center, and giving clinicians tools that reduce burnout rather than adding to it.
What has been one of the most rewarding projects you've worked on recently?
I'd have to say our AI risk stratification system at Elumina Health has been my most fulfilling project lately. We built something that actually makes a difference! Our system pulls together everything from social factors to lab results using sophisticated AI to spot which post-acute patients need extra attention. The results blew us away—15% fewer readmissions and deaths in just three months! What really gets me excited is seeing clinicians use these insights to deliver targeted care where it matters most. There's something incredibly satisfying about creating technology that checks all the boxes: better patient outcomes, lower costs, and tools that make healthcare professionals' lives easier. It's exactly the kind of meaningful impact I've always wanted to make in healthcare.
Tell us about your greatest career achievement so far.
My proudest achievement is our work at Biofourmis enhancing AI-driven remote patient monitoring. We improved system sensitivity by 20%, catching potential issues earlier, while reducing clinician alert fatigue by 95%—a massive problem in healthcare where too many notifications lead to important alerts being missed.
Seeing this system deployed at major organizations such as Mayo Clinic and making a real difference in patient care validated all the challenges we overcame. It represented everything I believe in: using technology not for its own sake, but to solve real problems in healthcare by empowering both patients and providers.
If you could change one thing about your industry, what would it be and why?
I'd shift our focus from developing technology for technology's sake to truly solving human problems. There's a tendency to get caught up in new technologies—AI, blockchain—without first understanding the problems we're trying to solve.
I'd love to see more collaboration between technologists and frontline healthcare workers from the beginning of product development. Some of my best insights have come from shadowing nurses and doctors, understanding their workflows and frustrations. The best healthcare technology isn't the flashiest; it's the one that helps deliver better care without getting in the way.
Tell us about a pivotal moment in your life that brought you to where you are today.
While working with the American company Transocean in Asia-Pacific, I realized that to have maximum impact, I needed to act at a higher level. My medical director was from North America; he pulled me aside and had a conversation about pursuing professional business education there. I took the GMAT, earned a scholarship to Boston University, and it completely changed the trajectory of my career. That decision opened doors to companies like Humana and Biofourmis, where I could develop the predictive healthcare systems I had envisioned. Sometimes the greatest impact comes from recognizing when to take an unconventional path.
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