“Your doctor has more outdated technology than your Uber driver does,” Abhinav Shashank, co-founder and CEO of Innovaccer, tells Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Jonathan Palmer in this episode of the Vanguards of Healthcare podcast. Shashank explains why fixing healthcare’s fragmented data infrastructure is the foundation for the industry’s AI future and why long-term value will accrue to companies that own the data layer rather than the user interface. He also traces Innovaccer’s evolution from a data startup into a platform spanning 80 million patient lives, and argues that “autonomous healthcare” could strip hundreds of billions of dollars of administrative waste. The conversation explores the economics of AI, the danger of poorly designed automation, how acquisitions are filling gaps and Innovaccer’s ambition to reach $1 billion of annual recurring revenue.