Steer Health Wins 2026 Hearst Health Prize for AI Care Coordination

The platform, which integrates with over 50 electronic health record systems, addresses the persistent issue of patients failing to complete specialist referrals or missing appointments. By utilizing a gradient-boosted predictive model, Steer Health identified at-risk patients and managed 1.68 million individuals across 950 care sites in 2025. This automated intervention helped achieve a 2.2% no-show rate, a sharp improvement over the 18–20% national average. Sridhar Yerramreddy, founder and CEO of Steer Health, noted that the technology handles complex, invisible coordination tasks at a scale impossible for human workforces to manage alone.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute earned finalist status and a $25,000 award for MatchMiner, an open-source platform designed to connect cancer patients with precision medicine clinical trials. Given that fewer than 10% of adult cancer patients typically enroll in trials, MatchMiner automates the matching process by analyzing genomic data and unstructured clinical notes. The system has already facilitated 402 enrollments and reduced the time to patient consent by a median of 55 days. As an open-source tool, MatchMiner allows cancer centers to adopt the technology without licensing fees, with current expansion efforts reaching the Mayo Clinic.