Brendan / About

Builder first. Healthcare AI.

VP of AI & Automation at Arcadia. I build production AI for regulated healthcare data.

01In brief

I'm Brendan Smith-Elion, VP of AI & Automation at Arcadia, a healthcare data and analytics company. I personally build production agentic AI there: multi-agent assistants, LLM evaluation and observability platforms, and document-workflow orchestration.

I've spent 20+ years building healthcare products: cardiology PACS at Agfa, clinical workflows at athenahealth, a healthcare data platform at Verily (Alphabet), and now AI-first work at Arcadia.

I write about what it takes to make AI trustworthy on real healthcare data, from AI confidence scores to semantic interoperability. Outside work I build independent projects in my own time, separate from my employer.

At a glance

Name
Brendan Smith-Elion
Role
VP of AI & Automation
Company
Arcadia (Healthcare data & analytics)
Focus
Agentic AI in regulated healthcare
02Working with me
Yes to

Podcast and speaking invitations, panels, and nonprofit board or standards-working-group service.

Not doing

Consulting, advisory-for-equity or vendor pitches. I'm an employee, not a consultant.

Find me on LinkedIn and elsewhere.