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Our Story
Timeline
Our journey began with recognizing the pervasive inequities in health care delivery and the need for a systematic approach to address these issues as part of routine health care quality improvement, patient safety and experience, data and operations. Throughout our journey, we continuously refined our model based on feedback from leading experts and institutions.
Conceptualization
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Brigham and Women's Hospital
Collaborative Development
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Brigham and Women's Hospital
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Institute for Healthcare Improvement
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Early design and implementation efforts were initiated here.
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Joint collaboration helped refine methodologies at BWH and IHI
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NYC Health + Hospitals: Further testing and validation of the model.
2017-2020
2016-2017
2020-2022
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Multiple institutions worked together to jointly test our core framework's effectiveness across early adopter health systems.
Real-World Impact and Spread
The Future
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Radiant Health Solutions (TM)
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Co-founders create Radiant Health Solutions (TM) to support all health care institutions and professionals with our vital strategies, frameworks, and technologies.
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Development of Second-Generation Tools
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Now accessible to all health care institutions and professionals
2024+
Leadership
We are the sharp edge of the country's leading quality, safety, and equity doers, innovators, and thought leaders. We help health care leaders and organizations achieve system improvement breakthroughs, at scale. Our solutions meaningfully address root causes of unequal health. We are preoccupied with high quality health care solutions and improving health care accessibility. We care about sustainable impacts and responsible growth. We seek partners who can match our energy and vision.
Lou Hart, MD, hospitalist, assistant professor of pediatrics at the Yale University School of Medicine, and medical director of health equity for Yale New Haven Health is on a mission. His goal is to improve the health and health care of all people living in America. In his role at Yale New Haven Health, Dr. Hart leads efforts to improve the equity, quality & safety of care by highlighting and eliminating costly, unwanted and unnecessary variations in clinical operations and management. These unjust disparities harm the health and prosperity of all Americans.
Dr. Hart studied financial economics, medicine health & society, and philosophy while at Vanderbilt University. He attended medical school at the University of California-San Diego and completed his residency training in Pediatrics at NYU. He was an inaugural Clinical Leadership Fellow in Quality & Safety at NYC Health + Hospitals and is now a Pozen-Commonwealth Fund Fellow & MBA ’25 candidate at the Yale School of Management.
President, Chief Medical Officer
Lou Hart, MD
Founder, CEO
Karthik Sivashanker, MD, MPH, CPPS
Karthik Sivashanker, MD, MPH, CPPS, is a nationally recognized expert in Quality, Safety, and Equity. At Brigham and Women's Hospital, he became the first Medical Director in these areas in the country. As a clinical scholar at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, he developed a model integrating equity into quality and safety science. Karthik coined the "equity-informed high-reliability" framework to address hidden inequities affecting patients, staff, and communities.
As VP for Equitable Health Systems at the AMA, he launched the Peer Network for Advancing Equity through Quality and Safety with The Joint Commission and BWH, spreading this model nationwide. Karthik co-founded significant programs like the Rise to Health Coalition and National Health Equity Grand Rounds. His expertise is sought on national advisory panels, and his work is featured by the CDC, NEJM, HBR, and NPR. He is a former Fulbright Scholar and VA Under Secretary for Health Diffusion of Excellence Gold Fellow.