Cohere Health Named “Best in Class – AI in Health Operations” at the 2025 Digital Health Awards at HLTH

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October 21, 2025

BOSTON (October 21, 2025) – Cohere Health®, the leader in clinical intelligence solutions for health plans, has been awarded “Best in Class – AI in Health Operations” at the 2025 Digital Health Hub Foundation Awards. The honor recognizes Cohere Health’s leadership in applying clinically trained AI to improve payer-provider collaboration, reduce administrative burden, and accelerate access to appropriate, evidence-based care.

Selected from more than 1,800 submissions, the Digital Health Hub Foundation’s annual awards program celebrates companies making measurable strides in improving healthcare speed, efficiency, and equity through digital innovation. Cohere Health was recognized before an audience of global healthcare leaders, investors, and innovators at HLTH 2025.

“We are honored to be recognized for our advancements in healthcare AI among so many innovative companies,” said Siva Namasivayam, founder and CEO of Cohere Health. “Cohere Health was founded to transform how care decisions are made and delivered. This achievement affirms our mission to simplify healthcare through clinically trained, responsible AI that helps payers and providers work together more effectively and, most importantly, helps patients get the care they need, faster.”

Cohere Health’s clinical-AI powered platform automates up to 90% of prior authorization requests, aligning each decision with evidence-based guidelines and clinical nuance to eliminate administrative friction, inefficiencies, and inappropriate care. Health plans using Cohere Health’s clinical intelligence platform report 70% faster access to care, a 61% reduction in provider input time, and 50% faster medical necessity reviews. These results demonstrate the platform’s ability to streamline workflows while maintaining transparency and clinical integrity.

“Congratulations to all of our 2025 winners,” said Mark H. Goldstein, chairman of the Digital Health Hub Foundation. “Being recognized among thousands of submissions is an incredible accomplishment. Your work sets new standards in healthcare innovation; we are proud to honor your progress and excited to celebrate all the finalists and winners at HLTH.” 

This marks Cohere Health’s second consecutive year of recognition by the Digital Health Hub Foundation. In 2024, the company received the Best AI Story award for its responsible AI approach to simplifying healthcare decision-making and enabling more efficient care delivery.

For more information about Cohere Health, visit coherehealth.com

About Cohere Health
Cohere Health’s clinical intelligence platform delivers AI-powered solutions that streamline access to quality care by improving payer-provider collaboration, cost containment, and healthcare economics. Cohere Health works with over 660,000 providers and handles over 12 million prior authorization requests annually. Its AI auto-approves up to 90% of requests for millions of health plan members. The company has been recognized on the 2025 Inc. 5000 list and in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for U.S. Healthcare Payers (2022-2025), and is a Top 5 LinkedIn™ Startup for 2023 & 2024.

About Digital Health Hub Foundation:
Our mission is to help the world’s next best innovative healthcare companies scale and grow. Founded in 2017, on the campus of UCSF in San Francisco, our now 30,000 member community consists of thousands of early-to late-stage healthcare companies and highly qualified healthcare industry providers, payors, experts, mentors, investors, clinicians and researchers who participate in our annual awards ceremony where we bring together the industry to honor and validate the best of the best and celebrate the technological advances in healthcare and the impact it has.

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