Steer Health wins 2026 Hearst Health Prize. Jun 16, 2026, 6:49 PM ET $125,000 in Hearst Health Prize awards recognize Steer Health and finalist Dana-Farber Cancer Institute for innovative uses of data science to improve health outcomes LOS ANGELES, June 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Hearst Health, in partnership with the UCLA Center for AI & SMART Health, awarded the 2026 Hearst Health Prize to Steer Health, an AI-driven clinical orchestration company whose platform has measurably reduced care gaps for more than 1.6 million patients across 34 states. Greg Dorn, senior vice president of Hearst and president of Hearst Health, presented the award on June 16, 2026 at the UCLA Health Data Day event. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute was recognized as the 2026 finalist for MatchMiner, an open-source platform that automatically matches cancer patients to precision medicine clinical trials. Hearst Health awarded $100,000 to Steer Health and $25,000 to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Steer Health was recognized for its AI-powered patient engagement and care coordination engine, which addresses one of U.S. healthcare's most costly and persistent problems: clinical inertia. Up to 40% of patients in the U.S. never complete a specialist referral and nearly one in five scheduled appointments are no-shows, representing an estimated $150 billion in annual waste and millions of patients who fall out of the care continuum each year. Steer's platform predicts which patients are at risk of disengaging and autonomously guides them through scheduling, intake, and post-visit follow-up, integrated with more than 50 EHR systems. "We founded Steer Health because too many patients fall through the cracks of a system that wasn't built for continuous engagement," said Sridhar Yerramreddy, founder and CEO of Steer Health. "This recognition from Hearst Health validates what our team and hospital partners already know: AI can take on the complex, invisible work of keeping patients connected to care - doing so at a personalized scale no human workforce could achieve alone. We're honored, and we're just getting started." Closing the gap between a physician's order and a completed patient visit has historically been a staffing problem. Steer Health reframes it as a data problem. Using a gradient-boosted predictive model to identify at-risk patients and a multi-agent AI system to act on those signals in real time, the platform supported 1.68 million patients across 950+ care sites in 2025 - achieving a 2.2% no-show rate against an 18-20% national average and executing more than 4 million automated follow-ups without human intervention. "The Hearst Health Prize exists because we believe data science is one of the most powerful tools we have to close the gaps between patients and the care they need. Steer Health and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute are doing exactly that - not in theory, but at scale, in real clinical environments, with measurable results," said Dorn. "Recognizing this work is central to Hearst Health's mission and we're proud to support organizations that are moving the field forward in meaningful ways." The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's Knowledge Systems Group was named the 2026 finalist for MatchMiner, an open-source clinical trial matching platform operational at Dana-Farber since 2016. Fewer than 10% of adult cancer patients ever enroll in a clinical trial, despite trials being the primary mechanism through which new cancer treatments are developed. The matching problem is overwhelming: thousands of active trials, increasingly complex genomic eligibility criteria, and oncologists who cannot track it all manually. MatchMiner automatically matches patients to precision medicine trials using genomic data and AI that reads unstructured clinical notes. To date, the platform has facilitated 402 trial enrollments and reduced the time to patient consent by a median of 55 days - a critical window when patients' health is actively declining. The platform is fully open-source, enabling any cancer center to adopt it without licensing fees, and its AI models are trained on synthetic patient data so they can be shared across institutions without privacy barriers. MatchMiner is now expanding to Mayo Clinic. "Our partnership with Hearst Health was built to surface and celebrate the data science work that is genuinely transforming patient outcomes. The 2026 finalists represent two very different problems - care access and clinical trial matching - but the same underlying insight: that intelligently applied data can find the patients who need help and connect them to it faster. We are proud to recognize both organizations and to inspire others working toward the same goal," said Dr. Alex Bui, director of the Medical & Imaging Informatics (MII) group at UCLA. About the Hearst Health Prize The Hearst Health Prize is an annual competition that showcases data science programs making a health impact. Visit the Hearst Health Prize webpage to sign up to receive updates, including notifications about the call for submissions for the next Hearst Health Prize. About the UCLA Center for AI & SMART Health The UCLA Center for Artificial Intelligence & Systematic, Measurable, Actionable, Resilient and Technology-driven (SMART) Health is a campus-wide collaborative that looks to the integrated transformation of healthcare through emergent data and technologies. A joint effort between the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), the Institute for Precision Health (IPH) and the B. John Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences that brings together UCLA's experts to shape how digital and data-driven healthcare technologies will help to manage risk, reliability, resilience, uncertainty and precision in future biomedical research and clinical care. About Hearst Health The mission of Hearst Health is to guide healthcare organizations by delivering essential intelligence and software that improve the quality, safety and efficiency of care. Hearst Health has been innovating with care for more than 40 years, with a commitment to making a lasting positive impact on health. The Hearst Health companies - FDB, Homecare Homebase, MCG, MHK, QGenda and Zynx Health - elevate care by informing and empowering participants across the health journey. To learn more, visit Hearst.com/Hearst-Health and follow @Hearst Health on LinkedIn. 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SteerNotes is here - The first AI that thinks, documents, and cares alongside clinicians. PR Newswire Today at 12:30pm PDT PR Newswire IRVING, Texas, March 30, 2026 Real-Time Clinical Guidance, Autonomous Care Plans, and Evidence-Backed Decision Support - Without Ever Leaving the Patient's Side IRVING, Texas, March 30, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ - Steer Health, the AI-native digital workforce for healthcare, serving more than 360 healthcare facilities and over 19.8 million patients, today announced the general availability of SteerNotes - an AI clinical scribe reimagined from the ground up as a trusted companion for clinicians. Unlike documentation tools that simply transcribe and disappear, SteerNotes thinks, guides, and acts alongside physicians and care teams in real time. SteerNotes is a trusted companion for clinicians: before, during, and after every patient encounter. It surfaces the right context before visits, provides real-time guidance during care, and ensures nothing falls through the cracks in recovery, follow-through, and coordination. - Sridhar Yerramreddy The general availability release marks a major milestone: SteerNotes now delivers live clinical guidance surfaced directly within the documentation workflows - eliminating the constant context-switching between the patient encounter, the EHR, and third-party clinical evidence platforms. Clinicians no longer need to pause mid-visit to log into a separate system, query a drug database, or cross-reference a treatment protocol. SteerNotes brings that intelligence into the room. Equally important, SteerNotes does not stop working when the visit ends. It proactively nudges patients to check on their recovery, confirms they are completing care plan activities - from medication schedules and dietary goals to follow-up appointments and physical therapy - and surfaces any gaps back to the care team automatically. Clinicians can step away from every encounter with complete confidence that their patients remain engaged and supported between visits. A Trusted Companion, Not a Transcription Tool The average physician spends nearly two hours on documentation for every hour of direct patient care. Existing AI scribes have reduced that burden, but they have left a deeper problem unsolved: the cognitive load of clinical decision-making itself. Clinicians still toggle between their EHR, evidence portals, drug interaction checkers, and care pathway tools, losing presence with their patients in the process. SteerNotes changes this fundamentally. As a patient conversation unfolds, SteerNotes listens, understands clinical context, and surfaces relevant guidance - differential considerations, evidence-based treatment options, dosing thresholds, and preventive care flags - precisely when and where the clinician needs them. No login. No tab switch. No interruption. And when the visit ends, SteerNotes keeps going. It functions as a tireless virtual care coordinator - automatically reaching out to patients to check on their recovery, reminding them of every care plan activity, and escalating any concerns back to the clinical team. Every facet of post-visit coordination is covered: medication adherence, specialist referral follow-through, preventive screenings, lifestyle goal tracking, and chronic disease monitoring. Clinicians move confidently from one patient to the next, knowing that care continuity is never left to chance. What Sets SteerNotes Apart * Real-Time Clinical Intelligence: Evidence-based guidance delivered in-context during patient encounters, drawing on clinical literature, care protocols, and patient history - without requiring clinicians to leave the encounter workflow. * Autonomous Care Plan Generation: SteerNotes drafts patient-specific care plans based on the encounter, chief complaint, diagnosis, and EHR history - ready for clinician review in seconds, not hours. * Zero Context-Switching: All clinical decision support is embedded natively. Clinicians are no longer forced to maintain logins or subscriptions to third-party evidence tools and manually move between systems. * Ambient Documentation: Automatic SOAP notes, HPI narratives, assessment and plan sections, and follow-up instructions - all generated from natural physician-patient conversation. * Deep EHR Integration: Full FHIR R4 and HL7 v2.x integrations with Epic, Oracle, Athena Health, eClinicalWorks, and more, ensuring SteerNotes writes directly into the workflow clinicians already use. * Clinical Abbreviation Intelligence: SteerNotes understands the shorthand and abbreviations that clinicians use in practice - interpreting clinical language naturally and accurately. * Automated Patient Recovery Nudges: SteerNotes proactively reaches out to patients after their visit - checking on recovery progress, confirming medication adherence, and prompting completion of care plan activities like follow-up labs, physical therapy exercises, dietary changes, and specialist referrals. * End-to-End Care Coordination Coverage: From the moment a care plan is generated, SteerNotes orchestrates every downstream touchpoint - medication reminders, appointment follow-ups, preventive care alerts, and chronic disease check-ins - so nothing falls through the cracks between visits. * Clinician Peace of Mind: Because SteerNotes is actively monitoring recovery and nudging patients on their behalf, clinicians can step away from an encounter knowing that care doesn't stop at the door. Every patient remains connected, every care plan activity is tracked, and every gap in follow-through surfaces automatically. What Clinicians Are Saying "I've been practicing internal medicine for 18 years, and I've tried every documentation tool on the market. SteerNotes is the first one that actually feels like a colleague. Halfway through a complex encounter with a patient presenting with dyspnea and a cardiac history, it flagged a potential interaction with their current beta-blocker that I'd been about to overlook. That kind of real-time support isn't just a productivity win - it's a patient safety win." - Dr. Anand, MD | Internal Medicine, Texas Family Medicine, Katy, TX "What changed our practice the most was not the documentation - it was the follow-through. SteerNotes sends our patients recovery check-ins, reminds them to complete their physical therapy exercises, schedule their follow-up labs, and take their medications on time. We used to have a care coordinator manually chasing all of that. Now SteerNotes handles it automatically. Our 30-day readmission numbers are down, our patient satisfaction scores are up, and my team is focused on patients who actually need human intervention - not routine reminders." - Dr. Rajan, MD | Medical Director, Orthopedic Specialists, Henderson, NV "Neurology is one of the most documentation-intensive specialties in medicine. Every encounter involves layered histories, complex medication regimens, and nuanced neurological findings that take time to capture accurately. SteerNotes changed that entirely for our practice. It picks up on the clinical language we use - the subtle descriptors, the grading scales, the specific findings - and translates them into precise, structured notes without me having to dictate every detail." - Ranbir Sidhu, NP | Nurse Practitioner, Neurology Associates of Texas, Irving, TX Leadership Perspective "SteerNotes going into general availability is a milestone we are deeply proud of - and it represents something much bigger than a product evolution. From the beginning, our goal has been to be the trusted companion that walks alongside every clinician before, during, and after the patient encounter. Before the visit, surfacing the right context and history. During the encounter, thinking alongside them with real-time clinical guidance. After the patient walks out, ensuring nothing falls through the cracks on recovery, care plan follow-through, and coordination. Clinicians did not enter medicine to fight with documentation systems, chase down evidence portals, or manually manage follow-up. They entered medicine to deliver care. SteerNotes exists to eliminate every burden that stands between a clinician and that purpose - and today, we take a major step toward making that a reality for every care team we serve." Availability and Access SteerNotes is available today to all healthcare organizations in general release. The platform deploys in days, not months, and integrates with existing EHR environments through Steer Health's established FHIR and HL7 integration layer. Existing Steer Health customers can activate SteerNotes through their customer success manager. New organizations can request a live demonstration at www.steerhealth.io About Steer Health Steer Health is the AI-native digital workforce for healthcare - purpose-built under clinician guidance and leadership to eliminate the administrative, operational, and clinical burdens that pull care teams away from what matters most: delivering exceptional patient care. Serving more than 360 healthcare organizations and 19 million patients, Steer Health's platform - including Luna AI, SteerNotes, FastTrackCare, and Revenue Cycle Intelligence - works before, during, and after every patient encounter to reduce friction, surface the right intelligence at the right moment, and empower clinicians to operate at the top of their license. Steer Health is headquartered in Irving, Texas. Media Contact SOURCE Steer Health This is a paid placement. For further inquiries, please contact PR Newswire directly.