Healthcare product leadership
From clinical workflows to production AI.
20+ years across Agfa, Chartwise, athenahealth, Verily and Arcadia. Product launches, healthcare data platforms and hands-on AI work.
Explore the career and work record →20+ years in healthcare technology
Brendan Smith-Elion.
I build production AI for healthcare. VP of AI & Automation at Arcadia
Clinical workflows, healthcare data platforms, and the engineering work that brings AI into production.
Brendan / Selected work
Experience you can explore.
Career accomplishments, public explanations and work you can inspect.
Publicly reported scope
Teams and products at scale.
Led 15+ product managers, designers and experts at Arcadia. At athenahealth, helped bring the EHR to 100+ critical access hospitals within two years.
Source: LinkedIn experience →Watch the work explained
Healthcare LLMs and interoperability.
Recorded explanations, moderated discussions and published writing on the practical constraints of healthcare technology.
Watch the LLM explainer on YouTube →All talks and recordings →
Brendan / Background
Healthcare, from the build side.
Cardiology imaging at Agfa. Clinical workflows at athenahealth. Healthcare data at Verily. Now production AI at Arcadia. I bring that experience to questions about what a system should do, how to check it, and what happens when it fails.
Brendan / Independent work
Experiments and developing ideas.
Personal projects with their current scope and status.
In development
Fact Riot
A project in development around traceable claims and source evidence people can inspect. The aim is to make disagreement and corrections visible, without presenting a status as a final authority on truth.
Explore Fact Riot →Experiment
Auto-Tunez
A personal music-interface experiment built with React and TypeScript. Exploring the connection between mood, music and visual atmosphere.
Explore Auto-Tunez →Experiment
Autarkic
Accessible, practical AI education for lower-income people, local businesses and farmers. The idea is to make everyday AI skills easier to understand, including when to check an answer or ask for help.
Explore Autarkic →Run the workflow repair example → · Explore the BSE.OS playground →
Brendan / Field notes
Ideas worth checking.
Personal notes on evidence, evaluation and correction. Published articles and quotes below draw on healthcare and data.
Brendan / Elsewhere
Find me elsewhere.
Profiles and links. For talks, podcasts and conversations about AI in regulated healthcare.
Brendan / FAQ
Questions.
What do you do at Arcadia?
Agentic assistants, LLM evaluation and observability, and document-workflow orchestration on real, regulated healthcare data.
My role: VP of AI & Automation. I build hands-on.
What is Fact Riot?
In development
A project in development around traceable claims and source evidence people can inspect. The aim is to make disagreement and corrections visible, without presenting a status as a final authority on truth.
My role: Creator. Independent, non-healthcare project.
What is Autarkic?
Experiment
Accessible, practical AI education for lower-income people, local businesses and farmers. The idea is to make everyday AI skills easier to understand, including when to check an answer or ask for help.
My role: Developing the idea. Early planning, not yet a running program.
Talks and conversations about building AI for healthcare.
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