Although grateful for her recovery, she realized the inequity of her healthcare outcome. Not everyone has access to specialized medical expertise.
As Charlotte regained her health, she joined Asher Orion Group, a company dedicated to making a positive impact on those who are advancing healthcare innovation. The company supports both AI/ML regulated device manufacturers and enabling platforms. Through this work, she saw the potential and promise of clinical AI solutions to improve healthcare inequity.
As the clinical AI market matured, there was growing evidence that hospitals, both large and rural lacked tools and bandwidth to ensure they were wisely and safely adopting thousands new technologies being brought to market. In 2022, they began developing a flexible framework that could scale enterprise AI Quality Assurance, with the clinical expertise to actively audit and monitor clinical decision support AI solutions, independent of AI developers and locally for each healthcare delivery organization.
This was the origin of Asher Informatics.
The founders know what it is like to struggle with a quality of life threatening undiagnosed disease. Charlotte Kalafut became severely ill over three years, losing her mobility and enduring excruciating pain.
Despite having access to a top-notch healthcare system, she could not find any answers. Her husband, John F. Kalafut, PhD, activated his network to get second opinions, request favors, and keep up with the latest medical research. His efforts helped Charlotte's doctors to find a treatment plan for a rare disease which eventually led to her regaining her quality of life.
Origins
Who We Are
Charlotte Kalafut
Co-Founder and CEO
Charlotte sets the vision, mission, and strategy of the company while working to develop an executive team and service vendors to manage sales, marketing, finance, legal and human resources.
She is committed to building and maintaining strong relationships with key stakeholders, such as partners, regulators, media, patient advocacy groups, and industry associations. She also fosters a culture of innovation, excellence, and diversity within the company.
John F Kalafut PhD
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
John is the scientific and engineering expert of the company, responsible for the design, development, execution, and assembly of Asher Informatics products. He has extensive knowledge and experience in medical devices, healthcare informatics, and medical device software product development. In the past, he has contributed to innovation, definition, product management, development engineering, systems engineering, clinical science development, and regulatory strategy efforts.
His work has resulted in peer-reviewed publications, abstracts, and 40 granted US patents. He has worked across several domains throughout his career – academic/industrial R&D, hardware/software, intelligent systems/embedded devices, and business/engineering. At Asher Informatics, he will lead multidisciplinary teams of talented and opinionated engineers, scientists, and change-makers.
Bill Barrett
Chief Of Staff
Bill Barrett is a proven leader driving the expansion of the AI Quality Assurance solution suite through innovative and high-impact channel partnerships. He spearheads our collaborative discussions and partnership arrangements with Healthcare Consulting firms, large Medtech channel partners, and Academic Medical Centers and Research Institutions.
He brings more than 20 years of experience in creating and executing commercial contracts with diverse business entities. Previously, he served as Global market Director of OEM Specifications for a $25 billion public company.
A Public Benefit Corporation
We want to ensure the promise of clinical AI benefits all patients regardless of where the receive their care. We want to ensure the complexity, time and work effort to govern AI solutions don't create a barrier to rural, safety-net and community care providers.
As a legal mission-driven structure we will be able to balance the need to provide our services to all. Our mission will not be hindered by financial performance.
Advisory Network
Our work is guided by a strong group of Healthcare Executives and AI Vendors who are intimately aware of the challenges of bringing the promise of clinical AI. Supporting Asher Informatics is a way to share their expertise and insights to a larger patient and healthcare network.
Charlotte Kalafut
Co-Founder and CEO
Charlotte sets the vision, mission, and strategy of the company while working to develop an executive team and service vendors to manage sales, marketing, finance, legal and human resources.
She is committed to building and maintaining strong relationships with key stakeholders, such as partners, regulators, media, patient advocacy groups, and industry associations. She also fosters a culture of innovation, excellence, and diversity within the company.
John Kalafut PhD
Co-Founder and
Chief Strategy Officer
John is the scientific and engineering expert of the company, responsible for the design, development, execution, and assembly of Asher Informatics products. He has extensive knowledge and experience in medical devices, healthcare informatics, and medical device software product development. In the past, he has contributed to innovation, definition, product management, development engineering, systems engineering, clinical science development, and regulatory strategy efforts.
His work has resulted in peer-reviewed publications, abstracts, and 40 granted US patents. He has worked across several domains throughout his career – academic/industrial R&D, hardware/software, intelligent systems/embedded devices, and business/engineering. At Asher Informatics, he will lead multidisciplinary teams of talented and opinionated engineers, scientists, and change-makers.