Company: Bayesian Health
Title: Founder and CEO
Industry: Healthcare
Standout achievement in 2025: Used AI to scale Bayesian Health across 20 U.S. hospitals, significantly broadening predictive care capabilities and reducing sepsis mortality.
Saria, who lost a nephew to sepsis, founded Bayesian to bridge the gap between medical research and real-world outcomes, applying artificial intelligence to critical, daily use cases in healthcare, often life-saving ones. Bayesian offers a clinical platform integrated with electronic medical record systems that allows hospitals to use AI to continuously monitor patient populations for high-risk conditions like sepsis, the No. 1 cause of death in U.S. hospitals and which can be difficult to identify before it is too late.
In 2025, the Cleveland Clinic adopted Bayesian’s platform across its system, which includes 20 hospitals in Ohio and Florida, covering millions of patients. Research within its system has shown a 46% increase in sepsis cases identified and 7 times more sepsis cases caught early. Additional research published in Nature Medicine from use across five academic and community hospitals reported an 18.2% reduction in sepsis mortality associated with the technology over a 3-year period.
Saria is director of the Johns Hopkins Machine Learning and Healthcare Lab. Bayesian’s technology, which received an FDA breakthrough device designation, is also used by Mayo Clinic, University of Rochester Medicine, MemorialCare, and MedStar, among other health systems.
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