Cohere Health's Partnership with CHAI to Advance Health AI

BOSTON (August 21, 2025) – Cohere Health®, the leader in clinical intelligence solutions for health plans and risk-bearing providers, announced today that it has joined the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI), an industry-led coalition advancing responsible development, deployment, and oversight of AI in healthcare through cross-sector collaboration. Cohere Health joins CHAI in pursuit of a common goal: ensuring health AI is built not just for efficiency, but to advance fairness, safety, transparency, and high-quality care delivery.

“Our mission has always been to reduce friction in healthcare and get patients the care they need faster,” said Gigi Yuen, chief data and AI officer for Cohere Health. “That requires AI that is not only fast and accurate, but also clinically intelligent, transparent, and accountable. By joining CHAI, we’re contributing to a shared vision of health AI that earns clinicians’ trust, supports evidence-based care, and helps build a more connected, equitable healthcare system.”

Cohere Health is transforming prior authorization and other complex clinical healthcare workflows through its Cohere Unify™ platform, which uses clinically trained AI to simplify care decisions, reduce provider burden, and improve patient access. Continuously validated by physicians, the platform’s AI models deliver 50% faster medical necessity reviews, consistently outperforming general-purpose LLMs and matching or exceeding expert nurse reviewer accuracy. Built to support and accelerate decision-making–never to deny care–Cohere Health’s participation in CHAI underscores its role in driving clinically appropriate, equitable, and explainable AI.

“I am thrilled to welcome Cohere Health to our growing community of organizations committed to advancing effective and responsible health AI,” said Brian Anderson, CHAI’s CEO. “We are driven by the engagement and expertise of our members and the feedback of our broader health ecosystem and the public. We look forward to working together to unlock the potential benefits of AI, on a foundation of trust, safety, and security.”

As a coalition that brings together leaders and experts across the community of health systems, patient advocates, researchers, professional associations, start-ups, and established technology providers, CHAI has established working groups focusing on privacy and security, transparency, usefulness, and the safety of AI algorithms. CHAI recently established its first Model Card registry to support the rapid growth of model cards, or “nutrition labels” for health AI, used to simplify procurement among health systems and solution providers.  

CHAI was started by clinicians, with a mission of building the broadest possible consensus across the health ecosystem to help ensure health AI is trusted, secure, and safe. The CHAI membership is open and rapidly expanding, and today it includes nearly 3,000 organizations across the healthcare ecosystem. CHAI is committed to convening and dialogue to achieve consensus; there are no limits to who can join and participate. Learn more about CHAI memberships here.

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About CHAI
The CHAI (Coalition for Health AI) mission is to be the trusted source of guidelines for Responsible AI in Health. It aims to ensure high-quality care, foster trust among users, and meet the growing healthcare needs. As a coalition bringing together leaders and experts representing health systems, startups, government and patient advocates, CHAI has established working groups focusing on privacy and security, fairness, transparency, usefulness, and safety of AI algorithms.

About Cohere Health
Cohere Health’s clinical intelligence platform delivers AI-powered solutions that streamline access to quality care by improving collaboration between physicians and health plans. Cohere Health works with over 660,000 providers and processes 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 in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for U.S. Healthcare Payers (2022-2025), is a Top 5 LinkedIn™ Startup for 2023 & 2024, and is a three-time KLAS Points of Light award recipient.