Healthcare policy can create uncertainty, but it can also make one thing very clear: where something new needs to be built.
In the second episode of HealthTech Happy Hour, part of People Behind Progress by SciPro, host Lauren Placencia, MD is joined by Eddie Qureshi, Founder & CEO of Rainfall Health, and Trevor Granger, Co-Founder & CEO of Perenna Health.
Both are building companies around major shifts in US healthcare policy, but from very different parts of the system.
Rainfall Health helps hospitals coordinate care and manage episodes under CMS’s TEAM and CJR-X bundled payment models, while Perenna Health is building tools to help community health center navigators keep eligible patients covered as new Medicaid requirements roll out.
Together, Lauren, Eddie and Trevor explore what it is actually like to build while the rules are still moving, how policy deadlines can completely change the urgency behind a problem, and why founders working in highly regulated environments need to earn trust as much as they need to build technology.
They also get into the role of AI in care coordination and Medicaid navigation, what should stay human, and what happens to patients when administrative complexity causes them to fall through the cracks.
Eddie Qureshi is the Founder & CEO of Rainfall Health, an AI-driven platform helping hospitals coordinate care and manage episodes under CMS’s TEAM and CJR-X bundled payment models.
He founded Rainfall with an initial focus on rural healthcare, inspired by seeing the challenges faced by communities like the one where his mother practises medicine in rural Arkansas.
Since then, Rainfall has built an advisory committee of health systems including UPMC, Kaiser and Sanford. In 2026, the company closed a $15M Series A, brought on Mayo Clinic as a flagship customer and grew eightfold.
His perspective throughout the conversation shows what it means to spot a policy shift early, commit to it before the market catches up and build credibility in an environment where the rules can still change.
Trevor Granger is the Co-Founder & CEO of Perenna Health, which builds AI tools for licensed navigators at federally qualified health centers helping patients maintain Medicaid coverage.
A product leader with 13 years of HealthTech experience, Trevor previously served as Chief Product Officer at an AI-focused HealthTech company before being recruited by venture studio Alloy Partners to lead Perenna.
The company was developed alongside Parkview Health, the University of Notre Dame and the 1842 Fund, and Trevor has spent much of the past several months embedded with navigator teams in Indiana as Perenna pilots its technology ahead of new federal Medicaid requirements.
That hands-on experience gives him a close view of the administrative burden facing both navigators and patients, and where technology can help remove some of the friction without taking the human element out of care.
This conversation is another example of what HealthTech Happy Hour is here to create: honest discussions with the founders, clinicians and operators working through the real challenges shaping HealthTech.
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