Lexi

Our annual membership retreat is always an opportunity to bring health center leaders together to consider how we can best promote community health in Massachusetts. This year we gathered in Worcester to put "the future in focus" by discussing innovation, strategy, and action. We were thrilled to have Mayor Joe Petty, a longtime ally of the health center movement, kick off our retreat with some welcome remarks, followed by Mass League Board Chair Karen Gardner and Dr. Cheryl Clark, Executive Director of the Institute for Health Equity Research, Evaluation & Policy. Undersecretary for MassHealth, Michael Levine delivered the keynote address which set the tone for most of the day. Our retreat was filled with interactive panels and sessions aimed at helping leaders prepare for all kinds of uncertainties and scenarios that can come up for health centers. We were treated to a dynamic and engaging roundtable on federal health care policy led by Joe Dunn and Stephanie Krenrich, an engaging conversation on media strategy and crisis communications by Diana C. Pisciotta and Leandro Ruiz of Denterlein, and a forward looking presentation on AI adoption from Susan Adams, PMP, Linda Naval, MPA, and Padmaja Sastry. As always, we are grateful for the incredible turnout and response to this year's retreat and we look forward to seeing everyone next year!

We’re thrilled to share that Lexi has been selected for the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200 at #TechCrunchDisrupt2025! Lexi was chosen in the Health & Wellness category for our mission to redefine healthcare communication. We are excited to join 10,000+ tech and healthcare leaders next week in San Francisco, come find us at Booth E17 in the Startup Battlefield Pavilion (Health & Wellness Track) from October 27–29 at Moscone Center, San Francisco. TechCrunch Announcement - https://lnkd.in/eapGaSrd Lexi on TechCrunch - https://lnkd.in/et4Ewpjn Huge thanks to Michael J Schick and Isabelle Johannessen for organizing and supporting all the founders this year! Linh Pham Daniel Rodriguez Rodriguez #StartupBattlefield #HealthTech #DigitalHealth #AIforGood #HealthcareAI #Innovation #TechCrunchDisrupt #HealthEquity #Startups

🎉 Congratulations to Lexi — Winner of the HLTH 2025 Health Equity Startup Pitch Competition! Hosted by HLTH Foundation, this first-ever pitch competition showcased founders advancing equity, access, and inclusion through bold innovation. Lexi is transforming healthcare translation with an AI-powered voice-to-voice medical interpretation tool that prioritizes medical accuracy, cultural nuance, and equity. Built by Linh Pham, Siddharth UR, and their multidisciplinary team at Harvard University, Lexi’s technology is designed to bridge language gaps that too often compromise care quality, patient trust, and outcomes. 🏆 Lexi now advances to the HLTH Startup Pitch Tournament Grand Finale! 📅 Wednesday, 9:15 AM PT 📍 Mt. Olympus Main Stage at #HLTHUSA A huge thank you to our incredible emcee, Grace Cordovano, PhD, BCPA, and our judges — Erica Murdock, Liz Rockett and Kyu Rhee, MD, MPP — for lending their expertise, time, and passion to elevate this inaugural competition. Join us in cheering them on as they compete for the ultimate spotlight in health innovation! #HealthEquity #StartupPitch #Innovation #Techquity #DigitalHealth

We’re super excited to announce the official 2025 cohort for VHBOS! We are working together with The Barr Foundation to provide financial and hands-on support and empower 15 Boston-based founders in this cohort. Read and learn more about each founder here: https://lnkd.in/ea3tqQHA #VHBOS #founders #Boston #entrepreneurship

We’re honored to share that Lexi has won Gold in the 2025 The Stevie® Awards® for Technology Excellence, and the Grand Stevie for Highest-Rated Nomination of the Year, placing us alongside Amazon Web Services and global leaders like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Salesforce. Out of more than 1,500 nominations from 35 nations, judged by 160+ professionals worldwide, Lexi was recognized as the highest-rated nomination of the year. https://lnkd.in/eDJuqaSQ You can watch highlights from the ceremony and interviews here: Acceptance Speech – Stevie Awards - https://lnkd.in/e8icx2yM Grand Prize Interview - https://lnkd.in/eNm-kgyR This recognition underscores that Healthcare AI innovation is defined not only by cutting-edge AI, but by human-centered design, workflow integration, cultural competency, and measurable human impact. We are grateful to our collaborators, advisors, mentors, patients, providers, interpreters, and community health centers, like Lowell Community Health Center, who inspire us every day and support us on this journey. Linh Pham Daniel Rodriguez Rodriguez This is just the beginning! If you believe language should never be a barrier to care, join us in making healthcare truly accessible for all. #StevieAwards #HealthcareInnovation #AIforGood #HealthEquity

We’re thrilled to share that Lexi has been named an Honoree in Fast Company’s Innovation by Design Awards 2025 in the Health & Wellness category! https://lnkd.in/eN7QtBAU This recognition is especially meaningful because at Lexi, we approach Healthcare AI Innovation as designers and human-centered researchers, working on the ground with clinicians, patients, caregivers, medical interpreters, and community partners. By embedding ourselves in real workflows and listening closely to the communities we serve, we uncover the insights and nuances needed to design products that fit naturally into clinical workflow, improve adoption, and support better care. Being honored by Fast Company affirms our belief that human-centered design can drive healthcare innovation, making language access safer, faster, and more dignified for the 30M+ patients in the U.S. with limited English proficiency. We’re deeply grateful to the jurors for this recognition Carly Ayres Yves Behar Aki Carpenter Cheryl Durst, Hon. FIIDA Benjamin Hubert Mark Kawano Ryan McClelland Ermi van Oers Marti Romances Lisa Smith Tracey Arcabasso Smith jeff staple Amy ( Hennisch ) Williams We thank all our partners, patients, and care teams who inspire us every day. Linh Pham Daniel Rodriguez Rodriguez #FCDesignAwards #FastCompany #InnovationByDesign #HealthTech #HumanCenteredDesign #LanguageAccess #HealthcareInnovation #HealthEquity #SocialImpact

Lexi won 1st Prize Champion at Vietnam AI Stars 2025, the inaugural pitch competition at Vietnam Tech Summit in Silicon Valley! Having grown up in Vietnam and lived abroad for over a decade, it was especially meaningful to reconnect with Vietnam’s tech community, learn from AI leaders, and share our mission to address language barriers in healthcare – a challenge affecting 1 in 2 Vietnamese people in the U.S. today. A huge thank you to our mentors Hieu Pham, Long Mai and Quang Anh Bui, PhD for their invaluable advice, and to the judges Quoc V. Le, Hung Tran, Chip Huyen, Hien Luu, and Phu Hoang for their thoughtful guidance through three rounds of competition. We've learned so much from you! We’re also honored to be sharing the stage with Meetless and Caunoi, and grateful to the organizers and sponsors for creating this amazing opportunity! Thao Ho Kim Hanh Mai Viet Spark Vietbay Tech VISEMI Foundation AI for Vietnam VinUniversity Calif among others. Finally, thank you Vietnam Airlines for the round-trip tickets to Vietnam! Siddharth UR and I can’t wait to be back and continue building bridges with the community. Excited to keep building toward a future where no patient goes unheard in care. Cám ơn mọi người rất nhiều! #VietnamAIStars #AI #Healthcare #Innovation #Lexi

Meet Lexi, Linh Pham, and Siddharth UR. A remarkable company, brilliant co-founders, and an inspiring vision. Ainsley Advisory Group is extremely proud to work with the Lexi team and share their story in our newsletter. Lexi is on a mission to use AI to address a fundamental yet often-overlooked aspect of healthcare: language access. Language barriers contribute to worse clinical outcomes, higher healthcare utilization, reduced health literacy, lower treatment adherence, and the erosion of patient trust, empowerment, and care experiences. Bring in Lexi: patient-centered and culturally nuanced innovation that is transforming healthcare translation. Lexi’s sophisticated AI-powered voice-to-voice medical interpretation tool is fine-tuned for medical accuracy and cultural sensitivity. It’s trained on clinical terminology and high-need, under-resourced languages like Haitian Creole. Built with Sid and Linh’s design engineering expertise and a powerhouse multidisciplinary Harvard University team, they have won both the Peter M. Sacerdote Grand Prize at the Harvard Business School New Venture Competition and the Gold iF Design Award, one of the world’s top honors in innovation. Most importantly, Lexi’s technology is focused on equity, access, and cultural representation. As Linh and Sid recently shared with the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University: “Language barriers are one of the most overlooked drivers of health inequity. We started Lexi because we have seen how language failures harm people we love. We are building a platform that works for communities, with communities, and keeps accessibility at the heart of every decision we make.” (Full Q&A: https://lnkd.in/eCXA2ZSD)