Chakri Toleti
Born
Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
Alma materUniversity of Central Florida
OccupationFounder & CEO of care.ai
Years active1983–present

Chakri Toleti is an Indian American business executive. He is the founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of care.ai, a Florida-based health technology company for healthcare facility automation.

Toleti was also a screenwriter, actor, and visual effects coordinator known for his works in Tamil cinema, and Hindi cinema.[1][2] He has directed bilingual films such as Unnaipol Oruvan, Eeenadu, A Wednesday, Billa II,[3] Khamoshi and Kolaiyuthir Kaalam.

Business career

Toleti was the Founder and President of HealthGrid, an enterprise patient engagement platform designed to connect patients and providers via their smart devices.[4] In 2018, HealthGrid was acquired by Allscripts to integrate HealthGrid’s functionality into their FollowMyHealth platform. Prior to HealthGrid, Toleti co-founded Galvanon, a company that first introduced patient self-service kiosk registration to automate patient check-in and intake processes NCR acquired Galvanon in 2005.[5]

care.ai

care.ai was founded in 2019 in Orlando, Florida, by Toleti, the Founder and current CEO. The Smart Care Facility Platform is the main product which converts care facilities into an AI-powered environment that monitors clinical and operational workflows.[6] The company's ambient monitoring system is used to predict issues before they escalate, for example, tracking patient movement to detect when a patient is about to fall in order to alert staff.[7]

In October 2019, Google partnered with care.ai to use the Coral Edge TPU for autonomous patient predictive monitoring in hospitals and healthcare facilities.[8] It raised $27 million in funding in 2022 and expanded usage in healthcare facilities through integration with Samsung and Google Cloud the next year.[9][10][11]

Film career

Toleti made his acting debut as a child artist in the Telugu film Sagara Sangamam directed by K. Viswanath, and has acted in over fifteen films. He obtained a bachelor's degree in Film and VFX at the University of Central Florida. He re-entered south Indian cinema with the magnum opus, Dasavathaaram. In 2019, he directed two remake films of the Mike Flanagan slasher film Hush: the Hindi Khamoshi, and the Tamil Kolaiyuthir Kaalam.

Filmography

As director

List of films directed
Year Title Language Notes
2009 Unnaipol Oruvan Tamil
Eeenadu Telugu
2012 Billa II Tamil
2018 Welcome to New York Hindi
2019 Khamoshi Hindi Remakes of Hush
Kolaiyuthir Kaalam Tamil
As co-writer
List of films co-written
Year Title Language
2013 Vishwaroopam Tamil
Hindi
2018 Vishwaroopam 2

As actor

List of films and roles
Year Title Role Language Notes
1983 Sagara Sangamam Photographer Assistant Telugu Child actor
1984 Mayuri Mayuri's stepbrother
1985 Chinna Veedu Chakravarthi Tamil
2008 Dasavathaaram Sairam Tamil
2012 Billa 2 Gangster

References

  1. ^ "Billa 2 - 25 days box office collection". Tamilcinema24. Archived from the original on 13 July 2015. Retrieved 2015-08-07.
  2. ^ "A Wednesday's Tamil teaser trailer out". Times of India. 11 April 2009. p. 1. Retrieved 8 October 2010.
  3. ^ "Review : (2012)". Sify. Archived from the original on 3 October 2013. Retrieved 14 December 2018.
  4. ^ Soderstrom, Alex. "Health care AI firm to double its national reach & add jobs this year. Here's how". Orlando Business Journal. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
  5. ^ Toleti, Chakri. "Forbes Business Profile". Forbes. Retrieved 1 October 2022.
  6. ^ Konam, Sandeep; Elwyn, Glyn. "HEALTH TECH Industry Voices—For AI to truly transform healthcare, we have to focus on patients". Fierce Healthcare. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
  7. ^ Knowles, Summer (18 May 2023). "How AI is being used in health care in Central Florida". WESH.
  8. ^ Miliard, Mike (24 October 2019). "Google, care.ai working together to develop autonomous monitoring platform". Healthcare IT News. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
  9. ^ Hagen, Jessica (22 November 2022). "AI-enabled patient monitoring platform care.ai scores $27M in funding". Mobihealthnews. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
  10. ^ Hagen, Jessica (7 June 2023). "care.ai, Samsung partner for AI-powered patient monitoring via displays". Mobihealthnews. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
  11. ^ Barrie, Robert (11 April 2023). "Care.ai partners with Google Cloud to increase hospital outreach". Medical Device Network. Retrieved 6 December 2023.

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