Dr Augusta Uwah, Selected as Reviewer at Becker’s Health IT + Digital Health + RCM Conference
Healthcare Policy Expert Augusta Uwah, MD, MPH Selected as Reviewer at Becker's Health IT + Digital Health + RCM
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Healthcare Policy Expert Augusta Uwah, MD, MPH Selected as Reviewer at Becker’s Health IT + Digital Health + RCM Conference
Indianapolis, IN (PRUnderground) September 2nd, 2026
Augusta Uwah, MD, MPH, a physician and healthcare policy intelligence specialist, has been selected as a reviewer for the 11th Annual Becker’s Health IT + Digital Health + RCM Conference, taking place September 14-17, 2026 at the Hilton Chicago.
The conference brings together 2,500+ health system leaders for 190+ sessions across 13 tracks examining the digital, financial, and clinical technology infrastructure of health systems. As a reviewer, Dr. Uwah will attend designated sessions and provide structured feedback on industry presentations across AI in revenue cycle, interoperability, denial management, and digital transformation.
Dr. Uwah’s work centers on a persistent gap in healthcare operations: policy changes move faster than the systems designed to comply with them. Through PAULA™, a policy intelligence platform she developed, she converts CMS and payer regulatory changes into role-specific guidance for the hospital leaders who have to act on them — CFOs, physician advisors, utilization management teams, and revenue cycle directors.
According to Dr. Uwah. “We have more regulatory data available than ever before. CMS publishes proposed rules, final rules, transmittals, and guidance at a pace that no hospital team can track manually. The question isn’t whether the information exists — it’s whether the people who have to make financial and clinical decisions can actually understand what changed, when it takes effect, and what it means for their organization.”
Her specific areas of focus include:
— Denial prevention at the upstream point of care, rather than retroactive appeals after claims are rejected — The distinction between interoperability and interpretation — whether hospitals can not only exchange data but translate regulatory requirements into the correct clinical documentation and financial action — Prior authorization and the No Surprises Act IDR process, including the practical revenue impact of QPA methodology changes and the September 2026 IDR Gateway transition — Rural and community hospital access to policy intelligence, where small teams face the same regulatory burden as large systems with a fraction of the infrastructure — The role of AI in utilization management — not as a replacement for physician judgment, but as a system that surfaces the right policy dependency at the right decision point
“What I’m looking for at Becker’s is honesty about where we are,” Dr. Uwah said. “Where is AI actually deployed in revenue cycle workflows versus where it’s still slideware? Are interoperability solutions solving for interpretation, or just data movement? And are we building solutions that work for rural hospitals, or has the innovation curve skipped them again?”
Dr. Uwah holds an MD, Master of Public Health is a CPPD accredited AI consultant with certificates from Harvard Data Science review in Agentic and Physical AI . She is the founder and CEO of ClinEfficiency Pro, a healthcare intelligence company whose products include PAULA™ (policy intelligence), CLIP™ (clinical review intelligence), and CLAIR™ (governance intelligence). ClinEfficiency Pro builds AI-powered healthcare intelligence tools for utilization management, payer policy monitoring, denial risk, and physician advisor workflows.
The Becker’s Health IT + Digital Health + RCM Conference is one of the largest gatherings of health system technology and revenue cycle leaders in the United States.
