Sal Novin

Sal Novin is the first recipient of the 2009 'Innovator of the Year' award by the Nashville Technology Council. The award was for Health Mason, an artificial intelligence tool that automates health care claims payments for reducing health care costs in the United States by an order of Magnitude.. In 2007, Novin was selected as one of the Top 10 Nashville Emerging Leaders and has participated as a panelist in Vanderbilt's Owen School of Business Health Care Program .
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Sal Novin is a native of Canada and has a degree from the University of Western Ontario in biophysics with a focus on statistics.. He began his career in pulp and paper and then telecommunications two Canadian industries where competitive advantages were realized through improvements in productivity and efficiency. Novin's contribution was recognized by the US firms particularly in the health care sector. In 1999, he moved to the US, and focused exclusively on health care industry, applying his expertise in transfer of efficiency techniques and lesson learned from other industries to the reduction of health care costs. He developed an end-to-end process analysis study for a Tennessee insurer, an electronic data interchange information management system, and an automated claim processing system that resulted on the savings of tens of millions of dollars in the health care costs per year. In 2006, Novin became the youngest vice president at the Capitol Health, a prominent US venture capital company, where his primary focus was technology due diligence of potential investments and technology consultation, and review of existing portfolio companies. In addition he was a driver in exporting American know-how into Europe . He also assumed the role of the president and CEO of a Franklin-based health care IT firm Linnaeus Inc.
Novin built Health Mason, a tool that uses artificial intelligence to read a computer screen, enter data and decide the best way to process a claim and thus reduce health care costs, at his previous company, Novin HPA . The product, and its successful deployment with Tennessee Medicare plan provider HealthSpring, helped Novin win the “Innovator of the Year” award in the Nashville Technology Council’s 2009 technology awards.

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