Longitude Health Appoints Dr. Vishal Agrawal as CEO to Accelerate Growth and Innovation for U.S. Health Care

Health system-led collaborative initiative builds on first-year momentum with a new leader to expand proven solutions, advance interoperability and drive systemwide transformation

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Longitude Health, a first-of-its-kind collaborative initiative founded by leading not-for-profit health systems, today announced the appointment of Vishal Agrawal, M.D., as Chief Executive Officer.

Dr. Agrawal is a physician, scientist, strategist, and operator with more than 25 years of leadership experience across payor, provider, technology, and financial sectors. Most recently, he served as the Chief Strategy and Corporate Development Officer at Humana, and previously held senior roles at The Carlyle Group, Ciox Health, Harris Healthcare Solutions, and McKinsey & Company. In this role, he will combine his deep expertise with a bold vision to guide Longitude Health into its next phase of growth.

"Longitude Health is uniquely positioned to change the trajectory of American health care," said Pete McCanna, chair of the Longitude Health Board and CEO of Baylor Scott & White Health. "In its first year, the organization demonstrated the power of collaboration and delivered meaningful results. Dr. Agrawal brings the vision and leadership to carry this momentum forward, guiding the next wave of solutions and expanding the impact of health system collaboration in ways not done before."

As he steps into the role, Dr. Agrawal outlined his vision for how Longitude Health can accelerate its impact.

"Longitude Health represents the opportunity to connect the silos in U.S. health care," said Vishal Agrawal, M.D. "By bringing together health systems, payors, providers and technology, we can create scalable solutions that reduce fragmentation, accelerate innovation and deliver measurable impact."

Agrawal added, "Longitude Health is a do tank, building and scaling real solutions rather than simply ideas. Together we can advance interoperability and data exchange and apply emerging technology to transform care. This is the right moment to partner with our member health systems to build innovations that make health care more effective, efficient and equitable for patients and communities."

Launched one year ago, Longitude Health has already shown that when health systems come together, they can deliver outcomes that a single system cannot achieve alone. By pooling expertise, capital and infrastructure, Longitude Health is addressing health care's most complex challenges and building system-led solutions in areas such as specialty pharmacy, patient financial experience and other initiatives in development.

Proven momentum: a model that works
In its first twelve months, Longitude Health has advanced from concept to execution with remarkable speed. Highlights include:

• Member systems spanning 140 hospitals across 10 states, representing more than $60B in net patient service revenue and over 280,000 health care providers and employees
• Expanding reach with the addition of Michigan Medicine
• Delivering measurable results in specialty pharmacy through Longitude Rx, including the formation of a partnership with non-member health system Onvida Health
• Advancing the development of a next-generation patient financial experience solution
• Establishing infrastructure and capabilities now positioned for national reach
• Building a team of more than 40 professionals to drive growth and innovation

By productizing member best practices, Longitude Health turns local innovations into scalable national solutions, creating a self-reinforcing engine in which value flows back to members, patients and communities.

Scaling solutions and technology for systemwide change
Longitude Health is now entering a stage of broader adoption and accelerated development. A central priority is advancing interoperability, the connective tissue that allows innovation to flow, enabling health systems to reduce fragmentation, connect data and spread solutions efficiently.

Under Dr. Agrawal's leadership, Longitude Health will:

• Launch and expand a pipeline of new solutions
• Apply agentic AI and predictive tools to support clinicians, streamline operations and make care more efficient
• Strengthen the infrastructure that enables innovation to spread seamlessly across systems

Leadership for the future
Dr. Agrawal succeeds Interim CEO Brett Moraski, who stepped in following founding CEO Paul Mango's passing in January 2025.

"Brett provided invaluable leadership at a pivotal time," McCanna said. "He ensured the organization not only stayed on track but gained speed, expanded membership and launched new initiatives. We are grateful for his leadership and look forward to his continued role in supporting the future of Longitude Health."

Today, our member health systems are actively assessing the most pressing challenges and opportunities facing their patients and communities and identifying the next set of solutions to develop through Longitude Health. Dr. Agrawal will oversee this process and ensure the organization is positioned to advance solutions for national impact.

"Paul Mango's vision was groundbreaking and he saw a path forward through collaboration when many thought it could not be done," Agrawal added. "I am honored to have learned from him. He was both a mentor and friend, and I am humbled to carry on his legacy. Building on the progress of Longitude Health's first year, we have real momentum to create solutions that will shape the future of health care. Working together with our members, we will scale innovations that strengthen health systems, improve affordability and ultimately transform the health care experience for patients and communities across the U.S."

About Dr. Vishal Agrawal
Vishal Agrawal, M.D. joins Longitude Health from Humana, where he served as the Chief Strategy and Corporate Development Officer. He has over 25 years of extensive health care services technology, business development and acquisition leadership experience. Dr. Agrawal previously worked for The Carlyle Group L.P., having held the position of Senior Advisor from October 2017 to December 2018. In his capacity of Senior Advisor, Dr. Agrawal reviewed potential health care services and technology acquisitions with the company's investment team. Previously, Dr. Agrawal was President and Chief Growth Officer of Ciox Health, the largest health information exchange and release of information services organization in the U.S. As President of Harris Healthcare Solutions, Dr. Agrawal successfully grew a global health care IT business that developed advanced technologies to drive physician experience, interoperability and business intelligence across the continuum of care. Earlier in his career, Dr. Agrawal spent 12 years with McKinsey & Company, where he was elected Partner and led both the North American Healthcare Systems & Services Practice and the Private Equity & Principal Investors Practice.

He has a bachelor's degree in molecular biophysics and biochemistry, a master's degree in molecular biophysics, and a Doctor of Medicine degree, all from Yale University.

About Longitude Health
Longitude Health was founded in 2024 by prominent health systems to transform the health care ecosystem with bold, innovative solutions developed by and for health systems to deliver impactful change for patients and communities. Longitude Health members include Baylor Scott & White Health, Memorial Hermann Health System, Michigan Medicine, Novant Health and Providence. These leading organizations share a vision to revolutionize health care by providing sustainable solutions that lower costs and improve quality, access, and patient experience. For more information, visit longitudehealth.org.

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