Founder and CEO of Afya. Afya provides Virtual Care (eVisits, eConsults, Virtual Visits and Virtual Consults) services to health plans, hospital systems, self-insured employers and correctional systems. Our Virtual Care as a Service (VCaaS) includes a dedicated workflow design engineering team, AI-enabled telehealth application, and over 150 specialists providers.

Executive Lead delivering eConsult, Innovation and Virtual Care to San Bernardino and Riverside Countues

In July 2017, Sajid Ahmed became CEO of WISE Healthcare, an Innovation, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Workflow Design company. WISE Healthcare delivers artificial intelligence (AI) strategy and workflow engineering to healthcare organizations looking to improve healthcare delivery. WISE is launching an AI based mobile healthcare tool, that will help accurately diagnose patient symptoms and provide convenient access to care.Formerly, Mr. Ahmed led the effort to start a new state-of-the-art hospital South Los Angles. As the Chief Information and Innovation Officer of Martin Luther King, Jr. Hospital, Sajid led the start-up hospital’s (now open over two years) more than $70 million health information technology initiative, launching an innovation hub on the 42-acre MLK Medical Center Campus. He still serves as an advisor to the hospital’s CEO. Prior to the hospital, Mr. Ahmed was the Executive Director of Health Information Technology and Innovation for L.A. Care Health Plan, the nation’s largest public plan serving more than two million Los Angeles County residents through free or low-cost health insurance programs. Before leaving L.A. Care, Mr. Ahmed created and launched an innovation called “eConsult” in Los Angeles County, used by over 3,300 physicians. eConsult is an innovative care coordination system that allows for virtual consultations and collaboration with specialists, increasing timely access to critically needed specialty care for over 5 million patients, improving care and saving costs. Currently, Mr. Ahmed and his Redlands-based team is now launching eConsult in San Bernardino and Riverside Counties. A UCLA graduate, Mr. Ahmed is also a highly respected expert on innovation and frequently lectures about entrepreneurism, innovation and information technology in healthcare environments. In 2016, the Los Angeles Business Journal lauded Sajid as CIO/CTO of the Year across all industries in the Greater Los Angeles Area.

Advisor to CEO, Dr. Elaine Batchlor at Martin Luther King, Jr. Hospital.

Leading an innovative, state of the art greenfield build of the new and independent Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital estimated to open in 2015...Now open and operating successfully, better than 85% of hospitals nationwide!

On state work group to define data standards and business requirements for a california statewide provider directory.

California Health and Human Services Agency announced The Institute Population Health Improvement's mission is to implement California's Health Information Exchange (HIE) programs under the State’s Cooperative Grant Agreement with the federal Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC).

Designed and Founded HITEC-LA, the Regional Extension Center for Los Angeles County and it goal of 3,000 Primary Care Provider Electroni Health Record Implementations and lead the successful funding of about $23 million and initial operations of HITEC-LA..

The LANES program is a stakeholder built organization to facilitate health information management and health information exchange in Los Angeles County.

Responsible for coordination, management and strategy for eHealth and Health Information Technology initiatives at the largest Public Managed Care Health Plan in the United States.