Cyber Business Podcast

Securing AI and Modernizing Care Delivery in Long Term Facilities with Vikas Sachdeva

Written by Matthew Connor | Mar 3, 2026 6:13:45 AM

Vikas Sachdeva serves as Chief Information Officer at HealthDrive Corporation, a healthcare organization delivering care to patients in long term care facilities across more than 20 states and over 4,000 facilities. With prior leadership roles spanning financial services, retail, AI driven digital engineering, and healthcare, Vikas has built a career focused on digital transformation that drives measurable business outcomes. At HealthDrive, his role centers on enabling clinicians with the right technologies, embedding responsible AI practices, strengthening security posture, and aligning innovation directly with improved patient care and operational performance. 

 



Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn: 

 

  • How AI powered ambient listening and clinical assistance tools are augmenting providers in long term care settings
  • Why responsible AI principles such as transparency, fairness, accountability, and human oversight are essential in healthcare
  • How security and AI must evolve together to address protected health information risks
  • Why AI should augment human workflows rather than replace employees
  • How involving resistant stakeholders early turns them into champions of change
  • Why transformation must start with business outcomes, not technology hype
  • How data driven proof points reduce fear around automation initiatives


In this episode…

Vikas Sachdeva explains how HealthDrive leverages innovation to improve care delivery for underserved populations in long term care facilities. AI tools assist clinicians through ambient note capture, diagnosis support, and treatment guidance, allowing providers to focus more fully on patient interaction. He emphasizes that AI must remain augmentative rather than substitutive, particularly in healthcare where trust, ethics, and human accountability are foundational.

Security plays a parallel role in the transformation. Vikas outlines the importance of responsible AI, especially when working with protected health information. He discusses transparency, bias mitigation, reliability, and human oversight as non negotiable guardrails when deploying AI systems. He also addresses the reality that adversaries are leveraging AI as well, making automation and proactive security measures essential to stay competitive.

A major theme of the discussion centers on change management. Vikas shares a practical example of introducing intelligent document processing to automate unstructured data conversion. Initial resistance focused on trust and error rates, but by involving stakeholders early and comparing AI performance to existing human error rates, confidence grew. Error rates dropped from 17 percent to 4 percent, demonstrating measurable improvement rather than theoretical promise.

Throughout the episode, Vikas reinforces a consistent philosophy. Innovation is not about chasing trends. It is about identifying business outcomes first, then selecting the right technology to support them. AI becomes powerful when aligned with mission, patient care, operational efficiency, and employee empowerment.

 

Resources mentioned in this episode

 

Matthew Connor on LinkedIn
CyberLynx Website
Vikas Sachdeva on LinkedIn
HealthDrive Corporation Website

 

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