Overview
Cardiometabolic conditions are among the most prevalent and costly challenges in employer health, yet most care designed to address them is episodic, disconnected, and built around appointments rather than outcomes.
As General Manager of Pulse, Kevin Wang leads Sword Health's cardiometabolic AI Care solution, overseeing everything from clinical strategy and go-to-market execution to partnerships and long-term growth. Kevin's role is to ensure that Pulse delivers clinically guided, continuous AI Care for hypertension, prediabetes, and weight management, with payment tied to measurable improvement rather than activity.
Kevin joined Sword more than four years ago, building and leading the growth and data science functions before taking on the GM role for Predict, where he led the development of Sword's predictive AI engine for early risk identification.
He then assumed the GM role for Pulse, bringing that same analytical discipline to the commercial architecture of Sword's newest AI Care solution. Before Sword, Kevin spent five years at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, rising from Quality, Safety, and Value Fellow to Director of Quality and Value within the Department of Orthopedic Surgery. That work put him at the centre of value-based payment design in one of the country's leading orthopedic programs, a foundation that runs directly through how Pulse is built to prove its outcomes.
Guest lecturer, Columbia Mailman since 2017
Invited to teach Health Strategy and Strategic Issues in Healthcare Quality to Executive MHA candidates at one of the country's leading public health institutions.
NQF committee member since 2019
Selected to represent Hospital for Special Surgery on the National Quality Forum, contributing to national efforts to improve patient-centered care.
Education
Kevin built his public health foundation at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, where he completed a Master of Healthcare Administration between 2015 and 2017. The Mailman School drew him into the intersection of health systems, policy, and operational performance, themes that have run through every role he has held since.
His time there also began a long-running relationship with the institution: he has returned as a Guest Lecturer for the Executive MHA cohort since 2017, teaching Health Strategy and Strategic Issues in Healthcare Quality to the next generation of healthcare leaders.
Experience
Before Sword, Kevin spent five years at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, progressing from Quality, Safety, and Value Fellow to Quality Officer to Director of Quality and Value within the Department of Orthopedic Surgery. In that role, he led quality and safety improvement and developed value-based payment models including pay-for-performance and bundled payments.
Earlier in his career, he held a Quality, Safety, and Value Fellowship through the Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York Initiative to Make Care Better, focused on patient safety and care quality at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
Kevin has always worked at the intersection of clinical quality, care delivery, and operational performance. His focus on value-based care and quality improvement in orthopedic settings directly shapes his approach to building Pulse.
