Why I Joined ERAAS Health
At the intersection of weather, AI, and healthcare, a new approach is emerging to prevent hospitalizations and save lives
When the temperature spikes or the air turns smoky, it’s not just an inconvenience — it’s a health risk. Every year, extreme weather sends tens of thousands to hospitals with conditions that could have been prevented.
The challenge has always been: how do we see these risks coming and intervene early?
My New Role
I’ve joined ERAAS Health (“Emergency Response as a Service”) as an Advisor to help bring weather and environmental intelligence into healthcare … at scale.
The company’s platform ingests granular weather and environmental data and translates it into an actionable intelligence layer for use cases like:
Care Management: anticipating when patients are most at risk
Precision Population Health: enabling payers and providers to intervene early
Cost Avoidance: preventing avoidable ER visits and hospitalizations
Strategic Partnership Announcement
This week, ERAAS announced a strategic partnership with Hippocratic AI, a generative AI company focused on delivering safe, empathetic, and real-time patient outreach. Together, the two companies are already showing how weather signals can drive clinical action:
During recent heat events in New York, ERAAS + Hippocratic launched a real-time outreach program to high-risk members.
Thousands of personalized calls were made, offering cooling center directions, safety reminders, and live connections back to care.
Roughly 10% of completed calls generated follow-up action, and satisfaction scores averaged 9.02/10 — proof that patients not only accept this model, but value it.
👉 Read the full announcement here.
Why This Matters Now
The U.S. healthcare system spends billions of dollars annually on hospitalizations triggered by extreme weather, poor air quality, and other environmental events. Most are predictable and preventable with the right data and intervention.
By fusing ERAAS Health’s weather intelligence with Hippocratic’s generative AI outreach agents, we’re turning forecasts into proactive care actions:
Warning patients before heat stress escalates
Guiding families during smoke events
Helping care teams prioritize outreach at the right moment
This is how weather stops being a conversation starter and becomes an actionable clinical signal.
📊 The Weather–Health Connection
Extreme heat contributed to over 119,000 ER visits in 2023 (CDC)
Wildfire smoke exposure drives spikes in asthma hospitalizations, with some studies showing increases of 10–30% during major events
Weather-driven health costs exceed $10 billion annually in the U.S., much of it preventable with early interventions
Looking Ahead
For me, this is real weather intelligence: a tangible and scalable solution to a known and — due to our warming climate — growing problem.
After applying weather analytics in retail, supply chain, and finance, I’m excited to help ERAAS bring those same principles into healthcare — where the outcome isn’t just better margins, it’s lives saved.
I’ll be sharing more here on Substack as we continue to scale and demonstrate the impact of weather-informed healthcare.