What You Should Know
– Catalyst by Wellstar has launched Polysight, a new AI-native company designed to tackle the $39 billion annual cost of U.S. healthcare compliance.
– The platform uses validated regulatory sources and real-time data to automate what has historically been a fragmented, manual process. Currently piloting with Wellstar Health System, Polysight aims to modernize how hospitals anticipate and adapt to changing regulations without sacrificing patient safety.
$39 Billion in Compliance Costs: Can Polysight’s AI Solve Healthcare’s Most Expensive Headache?
In the modern hospital, the only thing growing faster than the patient volume is the paperwork. U.S. health systems currently spend a staggering $39 billion annually just to stay compliant with an ever-expanding web of regulations. It is a system defined by manual checks, fragmented spreadsheets, and reactive scrambling.
Today, Catalyst by Wellstar—the innovation arm of the Georgia-based health giant—announced it is spinning out a new venture designed to fix this broken infrastructure. Enter Polysight, an AI-native compliance intelligence company that promises to turn regulatory chaos into an automated, proactive strategy.
The “AI-Native” Approach to Red Tape
Polysight’s core value proposition is the shift from “manual” to “intelligent.” While legacy governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) tools often function as glorified digital filing cabinets, Polysight claims to be active rather than passive.
“Safe AI begins with trustworthy data,” says Rinku A. Patel, PharmD, RPh, CEO and Co-Founder of Polysight. “Polysight uses only validated, official regulatory sources to ensure that every insight is accurate, defensible, and ready for operational use.”
The platform operates on a cycle of anticipate, analyze, and adapt:
- Continuous Monitoring: Instead of waiting for a quarterly audit, the system watches for regulatory updates in real-time.
- AI Analysis: It interprets the “relevance and impact” of those changes, filtering out noise so teams know exactly what applies to them.
- Workflow Automation: It provides automated recommendations to help operations update policies and stay compliant efficiently.
Tested in the Real World
Unlike many health-tech startups that launch with a slide deck and a dream, Polysight arrives with a massive, live test case. The platform is launching in tandem with an active pilot at Wellstar Health System itself.
This is no small sandbox. Wellstar operates 11 hospitals and 5 Health Parks across the Southeast, providing a diverse, complex environment to stress-test the AI.
“Polysight offers a promising new approach… by giving teams real-time intelligence and actionable insight,” said Beth Kost, SVP & Chief Compliance Officer at Wellstar. “We look forward to evaluating how this technology can streamline our processes.”
The Catalyst Strategy
Polysight represents the second company spun out of Catalyst by Wellstar, the system’s venture studio. This highlights a growing trend of health systems becoming “builders” rather than just “buyers” of technology. By incubating solutions internally, Wellstar ensures the product actually solves the gritty, unglamorous problems that hospital operators face daily—like compliance—rather than just chasing the latest consumer-facing hype.
“Regulatory complexity is one of the most significant operational challenges facing healthcare today,” noted Hank Capps, MD, President of Catalyst by Wellstar. By automating this burden, the goal isn’t just to save money—it’s to free up resources that can be redirected back to patient care.
