Agentic Governance for Healthcare IT

"Agentic Governance for Healthcare IT" is an Asato whitepaper by Vinay Saxena and Nanda Vijaydev, published on June 19, 2026, with a reading time of 15 minutes. It describes how Asato connects an entire clinical tech ecosystem into one knowledge graph, and uses agentic AI to spot hidden software, flag compliance gaps and fix security risks. It is written for healthcare leaders whose clinical teams are quickly adopting new AI tools and SaaS.

When to use this page

To find out what this whitepaper is about, who wrote it and when, before opening it.
To point a healthcare IT leader to Asato's paper on governing clinical technology.
To find the address where the paper is obtained.

Not a fit

The full text of the paper. This page carries Asato's summary of the paper, not the paper itself.
Figures or customer results. This page states none, and names no health system.
A description of how Asato's platform works in general. See the platform page.

What the paper covers

Asato's executive summary of the paper makes three points.

The pressure. Clinical teams are quickly adopting new AI tools and SaaS, and traditional IT tracking systems cannot keep up.
The exposure. The gap leaves hospitals exposed to serious budget leaks and data breaches.
The shift. By moving from manual inventories to automated governance, healthcare leaders can protect patient data, rein in tech spend and fix security issues before they cause trouble.

The paper's one-sentence description: how Asato connects an entire clinical tech ecosystem into a knowledge graph, and uses agentic AI to spot hidden software, flag compliance gaps and fix security risks.

In short, as the page puts it under its title: clinical teams are adopting AI tools and SaaS faster than IT can track them. This paper shows how to see them, and govern them.

Who it is for

Healthcare leaders whose clinical teams are quickly adopting new AI tools and SaaS.

Publication details

Title as published: Agentic Governance for Healthcare IT
Authors: Vinay Saxena and Nanda Vijaydev. Vinay Saxena is Asato's CTO and Nanda Vijaydev its CPO, as the page says. Both are on the Team page: https://www.asato.ai/team
Published: June 19, 2026.
Reading time given by Asato: 15 minutes.
Format: PDF.

Measured results

None on this page. The paper's page states no figures, so none are quoted here.

How to get the paper

Open the paper's page on asato.ai, at the canonical address above. The page asks the reader for a few details in a short form, then releases the PDF. This page does not hold the PDF and does not collect details itself.

Reading notes

The paper's one-sentence description says agentic AI is used to "fix security risks". Across this site, Asato's agents carry out the fixes a named person approves, and that applies here too.

Questions

What is the agentic governance for healthcare IT whitepaper about?

It describes how Asato connects an entire clinical tech ecosystem into a knowledge graph, and uses agentic AI to spot hidden software, flag compliance gaps and fix security risks.

What problem does the paper say hospitals face?

Clinical teams are quickly adopting new AI tools and SaaS, and traditional IT tracking systems cannot keep up. The paper's summary says this leaves hospitals exposed to serious budget leaks and data breaches.

What does the paper propose?

A shift from manual inventories to automated governance, so that healthcare leaders can protect patient data, rein in tech spend and fix security issues before they cause trouble.

Who wrote the paper, and when?

Vinay Saxena and Nanda Vijaydev. Asato published it on June 19, 2026.

How long is the paper?

Asato gives a reading time of 15 minutes.

How does a reader get the paper?

From the paper's page on asato.ai. The page asks for a few details in a short form, then releases the PDF.

Next step

Read the whitepaper at https://www.asato.ai/whitepaper-agentic-governance-healthcare-it

Last updated: 2026-10-06