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Better healthcare through math

Bending the Access and Cost Curves in Healthcare.

About the book

It’s not controversial to say that American healthcare is far from perfect.

Despite world-class, extraordinary advances in technology and medicine, the vast majority of hospitals manage key operational functions such as patient and case scheduling with little more than glorified calendars. If an operating room is a hospital’s most expensive real estate, why is it being booked with a pencil and paper over a fax machine? It’s an inefficiency that creates a lose/lose/lose scenario for providers, patients, and the bottom line.

Why aren’t our operations as excellent as our clinical care?

Other asset-intensive industries with similar challenges and high variability in demand (transportation, airlines, retail) have solved this problem with scalable predictive analytics and prescriptive tools. What’s stopping healthcare from doing the same?

It’s possible to improve patient access, while also reducing care delivery costs.

The answer is as old as time – math. In the book Better Healthcare Through Math, Mohan Giridharadas and Sanjeev Agrawal share how predictive analytics, lean principles, deep data science, and machine learning can unlock capacity and solve some of healthcare’s hardest challenges. With sophisticated data, analytics leaders are able to do more with less and maximize healthcare capacity. That’s a winning equation.

About the authors

Mohan Giridharadas

FOUNDER AND CEO

Mohan Giridharadas is the Founder and CEO of LeanTaaS, a healthcare technology company that helps health systems unlock capacity, improve patient access, and reduce costs through AI-powered capacity optimization. LeanTaaS’ iQueue products are used by more than 190 health systems and deployed across over 1,200 hospitals and centers nationwide, improving operational performance in operating rooms, surgical clinics, infusion centers, and inpatient care.

Before founding LeanTaaS, Mohan spent 18 years at McKinsey & Company and served as a Senior Partner, leading the Lean Manufacturing and Lean Service Operations Practices in North America and the Asia-Pacific region. He has worked with many of the largest and most innovative US health systems and co-authored the book “Better Healthcare Through Math”.

Mohan holds a B.Tech. from IIT Bombay, an MS in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Mohan was named to Becker’s Hospital Review’s “Great leaders in Healthcare” list in 2025.

Read the reviews

“The principles described in this book are fundamental to transforming healthcare operations. Matching unpredictable demand and supply in any asset-intensive industry requires sophisticated predictive and prescriptive algorithms deployed at scale. Others ― Fedex, UPS, Airlines, Waze, Amazon ― are doing it, and so can we in healthcare!”

Dr. Patrick Byrne, MBA, Chairman, Cleveland Clinic Head and Neck Institute

“Healthcare leaders interested in digital transformation will benefit from reading this book. We all have to start using the sophisticated predictive and prescriptive models described in it to optimize access and contain costs.”

Steve Hess, Chief Information Officer, UCHealth

“The concepts shared in this book show how innovative methods can transform healthcare operations in a way that allows the organization to evolve on a comfortable path while experiencing dramatic advancements.”

Rebecca Kaul, former Chief Innovation Officer, MD Anderson Cancer Center

“Digital transformation is the next frontier for medicine and healthcare delivery. How does “math” fit in? How does AI provide the foundation for operational excellence and change? This highly readable book from two unique experts is a must-read for healthcare leaders.”

Dr. Gary E. Bisbee, Jr., Ph.D., MBA, Co-Founder, and Chairman Emeritus, The Health Management Academy