Wellstar’s Innovation Arm Backs Regulatory Compliance Intelligence Platform

In March 2025, Healthcare Innovation interviewed Hank Capps, M.D., chief information and digital officer for Georgia-based Wellstar Health System, about the capabilities of the health system’s Catalyst innovation and venture arm. “It has all the capabilities to do everything from building companies and spinning them out ourselves to proof-of-concepts and pilots and working with the broader healthcare business around what are the biggest problems that need to be solved," he said, “and it has an early stage venture fund alongside that.”

Now Catalyst by Wellstar, which has made 24 direct investments and initiated 23 innovation pilots, has announced the creation of Polysight, which it calls an AI-native compliance intelligence company that will help health systems address rising regulatory complexity in healthcare.

With U.S health systems spending over $39 billion annually on compliance, Polysight said it can turn what is often a fragmented, manual process, into a unified, intelligent system using real-time regulatory data to improve safety, efficiency, and operational performance.

The company says that continuous monitoring of regulatory updates enables customers to anticipate evolving requirements, while its AI-assisted tools help teams analyze and understand the relevance and impact of regulatory changes. Automated recommendations and workflow support streamlined updates and allow healthcare organizations to adapt and more efficiently comply with changing policies.

Polysight is launching its platform in tandem with an active pilot at Wellstar Health System, one of the largest health systems in the Southeast, with 11 hospitals and five health parks across Georgia and parts of South Carolina and Alabama. 

"Safe AI begins with trustworthy data. Polysight uses only validated, official regulatory sources to ensure that every insight is accurate, defensible, and ready for operational use. This allows health systems to modernize compliance without sacrificing the rigor or integrity that patient safety demands," said Rinku A. Patel, PharmD, RPh, CEO and co-founder of Polysight, in a statement. 

Capps calls regulatory complexity is one of the most significant operational challenges facing healthcare today and he says that Polysight combines trusted data with intelligent automation to redefine how health systems manage compliance and strengthen care delivery.

In our March conversation, Capps explained that Wellstar has a process when it brings in very early stage companies. "We fund the first pilot for them and assign innovation resources to help them navigate the health system,” he explained. “Then as they work on that proof of concept or pilot, either the business will say, this has value and we need to keep doing it, or we'll have a set of learnings from that to harvest and and help the startup know how to be better in the future, if they're not ready to expand their footprint within the health system. And we've been successful at doing that.”