Rumi Yokota

Clinician-turned-operator with 12+ years bridging clinical care and health technology. Deep expertise designing and implementing clinical workflows, EHR systems, and AI-enabled healthcare solutions — with a proven track record translating complex clinical operations into scalable, cross-functional product solutions. Rare fluency across clinical, product, and engineering functions, with hands-on experience deploying and optimizing workflows for prior authorization, patient management, and back-office healthcare operations.

Clinical Product Lead - Clarity Pediatrics - San Francisco, CA

(2026-01)

Serve as the bridge between clinical, operations, and engineering teams — championing the voice of clinicians to ensure products meet real-world workflow needs and improve care delivery outcomes.

• Designed prior authorization, referral, and care coordination workflows end-to-end — mapping payer-specific criteria, documentation requirements, escalation pathways, and gap analyses across 10 California Medicaid payors.
• Defined KPIs, process flows, and performance metrics for Nurse Care Coordination and Community Health Worker programs — building operational infrastructure from 0→1 for high-risk pediatric Medicaid populations.
• Developed partnerships with FQHCs and health systems to establish referral pipelines for new clinical verticals, coordinating implementation with operational and clinical stakeholders.
• Created training resources and operating playbooks to drive user adoption of new workflows across clinical and administrative teams.

AI Operations Consultant - Honey Health - Mountain View, CA

(2025-08 - 2026-01)

Served as the clinical architect and cross-functional bridge for AI-powered back-office healthcare agents — translating clinical workflows for prior authorization, fax digestion, medication refills, and referrals into structured product requirements and SOPs.

• Built 0→1 workflow documentation, gap analyses, escalation logic, and compliance guardrails — ensuring AI agent behaviors aligned with real-world clinical standards before go-live.
• Embedded with product and engineering sprint teams, driving adoption and accelerating AI feature launches by bridging clinical operations and technical development.
• Defined KPIs and built operational testing frameworks to validate AI agent performance; communicated project status and impacts to engineering leadership and clinical stakeholders.

Pediatric Cardiology NP & Clinical Informatics Lead - Stanford Children's Health - Palo Alto, CA

(2013-06 - 2025-06)

• Served as Epic Super User and Epic Physician Builder during hospital-wide EHR transformation — led staff adoption, built new Epic initiatives, and served as real-time escalation resource for workflow challenges and gap analysis.
• Designed and deployed a remote patient monitoring EHR application for 600+ post-discharge pediatric heart failure patients — managed full implementation lifecycle: workflow discovery, requirements documentation, SOP creation, staff training, and rollout, measurably reducing acute care utilization.
• Served as Clinical Informatics APP Chair — evaluated and deployed virtual care platforms, EMR tools, and AI health tech solutions; produced adoption recommendations and executive-level project updates for department leadership.
• Identified AI health tech gaps within the department, developed external partnerships for solutions, collaborated with IS and engineering teams on product build, established KPIs, and ran pilot studies under IRB.
• Spearheaded launch of 3 new cardiovascular care programs across 3+ external institutions — led partner engagement, workflow design, staff enablement, and go-live readiness as operational lead.
• Chaired the Advanced Practice Provider Council, overseeing 8 committees; drove cross-functional alignment across nursing, physician, and administrative leadership.

Pediatric NP — Primary Care & Cardiology - San Francisco Department of Public Health - San Francisco, CA

(2016-10)

• Developed and implemented streamlined clinical workflows integrating cardiac devices and software tools for underserved pediatric populations.
• Created and validated EPIC-based diagnostic tools and documentation templates; partnered with clinicians, researchers, and product teams to develop standardized care protocols and documentation pathways.

Senior Associate - Kicker Ventures - Menlo Park, CA

(2025-03)

• Source and evaluate pre-seed and seed-stage healthcare AI companies — assessing clinical and operational feasibility, workflow automation, and product-market fit.
• Perform due diligence, competitive landscape research, and financial analysis; communicate findings to investment committee.

MBA - Healthcare, Innovation & Technology - Johns Hopkins Carey Business School (2025)

Graduate Program - Stanford Biodesign Innovation - Stanford University (2025)

MS in Nursing - Family Nurse Practitioner - Samuel Merritt University (2013)

BS - Management Science - University of California, San Diego (2006)