ORLANDO, FL, September 2, 2026. Consig, the voice AI engine for patient outreach, presented at the Plug and Play Health Innovation Lounge on Wednesday, August 26, at the GuideWell Innovation Center in Lake Nona. Co-Founder and CEO RJ Burnham spoke for Consig, alongside founders building across the healthcare landscape.
The afternoon opened with AIMed's "AI in Healthcare" special event, and with a State of AI in Healthcare briefing from AIMed's founder, Dr. Anthony Chang, MD, MBA, MPH, MS. Dr. Chang set out where clinical AI stands now and where it is going next, and the room he drew was the right one for it: health system leaders, payers, clinicians, investors and founders, all in the same afternoon.
A reverse pitch followed. Provider and payer executives described the problems they are actually trying to solve, before anyone pitched anything at them. Isabella Johnston of Employers 4 Change moderated, with Sabrina Martinez of Plug and Play Ventures, Kunal Patel of Orange County Government, Yvette Robine of Healthcare Innovation & Transformation, and Rasesh Thakkar of Tavistock Group. It is the rarest hour at any healthcare AI event and the most useful one, and it is the session Consig had been looking forward to most.
The day continued with the Plug and Play Health Innovation Lounge, Plug and Play Orlando's monthly gathering of founders, clinicians, health system leaders and investors. Several founders presented, each working on a different corner of the same problem, and the energy in the room was the kind that only comes from people who are building.
A full house at the Innovation Lounge, GuideWell Innovation Center, August 26.
Consig talked about how patient outreach fails long before the conversation does. Calls go unanswered because the number is unbranded or flagged, because the attempt landed at the wrong hour, or because nobody was ever authenticated on the other end. The number on the slide behind RJ made the case for fixing it: 30-day readmissions fall from 17% to 3.5% when the follow-up call actually happens, and each readmission prevented is worth $14,000 to $16,000. Consig is built from the telephony layer up to make that call land. Consent is enforced on every call, and the call hands off warmly to a nurse or coordinator when it needs a person.
Presenting at GuideWell was a homecoming. Consig joined the inaugural cohort of the Plug and Play Health Accelerator in Orlando in 2025, alongside GuideWell, Orlando Health, KPMG and Tavistock Group, and presented at the program's Health Expo that November.
Thank you to Plug and Play Orlando for the invitation and for running the Lounge, and to the GuideWell Innovation Center for hosting the day. Thank you to AIMed and to Dr. Chang for bringing the program to Lake Nona, and to Nicole Miranda, Rebecca Wiedemer of Golden Grove Global, Habeel Gazi and Isabella Johnston for putting the afternoon together. Orlando's health innovation community turns up for its founders, and it showed.
The main AIMed26 conference comes to Orlando November 11–13. Consig will be there.
