Jon Myer Podcast · 2026-08-06 · 7 min
Will St. Clair from Practical Acceleration joins Ingram Micro's AWS Partner Spotlight to discuss how his team - all former AWS healthcare leaders with nearly 30 years of combined experience - is helping providers, payers, and health tech companies deploy agentic AI safely and at scale. Will shares why healthcare has a uniquely high bar for AI deployment, and how Ingram Micro's Accelerated Development Program helped his new company punch above its weight from day one.Key Takeaways Former AWS healthcare leaders, now independent - Practical Acceleration's founding team spent a combined ~30 years at AWS building health data interoperability tools, EHR deployments, and supporting Amazon's COVID diagnostics business - now applying that experience as an exclusive AWS partner.️ Healthcare has a uniquely high bar - Deploying AI in healthcare requires proving improved patient care, stronger security posture, reduced risk, and earned trust from patients and clinicians - not just technical capability.