About SHIRLe Health.
The patient-controlled intelligence layer at Precision Health Ventures, operating alongside sister clinical platform IntelaCare.
Most current health AI is an aggregation platform. Patient data flows into the AI company’s infrastructure, and the platform optimizes provider and payer workflows from there. Even with encryption and privacy guarantees, the architecture centralizes power.
SHIRLe takes the opposite position. Patient data sovereignty is the architectural commitment, not a feature. The patient owns the longitudinal record. Consent is patient-controlled and revocable. Compute runs at the patient edge where it can; federation across providers, devices, and payers happens because the patient chose it, not because a vendor built a moat.
Edge computing for patient health intelligence isn’t just about privacy. It’s about where decision-making authority lives.
For people whose capacity changes, whose specialists multiply, whose caregivers shoulder the coordination — the location of that authority is the design question that matters most. Inclusive design is not a screen-reader checklist. It is an architectural choice about who the system answers to.
SHIRLe Health is the patient-controlled intelligence layer at Precision Health Ventures. It is in active development. The HealthDigits AVS scanner and the screenshot ingestion prototype are deployable today. Data-fabric components launch with IntelaCare’s CMS ACCESS rollout in July 2026 — SHIRLe’s first federal production deployment.
IntelaCare is the Medicare-enrolled clinical AI platform, positioned for the CMS ACCESS Model launching July 5, 2026. It is pursuing FDA Software as a Medical Device certification.
HealthDigits is the sister ingestion brand. It lives within the SHIRLe ecosystem and continues to grow as a standalone surface for users who want a simpler tool.
SHIRLe is not a startup proving an unproven approach. The operating team has more than two decades of federal deployment experience in disability-adjacent and chronic-disease populations, executed through Precision Health Ventures’ sister clinical platform IntelaCare.
IntelaCare was selected by the Department of Veterans Affairs Innovation Initiative (VAi2) approximately a decade ago to deliver TBI, PTSD, diabetes, and chronic disease management to veterans through cell phones and broadband home devices, demonstrating daily engagement as high as 70%. A multimillion-dollar VA contract supported TBI care at the Palo Alto Veterans Center. Multiple Army Medical Command innovation grants funded diabetes work at Walter Reed Medical Center. IntelaCare is an NVIDIA Inception partner for AI in healthcare.
IntelaCare is now positioned as the Medicare-enrolled clinical AI platform for the CMS ACCESS Model launching July 5, 2026 — SHIRLe Health’s first federal production deployment alongside it.
A.R. Henderson is Managing Partner of Precision Health Ventures. He founded IntelaCare more than a decade ago, on the conviction that the populations the system was failing — veterans, aging patients, people managing chronic disease, communities navigating disability — deserved real technology, not afterthoughts.
A.R. has served on the AAPD Technology Task Force, advised Paralyzed Veterans of America and the FCC Connect2Health Task Force, participated in the White House Precision Medicine Task Force, and served on the CMS Federal Advisory Committee on Consumer Engagement under the Obama administration. He graduated from Duke University and is an alumnus of the Stanford Program for Growing Companies.
He is building SHIRLe in continuation of that work, and in honor of his mother.
Architected with care.
The platform is named for the founder’s mother, Shirley Statom Henderson, but the name is not the only thing she gave it.
Shirley spent her professional life as a social worker, including as Chief Social Worker at Washington Hospital Center, and her civic life in service of communities the healthcare system was not built to serve. She served on the boards of the Visiting Nurses Association, Family and Child Services, the D.C. State Mental Health Advisory Council, and the Iona House Senior Center, among others. The work she did, and the way she did it, is the foundation of this platform.
A.R. comes from three generations of family on both sides of healthcare — a father, Arthur Henderson Sr., who practiced medicine and psychiatry in Washington, D.C. for nearly forty years while living with polio-related disability from childhood; a sister who chaired the Women Against MS Luncheon for years before her own MS progressed.
The product is built the way it is because of them, and the many others they each served.