HTEC and Xsolis Partner to Speed Up Healthcare Decision-Making
HTEC, an AI-focused engineering firm, will help Xsolis expand its Dragonfly platform, which uses machine learning to streamline how hospitals and insurers approve patient care. The partnership addresses a core operational problem: utilization management-the process of determining whether treatment is medically necessary and what level of care a patient needs-remains slow, manual, and inconsistent across healthcare systems.
Utilization management sits at the center of healthcare operations but relies on fragmented data, manual reviews, and subjective judgment. The result is delayed care, administrative overhead, rising costs, and tension between providers and payers.
What the Partnership Covers
HTEC will focus on advancing Dragonfly's predictive capabilities across several workflows:
- Utilization management decisions
- Discharge readiness prediction
- Appeals and denials management
- Operational analytics for providers and payers
The work includes embedding agentic AI to automate workflows, accelerate data-driven decisions, and improve operational intelligence. HTEC will also modernize the platform's engineering infrastructure to speed product releases while maintaining healthcare compliance requirements.
AI-Powered Product Development
A key focus is applying AI across the entire software development lifecycle. HTEC uses AI to translate product requirements into specifications, accelerate development and testing, conduct code reviews, and track delivery progress. This approach aims to increase release velocity without sacrificing reliability or regulatory compliance-critical in healthcare technology.
Zach Evans, CTO at Xsolis, said the company chose HTEC for its "strong engineering culture, healthcare domain expertise, and practical approach to applying AI across both product innovation and software delivery."
The Problem Being Solved
Healthcare organizations currently lack objective, real-time decision support for care approvals. Dragonfly addresses this by continuously analyzing patient data to assign medical necessity scores and predict required care levels, enabling faster alignment between providers and payers.
For product development professionals, this partnership illustrates how AI tooling can accelerate the development process itself-not just the product being built. Understanding AI for Product Development and Generative AI and LLM capabilities is increasingly relevant for teams working on regulated, data-intensive platforms.
About the companies: Xsolis is headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee. HTEC operates 20+ engineering centers globally and serves Fortune 500 companies and growth-stage firms across financial services, automotive, telecommunications, and enterprise software.
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