Swatee Surve
About Swatee Surve
I am the Founder & CEO of Litesprite, an award winning digital healthcare firm that has built a therapeutic gaming platform that delivers data insights and improves clinical outcomes. As a healthcare technologist, I observed that individual motivation was the key to sustainably improving a person’s health. As a researcher, I reviewed countless peer-reviewed papers indicating a correlation between gaming and improved health outcomes; but finding limited commercial solutions, I created Litesprite in 2013. Today, Litesprite has built the first clinically-validated mental health mobile game with several reimbursement pathways and the only one recommended by clinics and municipalities nationwide. As a “frontier healthcare technology" the firm has received strategic investments and financial awards from Bayer, AARP, Tabula Rasa, NexCube, Jumpstart Foundry, U.S. Army, RWJF, and SXSW while garnering 30+ global health innovation awards including the first videogame to win a U.S. Surgeon General Award. Prior to founding Litesprite, I led the development and launch of disruptive technology-based healthcare businesses for Microsoft, Nike, T-Mobile, Premera Blue Cross, and Kodak. These commercialization projects included Microsoft's first demonstration applying AI to healthcare datasets and led to multiple patents, including Nike's first wearable technology patents. I am an inaugural Puget Sound Business Journal’s Innovator of the Year and a internationally recognized healthcare leader. At the invitation of the U.S. State Dept and WA State Dept of Commerce, I contributed insights on advancing of healthcare technologies in private roundtables with HHS Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan, US Sen. Maria Cantwell, US Rep. Susan DelBene, and FCC Commissioner Rosenworcel. I am an author of Consumer Technology Association’s Mental Health Technology Standards 2106, my essay is cited in HIMSS’s Medical Informatics 4th ed., and I launched the Healthcare track at the first Seattle Startup Week. I earned an MBA from the U. of Chicago, an MSME in Biomechanics from Pennsylvania State University, and a BS in Bioengineering from the U. Illinois at Chicago. I have been featured in international, national, and regional media outlets and has been a keynote speaker, workshop leader, and panel participant at national conferences hosted by the American Psychiatric Association, Microsoft, Prevent Cancer Foundation, DICE, Medcity News, Stanford Medicine X, University of Chicago Booth Graduate School of Business, UW Foster School of Business, Seattle University, and others.