The Nashville team who created an artificial intelligence program that predicts health care staffing needs has sold that business to a national company. The sale speaks to the kind of artificial intelligence and machine-learning bubbling up within the region’s business community.

SwitchPoint Ventures agrees to sell Polaris AI to Aya Healthcare, the largest healthcare talent software and staffing company in the U.S.

We recently spoke with Ardent CEO Marty Bonick and SwitchPoint CEO Ray Guzman to learn how they plan to identify solvable problems and how they’ll test them inside Ardent hospitals.