In this episode of The ASHHRA Podcast, co-host Bo Brabo sits down with Jeff Battinus, VP of Talent Attraction and Selection at ChenMed, and Yaniv Shimoni, co-founder of Take2 AI. Jeff shares how he built an agentic recruiting function at Dental Care Alliance, what he's building at ChenMed, and how AI agents give recruiters more time with candidates and hiring managers.

People leaders from three of the country's largest health systems shared how AI agents are changing healthcare recruiting. Here's what every TA leader should take away.

Presented by SHRM: Take2 Co-Founder Yaniv Shimoni is joined by HR executives from Bon Secours Mercy Health, UCSF Health, and Northwell Health to open up their agentic AI recruiting playbooks.

In this free AI playbook, we examine how three leading healthcare organizations put AI agents to work, and the impact it had on their talent acquisition metrics.

In this episode of The ASHHRA Podcast, co-host Bo Brabo sits down with Yaniv Shimoni, co-founder of Take2 AI, to break down what separates agentic AI from the chatbots healthcare HR teams have already tried, and what it changes about screening, license verification, and scheduling.

How AI is Transforming Talent Acquisition in Healthcare Organizations

Take2 Co-Founder, Yaniv Shimoni, and Joe Gage (CAO & CHRO, Bon Secours Mercy Health) unpack how AI agents help health systems screen more applicants, cut time-to-interview, and free recruiters for higher-value work – backed by real results from UC Health and Dental Care Alliance.

In this session, Yaniv, co-founder of Take2 AI, and Rachel Howard, Chief People Officer at Health Connect America, discuss the transformative role of agentic AI in healthcare recruiting and share a detailed case study of Health Connect America's results.

Presented at HR Healthcare 2026, Yaniv Shimoni – Co-Founder of Take2 – and Ryan Toedtman – Manager, Talent Acquisition & HR AI Integration at UCHealth – discuss the transformative role of agentic AI in healthcare recruitment.

UCHealth deployed Take2's AI Interviewer to engage every candidate the second they apply – screening 81% of impacted applicants, opening the opportunity for 24/7 candidate screening, and improving time to clinical interview.

Joe Gage, CHRO and CAO at 60,000-person Bon Secours Mercy Health, shares a practical framework for healthcare leaders evaluating AI solutions for talent acquisition.

Mark Crane, Director of Talent Acquisition at Eventus WholeHealth, didn't wait for agentic recruiting to become standard. Here's what happened when he moved first.

Eventus WholeHealth deployed Take2's AI agents to screen every applicant the moment they apply – cutting time-to-screen from 2 days to 37 minutes, running 59% of screens after hours, and handing recruiters back 8 hours a week.

Health Connect America deployed Take2's AI Interviewer to take repetitive screening off recruiters' plates – screening 20x more candidates, cutting time-to-screen to under an hour, and lifting retention to 79%.

A top-five health system leader on the five recruiting realities most TA teams can't see — and why agentic AI is the fix.

Dental Care Alliance deployed Take2's AI agents to build a hiring operation that never clocks out – cutting sourcing costs in half, screening 20x more candidates, and freeing recruiters to focus on hires, not phone tag.

Inglis deployed Take2's AI Interviewer and AI Sourcer to give every applicant a screening conversation the moment they apply – covering shifts around the clock, doubling the roles its recruiting team can carry.

Recorded at ASHHRA 2026, Yaniv Shimoni and Joe Gage, CHRO & CAO of Bon Secours Mercy Health, unpack which parts of the recruiting workflow are ready to automate now – with real results including 85% screening rates and sourcing costs cut by up to 60%.

Take2 co-founder Yaniv Shimoni joins WRKdefined's Ryan Leary live at SHRM Talent 2026 to break down why healthcare TA is outpacing every other industry on AI adoption – and what millions of AI screenings reveal about where recruiting goes next.

Midi Health deployed Take2's AI Interviewer for clinical and medical assistant hiring – speeding up average time from application to offer by 4.3 days, and saving recruiters 20 hours a week each.

In this Transform session, Dental Care Alliance's Jeff Battinus joins Take2 co-founder Yaniv Shimoni to share how he set a target of 75% workflow automation – and what recruiters do with their time when AI agents handle the rest.

Today, we’re excited to announce that we’ve raised $17M in total funding. Our $14M Series A was led by Human Capital, with participation from Bertelsmann Healthcare Investments, Reach Capital, SemperVirens VC, and Honeystone Ventures.