Dr. Tom Kelly is a trauma surgeon and everywhere he sees doctors drowning in administrative work. He wanted changes so he went out to build it.
“We wanted to build an AI care partner who would stand with clinicians and take care of the administrator so that the individual providers, like me, may feel authorized to deliver the care we dedicated our lives to,” he told Techcrunch.
Dr. Kelly went with Waleed Mussa, which he had worked with a previous startup and founded Heidi Health in 2021. The company began launching products by the beginning of 2024.
In just 18 months, he said, the company has returned more than “18 million hours to front -line providers from more than 70 million patient visits in 116 country.”
The product, as promised, is an AI medicine scripture who takes care of all the administrator work that troubles doctors. It can transcribe and dictate notes, generate personalized patientsum varieties and even track tasks so that doctors do not need sticky notes long.
Heidi both built his own AI model and builds on top of other models, such as Gemini. “This model Agnostic approach means we can optimize our accuracy, latency and costs,” he said.
On Monday, the company announced a Series B of $ 65 million led by Steve Cohens Point72. It also announced a new tool: an AI agent who calls patients on the doctor of the doctor. Forms Chief Medical Officer at Microsoft, Dr. Simon Kos, also comes on board with Plaid’s Chief of Return, Paul Williamson.
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The company has awarded $ 96.6 million to date. Others in the round include Goodwater Capital, Headline, Blackbird VC, LG Technology Ventures and Alumni Ventures.
“They had seen all the scriptures before,” Dr. Kelly about Point72. “They had never seen product recording and use measurements like those in Heidi. They also love that we were obsessed with the end-user experience because they saw most of our competitors, we just made top-down sales.”
The fresh capital will be used to help with product development.
Dr. Kelly hopes that giving doctors more access to AI tools will expand capabilitites for clinicians and remove “drudgery” in their work.
He said that most of the conversations in the medical world are currently shaped by what is happening in developed countries, “but imagine a world where healthcare provider can use Heidi to increase their clinical capacity where they can practice in an area or a refugee camp, gold in the hit of climate change or simply an unattended society,” he continued. “Heidi can help them reach more patients and deliver better results of health care.”
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Heidi said it works with more than 2 million clinicians over the weekend, from hospitals to individual practice. It has a free version of the product with paid features, such as dr. Kelly believes it has been a good lure for new customers.
He said that AI understandably will change Dinhcare. But in the core, humanity is still very important, especially when it comes to mainaining and building trust.
“It’s about doubling the world’s health capacity. That’s the true promise of AI,” he said. “We will bring it.”