Dr. Tom Kelly is a trauma surgeon, and everywhere, he sees doctors drowning in administrative work. He wanted change, so he set out to build it.
“We wanted to build an AI care partner that would stand alongside clinicians and take care of the admin so that individual providers, like me, can feel empowered to deliver the care which we dedicated our lives to,” he told TechCrunch.
Dr. Kelly teamed up with Waleed Mussa, with whom he had worked at a previous startup, and founded Heidi Health in 2021. The company began launching products in early 2024.
In just 18 months, he said, the company has returned more than “18 million hours to frontline healthcare providers from more than 70 million patient visits in 116 countries.”
The product, as promised, is an AI medical scribe that takes care of all the admin work that hassles doctors. It can transcribe and dictate notes, generate personalized patient summaries, and even track tasks so doctors no longer have a need for sticky notes.
Heidi both built its own AI model and builds on top of other models, such as Gemini. “This model agnostic approach means that we can optimize our accuracy, latency, and cost,” he said.
On Monday, the company announced a $65 million Series B led by Steve Cohen’s Point72. It also announced a new tool: an AI agent that calls patients on behalf of the doctor. The former Chief Medical Officer at Microsoft, Dr. Simon Kos, is also coming on board, along with Plaid’s head of revenue, Paul Williamson.
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