Hippocratic AI: Making healthcare more abundant

Lightly put, our healthcare system has systemic challenges. Healthcare costs have risen two times the rate of inflation over the past 25 years, yet our life expectancy has not improved much over that same period of time. In a quarter century, we would have expected technology to provide meaningful progress toward improvements. That promise really hasn’t held up, but there are signs of change emerging.

When we look at the potential of AI today and down the road, we expect repeated rote tasks to be automated so that humans can focus on what we do best — higher level reasoning, decision making, and human connection, which, when applied to healthcare, are critical to providing patient care. AI has the potential to transform healthcare over the next five years by improving care that will both improve our quality of life, and our life expectancy. In fact, The total addressable market of using generative AI for solving healthcare staffing shortages is probably ten times the size of the healthcare software market alone.

Our healthcare has resource scarcity in an age where technology can make it more abundant and powerful. We are finally at a point where technology can begin to take care of the things we know should be done, but oftentimes are not because of the lack of resources to do them. And that’s where Hippocratic AI comes in.

A significant portion of healthcare costs is managing sick patients. It’s a level of care that requires human decision making, connection, and also doing all sorts of little things at the right time, sometimes with the same patient every day for an extended period of time. And the little things really matter — the check-ins pre and post-op, benchmarking vitals, and when patterns emerge, flagging them in an actionable way for both the patient and the provider to take action.

Hippocratic’s AI agents have shown themselves to be well-suited to take on these tasks, with the safety and at the scale that’s required to transform healthcare. We’ve known Munjal Shah for a few decades, and while we had been following Hippocratic AI and its safety focused healthcare LLM, it was the customer feedback that really moved us. In just 18 months after its founding, more than 23 health systems are using Hippocratic AI to interact and engage with hundreds of thousands of patients to provide better healthcare and over time better outcomes. This is just the beginning of what can happen when healthcare moves from being scarce to being abundant through the use of AI.

We’re excited to lead Hippocratic AI’s Series B and join the journey with Munjal and the entire team to make healthcare more abundant.

— Mamoon and Nadia