Introducing Layer Health

Today, we are thrilled to introduce Layer Health, a healthcare AI company spun out of MIT and backed by $4 million in funding from GV (Google Ventures), General Catalyst, and Inception Health. We are committed to solving the information problem in healthcare. The information problem begins the moment a patient visits a health institution. Every interaction generates a trail of breadcrumbs, including clinical notes, lab results, and patient messages. When combined, these breadcrumbs tell a rich story of a patient’s health journey and clinical care. However, the most nuanced and valuable data is unstructured and hard to understand, often inaccessible without a team of nurses and data scientists. This issue consumes significant resources across the healthcare ecosystem and makes it difficult to scale new businesses and health innovations. Layer Health’s first product, Distill, tackles the information problem by using AI to quickly perform any clinical, administrative, or research task that requires chart review from unstructured data. This includes registry submissions, quality measurement, curation of real-world evidence, clinical document improvement, and revenue cycle management. Distill integrates into existing products and workflows, ingesting clinical notes and analyzing them at scale. Behind the scenes, Layer Health’s machine learning (ML) algorithms leverage the power of large language models (LLMs) to deliver accurate results without the need for labeled data, red...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT David Sontag Distill Divya Gopinath Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin General Catalyst Google Ventures GV Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Inception Health Layer Source Type: blogs