“Half the patients I see in the ER could have been treated a week earlier for a fraction of the cost.” Dr. @khakrish is building @CounselHealth around a different vision for AI: not replacing physicians, but supporting them. Rishi joins Offcall co-founder Dr. @grahamwalker to unpack “semi-autonomous care,” and what it means for physicians. 🔥 Full episode: offcall.com/learn/podcast/se… #HowIDoctor #HealthcareAI #Offcall

Rooting for this, nicely done @CMSGov

Good take on the recent uproar around full body ultrasound tomography

This is a good idea, being able to run a hospital at Medicare rates should be a major goal for the industry. Annual double-digit percentage increases in employer health costs are unsustainable and they are driven by hospitals

Incredible chart. My MIL got a lung transplant for ILD in 2023, and now I can thank Trikafta! This is a great example of "care abundance" -- the red line is some proxy for physically bounded care delivery, which we can allocate to more patients by substituting some demand.

Counsel's medical AI available soon in your Oura ring app

In a recent @latimes op-ed, Dr. @HashemZikry, Medical Director at Counsel Health, explores the revolutionary potential of AI in delivering life-changing care at scale, and calls for serious, enforceable regulations to safely deploy this technology.

Vibe shift: over the past few months, basically every computer in the community ER where I work has an @openevidence window up. Younger and older attendings alike. Huge usage everywhere.

The house of medicine is at a crossroads, I think the path forward is obvious

@CounselHealth is a full-stack, AI-native medical group that makes medical care abundant - unlimited guidance from real doctors, 24/7, scaled by Counsel’s medical AI, in a now familiar chat interface. This system embodies the qualities that everyone should expect from "AI as a New Site of Care", which go far beyond the simplistic, early models of digital health that simply replicated offline visits on a computer screen - e.g. care that is always on, with pan-specialty intelligence, personalized, and exponentially scalable. Thrilled to have led the Seed and be co-leading the Series A with our friends at @GVteam as Counsel launches to the general public. Counsel has served over 100,000 patients through B2B2C partnerships to date, and now everyone can have a doctor in their pocket. Congrats to @malagappan and the whole Counsel team on the launch!

Over 100 million people in the US are without a dedicated doctor. But it shouldn't have to be that way. The technology to scale medical advice exists today. I’m proud that @a16z is doubling down to co-lead @CounselHealth’s Series A alongside our friends at @GVteam. On top of that, Counsel's medical AI is now available to anyone. Our healthcare system is designed to ration access to our scarcest resource – doctor time. And in a world where clinician capacity is scarce, people are forced to turn to Google or ChatGPT for answers. Consumers ultimately need clinical resolution: the prescription, the lab test, the specialist appointment, the follow-up, the ongoing guidance and encouragement to change their lifestyle. Counsel is building healthcare abundance for the AI era. We led Counsel’s seed financing last year because of our conviction in this bold idea: that we can build a world in which everyone has their own doctor for life. They’ve seen immense progress under the leadership of @malagappan, who was previously a Stanford-trained physician, AI researcher, and healthtech executive. I’m delighted to expand our support as Counsel redefines how we access healthcare. @julesyoo @a16zBioHealth

Today we’re launching @CounselHealth to the general public. We believe Counsel is the most advanced combination of medical AI and human doctors in a single interface, and the easiest way to go from “I need advice” to “I’m getting care,” all from your phone. Learn more about Counsel ⏬

AI will be amazing for our health

NEW: Industry Deep Dive — Counsel Health We spoke with CMO Dr. Rishi Khakhkhar on scaling physician-led, messaging-based care with AI woven into the workflow. They’re rethinking access, continuity, and what AI-powered care actually looks like. Link below! 👇

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This will happen in healthcare - rather than having to use your judgment about which digital health app to use for what, there will be an AI doctor superapp that knows your full personal context and auto triages across a network of subcontracted providers in the backend based on your expressions of clinical need...

obligated by marriage to a bulls fan to share this insane giddey buzzer beater

This is a huge accomplishment! When people ask me about my favorite applications of AI in clinical medicine, I often point to the Queen of Hearts ECG model - and now it’s approved. Big congrats to the team @RobertHermanMD @smithECGBlog @PendellM

Every time I re-enroll as a provider who treats Medicaid patients in NY, I have to print 40 forms, sign them all in blue pen, and physically mail them in. This is in a blue state that ostensibly wants to maximize the number of Medicaid-accepting providers! We have to do better.

This may be true, but the current provider enrollment system at @CMSGov is much more efficient for provider users than the systems used by most private insurers. For users, the efficiency win would be to take over provider enrollment for state Medicaid programs, which are awful.