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A mom and tech entrepreneur building AI advocate for rare-disease families like hers
AI-powered healthcare startup Citizen Health is using the technology to focus on rare disease, helping manage patient lives as well as advance treatments.
TL;DR
- Citizen Health's new AI platform assists rare disease patients with tasks like scheduling appointments and navigating insurance.
- The platform aims to reduce the average 53 hours per week parents spend on rare disease caregiving.
- It builds large patient data networks by collecting medical records, genetic information, and patient experiences.
- Over 8,000 patients across 350+ rare diseases are on the platform, with 16 pharmaceutical companies using the data for research.
- Using Citizen Health is free for patients, with 98.3% opting to share their data with researchers.
- For commercial data access, researchers pay Citizen Health, which shares a percentage with patients.
- The platform has reportedly reduced timelines for getting therapies to market by 30%-50%.
- The company has raised over $44 million in venture funding, including a $30 million Series A round.