About Bright.md
Bright.md is a healthcare automation company that utilizes an AI-powered, asynchronous virtual care platform called SmartExam. This platform is designed to modernize direct-to-patient telehealth for healthcare systems. For physicians, SmartExam acts as a virtual medical resident, efficiently gathering comprehensive patient information through a dynamic interview process. It collects details about symptoms, medical history, and past prescriptions for hundreds of low-acuity medical conditions. The system then provides the physician with a provisional diagnosis, a potential treatment plan, and a chart-ready SOAP note for review and approval. This automation significantly reduces administrative workflows, allowing providers to deliver care for numerous conditions with fewer clicks and in less time, ultimately increasing provider capacity and reducing the cost of care.
The SmartExam platform serves as a virtual front door for healthcare systems, enabling patients to navigate, be triaged, and receive care for common conditions or be routed to in-person or video visits for more complex issues. The data gathered by SmartExam can be seamlessly passed on for subsequent visits, ensuring consistency and saving valuable time for both patients and physicians. Bright.md’s technology has been shown to increase provider capacity by a factor of 10 and reduce care delivery costs by 90 percent. The company aims to address the challenge of high demand for primary care visits and physician burnout by improving efficiency and eliminating patient wait times.
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| Key Investors | B Capital Group, Seven Peaks Ventures, Concord Health Partners, Pritzker Group Venture Capital, Oregon Angel Fund, Stanford-StartX Fund, Philips Health Technology Ventures, UnityPoint Health Ventures |
| Partnerships | AVIA's Virtual Access cohort, OCHIN, Artera |
| Acquisitions | Acquired by Evernorth Health Services (technology and clinical capabilities) and 98point6 Technologies (remaining assets and customer contracts) |
| Technology | Cloud-based, AI-powered, asynchronous virtual-care platform (SmartExam) |
What Physicians Need to Know
For physicians, Bright.md's platform, SmartExam, acts as a virtual assistant, automating patient intake and pre-visit interviews, and generating chart-ready SOAP notes with provisional diagnoses and treatment plans. This significantly reduces documentation and administrative burdens, freeing up valuable time. The evidence-based clinical content, covering over 130 diagnoses, is maintained and updated by a team of physicians, writers, and editors, ensuring reliability. Physicians can review patient information and approve treatment plans in minutes, increasing efficiency and allowing them to focus on complex cases. The platform also supports increased patient access and can be integrated with existing EHR systems.
Bright.md's platform is cloud-based and integrates with major EHR systems such as Epic, Cerner, and Athena, as well as in-house EMR systems. They are actively building partnerships within the digital health ecosystem to deepen integrations and streamline care delivery.
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