Healthleap Raises $1.1M Pre-Seed To Reduce Malnutrition In Hospitals With Clinical Ai Assistant
01/06/22, 11:53 AM
Money raised
$1.1 million
Industry
health care
software
Round Type
pre-seed
Malnutrition is somewhat common among hospitalized patients in the U.S., and its coded prevalence is increasing. Amid this problem lies an opportunity to optimize the overall quality of patient care, improve clinical outcomes and reduce costs.
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The startup provides a clinical assistant for dietitians working in hospitals. The health tech company says it is building AI-assisted tools for healthcare professionals to better address hospital malnutrition.“As a clinical dietitian, I saw many patients suffer due to malnutrition being insufficiently addressed in hospitals, partially because clinical dietitians are understaffed, and other clinicians are not adequately trained in clinical nutrition,” clinical dietitian and chief research officer Jemima Meyer told TechCrunch. The company said it has a waitlist nearing 1,000 dietitians, pharmacists and physicians. The company said it treats patients even after discharge. That’s why the firm, which is made up of 44 unicorn founders, backed HealthLeap. HealthLeap says it wants to eradicate hospital malnutrition globally. HealthLeap says it will use this pre-seed capital to hire software engineers and data scientists to continue creating smart tools to help clinicians prevent and treat hospital malnutrition. HealthLeap is still very much in the pre-revenue stage.