How to fix healthcare in America with AI

Healthcare today is fundamentally broken. Patients, clinicians, and health systems alike grapple with fragmented data, misdiagnoses, preventable illnesses, and clinician burnout. Nearly 133 million Americans live with chronic conditions, millions remain undiagnosed, and almost one million deaths each year could be prevented through better primary care and health data management.

At Lotus, our mission is clear: unlock healthcare data to put world-class primary care at everyone’s fingertips. We believe that everyone deserves access to personalized, proactive healthcare, care that’s informed by comprehensive health records, wearable data, genetic insights, and real-time medical expertise.

Why Now?

The U.S. healthcare landscape is at a turning point. Regulatory momentum around data interoperability and breakthroughs in artificial intelligence have created an unprecedented opportunity. The increasing availability of health data through FHIR APIs and health information exchange (HIE) networks enable us to build a truly unified health record.

But simply collecting data isn’t enough. At Lotus, we’re harnessing cutting-edge AI, —trained and validated by top clinicians from institutions like Stanford and Harvard, to interpret, analyze, and personalize health insights with unprecedented accuracy. In our validation studies, LotusAI-Predict demonstrated a 142% improvement in early disease prediction accuracy using its pre-trained model, compared to baseline models trained from scratch.

The Lotus Factor

At present, consumer health apps follow two extremes, they either overwhelm the user with unstructured data, or deliver niche insights. At Lotus, we are building a "brain" to flexibly reason about all types of health data proactively. Unlike most healthcare technology built for insurers or hospitals, Lotus prioritizes patient empowerment and clinician collaboration:

• Comprehensive Health Repository: Seamlessly integrating EHRs, wearable data, genetic tests, and insurance information into one secure platform, providing real-time, holistic health insights.
• AI-Driven Primary Care Copilot: Providing 24/7 access to personalized health information, proactive preventive care suggestions, medication management, and simplified insurance navigation.
• Clinician Integrated AI: Our AI recommendations aren’t standalone; they’re continually validated and refined by top medical professionals, ensuring accuracy and clinical reliability.

Addressing Core Challenges

We’re focused on three fundamental healthcare challenges:

1. Fragmented Health Data: Lotus aggregates disparate patient data sources into one coherent, longitudinal health record, significantly reducing misdiagnosis and improving preventive care.
2. Health Inequities: By offering accessible, understandable, and actionable health insights, Lotus actively combats systemic health inequities, ensuring quality primary care reaches marginalized and underserved communities.
3. Clinician Burnout: Our empathetic, agentic AI supports clinicians by reducing administrative burdens, enabling them to focus on patient care, empathy, and personalized treatment, addressing the critical shortage and burnout among healthcare providers.

Our Values Drive Our Mission

At Lotus, four core values underpin everything we do:

• Craftsmanship: Meticulous attention to detail ensures reliability and user-centric excellence.
• Courage: Boldly addressing healthcare’s toughest problems with innovative solutions.
• Curiosity: Continuously learning, iterating, and improving our AI-driven healthcare experiences.
• Compassion: Building empathy into every interaction, ensuring patients and clinicians feel understood and supported.

Looking Ahead

Backed by visionary investors such as Kleiner Perkins and leaders from Clover Health, Forward Health, Everly Health, Oura Ring, Commure, and Microsoft, Lotus is already transforming how primary care is delivered. Our beta launch has proven the power and potential of a patient-first, AI-driven primary care experience.

Healthcare’s future must be proactive, personalized, and accessible to everyone. Lotus is here to make this vision a reality.