Haber: Tenor reduces patient intake admin costs by 90%
David Haber · How AI is Reshaping Labor Markets: A $Trillion-Dollar Opportunity Explained · Jan 14, 2025 · at 22:32
David Haber, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), discusses portfolio company Tenor, an AI startup automating healthcare patient referral workflows.
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“We have a company, you know, it's an example called Tenor that is doing this in a healthcare context. So, you know, the problem that they're solving specifically is is around patient referrals. So you go to your general practitioner, they're referring you to a specialist, could be a dermatologist or an imaging center. Today, they're, often faxing your medical records, and it is somebody's job to go physically to the fax machine, you know, take that physical fax, re-enter that information into the, to the EMR system. Tenor has trained a model against, I think, four million, you know, healthcare-specific documents, and now can basically extract all that information about the patient programmatically, and have effectively begin to solve, you know, this sort of patient intake problem. And they're able to reduce now about 90% of the admin costs, you know, of that patient intake before the patient's actually seeing the clinician.”
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