- Health technology company Robin Healthcare announced that it closed $11.5 million in Series A funding led by Norwest Venture Partners
Robin Healthcare — a health technology company that provides a digital assistant service elegantly leveraging human and artificial intelligence (AI) to free physicians from paperwork — announced it has closed $11.5 million in Series A funding led by Norwest Venture Partners.
This round of funding brings Robin’s total funding to $15 million. And Robin also announced it launched partnerships with several leading academic and private medical practices across the United States. Plus it named Tom Gruber, the co-founder and former Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Siri, as a formal advisor.
Robin places the HIPAA-compliant Robin Assistant device unobtrusively in the exam room and writes high-quality and fully billable clinical notes based on audio and optional video of a physician’s natural interaction with patients.
“With Robin, doctors are free to focus on their patients rather than computer screens and get a note that’s actually useful,” said Robin co-founder and CEO Noah Auerhahn. “Using natural language processing, machine learning, and human-centered design, Robin is re-conceptualizing clinical documentation and making health information more effective. This new infusion of capital will help us forge a path toward eliminating administrative overhead for doctors and improving patient care. Furthermore, Robin’s ongoing relationships with premier institutions accelerates product development cycles, allowing us to deliver more value to clinicians and health systems.”
The average physician now spends 2 hours on paperwork and screen time for every hour of patient care. These tasks distract them from patients in the office and follow them home at night. And as a result more than 50% of doctors are experiencing burnout. As a result, the documentation is not ideal for patient care as it is frequently riddled with errors and warped to serve insurance and regulatory requirements instead of helping doctors take care of patients.
Robin’s platform essentially addresses the burden doctors face daily to complete clinical documentation and administrative work. The Robin Assistant device is placed unobtrusively in the exam room and writes high-quality fully billable clinical notes based on audio and optional video of a physician’s natural interaction with patients. And using ambient Conversational Speech Recognition, Robin works without using wake words, specialized vocabulary, dictation, or other workflow changes.
The platform blends cutting edge AI technology with quality assurance by trained healthcare staff to produce doctors’ notes that integrate directly with electronic medical records and securing all patient data with end-to-end military-grade encryption. The physicians who use Robin in their clinics simply review and sign their notes. As a result, they save time and see more patients.
“Robin has the clinical, technical industry, and technical heft needed to streamline physician documentation and alleviate burnout. We see a growth opportunity and are delighted to invest in Robin,” added Casper de Clercq, a partner at Norwest Venture Partners.
Some of Robin’s customers and partners include Camellia ENT, Campbell Clinic, Central Coast Orthopedic Medical Group, Duke University Medical Center’s Private Diagnostic Clinic, Muir Orthopaedic Specialists, Orthopedic Associates P.A., Peak Orthopedics & Spine, University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center, and Webster Orthopedics.
