Building PromptMD: Why I Decided to Fix the Problem
After years of watching healthcare inefficiencies and colleagues burn out, I started building the tool I wish existed.
Nov 2, 2025
The Moment It Clicked
Every physician has a moment where they realize how broken our workflow really is.
Mine came late one night, staring at yet another endless consult note — copied text, scanned faxes, and pages of redundancy that told me almost nothing about the patient.
I wasn’t tired of medicine. I was tired of the system around it.
The technology that was supposed to make care safer had buried us in clerical noise. Every minute of patient care was followed by ten minutes of documentation.
That night, I thought: If we can diagnose heart failure with precision, why can’t we automate paperwork?
Starting from the Ground Up
The first version of PromptMD isn't flashy — just a simple tool that transformed on-screen clinical information into clean, de-identified summaries a doctor could actually use.
But that simple idea was liberating.
It proved a point: we didn’t need complex integrations or hospital bureaucracy to build something useful. We just needed a physician’s perspective and modern tools used responsibly.
Every engineer and lawyer who joined later believed in that same principle — build outside the walls, protect privacy, and solve one small but universal pain point for doctors: time lost to documentation.
From Frustration to Focus
Today, PromptMD is more than software. It’s a quiet statement about what medicine could feel like again — efficient, secure, and centered on the patient, not the interface.
The technology isn’t the hero here. The physician is.
Our job is to make the charting disappear, not to add another layer to it.
That’s why I built PromptMD — to return time, focus, and dignity to clinical practice.
Because when documentation takes care of itself, doctors finally can take care of patients.
