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Fast, Transparent Patient Experiences
Tennr is solving the black hole problem in healthcare by leveraging models to digitize the flow of paperwork between healthcare providers. -- Today, when you go to your doctor and need to be referred to a specialist (e.g., for sleep apnea), your doctor sends a fax (yes, in 2024, 90% of provider-provider communication is a 1980s fax). These are often converted into 20+ page PDFs, with handwritten (doctor’s handwriting!) notes, in thousands of different formats. The problem is so complex that a person has to read it, type it up, and manually enter your information. Tennr built RaeLM™ (7B—trained on 3M+ documents) to read these docs, talk to your doc to ensure nothing is missed, and text you to help schedule your appointment so you can get better, faster.
Tennr is a patient orchestration platform aimed at helping healthcare providers route patients to the right care setting at the right time. It uses policy-grade decisioning to navigate payer requirements, referrals, and care journeys to reduce delays and denials while optimizing cash flow.
Tennr automatically ingests patient data from faxes, portals, and internal orders, classifies and routes it into appropriate operational workflows, and updates charts as changes occur. It performs eligibility checks, investigates benefits by phone, submits prior authorizations, and uses data-driven routing to guide patient journeys. The platform acts as a control tower to identify bottlenecks, prioritize work, and drive automated decisions for care plans and workflows across the care continuum.
Who it’s for: Trusted nationwide healthcare providers, including national networks and independent providers, seeking to improve patient flow, reduce denials, and optimize revenue cycle through automated patient routing and payer-aware decisioning.
Former All-American rower, Computer science major and TA before going to work as a Software engineer at Strava. Left Strava to start a company with my former teammate Diego and former roommate Tyler. Outside of work, (pre-startup) I did standup whenever I had time
Grew up going to a school with no grades, then to Stanford, where I studied CS and was on the rowing team. Love learning, good design, and decomposing hard problems (whether they're my own or listening to other people's). Hate to lose.
Tyler is the co-founder and CTO at Tennr. He met his co-founders, Trey and Diego, while studying at Stanford, and spent a year working in technical consulting before leaving to work with them. A dedicated midwesterner, he lives in Wisconsin with a lot of dogs!
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AI for streamlining healthcare paperwork
Making doctors 2x more efficient with AI note-taking & charge capture
