Yair Saperstein, MD, MPH, CEO & Co-founder of Avo, sits down with StartUp Health fresh off a Series A to talk about what it takes to bring AI safely into clinical decision-making. As a practicing hospitalist, Dr. Saperstein built Avo to solve his own problem: too much patient data, too many guidelines, too little time to make the best possible care decision. Now Avo sits inside the EHR as an intelligence layer, helping clinicians make better decisions and capture that complexity accurately in their notes.

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🩺 Yair Saperstein, MD, MPH, built Avo to solve his own problem as a practicing hospitalist: too much data, too many guidelines, not enough time to make the best care decision

🤖 Avo works as an intelligence layer inside the EHR, pulling in patient context and clinical decision support to guide the next step, not just another alert to ignore

📝 The AI-assisted note-writing captures the true complexity of a clinical decision, which helps clinicians and helps health systems with compliance and revenue capture

🚀 Avo just raised its Series A, marking a shift from a founder-led tool to an enterprise platform built for system-level impact

🎸 Dr. Saperstein’s leadership philosophy: building a band and steering a log down the river, bringing your whole team along as the company scales

🌊 Nearly 50 employees now, up from a handful of co-founders at Columbia

🚀 A StartUp Health community member since 2020, Yair's story is a reminder of what's possible when founders build alongside a community