Jaden Schaefer

And it's like, yeah, wouldn't it be phenomenal if I could have just talked to the AI and been able to go get the prescription and not have to pay someone and talk to someone because, you know.

so i mean i think that the hack nowadays is like you get those teledoc apps um and it's way cheaper than to go to a doctor and you don't have to like schedule something plus like if you're sick with like the flu you don't want to go to a doctor anyways to or sick with something you don't have to go to a doctor and expose other people to the sickness so i mean honestly i think this is a way a way better situation if you could do it now i think in practice they're trying to operate like a full kind of like a medical practice this is they're not like look we're like a wellness app or something

And they say that they hold licenses to operate in all 50 states.

They have malpractice insurance.

They run HIPAA compliant infrastructure and they have full access to all patient medical records.

So, I mean, they're really setting themselves up like an actual doctor's office.

I think the difference is that a lot of the frontline clinical work is going to be handled by this AI and it's essentially trained to ask the exact same questions and the same structure that your doctor would use during an intake.

So now for compliance and also just to make sure everything's super accurate, they do always have a human in the loop on all of these things.

They have board-certified physicians from Stanford University, Harvard University, University of San Francisco, and they're reviewing all of the final diagnoses, all of the prescriptions, and all of the lab requests before anything is actually issued to a patient, right?

So there's always a kind of a person that still puts a stamp on this.

But Lotus has built their own clinical reasoning model.

And essentially, it's going to go and grab all of the latest evidence-based medical research.

And it's also going to grab the patient's history and all of their responses and pull that all together in a way that is just so much more personalized.

And essentially, it's really similar to what systems like open evidence are kind of like combining the retrieval of these like up-to-date studies with the structured clinical logic and put it all together.

this is what their ceo dolly wall said he said ai is giving the advice but the real doctors are actually signing off on it so i think right now the company is like pretty upfront about what they don't handle they said they don't do anything urgent or um you know emergent conditions that are all of that is kind of redirected to emergency rooms or an urgent care center

Any cases that require physical exams are also put to, you know, in-person providers.

And then Lotus kind of, they just position themselves as a replacement for the routine primary care access.

And so they're not saying like, look, we're like a substitute for hands-on medicine or something like that.

Obviously, super, super ambitious.

There is a lot of regulatory risk that comes with that.