Prana, a living brain.
Prana is building a model of how illness moves through India.
It learns from triage. A patient describes what is wrong in their own words, a doctor reviews where the model sent them, and we record what happened next. Insurers, pharma companies and public health teams can use that record to see an illness rising before claims and prescriptions show it.
01Doctors are scarce
India doesn't have enough doctors, and most of them work in cities. A patient in a hospital outpatient queue often gets a few minutes. Plenty of people describe their symptoms first to a pharmacist, or to no one.
Prana takes that first conversation, in Hindi or English, and sends the patient to the right department. Doctors review its routing and correct it. Prescribing and signing stay with them, as Indian telemedicine rules require.
02The loop
When a doctor corrects a route, the correction becomes training data, and so does the patient's follow-up. We retrain on those cases.
03One patient, as the model sees it
Each case is a sequence: what the patient reported, where they were sent, what the doctor decided, and what happened later. With enough cases we can compare districts and age groups.
04What other records miss
Hospital software stores diagnoses and insurance claims store bills. Neither has what the patient said before diagnosis, a doctor's view of where they were first sent, or anyone who didn't file a claim.
05Who uses it
Prana answers two kinds of question. Some are about one patient or one claim and need an answer immediately. Others are about groups, such as which illnesses are rising in which districts.
| One case | Groups | |
|---|---|---|
| Insurers | Does this claim match what the patient came in with? Is this admission warranted? | What to cover, how to price it, where to grow |
| Pharma | Which consenting patients may be eligible for a trial | Which diseases to work on, where patients are, how long diagnosis takes |
| Government | Claim checks for public insurance; triage in primary care | Early signals for disease surveillance; district-level burden |
06How we work
- We check consent each time patient data is used. Patients who say no get the same care.
- Patient data is stored and processed in India.
- We keep each hospital's records separate.
- What the model says to a patient is logged before the patient hears it. Clinicians review those logs.
- We pay doctors to review and label clinical cases.
- Buyers receive aggregate reports only.
07Built on ABDM
ABDM, India's digital health mission, gives each person an ABHA health ID and each facility a registry entry. Prana adds doctor-reviewed triage at the first point of contact.