Every year, millions of Americans visit emergency rooms for conditions that could have been avoided in the course of preventive treatment by a primary care physician. However, primary care predominantly focuses on addressing already-symptomatic diseases and not enough on preventive measures that stop issues before they become chronic conditions.
It's a problem that's being tackled by Daniel Yeboah, an emerging health tech entrepreneur who aims to address gaps in preventive care by using artificial intelligence integrated with existing clinical practices. By providing real-time insights to both patients and providers, AI could improve the quality of care and reduce chronic disease and ER visits—all without increasing workloads for providers.
In 2023, Yeboah founded Revella Health to make his vision of AI-powered preventive care a reality.
Yeboah's Hands-On Experience Throughout the Healthcare Industry
With more than 15 years in the healthcare industry, Daniel Yeboah has intimate knowledge of the impacts of preventive care and the consequences of forgoing it.
He's seen the healthcare industry from multiple angles: As a registered nurse, he was forced to watch minor conditions progress into chronic illnesses. In his time working in healthcare administration, he witnessed the monetary ramifications of progressing illnesses as he helped patients navigate financial support while their preventable conditions became chronic and their costs grew exponentially.
Yeboah also saw how patients in drug-specific research programs had access to robust reviews of their medical records and screening schedules, and in doing so, they ended up with better overall health outcomes. They fared far better than patients who only occasionally visited their overburdened primary care physicians.
Armed with this multifaceted experience, Yeboah made the transition to full-time health tech entrepreneur with the launch of Ellerca Healthcare in 2020, where he built a team of developers and clinical administrators focused on providing holistic care to those living with diabetes.
After LLM-based artificial intelligence emerged in 2022, Yeboah saw how the new technology could provide widespread access to preventive care screenings and improve risk adjustments for care providers. This led to the founding of Revella Health in 2023, with the goal of leveraging AI-driven solutions to improve preventive healthcare and risk adjustment for care providers.
ARIA: Revella Health's AI Insights Platform
Revella Health's flagship product is ARIA, a cutting-edge AI platform that analyzes patient data and integrates preventive care insights into existing clinical workflows—automating the kinds of manual interventions that Yeboah had seen improve clinical care and reduce costs during his career in healthcare administration.
It accomplishes this by recording patient conversations with providers, highlighting risk factors that can be monitored to avert additional complications or hospitalization. It also analyzes patient records to identify missed preventive procedures like mammograms or diabetes screenings. If gaps are detected, automated alerts are sent to both care teams and patients, allowing follow-up to be initiated from either side of the patient-provider relationship.
Notably, Yeboah drew upon his extensive experience in patient and administrator interactions when designing ARIA, ensuring it factored in social determinants of health (SDOH) like income, employment, education, housing, and healthcare access—all of which can significantly impact outcomes and risk factoring, even for patients with similar medical conditions.
By detecting screening gaps and providing real-time alerts, ARIA allows clinicians and insurers to perform more accurate risk adjustments. This helps ensure clients with greater needs receive additional attention, keeping preventable risks from becoming expensive or even deadly chronic conditions.
ARIA's holistic analysis of patient data and real-time insights represents major advancements in AI-powered healthcare. By going beyond simply improving documentation to actively promoting interventions, Revella Health is pioneering technology that can extend lives, reduce inefficiency, and save patients, providers, and insurers billions.
Rewiring Healthcare with Proactive AI-Powered Interventions
Daniel Yeboah's ARIA has already made inroads in the conservative and slow-moving healthcare industry. In addition to previous pilots, a recent One MedPLUS program helped multiple patients avoid hospitalizations, adding up to projected annual savings of more than $10 million when scaled up to 20,000 patients. Revella Health has also secured a major contract with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama, and it aims to expand service to patients and providers nationwide in the coming years.
Since pivoting to health tech entrepreneurship, Yeboah has dedicated much of his time to helping other budding entrepreneurs. He's provided mentorship to emerging startups through the YSpace Venture Catalyst program, represented Revella Health in the 2024 Techstars Physical Health Fort Worth Accelerator, and appeared as a speaker at events like Brampton Tech Talks and the Moncton Benefits Together Conference.
While modern healthcare systems remain largely reactive, startups like Daniel Yeboah's Revella Health are leveraging AI to address patient needs proactively and more cost-effectively. In doing so, Yeboah hopes to unlock a renewed focus on patient-centric care and enhance health equity around the world.
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