Oct 7, 2025

Kyna Fong, Co-Founder and CEO of Elation Health, is developing AI tools that prioritize patient care and automate documentation and referrals to help alleviate physician burnout and improve the patient-provider relationship. Kyna emphasizes the critical role of interoperability in effective primary care, enabling primary care physicians to coordinate care. She also noted the recent White House initiative on interoperability, which encouraged the private sector to cooperate in data-sharing initiatives, now that AI can be used to overcome technical issues of data integration and analysis. 

Kyna explains, "Clinical-first is not new for Elation. It's actually our founding product philosophy. When we first started building Elation, what we observed was that so many tools that were built for physicians to use and their electronic health records were very much oriented around billing needs and, in a lot of ways, followed a billing-first philosophy. And so we created Elation to really focus on clinical first, which means putting patient care first and foremost."  

"The way that we are approaching AI is as a tool. It's a tool in our toolkit. It's a how and when we think about all the pressures and burdens on physicians, especially primary care physicians, that prevent them from being able to focus on their patients. We take each of those and think about, well, how can AI make this easier? And so there are a variety of areas where we've deployed AI to help our customers. There are the clear, fairly pervasive ones today that start with something like an ambient scribe that helps with documentation, saving multiple hours per day. It's radically transformative." 

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