Freed-ing Clinicians: Our Founding Story

2 years ago on a Friday, my wife Gabi and I went to see friends for dinner.

Both wives are doctors, so instead of all of us cooking together, the doctors sat on their laptops charting the entire evening, with a short break to eat dinner. Over the weekend, my wife Gabi continued doing her notes.

Freed is the baby of many such experiences. Hearing Gabi say “I have notes to do” 2,555 times in 7 years (that’s every day), having intimate dinners with our laptops, seeing every one of our residency friends cry out of burnout, and roughly one billion clicks in the EHR.

It’s challenging to be married to a clinician and not want their notes to go away. When a clinician tells me that Freed saved them from quitting medicine, or allowed them to have dinners with their kids again, I realize that our AI scribe is the proudest achievement of my life. 

And yet the idea behind Freed is not an AI scribe.

The idea behind Freed is to build for clinicians. To deeply understand their true needs, to solve those needs from the clinician's perspective, and to obsess over eliminating every redundant click. Unlike EHRs, Freed is not built for the patients or administrators or for efficiency or for billing.

Our only purpose is to make clinicians' lives easier.

When a friend suggested that we call our company “Freed,” Gabi and I instantly agreed (first time ever). The true need of clinicians is more freedom.

We’re only 1% done, but at least last Friday, Gabi came home with all her notes done.

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