Pharos GTM brain

Pharos uses AI to abstract hospital quality data for registry reporting and help clinical teams identify avoidable harm.

category

Hospital quality reporting automation

market profile

  • text: Hospitals devote clinician time to extracting quality metrics from complex records for external registries.
  • text: Pharos is listed as an American Heart Association compatible vendor for the stroke quality program.

personas

  • title: VP of quality and patient safety
    pains:
    • Manual reporting consumes clinical staff time that could go to improvement.
    • Quality problems such as sepsis, hospital infections and pressure ulcers require earlier visibility.
  • title: Clinical registry abstraction manager
    pains:
    • Reviewing charts and finding variables across structured and narrative records creates backlogs.
    • Registry answers need supporting evidence and defensible review.
  • title: Chief medical informatics officer
    pains:
    • New AI must fit existing EHR and registry workflows.
    • Accuracy, patient privacy and traceable source evidence must withstand clinical scrutiny.

icp

  • text: US hospitals and health systems contributing to clinical quality registries such as stroke programs.
  • text: Provider organizations with quality abstraction teams, EHR chart data and ongoing patient safety improvement programs.

message pillars

  • text: Reduce manual patient chart review.
  • text: Automate registry reporting workflows.
  • text: Monitor quality improvement beyond a one-time report.

objections

  • objection: Can the clinical findings be trusted for mandatory reporting?
    response: Validate a representative sample against expert abstraction and inspect the source evidence for each result.
  • objection: Will it work with our EHR and reporting measures?
    response: Scope the relevant registry, EHR data access, workflows and deployment requirements with Pharos.
  • objection: How is protected health information handled?
    response: Review security documentation, contractual safeguards and access controls before sharing records.

competitors

  • name: Carta Healthcare
    website: https://www.carta.healthcare
    why: Combines AI and clinical experts for hospital registry data abstraction.
  • name: Layer Health
    website: https://www.layerhealth.com
    why: Uses AI to abstract chart data for clinical registries with supporting evidence.
  • name: Health Elements AI
    website: https://www.healthelements.ai
    why: Offers the Carbon Registry Platform for automated clinical registry abstraction.

influencers

  • name: Felix Brann
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/felix-brann_matthew-alex-and-i-are-incredibly-excited-activity-7255606262497734657-q93M
    why: Co-founder and CEO describes the mission to support hospital quality teams.

keywords

  • hospital quality data abstraction
  • clinical registry automation
  • AI chart abstraction
  • hospital quality reporting software
  • patient safety analytics
  • stroke registry data abstraction

voice

  • Clinical
  • Outcome-focused
  • Direct

signals

  • text: A hospital joins additional registries or recruits abstractors to clear a reporting backlog.
  • text: A quality leader is prioritizing sepsis, infections or pressure ulcer improvement and needs more timely measurement.

pricing

model: unknown

motion

sales_led

channels

  • LinkedIn
  • healthcare conferences
  • hospital introductions

confidence

high

Founders

  • name: Felix Brann
    title: Founder/CEO
    role: CEO
    bio: CEO at Pharos. Previously VP Data Science at vital.io and VP Quantitative Research at JP. Morgan. Obsessed with sepsis: https://ai.jmir.org/2024/1/e49784
  • name: Matthew Jones
    title: Founder/CTO
    role: CTO
    bio: Founder and CTO at Pharos, preventing avoidable harm in hospitals using AI. Previously part of the founding team of Market2x, a rural trucking marketplace and optimisation platform in New Zealand.

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