In most industries, the fax machine is a museum piece. In healthcare, it is still load-bearing infrastructure - the default way a patient's history moves from one provider to the next. Predoc, a New York startup founded in 2022, was built by clinicians who lived that frustration and decided to route around it.
The company describes itself as an AI-native platform for health information management, the unglamorous back-office function of retrieving, cleaning, and organizing patient records. When a doctor needs a new patient's prior history, someone has to request it, receive it - often as a faxed PDF or a stack of scanned pages - and then read through thousands of documents to find what matters. Predoc automates that entire chain. It pulls records from digital sources and direct provider requests anywhere in the U.S., extracts the data with AI, and delivers it as normalized, structured information that plugs into the systems a clinic already uses.
The premise is deceptively simple: the hard part of medicine was never only the diagnosis. It was everything before and after - the requesting, the sorting, the re-keying, the waiting. Predoc's bet is that if you remove that administrative weight, clinicians get their time back and patients get faster care.
