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Aaron Patzer
Aaron Patzer is the founder and CEO of Vital, an AI-driven software company that helps hospitals cut emergency-room wait times, flag high-risk patients, and translate medical jargon into plain English. He first made his name building Mint.com, the free personal-finance app he started in 2006 and sold to Intuit for $170 million just two-plus years later. An engineer with degrees from Duke and Princeton, Patzer has spent his career turning intimidating, regulation-heavy industries into experiences ordinary people can actually understand - first money, now medicine.
Vital
Vital is a digital health company that uses artificial intelligence and large language models to improve the patient experience inside emergency departments and hospitals. Founded by Mint.com creator Aaron Patzer and emergency physician Dr. Justin Schrager, its consumer-grade software predicts ER wait times, translates clinical jargon into plain language, automates discharge and follow-up communication, and reduces clinician workload. Vital reads directly from hospital EHRs through FHIR/HL7 integrations and is used by 100+ hospitals and roughly 20-30 health systems, serving more than 5 million patients a year.