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Cathleen Kuo Is Teaching Machines to Listen Before Hospitals Speak
A Taiwan-born physician with more than 200 research publications left the expected path to build Opalite Health. Her wager is simple: in a room full of medical technology, the most important tool may be the one that helps two people understand each other.
Opalite Health
Opalite Health is a San Francisco-based Y Combinator (W26) startup building an AI-powered, real-time medical interpreter that lets clinicians speak with patients in 150+ languages without waiting for a human interpreter. Founded by physician Cathleen Kuo and former Apple engineer Alex Mehregan, the platform is validated against certified medical interpreters, HIPAA compliant and SOC 2 Type II certified, and is used daily by hospitals, community health centers, home health organizations, telehealth providers, and clinics across 10+ states.