About MetaCare
MetaCare builds privacy first AI that brings health care home. Health for Humans.
Health for Humans
Health for Humans is our purpose: health care built around the person living it, not the systems around them. Every product, message and design decision answers to it.
Humans names everyone in the story: the person asking a question, the family member in the loop, and the clinicians who care for them.
Why we exist
We exist because health happens at home, but health care is still built for the hospital, the payer and the software vendor. The person in the middle gets the least of it.
- Privacy is the price of help. Most consumer health apps collect data on their servers and monetize it. People should not have to trade their health data for an answer.
- Technology excludes the people who need it most. Older adults are handed apps, logins and passwords.
We close those gaps with one consistent answer: put the Human at the center, keep their data theirs, and build on open standards so the work outlasts any single institution.
Where we started
MetaCare began with a caregiver and a standards engineer in the same person. Richard Braman cared for his father and his grandmother, and saw how little of the health system follows a person home.
He also spent years building the plumbing health care runs on. He implemented Smile CDR inside Intermountain Health's enterprise FHIR architecture and worked on ePneumonia, a real time, standards based clinical workflow platform. At Highmark Health he used FHIR and CDS Hooks for a diabetes enrollment use case. Before health information technology, he was a certified public accountant and a SOC 2 auditor, trained to ask whether a system can be trusted.
In 2023, Intermountain's funding for that work ended and the team was cut. The lesson stuck: good, standards based work dies when it lives inside one institution's budget. It needed to live somewhere independent, open and built to last.
Metacare.ai was the first piece, launched in 2023: a free, anonymous place to ask medical questions, no account required.
What Metacare.ai is
Metacare.ai is free and needs no account. Ask a medical question anonymously, and keep a personal health record on your own device. It grew into a set of apps:
- Women's Health
- Diabetes
- Move
- Nutrition
- Sleep
- Medications
- Find a Provider
It can bring your records in from Epic, Oracle Health (Cerner) and athenahealth over FHIR, the open standard health care uses to share data.
Recognition
Richard Braman, MetaCare's founder, is a National Academy of Medicine award winner for Metacare.ai. In July 2024 he was chosen to present for the National Academy of Medicine at the annual conference of the National Association of County and City Health Officials.
What we believe
- Humans first. Start from the person's day, not the system's workflow.
- Their data, their device. Keep personal health data off our servers wherever possible. Privacy is the design, not a setting.
- Meet people where they are. The phone already in their pocket, with no accounts or passwords where we can avoid them.
- AI talks; clinical logic decides. Language models handle conversation. Clinical decisions belong to clinicians and to the pathways they own.
- Open standards, no lock in. FHIR and SMART, so the work outlasts any single institution or vendor.
- Family in the loop. Caregivers are part of care, not an afterthought.
Contact
Write to us, or follow MetaCare on LinkedIn.