Since launching CarePilot, Joseph Tutera has come to realize that healthcare providers by default become some of the highest paid data entry clerks in the United States, he shared.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s absolutely no reason why that has to be the case,\u201d continued the founder and CEO of the Kansas City-built AI startup. \u201cIt\u2019s not a law of physics that they have to spend all day inside their medical records.\u201d<\/p>\n Started in 2023 while Tutera was a student at Texas Christian University, CarePilot<\/a> is an ambient AI tool that listens to the healthcare provider\u2019s conversation with the patient and does about 90 percent of the administrative work for them, including notetaking, coding, and order entry.<\/p>\n \u201cCarePilot is a technology that lets you go be a doctor,\u201d he explained, quoting the company\u2019s pitch to providers. \u201cIn the United States, the average healthcare provider spends eight hours a day in their clinic, and four hours of their day is spent taking care of patients. The other four hours of their day is spent on any number of tedious administrative tasks necessary for the continuation of care, for the healthcare payer, for compliance, legal requirements, etc.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSo for every one minute that you spend performing health care,\u201d he added, \u201cyou have to spend one minute doing the administrative work that goes into that health care and that is a huge problem. And it\u2019s the reason why there are 100 times more administrators in the United States than there are for than there are doctors.\u201d<\/p>\n ICYMI: Digital health startup aims to save medical providers time while bringing down cost of AI tech<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Elevator pitch:<\/strong> CarePilot lets doctors focus on patients. We handle the charting, coding, billing, orders and inbox so providers can focus on what really matters.<\/p>\n CarePilot allows every practice to have the resources of a more wealthy operation, Tutera noted.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you\u2019re already a wealthy practice, you have somebody that\u2019s paid $50 an hour that follows you around with laptop all day,\u201d he explained. \u201cNot everybody can pay $10,000 or $5,000 a month for a medical student to follow them around, but everybody could pay a couple $100 a month to have an AI that does the same thing. So that\u2019s the goal.\u201d<\/p>\n CarePilots team members Kyle Rall, Joseph Tutera, Tanner Helton, and Audrey Pino in their new Crossroads office; photo by Nikki Overfelt Chifalu, Startland News<\/p>\n 2025 proved to be a big year for the healthcare tech startup as it raised a $2.5 million funding round in the summer<\/a>; hit 100 billion in OpenAPI tokens processed \u2014 the building blocks of text for OpenAI models \u2014 and earned a shoutout at OpenAI DevDay in October for being in the top 75 for overall utilization out of about four million developers on the OpenAI platform; launched two new products (coding and order entry); and debuted a partnership with Affineon Health<\/a> to offer practices clinical inbox management tools.<\/p>\n \u201cThe partnership with this company and CarePilot InboxAssist involves an AI agent that will look at your labs and look at your prescription renewal inbox items in real time as they come in automatically,\u201d he continued. \u201cIt flag normals, flag abnormals, does some calcs for you, and ultimately reduces your Inbox by somewhere between 30 to 80 percent depending on how you do your inbox work. It\u2019s really, really cool.\u201d<\/p>\n ICYMI: Summer funding pushes CarePilot to team hires, AI accolades, healthtech product launch<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Despite all the CarePilot team has accomplished so far, Tutera said, they\u2019re just getting started at meeting the startup\u2019s potential.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are about 1 percent of the way to where I want to be,\u201d he noted. \u201cUltimately, I think that the company that I\u2019ve started is a really good mechanism to make a material impact on the way that healthcare providers actually practice medicine.\u201d<\/p>\n Tutera also teased that the momentum will continue in 2026 with hiring across all departments and the launch of CarePilot CoPilot early in the year. That product is forecast to help providers retrieve information with fewer clicks.<\/p>\n \u201cExpect our footprint in Kansas City to grow,\u201d he shared. \u201cExpect our product line to grow. Expect more leverage for each provider in our client base. They\u2019re going to be able to do more with exactly what they have now. We have some pretty cool stuff coming.\u201d<\/p>\n 10 Kansas City Startups to Watch in 2026<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/STW26-Logo-Main-72-300x210.png\"){kind=logo}
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