HIPAA-Compliant
Built on AWS
Deep Relationship with Texas A&M System
Physician Advisory Board
Patent Filed
WHAT WE’RE BUILDING
A full-stack clinical AI platform, built from the ground up.
CelaHealthcare is more than a conversational interface layered over a general-purpose model. Every part of the platform, from the patient experience to the clinical intelligence and evidence behind it, is being purpose-built for infectious-disease care.
Voice First
Understanding
Real-time talk
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Layer 01 | The Experience
A clinical conversation patients can actually complete.
CelaHealthcare replaces long, rigid questionnaires with a more natural way to share health information.
A live AI Health Assistant guides patients through the assessment by voice, type, or tap, adapting the conversation as symptoms and responses unfold.
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Voice-first and tap-enabled interaction
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Medical-grade speech understanding
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Real-time validation of spoken responses
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Confidence-based clarification and auto-advance
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Designed toward a 95%+ questionnaire completion target
The goal
Make it easier for patients to communicate what they are experiencing while capturing the structured information providers need.
Custom Fine-tuned
Secure host w/ AWS
Medical Accuracy
Note Synthesis
Layer 02 | The Intelligence
A clinical model built for a specific purpose.
Behind every conversation is a custom clinical AI model designed specifically to support infectious-disease assessment, follow-up, and clinical documentation.
The model operates within a private Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment, where patient information remains inside a controlled, HIPAA-compliant infrastructure.
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Custom fine-tuned and instruction-tuned clinical model
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Securely hosted within Amazon Web Services
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Medical accuracy that is clinically-aligned
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AI-generated follow-up based on patient responses
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Clinician-ready note synthesis
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Built-in content filtering, Personally Identifiable Information (PII) masking, with safeguards
The goal
Turn patient conversations into clinically structured, key information while maintaining rigorous controls around accuracy, privacy, and safety.
Layer 03 | The Evidence
A medical knowledge engine built to focus the intelligence.
CelaHealthcare is supported by a private, searchable clinical library designed to bring relevant medical evidence into the assessment process.
Two dedicated knowledge bases, one for licensed literature and one for quality-directed open-access literature, provide the model with relevant, filterable evidence at the time it is needed.
With patient consent, the platform can also incorporate additional health context from:
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Apple Health
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Android Health
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Bluetooth-enabled personal health devices
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Accessible to providers utilizing SMART on FHIR health records
These sources give the platform access to clinical context and datasets that may sit outside the reach of many general-purpose AI systems.
The goal
Focus clinical intelligence in relevant medical evidence and a more complete picture of the patient.
THE NEED
Closing the infectious-disease access gap.
For patients in rural and underserved communities, specialized care may be hours away. That can mean longer waits, more travel, delayed access to care, and greater pressure on the providers and health systems already serving these communities.
CelaHealthcare is being built to help close that gap by making infectious-disease information more accessible wherever patients are, while giving healthcare providers structured clinical information to support faster, more informed review.
79%
of U.S. counties have no infectious-disease physician
20%
projected U.S. physician shortage by 2030
15,700
estimated unmet need for infectious-disease specialists
~1.1M
current U.S. physician and nursing workforce shortfall
17%
of home-healthcare unplanned admissions are infectious-disease related
$4.5B
estimated obtainable U.S. market across CelaHealthcare’s two primary targets
HOW IT WORKS
From “I don’t feel right” to a provider-ready report.
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Step 1
Talk to our AI Health Assistant.
The patient opens the app and has a natural interactive voice conversation with a clinical AI avatar. Clinically authored questions adapt in real time to symptoms; answers can be spoken, typed, or tapped.
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Step 2
The AI listens like a clinician.
Every answer is validated for intent and confidence. Ambiguity triggers a gentle confirmation; questions from the patient get answered; off-topic tangents are acknowledged and redirected. Symptoms are medically translated as the patient speaks.
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Step 3
Evidence-grounded analysis.
The custom clinical model cross-references the patient’s responses, plus connected wearable and other devices that provide important health data against curated, peer-reviewed literature. This information produces insights and indicator scores across many infectious-disease categories.
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Step 4
Intelligent follow-up.
After clinically appropriate intervals, the patient is prompted to check back in or in certain cases the system will purposefully reach out to the patient. AI-generated follow-up questions, curated by the custom model, track symptom evolution. Custom follow-up questions are generated as needed throughout the patients disease journey. This is the loop that most often never closes.
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Step 5
Routed and facilitated care.
The healthcare provider receives a detailed, patient-friendly, medically coded report with key information to facilitate final diagnosis. De-identified data simultaneously strengthens real-time epidemiology reporting.
OUR STORY
Built for a more proactive future of care.
CelaHealthcare was founded by healthcare industry veterans with deep experience in clinical operations, healthcare technology, and AI engineering, along with a formal collaboration with the Texas A&M University System.
The idea behind CelaHealthcare is simple. General-purpose AI was not built for the complexity of infectious-disease care.
Trust in healthcare requires more than a good answer. It requires clinically designed workflows, reliable medical evidence, strong safeguards, and technology built around the needs of both patients and providers.
That is why CelaHealthcare is building the full platform from the ground up, including the patient experience, clinical model, data infrastructure, evidence engine, and safeguards.
OUR STORY
Built for a more proactive future of care.
CelaHealthcare was founded by healthcare industry veterans with deep experience in clinical operations, healthcare technology, and AI engineering, along with a formal collaboration with the Texas A&M University System.
The idea behind CelaHealthcare is simple. General-purpose AI was not built for the complexity of infectious-disease care.
Trust in healthcare requires more than a good answer. It requires clinically designed workflows, reliable medical evidence, strong safeguards, and technology built around the needs of both patients and providers.
That is why CelaHealthcare is building the full platform from the ground up, including the patient experience, clinical model, data infrastructure, evidence engine, and safeguards.
OUR STORY
Built for a more proactive future of care.
CelaHealthcare was founded by healthcare industry veterans with deep experience in clinical operations, healthcare technology, and AI engineering, along with a formal collaboration with the Texas A&M University System.
The idea behind CelaHealthcare is simple. General-purpose AI was not built for the complexity of infectious-disease care.
Trust in healthcare requires more than a good answer. It requires clinically designed workflows, reliable medical evidence, strong safeguards, and technology built around the needs of both patients and providers.
That is why CelaHealthcare is building the full platform from the ground up, including the patient experience, clinical model, data infrastructure, evidence engine, and safeguards.
Our Mission
Shift healthcare from reactive to proactive and reduce time to care for every patient, everywhere.
WHY CELAHEALTHCARE
Where General-Purpose AI Can’t Go.
1. The only infectious-disease-specific healthcare AI.
Competitors are generalist symptom checkers. CHC is a specialist and the architecture expands to additional disease verticals on the same platform.
2. A proprietary evidence engine.
Peer-reviewed publisher content + quality-filtered open literature, continuously monitored, statistically scored. The corpus and the de-identified epidemiology data flywheel it feeds compounds with every assessment. This approach is unavailable to a ChatGPT or WebMD.
3. The follow-up loop.
Assessment → timed re-engagement → AI follow-up → provider routing. Individual touch at global scale, almost no competitor closes this loop.
4. Statistically driven triage facilitating clinician diagnosis.
Evidence-based flows authored with practicing ID and primary-care providers.
5. Proprietary Technology.
Provisional patent filed; non-provisional in progress.
6. Voice-first accessibility.
Patients who can’t or won’t type through 60 questions can simply speak in their own language.
What Healthcare Leaders Are Saying
“This AI Health app completely changed how I handle cold season. I used to spend hours researching symptoms”
Male, 18-23 Years Old
“This app has really eased my anxiety about getting sick. The tips are super helpful!”
Female, 41-50 Years Old
“The symptom checker is so accurate! I can finally stop guessing what I might have.”
Male, 31-40 Years Old
“I love the personalized recommendations! It feels like having a doctor in my pocket.”
Female, 24-30 Years Old
“This AI Health app completely changed how I handle cold season. I used to spend hours researching symptoms”
Male, 18-23 Years Old
“This app has really eased my anxiety about getting sick. The tips are super helpful!”
Female, 41-50 Years Old
“The symptom checker is so accurate! I can finally stop guessing what I might have.”
Male, 31-40 Years Old
“I love the personalized recommendations! It feels like having a doctor in my pocket.”
Female, 24-30 Years Old
“This AI Health app completely changed how I handle cold season. I used to spend hours researching symptoms”
Male, 18-23 Years Old
“This AI Health app completely changed how I handle cold season. I used to spend hours researching symptoms”
Male, 18-23 Years Old
“The symptom checker is so accurate! I can finally stop guessing what I might have.”
Male, 31-40 Years Old
“I love the personalized recommendations! It feels like having a doctor in my pocket.”
Female, 24-30 Years Old
“This AI Health app completely changed how I handle cold season. I used to spend hours researching symptoms”
Male, 18-23 Years Old
“This AI Health app completely changed how I handle cold season. I used to spend hours researching symptoms”
Male, 18-23 Years Old
“This app has really eased my anxiety about getting sick. The tips are super helpful!”
Female, 41-50 Years Old
“I love the personalized recommendations! It feels like having a doctor in my pocket.”
Female, 24-30 Years Old
“This AI Health app completely changed how I handle cold season. I used to spend hours researching symptoms”
Male, 18-23 Years Old
“This AI Health app completely changed how I handle cold season. I used to spend hours researching symptoms”
Male, 18-23 Years Old
“This app has really eased my anxiety about getting sick. The tips are super helpful!”
Female, 41-50 Years Old
“The symptom checker is so accurate! I can finally stop guessing what I might have.”
Male, 31-40 Years Old
“This AI Health app completely changed how I handle cold season. I used to spend hours researching symptoms”
Male, 18-23 Years Old
“This AI Health app completely changed how I handle cold season. I used to spend hours researching symptoms”
Male, 18-23 Years Old
“This app has really eased my anxiety about getting sick. The tips are super helpful!”
Female, 41-50 Years Old
“The symptom checker is so accurate! I can finally stop guessing what I might have.”
Male, 31-40 Years Old
“I love the personalized recommendations! It feels like having a doctor in my pocket.”
Female, 24-30 Years Old
MEET THE TEAM
Industry Veterans. Academic Firepower. Clinical Accountability
Kenneth Yates, MS, DVM
Founder, President & Director
Dr. Kenneth Yates, the principal founder of the company, serves as a Director and President. He received his BS, MS and DVM from Texas A&M University. Dr. Yates has more than 35 years of industry experience spanning R&D and management, including significant experience focused on infectious diseases. Dr. Yates previously served as founding president of DelSite Biotechnologies, a drug delivery company prior to it being integrated back into its parent company. He left the company in 2006 becoming the founding chairman of the department of pharmaceutical sciences at Harding University College of Pharmacy and remained active in industry also serving as a consultant. He left his full-time position at Harding University mid-2016 to focus his efforts on CelaCare. Dr. Yates also has served as a director for Piedmont Pharmaceuticals, LLC and Piedmont Animal Health, LLC until its acquisition by Dechra Pharmaceuticals.
Dustin Wuest
Director
Business Development and Technical Support
Mr. Dustin Wuest received his BS from Vanderbilt University and serves as a Director of the company as well as one of the original founders. Mr. Wuest is an experienced executive with an extensive history of implementing corporate strategy in healthcare digital information technology. He has served as an officer for various IT companies and has extensive experience in operations, finance and business development. His licensing expertise will be a critical key in CelaHealthcare meeting its strategic financial goals.
Jean Anne Mire
Director
Secretary and Treasurer
Ms. Jean Anne Mire received her pharmacy degree from University of Louisiana Monroe and her MBA from Tulane University. She serves as Director and secretary/treasurer for the company. She has served in numerous financial, pharmacy and educational roles over her career. She will assist the company through its initial stages of growth as one of its founders. She will also assist with clinical pharmacy issues during technology development.
Chris Thackrey
CTO
Chief Technology Officer
Mr. Chris Thackrey serves as chief technology officer for the company as well as being one of the original founders. Mr. Thackrey received his B.S. degree in Environmental Design at Texas A&M University as well as studied computer animation at Gnomon School of Visual Effects. He is a full-stack software engineer with front and back-end experience as well as development operations and deployment. He has done work in AI connecting multiple repositories and has built custom nodes. Additionally, he is the lead inventor for the company’s platform technology.
Cole Matson
Project Manager
Mr. Cole Matson received his BS in business management with a concentration in project management, data analytics and information systems from Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas. He serves primarily as project manager for the company in technology development and application. Additionally, he is working with management for corporate development and government relations.
Adrienne Hallett Usher
Advisor
Government Relations Expert
Adrienne Hallett Usher is a founding partner of Conway Advisors located in the heart of DC and is a recognized authority in health science policy, biosecurity, and regulatory strategy. She advises pharmaceutical executives, government agencies, and global health institutions on complex policy landscapes. Adrienne spent 15 years on the Senate Appropriations Committee staff and was Staff director for the Health, Education, and Labor Subcommittee. She later served as Director of the Office of Legislative Policy Analysis at the National Institutes of Health. Her post-government career includes a 2-year stint at a biopharmaceutical start-up in the biology of aging working on the economics of preventive medicines. She currently serves as the Executive Director of the Coalition for Life Sciences and she is a paid advisor to Stanford University's Musselman's Center for Biodesign.
William Usher
Advisor
Senior Security Expert
William Usher is a founding partner of Conway Advisors located in the heart of DC and brings decades of experience in geostrategic analysis, national security policy, and executive advisory. His work spans government, defense industry, and Fortune 500 boardrooms, delivering intelligence assessments that inform high-stakes decisions. William spent 32 years at the Central Intelligence Agency as an all-source analyst and an executive leader. He currently serves as the Senior Advisor for Intelligence at the Special Competitive Studies Project.
Physician Advisory Board.
Infectious-disease and internal/primary-care physicians reviewing quality and clinical functionality.
Advisors.
Senior security expert, government-relations specialist, senior lifesciences business advisors.
Texas A&M System Collaboration
Innovation, IP, and health-sciences support.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is heroID?
What is heroID?
HeroID is an AI-native platform designed specifically for infectious-disease care. Patients complete a conversational clinical assessment by voice or tap, and the platform organizes their information into a medically coded, evidence-supported report for improved care.
How does heroID work?
How does heroID work?
Patients speak with an AI Health Assistant that asks clinically designed questions and adapts based on their responses. The platform can validate answers, ask follow-up questions, reference curated medical literature, and organize the information into a structured report to facilitate provider care.
Does heroID replace a healthcare provider?
Does heroID replace a healthcare provider?
No. HeroID is designed to support the care process by helping patients share important information and giving providers a clearer, more organized starting point for review. It is intended to help facilitate care, not replace the role of a qualified healthcare professional.
How is heroID different from general-purpose Al?
How is heroID different from general-purpose Al?
HeroID is being built specifically for infectious-disease care. Its platform combines clinically authored assessment flows, a custom clinical AI model, dedicated medical-literature knowledge bases, patient follow-up, and healthcare-focused safeguards rather than relying solely on a general-purpose AI model.
How does heroID protect patient information?
How does heroID protect patient information?
HeroID’s clinical AI is designed to operate within a controlled AWS environment with healthcare-focused safeguards including content filtering, PII masking, contextual-grounding checks, and patient consent for connected health information.
