Health tech startup Enzo Health has touted its AI-native electronic health record (EHR) system designed for home health agencies as an industry first.
The end-to-end agent system, called Enzo EHR, automates the entire patient episode, according to the company. Product news first provided to Fierce Healthcare.
When Enzo Health CEO and co-founder Zach Newman transitioned into home care, he was shocked by the current processes and systems across the industry.
“I couldn’t believe the system that people were working in,” Newman said in an interview with Fierce Healthcare. “And the manual labor and labor that was required outside of that was being done outside of these EHRs in order to provide care and be efficiently compensated.”
Newman said the current home health agency landscape is fragmented and often requires decision-making across multiple professionals, from schedulers to clinicians.
“These home health agencies are paying for EHRs, but in addition, their technology stacks have grown to the point where they have three to five different products on top of their traditional EHRs to operate efficiently,” Newman said. “But of course there is context that gets lost between the different tools because they are siled to the work they are doing.”
Enzo EHR aims to fill these gaps and ultimately reduce processing times, Newman said.
The platform allows organizations to seamlessly perform all operations such as patient intake, scheduling, visits, quality compliance, billing, and patient visibility. The system reads incoming referral packages and leverages multiple sources to uncover important information to help coordinators make admissions decisions. According to the company, the intake time can be reduced from the industry average of 70 minutes to approximately 5 minutes.
The solution can reduce scheduling time from 15 minutes to approximately 30 seconds by matching clinicians and patients and building schedules based on availability, location, and needs.
Enzo Health claims this solution can reduce clinician charting time by approximately 75% per visit by using AI to provide real-time documentation built from the visit conversation. It then tracks physician orders and care plans, automatically prepares claims, and the AI can detect issues that could lead to claim denials before they go out, executives said.
According to Enzo Health executives, traditional EHR systems typically add AI capabilities to aging architectures. Enzo EHR is built as an end-to-end agent system that connects and automates every step of the patient episode, from referral to billing, on a single platform, eliminating the disconnected point solutions and manual handoffs that have defined the industry for decades.
“In a nutshell, what Enzo is trying to do is allow home health agencies to integrate all of the different point solutions that they’re paying for at the same time,” Newman said.
Newman said the company had one organization that was an early adopter of Enzo EHR and reported a 10x improvement in decision-making speed since using the solution.
“It used to take 15 to 20 minutes to make a decision; now it takes an average of one to two minutes to make a decision,” he says.
The organization was also able to “redeploy staff” to other areas, reducing clinician documentation time by “approximately 75%.”
Founded in 2024, the startup aims to use AI to automate and streamline every part of the post-acute care process.
In early May, Enzo Health announced a $20 million Series A funding round, bringing total funding to $26 million as of May 4th. The company has grown its revenue more than 40 times in 12 months and now works with 500,000 patients a year, covering more than 100 organizations, according to Newman.
Newman said what excites him most about bringing AI to healthcare is that it will allow professionals to “focus on delivering quality care where it matters most.”
“Let’s let humans do what they do best, which is focus on humans,” Newman said. “Let your agent help you with the necessary administrative tasks.”
