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Sara AI · WoundEx

Reliable care, without the trip back to the clinic.

Role Founding designer
Timeline 3 months · 2026
Company WoundEx
Stage Concept to clinical pilot

Our field research showed that once a patient is discharged, they have very little support.

At discharge01

Spotty education and prep

Education is ad hoc, it depends on the nurse and the day, and knowledge transfer often consists of paper handouts.

Back home02

Alone with the wound

Patients are on their own for acquiring wound care supplies, and the only line back to the clinic is a call or a text to busy nurses.

The check-up03

Unnecessary calls and visits

Nothing keeps tabs on the wound between visits, so patients drive in just to be told it looks good.

Under-prepared patients get infections and end up back in the hospital.

Clinics are scored on quality outcomes such as readmissions and infection rates, so the cost of an avoidable infection lands on the patient and on the clinic at the same time.

8–9

Extra hospital days

26%

Of surgical readmissions are due to infections

$18,600

Added cost per infection · Medicare

$21,000

Added cost per infection · Commercial

Hou et al., Surgery Open Science, 2023

Capture a physician’s intent in an AI agent

If an AI agent can be reliably trained to offer only prescribed information instead of generic advice, on demand, it creates a win-win for the patient and the clinical team alike.

Physician's intent Approved template, inputted once
The agent Says only what was approved, on demand
Patient Help with a concern about their wound at 1 am
Care team Can focus on patients that need it

Three surfaces to patient care

Physician

Builds the template

Creates a wound care template containing specific instructions for how they want their patients to care for their wounds.

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Nurse

Fills template per patient

A nurse fills out the template for each patent. Selecting from multiple choice options established by the physician.

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Patient

Talks to Sara

The filled template flows into the LLM, tuning our avatar Sara to the physician’s exact specifications.

The physician’s template

Physicians have complete control over the timing of a wound care program and over the questions it asks.

The wound care program template being authored, with a screening question and a questionnaire
Authoring a wound care program · one template, reused for every patient
Timing settings: start date, repeat cadence, end date and missed check-ins
Physician controls timing
A screening question card with question type, question text and the answer that counts as a positive screen
A screening question keeps check-ins short
A questionnaire card holding three authored questions of mixed types
Behind the screening question · the questionnaire itself

Talk to it, type to it, or watch it

Questions get answered on the spot. Photos get uploaded through the platform itself, not a text thread.

Sara's talk mode annotated: the avatar-first screen beside the transcript view

Who this actually helps

Patients

A dynamic resource of prescribed information that can be accessed in an intuitive conversational manner anytime of the day or night. Clinical oversight healing progress by uploading wound photos in a convenient and private way.  

Clinicians

By eliminating wastes such as waiting and unnecessary conveyance, clinicians have more time devoted to what matters most: hands-on, patient-centric care. 

Successful clinical pilot, leading to first contract

Our concept was validated in a clinical pilot. The success of the pilot led directly to a contract with the surgical clinic after 3 months.

120+

Patients through the pilot

70%

Fewer unnecessary calls to the clinic

30%

Fewer unnecessary in-person visits

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