Xenter wants to use AI to monitor your vitals and predict health problems: The company aims to customize healthcare using machine learning.

• Author: Nalewicki, Jennifer

"JUST LIKE SENSORS in your car tell you if your tires are flat or you're running low on oil, [Physical Intelligence] data offers real-time information that enables patients and doctors to make decisions," says Richard J. Linder, chairman and CEO of Xenter. Except in Xenter's case, the system is the human body and not a car.

This data can tell you whether or not you need to act to ensure that your system is working effectively, Linder says. "Wouldn't you want that PI data to be collected in a global cloud where that data can be used with analytics to improve patient care and outcomes? That's exactly what we're doing. We're collecting this PI data, and then we'll do Al on this data. Well use machine learning and deep learning, and these algorithms will give us much better information that's more targeted [to each patient]."

GATHERING PATIENT DATA

Several years ago, Linder overcame a life-threatening illness that completely changed how he viewed the American healthcare system.

"There were a lot of challenges that both my family and I had to go through," Linder says. "I had a lot of different procedures, surgeries, and interventions over a long period of time. As I looked at medicine from a patient's perspective, I began to see a lot of flaws and things that could be improved. After surviving all that I went through, I became very motivated to create change on behalf of patients to help improve their own lives and outcomes."

That change came in early 2020 when he founded Xenter, the world's first start-up Device-Data-Drug healthcare technologies company. As Xenter's chairman and CEO, Linder wanted his company to focus on ways to help patients and their families navigate the often-cumbersome--and unnecessarily stressful--world of healthcare, but in an innovative and non-headache-inducing way.

"Xenter is a company that moves the needle forward in patient care," Linder says. "With the current management of healthcare data, patients truly can't access and own their personal data. There is a tremendous need for data privacy and for patients to be confident that their data is confidential and private. There are some companies--which I won't name--that have access to patients' data, some of which are healthcare systems. They are trying to take that information and monetize it without rewarding patients. This is completely wrong from a moral standpoint."

Xenter's mission is to course correct the medical narrative while also rocketing it lightyears into...