At Brighterway, we use AI to assist physicians in the workers' compensation claims review process. Physicians typically spend significant time reviewing thousands of pages of medical documents– our technology highlights the 10-15% of pages that are relevant, streamlining their review process and saving them time.

Brighterway structures and deduplicates disorganized medical records (PDFs) and summarizes them down to content related to a doctor's specialty. In our online portal, physicians can view our summaries side-by-side with the original documents, and can filter, edit, and search for specific body parts or visits (i.e. “Clinical Notes” or “Ankle”) that can get them the answers they need in seconds, rather than hours.
Automating the workers-compensation claims review process
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### Streamlining the record review process for physicians in medlegal…

At Brighterway, we use AI to speed up the medical record review process for physicians in medlegal exams. Physicians spend hours reviewing thousands of pages of medical documents– our technology highlights the information that is most relevant to a doctor's specialty, streamlining their review process and saving them time. Brighterway structures and deduplicates disorganized medical records (PDFs) and extracts the content that is medically relevant and related to a doctor's specialty, so they can focus on what matters most.



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### Active Founders

### Walker Wells, Founder

Before Brighterway, Walker studied Statistics and Data Science at Yale University. He has also previously led a team of interns on a data science project focused on tracking user engagement and feature impressions at another startup. Fun fact? He solo-backpacked for 5 months at the ripe age of 18.



### Jason Apostol, Founder

Improving the Workers Compensation review process with AI. Previously studied Computer Science at Yale.



### Company Launches

[### Brighterway – AI-powered review of medical records](

Are you spending all of your time reading unnecessary medical documents? Yea, we didn’t think so. But many people are.

At [Brighterway]( we use AI to speed up the record review process for physicians in medical legal exams. Physicians typically spend significant time reviewing thousands of pages of medical documents– our technology highlights the **10-15%** of content that is most relevant, streamlining their review process and saving them time.

**OUR TEAM**



[**Walker**]( **(left)**: Walker was a Statistics and Data Science major at Yale University. Previously, he led a data science team at another startup and was in charge of some of the largest student organizations at Yale – he is writing this post 🙂

[**Jason**]( **(right)**: Jason was a Computer Science major at Yale, completing a joint BS/MS degree, and was president of Yale Artificial Intelligence (YAI) – he is watching Walker write this post 🙂

**💥💥⚠️ THE PROBLEM ⚠️💥💥**

When someone is injured on the job, in an auto accident, etc., they may file a claim for compensation or disability benefits. In such cases, a physician is often appointed to conduct an Independent Medical Examination (IME) or, in certain jurisdictions, a Qualified Medical Examination (QME) to provide an objective assessment of the worker’s condition.

To make an informed evaluation, the examining physician must review the injured worker's medical records. These records can be extensive—often comprising **thousands of pages** (we’ve seen as high as 45,000 pages for one patient!). However, not all of this information is directly relevant to the physician’s specialty or to the questions of the claim, so they **spend hours** sifting through the records to identify the most pertinent information.

**PHYSICIANS BEFORE USING BRIGHTERWAY**



**⭐️⭐️ THE SOLUTION ⭐️⭐️**

Brighterway’s system structures and deduplicates disorganized medical records (PDFs) and breaks them down to content related to a doctor’s specific specialty. So, **physicians can see what is most meaningful for them** without having to sift through thousands of pages of unimportant text. This saves physicians **hours each day**. Summaries are created and can be viewed side by side with the original records, so physicians can edit and type directly within the outputs (like a Google Doc) so they don’t have to leave the page when writing notes or a report.

**PHYSICIANS AFTER USING BRIGHTERWAY**



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**How can you help?**

If you have any friends, family, or connections to somebody doing med-legal exams or IME/QME work (or wanting to start doing such work) either as a physician or a medical exam management company (a business that coordinates and manages medical evaluations for a group of physician examiners), send them our way!

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#### How did your company get started? (i.e., How did the founders meet? How did you come up with the idea? How did you decide to be a founder?)

Jason and Walker met at Yale University their first year. They realized their product could work when Walker broke his ankle, and while speaking with an orthopedic surgeon Walker told him what they were working on. The surgeon ended up sharing that he used to do workers comp cases and stopped because it was too time intensive, but that if he could use Brighterway’s product he would like to start doing it again.
