Hi! We’re Raquel and Brandon. Last year we launched Empirical Health in four states — today we’re launching a major update.

Empirical Health 2.0 transforms your biometric data and personal goals into a customized health plan. To ensure safety, your care plan must always be reviewed with a real human doctor, who can order necessary labs, referrals, or prescriptions. Medical care through Empirical is now available to 200 million people across 27 states.

Here’s how Empirical can help you live a healthier life:

• Let’s say you have low deep sleep. Empirical will analyze your sleep stages and bedtime consistency to design a protocol to assess sleep hygiene, risk of sleep apnea, and recommend further testing, reviewed by a doctor.
• Want to increase VO2Max? Empirical crafts an exercise protocol with Norwegian 4x4s, Zone 2 training, and strength training to improve VO2Max.
• Suffering from Long Covid, Dysautonomia, or POTS? Empirical creates a plan to evaluate you for POTS. It starts with taking orthostatic vitals using a heart rate monitor and a blood pressure cuff (essentially, an at-home version of the $1,900 tilt table test). Then, we use your ECG and blood test results to rule out other causes of tachycardia. If positive, a personalized care plan with medication, low-intensity exercise (based on the science behind the CHOP protocol), and hydration strategies are designed (and unlike the VO2Max program above, we avoid high-intensity training to prevent crashes).

Why does this matter?

We’re facing a massive primary care shortage. Simply providing recommended preventive health would require 27 hours per day from the average primary care doctor—clearly an impossible task.

While LLMs have already passed medical licensing exams, one missing piece has been grounding in objective, physical biomarkers. We think the combination of broadly available consumer devices like Apple Watch (which generates 240,000 data points per year and has multiple FDA clearances) and health information exchanges (which offer objective outcomes, such as hospitalizations or ER visits) makes it possible to ground medical AI in objective physical data.

Want to try it? Book an appointment, or download the app (currently available on iOS and compatible with Apple Watch) at https://empirical.health.