Boost for new AI healthcare employee management platform Planbase

A new AI-based employee management platform for healthcare has been launched on the back of US$2.1m in funding.

Planbase received the investment boost from Y Combinator, LocalGlobe and angel investors.

The company will use the funds to expand into more medium-large clinics nationwide and hire additional software engineers.

Co-founders Joe Shearman and Jack Light are a married couple and Planbase is their second startup together.

Before Planbase, they built an AI forecasting platform spun out of the University of Chicago and backed by Harvard Innovation Labs.

Legacy solutions for workforce management do not leverage AI and are generally not designed for modern healthcare environments.

Planbase aims to automate employee management for healthcare clinics, from onboarding and tracking licenses and credentials to forecasting patient demand, staff and patient scheduling, payroll and performance management.

Planbase is currently used by customers who are collectively managing 5,000+ providers with 30M+ patients.

Among its customers is OpenLoop, a fast-growing white label telehealth platform with more than 2K doctors across the US.

Noah Van Eldik, practice manager at OpenLoop, says: “Planbase has been crucial to our growth story. It’s an amazing AI tool that’s completely changed how we operate.

“Planbase has essentially automated many of our scheduling workflows and really improved how we handle all the new operations and areas we’re expanding into. We’ve already increased patient volume by 40 per cent and reduced scheduling time by 70 per cent across our entire provider operations team.”