Digital health · Patient engagement
Framewise Health
A two person team out of Y Combinator's Spring 2026 batch that turns a patient's own medical record into a short video, sent by text before the patient leaves the hospital. The company launched its site in 2026 and has not yet published data on how well the videos work.
A text before you leave the room
The pitch is simple to picture. A patient is about to be discharged. Her chart already has a problem list, a medication list, a preferred language and a reading level. Framewise Health's software pulls that record through a FHIR R4 connection, generates a short video that explains the diagnosis and the medication plan in her own language, and a link lands on her phone by text before she leaves the building. No app, no login.
The company's own demo shows a mocked up chart for a patient named Maria: a diagnosis of acute on chronic systolic heart failure, a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes, three medications including lisinopril and metformin, and a note that the video should be delivered in Spanish at a sixth grade reading level. The site lists 75 or more languages and says every video is reviewed by a clinician before it goes out.
The problem it names
The company frames the problem as a literacy gap. “Nearly 9 out of 10 people in the U.S. lack proficient health literacy,” the founders wrote in their Y Combinator launch post. They tie that gap to cost: “Preventable medication-related harm costs the U.S. over $500 billion every year.” Neither figure is sourced on the page or in the post, so both should be read as the company's own framing rather than a cited statistic.
Their answer is to replace the paper discharge packet, the thing patients are handed on the way out and rarely read, with a video generated straight from the chart, the hospital's own protocols and national drug data. The founders say the system also tracks what a patient actually understood, per patient and per topic, and feeds that back to the care team so staff know who needs a callback.
Founders
Tane Kim and David Cui met during freshman orientation at Brown University. “Tane (CEO) dropped out of Brown’s BS/MD program and saw 500+ patient interactions at over a dozen institutions,” the launch post says. “David (CTO) researched computer vision at Brown and was an engineering intern at a YC voice AI company (Freya S25),” it continues. Y Combinator's own company page lists the batch as Spring 2026, the team size as two, the status as active, and Aaron Epstein as the primary partner. An independent review by The YC Tier List, published after the batch went active, found it could not confirm either founder's work history: “LinkedIn data is unavailable for both founders,” it noted, adding that Tane Kim's medical school background is verifiable domain credibility but that no engineering or commercial execution history could be checked for either founder.
Two months into a batch
Framewise Health's public footprint is short. It appears in Y Combinator's Spring 2026 batch listing with a launch post asking for introductions to hospital service line chiefs, patient experience VPs and pharma medical affairs leads, contactable at tane@framewisehealth.com. PitchBook records one financing event: an Accelerator/Incubator investment of $500,000 dated May 1, 2026, with Y Combinator as the only investor listed, and classifies the company's stage as Generating Revenue, a PitchBook designation the company has not itself confirmed with a published figure. No press coverage, case study or named customer has been found as of this writing.
What is proven, and what is still claimed
| Evidence | What the record shows | Source type |
|---|---|---|
| Accelerator participation | Listed in Y Combinator's Spring 2026 batch. Team size 2, status active, primary partner Aaron Epstein. | Public record |
| Funding | PitchBook lists one deal: $500,000, Accelerator/Incubator type, dated May 1, 2026, sole investor Y Combinator. | Independent |
| EHR integrations | Site claims it works with Epic, Oracle Health (Cerner), Athenahealth, ModMed, eClinicalWorks, NextGen and any FHIR R4 endpoint. No named health system confirms this. | Company-stated |
| Compliance | Site states a signed AWS BAA, HIPAA compliance, end to end encryption and audit logging. No third party attestation found. | Company-stated |
| Named customers | The site offers a demo request. No hospital, pharma company or clinic is named as a customer. | Not found |
| FDA, trials, NIH, Form D | No 510(k), PMA, registered trial, NIH award or SEC Form D matched to the company as of Sep 25, 2026. | Not found |
| Founder work history | An independent reviewer, The YC Tier List, reported it could not access LinkedIn data for either founder and could not verify prior engineering or commercial roles. | Not found |
Read plainly: the parts of this story that are independently checkable, the batch listing and the PitchBook funding entry, are small and confirm little beyond that the company exists and passed through Y Combinator. Everything about the product working, the integrations holding up, and the compliance claims comes from the company itself. Nothing here should be read as evidence the video technology reduces readmissions or improves adherence, because no clinical data has been published.
What to watch
- Whether Framewise Health names an actual hospital, pharma or clinic customer.
- Any published outcome data connecting the videos to comprehension, adherence or readmission.
- A second funding event beyond the Y Combinator check PitchBook has on record.
- Whether independent reporting picks up the company once it has customers to describe.
In their words
“Framewise Health turns medical records into personalized videos that walk patients through onboarding, adherence, and recovery.”
Tane Kim and David Cui, Y Combinator launch post, 2026 · Company
“Nearly 9 out of 10 people in the U.S. lack proficient health literacy.”
Y Combinator launch post, 2026 · Company
“Preventable medication-related harm costs the U.S. over $500 billion every year.”
Y Combinator launch post, 2026 · Company
“Tane (CEO) dropped out of Brown’s BS/MD program and saw 500+ patient interactions at over a dozen institutions.”
Y Combinator launch post, 2026 · Company
“David (CTO) researched computer vision at Brown and was an engineering intern at a YC voice AI company (Freya S25).”
Y Combinator launch post, 2026 · Company
“No verifiable product, no LinkedIn data on either founder, no press, no traction signals whatsoever.”
The YC Tier List, Framewise Health review, 2026 · Independent
“Would need to see a working demo, early hospital or pharma pilots, and verifiable founder backgrounds before upgrading.”
The YC Tier List, Framewise Health review, 2026 · Independent
“Long-term defensibility has not formed yet.”
Zeitgeist, Framewise Health company page, 2026 · Independent
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Sources
- CompanyFramewise Health homepage
- Public recordFramewise Health company page, Y Combinator directory
- CompanyFramewise Health launch post by Tane Kim and David Cui
- IndependentFramewise Health company profile
- IndependentFramewise Health entry, Spring 2026 batch
- IndependentFramewise Health company page
- Public recordCompiled FDA 510(k), FDA PMA, ClinicalTrials.gov, NIH, NSF, PubMed and SEC Form D record search for Framewise Health
- Not foundWeb search for independent news coverage of Framewise Health
- Not foundLinkedIn profile search for Tane Kim and David Cui
Profile researched and written by Healthcare Discovery. Last updated September 29, 2026.
