What Mednition does

Mednition, founded in 2014 and headquartered in Burlingame, California, develops KATE AI — a machine learning and clinical natural language processing (cNLP) platform that delivers real-time triage decision support to emergency department (ED) nurses. The platform integrates with Epic and Oracle Cerner EHR systems to surface clinical risk intelligence on 100+ high-risk conditions at the point of triage, without requiring nurses to alter their existing workflows. KATE is offered as three modules: KATE Triage (acuity and risk identification), KATE Sepsis (FDA Breakthrough Device Designated for early sepsis detection), and the Clinical Data Engine (retrospective analytics on structured and unstructured EHR data). Underlying performance is anchored by a proprietary dataset of more than 60 billion clinical data points and externally validated metrics including 99% AUC for Sepsis-3 detection across a 540,884-patient cohort.

The company sells primarily through an enterprise field-sales motion targeting large hospital systems and academic medical centers, supported by event-driven demand generation (HIMSS, Sepsis Alliance Summit, ENA conferences) and content marketing via peer-reviewed publications. KATE is sold as a cloud-based annual SaaS subscription, with implementation and customer success services layered on. Pricing is not publicly disclosed and customers are routed to a 'Request a Demo' conversion path. Anchor customers include Adventist Health (16+ hospitals across California, Oregon, Hawaii serving 550,000+ ED patients/year), UMass Memorial Health (Level 1 academic trauma center, 138,200 ED visits/year), Mercy Health-Clermont, and Adventist HealthCare in Maryland (first East Coast deployment, April 2025). The company claims 34 live hospital sites, 5,500+ clinicians using KATE, and 1.5 million patient visits annually as of early 2025.

Mednition's competitive position rests on a combination of regulatory validation (FDA Breakthrough Device Designation), clinical credibility (Emergency Nurses Association endorsement, ENA co-founder and ESI co-developer on advisory team, peer-reviewed publications), and institutional backing (Concord Health Partners via the AHA Innovation Development Fund, with AHA's Chief Physician Executive on the board). Strategic partnerships with Epic, Oracle Cerner, ENA, AHA, and Berkeley Research Group underpin go-to-market and channel reach. The company is privately held and venture-backed; the only publicly confirmed funding event is a $10 million Series A led by Concord Health Partners in September 2020, though subsequent undisclosed capital is implied by the pace of hospital-site expansion.

Name

Mednition

Legal name

Mednition Inc.

Website

https://mednition.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Mednition provides KATE AI, a machine learning and clinical NLP platform that delivers real-time triage decision support and early sepsis detection to emergency department nurses across U.S. hospital systems.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Clinical Decision Support Software

NAICS

Offices of Physicians (62111)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000), Services-Misc Health & Allied Services, Nec (8090)

akta.pro primary industry

Diagnostic & Triage Decision Support (HLACAGAA)

Keywords

• Clinical decision support
• Emergency department triage
• AI sepsis detection
• Clinical natural language processing
• EHR-integrated AI platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Burlingame

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Operations

Revenue model

1. KATE AI SaaS Subscription: Cloud-based KATE AI is offered on a subscription basis requiring no capital expense. The subscription model covers access to the KATE Triage, KATE Sepsis, and Clinical Data Engine modules. No downtime, minimal training, and no change to clinical workflow required for deployment.
2. Professional Services / Implementation Support: Implementation and customer success services to support hospital deployment, including clinical integration, training, and ongoing support. Collaboration with BRG's Healthcare Performance Improvement Practice for data-driven deployment.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Mednition sells KATE AI, a cloud-based SaaS clinical decision support platform that integrates with Epic and Oracle Cerner EHRs to provide real-time, AI-powered triage decision support to emergency department nurses. Its modules include KATE Triage for acuity and high-risk patient identification, KATE Sepsis (FDA Breakthrough Device Designated) for early sepsis detection at triage before labs, and a Clinical Data Engine for analytics and research-grade EHR searches. Mednition sells these as enterprise annual subscriptions to U.S. hospital systems, with no capital expense required and zero workflow changes for clinical staff.

Product overview

Mednition's product offering is the KATE AI clinical AI platform — a unified, cloud-based SaaS platform for emergency department triage. The platform consists of three core modules: (1) KATE Triage, the primary acuity and risk identification module providing 24/7 real-time clinical decision support to emergency nurses at the point of triage; (2) KATE Sepsis, an early sepsis recognition module that detects sepsis risk at triage before labs are ordered, powered by over 500 clinical data concepts and cNLP; and (3) the Clinical Data Engine, an analytics and retrospective research module that provides real-time dashboards and ad hoc analysis across all EHR data including free text. All three modules share the same underlying KATE AI platform, proprietary dataset (60+ billion clinical data points), and EHR integration layer, and all operate with zero workflow changes for nurses.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• KATE AI: Real-time AI-powered clinical risk intelligence platform for emergency department triage, including KATE Triage and KATE Sepsis products.
• KATE Triage
• KATE Sepsis
• Clinical Data Engine

Products and services

• KATE AI Cloud-based, EHR-integrated clinical AI platform providing 24/7 real-time clinical risk guidance for emergency department nurses at triage; integrates directly into Epic and Oracle Cerner with zero workflow changes.
• KATE Triage Acuity and high-risk patient identification module of the KATE AI platform providing 24/7 real-time clinical risk guidance for emergency department nurses at the point of triage, validated against the Emergency Severity Index (ESI) protocol.
• KATE Sepsis Early sepsis recognition module using more than 500 clinical data concepts from structured and unstructured EHR data to detect sepsis at ED triage before laboratory results are available; holds FDA Breakthrough Device Designation and achieves up to 118% improvement in early sepsis detection over standard screening protocols.
• Clinical Data Engine (CDE) Real-time analytics and research module on the KATE AI platform enabling search across millions of EHR records in seconds, free-text search, retrospective cohort building, dashboards, and compliance reporting without sampling.

Quantifiable outcome

• 44% reduction in Safety Intelligence reports at triage (50 to 28 annually)
• +13 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability6 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered notable, flagship / core and core.

• Adventist HealthCare (Maryland)notableStrategic or Co-development Partner · 22 April 2025Adventist HealthCare (based in Gaithersburg, Maryland) launched KATE AI across its three Maryland hospitals in April 2025 — the first KATE AI deployment in Maryland. Includes Shady Grove Medical Center, White Oak Medical Center, and Fort Washington Medical Center. Maryland Patient Safety Center recognized Adventist HealthCare teams for bias reduction using KATE AI in maternal health.
• UMass Memorial Healthflagship / coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 February 2023UMass Memorial Health (Level 1 Academic Medical Center & Trauma Center, 138,200 annual ED visits) deployed KATE AI across its University and Memorial campuses in February 2023. The partnership generated major quantified outcomes: 44% reduction in safety intelligence reports, 70% LWBS rate reduction, 33% throughput increase, and nurse turnover decreased from 20-25% to less than 2%. UMass Memorial serves as a primary reference customer for Mednition.
• Adventist Healthflagship / coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 12 October 2021Adventist Health is Mednition's flagship customer and strategic partner, having deployed KATE AI systemwide across 16+ hospitals in California, Oregon, and Hawaii. The partnership began with a 2016 clinical research study at Adventist Health White Memorial, evolved to commercial deployment in 2018, and expanded to systemwide adoption in October 2021. Adventist Health sees 550,000+ ED patients per year across KATE-enabled hospitals. Adventist Health White Memorial won ENA Lantern Award 2021 and Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award 2019 with KATE as part of its innovation ecosystem.
• Emergency Nurses Association (ENA)flagship / coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerENA partnered with Mednition in December 2019 to accelerate the evolution of ED triage through joint research and machine learning technology development to advance the ESI triage algorithm. ENA has endorsed KATE AI as the only clinically validated AI platform for triage. ENA's 2021 Lantern Award was won by Adventist Health White Memorial using KATE. ENA's Institute for Emergency Nursing Research Director Lisa Wolf, PhD, MSN, RN, CEN, FAEN is on Mednition's Clinical Advisory Team. Mednition's co-founder Deena Brecher is a former ENA National President (2014) and current AEN Board Chair (2025).
• American Hospital Association (AHA)flagship / coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMednition is a portfolio company of the AHA Innovation Development Fund (managed by Concord Health Partners). Dr. Chris DeRienzo, AHA Chief Physician Executive, joined Mednition's board of directors in March 2024. AHA featured Mednition in its Center for Health Innovation spotlight '5 Key Innovations Driving Outcomes in a Pandemic'. This deep AHA relationship provides credibility, network access, and co-marketing opportunities across AHA's 5,000+ member hospitals.
• Berkeley Research Group (BRG)coreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerBRG's Healthcare Performance Improvement Practice collaborated with Mednition to strengthen data-driven performance improvement using KATE AI-powered clinical solutions. BRG is a leading healthcare advisory firm providing operational consulting to hospitals. The collaboration harnesses synergies between BRG's ED operations expertise and Mednition's AI triage technology.
• EpiccoreTechnology or IntegrationKATE AI integrates seamlessly with Epic EHR systems. Epic integration enables Mednition to read, extract and understand the entirety of the EHR, identify potential incorrect triage acuity assignments, and communicate with nurses in real time within the Epic workflow. KATE is featured as an Epic-integrated solution.
• Oracle CernercoreTechnology or IntegrationKATE AI integrates with Oracle Cerner EHR systems, enabling real-time clinical decision support within the Cerner workflow. Adventist Health White Memorial uses Oracle Cerner as their EHR, demonstrating a live production integration.

Scale indicators11 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Qventus: Qventus is an AI-based operational decision support platform built specifically for hospital operations, including ED throughput, length-of-stay reduction, and discharge planning. Like Mednition, Qventus plugs into Epic/Cerner and sells to hospital C-suite, making it the closest direct competitor to KATE on automating front-door triage and ED workflow decisions.
• VisualDx: VisualDx is a clinical decision support system used in emergency departments to help clinicians visually diagnose and triage patients. Both Mednition and VisualDx target the ED encounter and embed diagnostic/risk guidance into the clinician workflow at the point of care.

Broad incumbents

• DynaMed (EBSCO): DynaMed is a clinician-facing evidence-based clinical decision support reference used in EDs and inpatient settings. It represents the incumbent, reference-based CDS category that Mednition's KATE augments with real-time, EHR-integrated risk intelligence.
• UpToDate (Wolters Kluwer): UpToDate is the dominant evidence-based clinical decision support resource used by ED and hospital clinicians. It is a much broader incumbent in CDS — covering many specialties and decision points — whereas Mednition focuses specifically on triage and sepsis at the ED front door.
• Epic Systems: Epic is the leading enterprise EHR used by U.S. hospitals and ships its own growing suite of embedded AI, including sepsis screening and ambient documentation. Mednition relies on Epic as an integration partner today, but Epic's investments in native AI could become the most significant competitive threat to KATE.
• Oracle Health (Cerner): Oracle Health (formerly Cerner) is a leading inpatient EHR vendor selling to large hospital systems. It provides an integration platform for Mednition but also embeds its own AI-driven clinical decision support, including sepsis alerting, representing both a partner and a competitive risk.
• Health Catalyst: Health Catalyst is a healthcare data and analytics company that delivers decision support to hospital systems, with product overlap to Mednition's Clinical Data Engine and broader analytics layer. Both companies compete for the same hospital CIO/CMO buyer for AI-enabled quality and operational improvement.

Emerging players

• Notable: Notable deploys AI-powered automation and intelligent workflows into hospital EHRs to reduce administrative burden on clinicians. Notable is a partial competitor at the workflow layer and is led by a former Mednition president (James Lakes), but its primary focus is on ambient documentation and workflow automation rather than triage risk scoring.
• Corti: Corti builds AI-driven clinical decision and conversation support tools used in emergency and urgent care settings. It overlaps with Mednition at the AI-for-emergency-care intersection, particularly for real-time risk and triage signal generation during patient encounters.
• Inflammatix: Inflammatix is developing AI-enabled diagnostics for acute infections and sepsis risk, including host-response based ED tools. It is a partial/emerging competitor to KATE Sepsis on early sepsis detection at the emergency front door.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors2 records

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M&A

Investments

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