Lemur

What Lemur does

Lemur PBC is a Columbus, Ohio-based Public Benefit Corporation founded in 2019 by Dr. Corey Amann that builds a patient-controlled healthcare interoperability platform. Its core product is the PEMR (Patient Electronic Medical Record), a cloud-based master copy of a patient's medical data — medications, allergies, immunizations, insurance, and demographics — that uses HL7/FHIR standards and blockchain-secured privacy to share that record across the more than 1,100 fragmented EMR systems in the US. Around the PEMR the company wraps an AI Symptom Checker, an ad-free Search function, a provider search and scheduling tool called FIND, a patent-pending Prescription Manager with real-time price shopping across pharmacies, AI-driven Goals tracking, and Social Groups for peer support, plus a Clinical Decision Support tool that exposes the same data to providers for registration, insurance verification, and medication reconciliation.

The platform is positioned as complementary to incumbent EMRs (including Oracle Cerner) rather than competitive, and Lemur is structured as a PBC with an explicit mission to deliver healthcare services free to all patients regardless of ability to pay while reducing system-wide costs. Its revenue model is not yet operationalized: the consumer product is free, while the planned monetization streams are healthcare marketplace commissions and B2B transaction fees from providers, insurers, hospitals, and pharmacies. The company is currently raising an angel round with a $25,000 minimum, recruiting an advisory board in parallel, and seeking pilot healthcare partners to co-invest in EMR integrations.

Headcount is 1-10 across founder/CEO plus named team members covering development, AI/full-stack engineering, HL7/FHIR integrations, ex-Oracle Cerner EMR/EHR expertise, outsourced legal, and a board advisor. Two patent applications (core interoperability platform and prescription manager) are filed-pending, no revenue is disclosed, and only $100,000 has been raised to date (February 2025), placing Lemur firmly in the MVP / pre-commercial stage.

Name

Lemur

Legal name

Lemur PBC

Website

https://lemurpbc.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Lemur PBC builds a patient-controlled electronic medical record (PEMR) platform with HL7/FHIR interoperability and AI features, serving patients free of charge while targeting revenue from healthcare providers, insurers, and pharmacy transactions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Data Interoperability

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYHLALAKAD

EHR/EMR Integration & Interoperability Middleware (HL7/FHIR)

Healthcare & Life Sciences/Telehealth Platforms/Telehealth Infrastructure & Enablement Platforms (video, scheduling, EHR integration)

SECONDARYHLALAKAJ

ePrescribing, Lab/Imaging Orders & Results Integration

Healthcare & Life Sciences/Telehealth Platforms/Telehealth Infrastructure & Enablement Platforms (video, scheduling, EHR integration)

SECONDARYHLACAKAN

Medication Pricing, Copay Assistance & Patient Financial Support Tools

Healthcare & Life Sciences/Digital Health & Health IT/ePrescribing, Medication Management & Pharmacy IT

Keywords

• Patient health records
• Healthcare interoperability
• AI symptom checker
• Prescription price transparency
• HL7 FHIR integration

Headquarters

HQ city

Columbus

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Healthcare Marketplace Transactions: LEMUR monetizes transactions between sellers and buyers in healthcare by digitizing transactions in a unique way that saves both sides money. Similar to consumer marketplaces, the platform facilitates healthcare transactions while capturing value.
2. B2B Healthcare Services: Revenue generated from healthcare providers, insurers, hospitals, physicians, pharmacies, and government entities. The company aims to cut $1 trillion of costs from the healthcare system, with savings shared with stakeholders.
3. Angel Investment Funding: Current angel funding round targeting accredited investors with minimum $25,000 investments. The company is seeking advisory board members who also participate in the angel round. Sweat equity offered for ongoing advisory contributions.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Lemur PBC provides a cloud-based healthcare interoperability platform centered on a Patient Electronic Medical Record (PEMR) that consolidates a patient's core medical data (medications, allergies, immunizations, insurance, demographics) and enables secure sharing across all EMR systems, pharmacies, and providers under patient control. The platform combines AI-powered symptom checking, ad-free health search, provider search and scheduling, prescription price-shopping, personalized health goals, and private social groups, integrated with providers and payers via HL7/FHIR standards and blockchain-secured privacy.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• PEMR (Patient Electronic Medical Record)

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduce healthcare costs by $1 trillion through platform efficiency
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability5 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and support.

• Healthcare ProviderscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic partnerships with healthcare providers to expand LEMUR's reach and impact. Providers benefit from reduced EMR data entry times, operational cost savings, improved care quality, and access to up-to-date patient information. The platform integrates with existing EMR systems without disruption.
• Health Insurance CompaniescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnerships with insurance companies for platform integration to provide real-time pricing of healthcare services and in-network provider search. Insurers benefit from cost reduction through better data access, reduced medical errors, and price transparency tools.
• Technology FirmscoreTechnology or IntegrationCollaborations with technology firms to enhance platform capabilities and accelerate adoption across the healthcare ecosystem. Includes HL7/FHIR integration specialists for interoperability standards.
• Patient Advocacy GroupssupportStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnerships with patient advocacy groups to expand reach and impact, focusing on health equity and patient empowerment initiatives.
• EMR System ProviderscoreTechnology or IntegrationLEMUR integrates with existing EMR systems (e.g., Oracle Cerner) to enhance interoperability without replacing them. The company does not compete with EMRs but works alongside them to improve patient data exchange.
• Government Health Agencies (CDC, HHS, ODH)supportStrategic or Co-development PartnerData partnerships with government health agencies for combining patient core medical data with current patient care information sourced from CDC, HHS, and Ohio Department of Health for customized patient experiences.
• Pilot Healthcare PartnerscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSeeking pilot healthcare partners to co-invest and pilot the product with EMR system integration. Early partners receive preferential integration terms and advisory involvement.

Scale indicators12 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Apple Health: Apple Health Records aggregates patient medical data from participating providers directly into iOS, using HL7/FHIR. It overlaps with LEMUR's PEMR in delivering consumer-facing health record aggregation, with massive scale advantages in distribution across hundreds of millions of iPhone users.
• athenahealth: athenahealth is a leading ambulatory EHR and practice management platform with FHIR APIs and a developer marketplace. It serves the same physicians and provider organizations LEMUR targets, and offers overlapping capabilities in patient scheduling, prescription workflows, and patient-facing tools.
• Oracle Health (formerly Cerner): Oracle Health is one of the two largest US EMR vendors following Oracle's acquisition of Cerner, with material hospital market share and a national interoperability footprint. LEMUR explicitly calls out experience with Oracle/Cerner on its team and references integration rather than competition, making Oracle both a critical integration partner and the dominant incumbent barrier.
• Epic Systems: Epic is the dominant US hospital EMR vendor with deep integration into most large health systems. While Epic does not offer a competing consumer-side aggregator, it is the primary ecosystem LEMUR must integrate with, and its MyChart patient portal represents partial functional overlap with PEMR's patient-data-unification role.

Direct peers

• Particle Health: Particle Health offers a patient health-record API that pulls clinical data from a national network of providers via HL7/FHIR. Like LEMUR, it positions itself as an interoperability layer sitting on top of fragmented EMRs, and competes for similar provider, payer, and digital-health developer customers.
• Zus Health: Zus Health provides a shared clinical data platform with FHIR-native patient records and developer tooling for digital health builders. It competes with LEMUR in offering patient-centered, interoperable infrastructure that third-party apps and providers consume to avoid per-EMR integration work.
• HumanAPI: HumanAPI (now part of Personify Health) built a consumer-controlled health data network aggregating medical records, pharmacy data, and device data. Its patient-side data aggregation model, FHIR and EHR integration approach, and B2B monetization closely parallel LEMUR's PEMR concept and target customers.
• 1upHealth: 1upHealth is a FHIR-native data platform that aggregates patient records across thousands of providers and payers into a single, developer-friendly API. It directly overlaps with LEMUR's patient-controlled PEMR and HL7/FHIR interoperability thesis, both serving the same buyer need for cross-EMR data aggregation.

Emerging players

• GoodRx: GoodRx operates the dominant consumer prescription price-transparency and discount marketplace, monetizing via pharmacy benefit transactions. LEMUR's patent-pending Prescription Manager directly overlaps GoodRx's core price-shopping proposition, and GoodRx's scale and data assets make it both a comparable peer and a potential competitive threat to LEMUR's wedge product.
• Ciitizen: Ciitizen built a patient-controlled medical record platform emphasizing data aggregation, particularly for complex and rare disease patients. While narrower in therapeutic scope, its patient-owned record model and FHIR-based architecture overlap materially with LEMUR's PEMR concept and value proposition.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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