A doctor, and your health record, on your phone.
Empowered connects you with real doctors, in our community clinics and by video. Your visits, prescriptions and history are kept safe in one place you can always reach: WhatsApp.
Care that starts with a message.
No forms, no long trips just to be seen. Our community health workers and doctors work together, and everything about your care stays with you.
Say hello on WhatsApp
Message Empowered. Our assistant asks a few simple questions so the right doctor is ready for you.
Meet a community health worker
A trusted local health worker helps you in person: taking vitals and getting you set up for your visit.
See a real doctor
Visit one of our clinics, or meet a doctor by video. Your doctor examines you, makes the diagnosis and prescribes your medicine.
Keep your record
Your visit is written up and saved securely. Your notes, prescriptions and follow-ups are always on your phone.
Four kinds of doctors, one place to start.
General medicine
Check-ups, illness, chronic conditions like blood pressure and diabetes, and medicine when you need it.
Eye care
Vision exams, glasses and screening for eye disease, close to home.
Women's health
OB/GYN care, prenatal visits and family planning, with privacy and respect.
Dental care
Cleanings, fillings and extractions from licensed dentists.
“In the communities we serve, the nearest doctor can be a day's travel away. We bring the doctor, and the record, to you.”Steven Atamian, CEO
Starting in Central America.
We are piloting in rural communities where our clinic network has worked for years.
Honduras
Community clinics plus video visits with doctors in the capital.
Guatemala
Rural clinics supported by local community health workers.
More countries
We're expanding across Latin America and beyond.
Better care for the underserved, and the clinical data to build on it.
Empowered is an AI scribe and patient record that runs on WhatsApp. Doctors get their time back. Patients own their history. Research partners get consented, de-identified clinical data from populations that medical AI rarely sees.
The scribe that works where the clinic is.
Doctors in rural clinics lose hours to paper forms and manual entry. Empowered listens, records and transcribes each visit, then drafts the note straight into the medical record for the doctor to review and sign.
- Structured notes, automatically. SOAP notes, vitals and prescriptions drafted from the conversation.
- Audio and video on the record. Every visit's recording is attached, so nothing is lost between visits.
- Remote consults. Community health workers set up video visits with doctors in the city.
- The doctor stays in charge. Empowered handles intake and documentation. Diagnosis and prescribing are always done by the doctor.
Real-world clinical data from communities AI has never seen.
Most medical models are trained on data from wealthy health systems. Our datasets come from consented patients in rural Central America: multimodal, Spanish-language and recorded at the point of care.
Multimodal encounters
Audio and video of each visit, paired with transcripts and the clinician's final note.
Structured clinical records
Diagnoses, vitals, medications, allergies and history in a consistent schema.
Four specialties
Primary care, ophthalmology, OB/GYN and dental, with specialty-specific findings.
Spanish-language, low-resource settings
Natural clinical conversation in Spanish and regional dialects, from rural and peri-urban clinics.
Longitudinal
Follow-up visits linked across time, so outcomes can be studied rather than just snapshots.
De-identified & licensed
Patient consent at intake and de-identification before any data leaves our systems, with clear licensing terms.
Built for sensitive data from day one.
Informed consent
Patients are told in plain language, in their own language, how their information is used before any data is collected.
Secure by design
Encryption in transit and at rest, role-based access and audit logs for every record.
De-identification
Names, IDs, faces and voices are removed or masked before research use.
Local legal review
Our program is designed with counsel to follow Honduran and Guatemalan health and data-protection law.
“Free care for the patient, better tools for the doctor, and a dataset that finally represents the people medicine has left out.”The Empowered team
Partner with Empowered.
Whether you run a clinic network, a health system or an AI research team, we'd like to talk. Tell us what you're working on and we'll be in touch within two business days.
- Clinics & NGOs: bring the WhatsApp scribe to your doctors
- AI & research teams: licensed, de-identified datasets
- Funders: help us reach new countries
Built by people who have spent decades bringing care to rural communities.
Our founders helped build one of the largest student-led global health organizations in the world. Empowered brings that clinic network together with experienced health-tech engineers.
Steven Atamian
Co-Founder & Chief Empowerment Officer, Global Brigades.
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Pallav Vora
General Counsel & Chief Administrative Officer, Global Brigades.
Oisín O'Connor
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