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Cero

Automated communication between hospitals and patients in Latam

Y CombinatorSummer 2021ActiveB2BMachine LearningConsumer Health ServicesB2BNLP

What they do

Problem

Hospitals in Latin America lose capacity and revenue because many patients miss appointments due to poor communication and coordination.

Solution

An automated WhatsApp-based system that handles tasks like appointment confirmations, rescheduling, and last-minute cancellations between hospitals and patients.

Who it's for

Hospitals and clinics in Latin America that need to coordinate appointments with their patients.

Founders

Felipe Rodríguez
Founder

Entrepreneur and creative innovator. Currently co founder & CEO at CERO. Previously, I founded Excedent, a solution for eligibility and payment through API's for medical services connecting over 500 health providers with the top 3 health insurances in Chile. In 2013 I founded Deenty where we worked to improve access to oral care in Chile, being recognized as one of Chile's 100 young leaders of the year. Founder of Rompientes, NGO focused on preserve coastal environments and surfbreaks

Jorge Pérez
Founder

Jorge has a PhD in Computer Science and more than 10 years of experience in research with a focus on Web Data, Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning. He is a Microsoft Research PhD Fellow and he has published his research in top Data Science and AI conferences such as NeurIPS, ICLR, IJCAI, WWW, SIGIR and VLDB. He has developed open scientific NLP tools for the Spanish language that are used in a daily basis by the industry and academia all across Latam.

Mauricio Quezada
Founder

PhD in CS from Universidad de Chile, Engineer and Software Developer. Member of the winning local ICPC team of 2011 and organizer of several training camps of Chile and other Latam countries for programming contests. I've published research articles in known Data Science venues such as SIGIR, EPJ Data Science, and PloS One.

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