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Percipio Health Launches AI-Powered Population Health Monitoring Platform

• By John K. Waters
• 01/21/2025

Percipio Health, a Plano, Texas-based startup specializing in population health monitoring, has officially launched with a new platform that promises to lower costs and improve care outcomes using artificial intelligence and smartphone-based technology.

The platform is designed to address one of the biggest challenges in U.S. health care: managing growing populations with rising and high-risk health needs. Unlike traditional remote patient monitoring solutions that require medical devices, Percipio leverages AI and smartphone-based capabilities to collect and analyze "whole-person" health signals. This enables real-time assessments of both current and predictive health risks, advancing value-based care models.

"After two years of intensive R&D, we are thrilled to unveil Percipio Health, breaking through the high-cost barriers that have prevented remote patient monitoring from reaching broader populations," Eric Rock, co-founder and CEO of Percipio Health, said in a statement. "With our advanced AI health signals, we deliver instant health risk assessments, proactive health monitoring, and comprehensive virtual care at scale."

The technology uses a single mobile app to collect data such as vision-based AI biomarkers for vital signs and medication monitoring, as well as vocal biomarkers for brain health. This whole-person approach provides a comprehensive view of patient health and equips clinicians with predictive insights to enable earlier interventions and more personalized care plans.

David Lucas, Percipio's co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer, emphasized the company's mission to fill strategic technology gaps that have hindered the success of value-based care. "Providers and payers can now reach and understand a much broader population, ensuring proactive attention, assessments, and interventions that result in lower costs and better outcomes," Lucas said.

The founders, Eric Rock and David Lucas, previously founded Vivify Health, a remote patient monitoring platform acquired by Optum in 2019, and MEDHOST, a medical records and workflow solution acquired by HealthTech Holdings in 2010.

The announcement comes at a time when U.S. health care is increasingly focused on asynchronous monitoring as a critical tool for reducing costs and improving outcomes. Dr. Andrew R. Watson, Senior Medical Advisor at UPMC Enterprises, highlighted the platform's potential in a statement. "This ability to make the patient’s phone a pivotal part of health care may provide powerful health insights, second only to genetics," he said.

Dr. Cameron Powell, venture partner at WAVE Ventures and an early pioneer in remote patient monitoring, echoed the sentiment. "Percipio enables clinicians to receive the right information about the right patient at the right time, with higher fidelity and transparency, all at scale," he said.