AI for Emergency Rooms: How Dianovi is Revolutionizing Emergency Medicine

13. Feb.24 Min. Lesezeit

Aktualisiert: 14. Feb.

AI in emergency medicine: DiNovi's decision support system assisting ER physicians with real-time diagnosis and treatment recommendations.

Management Summary

In this interview with Elias from Dianovi, we delve into how their AI-powered decision support system is transforming emergency rooms in Germany. Learn about the challenges faced by ER physicians, the benefits of Dianovi's solution, and their plans for scaling and growth in the evolving healthcare landscape.

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The Challenges of Emergency Medicine

Emergency rooms are high-pressure environments where physicians must make quick decisions with often incomplete information. This can lead to diagnostic errors and incorrect treatments, impacting patient safety and increasing costs for hospitals. The problem is exacerbated by overcrowding and the increasing complexity of medical cases.

Dianovi's Solution: AI for Emergency Rooms

Dianovi's AI-powered software acts as a digital assistant for ER physicians, providing real-time decision support throughout the patient journey. The software analyzes patient data, suggests the most likely diagnoses, and recommends appropriate treatments.

Clinical Benefits

Improved diagnostic accuracy: Dianovi's AI helps reduce diagnostic errors and ensures patients receive the most appropriate treatment.
Enhanced efficiency: The software streamlines workflows and reduces the administrative burden on physicians, allowing them to focus on patient care.
Personalized medicine: Dianovi's AI tailors treatment recommendations to individual patients, leading to better outcomes.

Financial Benefits

Increased revenue: Dianovii's software helps hospitals optimize their billing and reimbursement processes, maximizing revenue potential.
Reduced costs: By improving efficiency and reducing errors, Dianovi's solution helps hospitals lower costs associated with malpractice claims and readmissions.

Scaling and Growth

Dianovi recently closed a convertible loan and is actively hiring to expand their team and scale their operations. They plan to further develop their AI models, expand into outpatient care, and adapt to the evolving regulatory landscape.

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What is the key benefit of Dianovi's AI solution for hospitals?

Dianovi's AI solution offers a dual benefit for hospitals:

Improved patient care: Reduced diagnostic errors and personalized treatment recommendations.
Increased revenue: Optimized billing and reimbursement processes.

The Future of AI in Emergency Medicine and Healthcare

Dianovi's vision is to provide comprehensive AI-powered decision support across the entire healthcare spectrum, paving the way for personalized medicine and improved access to care.

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Jörn 'Joe' Menninger | Founder and Editor in Chief | Startuprad.io [00:00:05]:

Welcome to StartupRad.io. Your podcast and YouTube blog covering the German start startup scene with news, interviews, and live events.

Jörn 'Joe' Menninger | Founder and Editor in Chief | Startuprad.io [00:00:20]:

Hello, and welcome, everybody. This is Joe from startuprate.o, your startup podcast and YouTube blog, bringing you an English world premier together with Elias from we just, sorted this out. Dianove here from lovely Hessen. And this interview is, as always, supported by Hessen Trade and Invest. More about them later. Elias, glad to have you

Elias Hofmann | Co-Founder dianovi [00:00:46]:

here. Thanks for having me.

Jörn 'Joe' Menninger | Founder and Editor in Chief | Startuprad.io [00:00:47]:

As people know, your LinkedIn profile will be linked down here in the show notes in the block. I've seen you worked with, pretty well known names like Arthur d Little in consulting. You've been working with Bosch. But can you share a little bit about your background, what you've done? Introduce yourself, just a little bit before founding DNOV.

Elias Hofmann | Co-Founder dianovi [00:01:10]:

Yeah. Yeah. Sure. So, as you already mentioned, I I live in Hessen, in Darmstadt, to be exact. I did my bachelor and then also my master here at TU Darmstadt. I studied industrial engineering with the focus already on innovation and, yeah, entrepreneurship. And then when I've done my exchange semester in Finland, in Helsinki, I started to shift the focus more and more towards starting a company. But as you said, before, during my studies, I also worked in consulting, tried to, yeah, again, overview of a very different kind of industry to see what interests me most and also try to, yeah, let's say, more corporate world with Bosch.

Elias Hofmann | Co-Founder dianovi [00:01:58]:

But I also worked in a start up already. Quantico, you mentioned already. So, yeah, these were basically my professional career stations so far.

Jörn 'Joe' Menninger | Founder and Editor in Chief | Startuprad.io [00:02:08]:

A question about the Aalto University in Finland. I assume you because you've been there from August to December, and I assume in December, you have to wear pretty warm socks there. Right?

Elias Hofmann | Co-Founder dianovi [00:02:21]:

That's that's actually true. Yeah. And I also didn't have that much light. That was the other thing.

Jörn 'Joe' Menninger | Founder and Editor in Chief | Startuprad.io [00:02:27]:

How good is your finish? Oh,

Elias Hofmann | Co-Founder dianovi [00:02:30]:

tough question. I think, I tried maybe for for three lessons or something, then I basically gave up because it's it's a really hard language, to be honest. And, I'm more of a numbers guy than than a language guy. So, yeah, focus more on this part.

Jörn 'Joe' Menninger | Founder and Editor in Chief | Startuprad.io [00:02:49]:

Okay. What inspired you to transition from your previous roles at starting your own venture?

Elias Hofmann | Co-Founder dianovi [00:02:58]:

So we basically started the the start up out of university. So we did a lot of research in this field, AI and medicine in general, especially my my cofounders, Nils and Nicholas. And as we not only wanted to deliver, like, a theoretical value but also transfer it to the to the practical world, we, yeah, we said that we wanted to found a start up, and we all know each other since a really young age. So for me, it was quite clear already during my or during the beginning of my master that we wanted to do this. And, even though I still went into these other fields, like strategy consulting, to gain experience that would then help me by with finding a start up.

Jörn 'Joe' Menninger | Founder and Editor in Chief | Startuprad.io [00:03:44]:

Mhmm. Did you have any pivotal experiences or, like, mentors that shaped your entrepreneurial journey?

Elias Hofmann | Co-Founder dianovi [00:03:53]:

I wouldn't say that there's necessarily one person in particular, but rather many people that kind of inspired me or whatever or great sparring. So starting in in Finland when I had teachers that, yeah, brought me closer to this entrepreneurship area, but then also people I've worked with, especially in consulting, there were a lot of people that, yeah, that taught me a lot when it comes to soft skills, but also finding one's own way. And also then that's always super valuable. Other startup founders, they most likely will, you know, yeah, most likely will find someone that had the same problem already, but it's not one specific person for me. Mhmm.

Jörn 'Joe' Menninger | Founder and Editor in Chief | Startuprad.io [00:04:40]:

I see. I see. What unique skills or perspectives from your past have proven most valuable in building Yanovi? Mhmm.

Elias Hofmann | Co-Founder dianovi [00:04:53]:

Well, I'd say it definitely helps if you don't mind working a lot. Not joking. I mean, this is definitely a a thing, but, I would say it will come from loan if you're passionate about something. But other than this, no. I think, yeah, kind of acquiring a structured way way of working is is super important as you have so many different topics coming to your table and maintaining an overview, not getting overwhelmed sometimes, and then prioritizing, I would say, this is key. And, that's something where a structured way of working definitely helps and where my time in consulting again helped a lot, I'd say, because, this is when I started to to, yeah, kind of get to know this way of working. Because in general, I I did a lot of I did many things in parallel. So, that was was kind of necessary then, and it still helps me.

Elias Hofmann | Co-Founder dianovi [00:05:51]:

And, yeah, other than this, maybe naivety because, otherwise, I don't think we would be there where we are right now if we would have approached everything too rationally, to be honest. So, many people say it's it's resilience that is super important, and I agree. But for me, resilience is kind of positively framed. And I think there's also this part of naivety that is rather a thing that you can't really control, but still helps a lot if you if you have this kind of character trait.

Jörn 'Joe' Menninger | Founder and Editor in Chief | Startuprad.io [00:06:25]:

I actually do believe it's one of the few essential pillars of entrepreneurship to be really, really structured. That that helps you out a lot because you get thrown things, to your head, like from from your competition, most of the time from your clients, from your investors, from the authorities, maybe tax or other regulations. And you always have to put it into a structured way to see what are the priorities, how can you work through it. Plus you're also for me personally, not only a to do list did the trick, but when I kind of transponded the to do list to times assigned to do my to dos on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis on my calendar. That that was, like, the most important step for me to get start operator there, on the ground.

Elias Hofmann | Co-Founder dianovi [00:07:23]:

Yeah. I I definitely agree, and I I think you can perfectly relate to this as you have different projects going on. So, yeah, 100% agree.

Jörn 'Joe' Menninger | Founder and Editor in Chief | Startuprad.io [00:07:34]:

Let's talk about your start up idea. What problem are you trying to solve when you started your Yanovi, and how did you identify this opportunity?

Elias Hofmann | Co-Founder dianovi [00:07:46]:

Yeah. So the the problem we're addressing is basically that in the emergency room, so that's where we operate or or software operates, in the emergency room that you have basically two worlds that collide. So on on the one side, you have really young, inexperienced junior doctors that have to work with complex cases from all kinds of background and disciplines. And in this stressful setting of the emergency room, that means it really creates a, yeah, a fertile ground for mistakes, so to say. And then in numbers, that means millions of error diagnosis and false treatments that we have in Germany alone every year. And then, of course, this leads also to high costs for the hospitals, but also for the health care system in general. Indeed, we're talking about billions in costs then. And, yeah, as already already touched before, the basic idea of delivering value to the health care system by utilizing the technological knowledge we had that we, yeah, came just came up during university or during our studies.

Elias Hofmann | Co-Founder dianovi [00:08:54]:

And then we started talking to many stakeholders, so hospitals, physicians, insurance companies. So the idea got more and more concrete. And, yeah, from beginning on, actually, we worked super close with hospitals, and they helped a lot with the product development and also already in the in the ideation phase. And that's how Dianovi basically was created then.

Jörn 'Joe' Menninger | Founder and Editor in Chief | Startuprad.io [00:09:19]:

Mhmm. Also, in an emergency room talking here about an EMT with, several years of experience, you always have the problem that you have incomplete data. So you don't know from the blood type of the patient to their story, medications, allergies, whatever important stuff that you don't have. And as you said, even if the doctor is very experienced, they they they cannot foresee everything. So there's a lot of information you needed at very short, notice there. Was this your original idea, or did it evolve over time?

Elias Hofmann | Co-Founder dianovi [00:10:03]:

Yeah. That's that's actually a good question. It evolved. It definitely evolved. So we started more, and that's also why we changed our name at some some point. So we started more as a symptom checker, basically. So we tried to, yeah, prevent people going to the emergency room when they had, let's say, minor issues because that's a that's a big thing as well that we have overcrowding in the emergency rooms, and there would be also alternative treatment options. And we first focused more on this kind of problem.

Elias Hofmann | Co-Founder dianovi [00:10:35]:

And then out of several reasons, we pivoted and focused more on the professional side. So really helping the physician and, yeah, pro providing them with support during their daily, work. And, yeah, this was basically how we evolved from more, patient centric, software to a more physician centric software, I'd say.

Jörn 'Joe' Menninger | Founder and Editor in Chief | Startuprad.io [00:11:01]:

I see see. Can you, like, wrap up in, like, what's happens? What's your final goal, your mission, your vision for the Anuv? And by the way, how did you come up with the name? It sounds like more like an Italian food brand to me at least. Sorry.

Elias Hofmann | Co-Founder dianovi [00:11:19]:

K. That's funny. I I never heard this, but yeah. I got this one. I see I see it. Now, actually, we changed the name because of a lot of feedback from customers and and other people because they were kind of confused when we still had the name My Sympto. So this was the name before, which kind of obviously relates to a symptom checker. They, started asking, you're not a symptom checker, so why would you use that name? And then we decided, during the incorporation that we will change the name to Dianovi, which is basically a composition of the word diagnosis and the word Novum.

Elias Hofmann | Co-Founder dianovi [00:11:57]:

And, yeah, basically reflects our vision of enabling the the best medical care possible by utilizing technological brokers we we see, especially with AI, which is core for our software. And, yeah, as said, we're trying to to enable physicians to really deliver the best treatment possible by giving them personalized decision support and, yeah, the power of the modern technology data analytics, basically.

Jörn 'Joe' Menninger | Founder and Editor in Chief | Startuprad.io [00:12:29]:

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Jörn 'Joe' Menninger | Founder and Editor in Chief | Startuprad.io [00:13:16]:

You can learn more at htai.de, e n Hessen, and on our sub podcast together with them, Tech Startups Germany. That out of the way, let's talk about D'Anovy, about the startup itself. So can you get a little bit more specific how your tool is used, where it it is today, and then we're talking a a little bit about KPIs, clients, use piece, and so on and so forth?

Elias Hofmann | Co-Founder dianovi [00:13:53]:

Yeah. So you basically can think of the iNOVI as a digital assistant to the physician working in the emergency room. So it's a software running on their whatever device they would have and, basically, accompanies them throughout the whole process where the patient is is in the emergency room. So it helps them to make the right decisions from a medical perspective. So, for example, what is the most likely diagnosed? Which treatment should I do as a doctor to find out or to figure out which diagnosis is the most likely one? And then also how to purse to pursue with the with the, patient. And then so this is basically medical side and then also from an economic perspective as hospitals to have this reimbursement system in the emergency room, and we help the hospital to get the most out of this reimbursement as well. Because this was a thing that, basically, a lot of decision support tools neglect when providing decision support. It's mostly medical, and we combine it because this makes it basically a no brainer for hospitals to adapt the software also from an economic perspective then.

Jörn 'Joe' Menninger | Founder and Editor in Chief | Startuprad.io [00:15:11]:

I see plus a very likely limitation of liability, other potential liabilities because otherwise, the insurance companies would not back it from my understanding. I see a cc, smart thing. We're talking on startup radio a lot about success. What KPI would measures do you use to define success for you as a start up?

Elias Hofmann | Co-Founder dianovi [00:15:38]:

Yep. As I'd say that we're still quite in an early phase. So we we finished our pilot projects last year and, so two months ago, basically. And we'll we'll launch the software in a couple of weeks, from a commercial point of view. It's it's all about the customer. So we have a we have a great sales pipeline, and now we're converting them one by one and also got the first written agreements, which basically is the the main KPI for us right now. And then we also looked at the sales cycles don't get too long because this is something that is sometimes kind of challenging with hospitals. So we try to reduce these these sales cycles to a minimum.

Elias Hofmann | Co-Founder dianovi [00:16:22]:

And yeah. And then, of course, we have a lot of software development KPIs, to ensure stable operations and and safe development, which is quite important in our field.

Jörn 'Joe' Menninger | Founder and Editor in Chief | Startuprad.io [00:16:34]:

Yeah. I would assume so. By the way, when you talked about, on whatever device the physician uses, what came to my mind right from the start was something like a tablet. Is this the primary device they are using your software on?

Elias Hofmann | Co-Founder dianovi [00:16:53]:

Yes and no. Depends a bit on the hospital. So some are super great in digitization, others lag behind really, really far. So you will find every different setup possible, but most of the time, it's it's a computer, in the room, and then you also have the more digitized ones where they use tablets. But, actually, for us or for the software, it doesn't matter. We would run on all these devices.

Jörn 'Joe' Menninger | Founder and Editor in Chief | Startuprad.io [00:17:23]:

Mhmm. I see. And and and could you also, like, share? It's is it seamless that the physician could access from the computer in the emergency room and then later, when the patient is, when the patient is in the bed, visit the bed with the tablet? Does it work like that?

Elias Hofmann | Co-Founder dianovi [00:17:41]:

Yeah. Exactly. And that's that's a a really good and important question for us because this seamless integration, also the integration with other software solutions already in the hospital, it's super important for the actual adoption of the of the software. Mhmm.

Jörn 'Joe' Menninger | Founder and Editor in Chief | Startuprad.io [00:17:58]:

Yes. Has to be. You you you said last year, we're talking, late twenty twenty four, if I'm not wrong, you achieved the milestone finishing the, pilot project as you already said. You already signed how many contracts?

Elias Hofmann | Co-Founder dianovi [00:18:15]:

So right now, we have three, written agreements, and, the fourth is is coming right now. So, yeah, as I said, day by day, we try to onboard more hospitals. Yeah. So the pipeline gets gets bigger and bigger, and we have to start, like, getting them or converting them into actually paying customers.

Jörn 'Joe' Menninger | Founder and Editor in Chief | Startuprad.io [00:18:38]:

I see. That's pretty good. I think most of my question now we already discussed. So, your primary customer are the hospitals because they can increase revenue and increase safety with your software, for the emergency room. I was wondering your primary clients are the hospitals or are you in closer with insurance companies that then, volunteer the hospitals to use your software?

Elias Hofmann | Co-Founder dianovi [00:19:17]:

It's, it's definitely the hospitals, but insurance companies will maybe get more and more important in the future. But, usually, in the health care system, it makes sense to first have couple of, customers, in our case hospitals, that where you can show what the solution is capable of and then, again, approach the insurance companies. And then we also have another important stakeholder for us, which are these other software providers that already have the solutions in the hospitals. And when we partner with them, because we need this from a technical perspective anyways, then we also get access to their existing hospital network. So those are important partners for us as well.

Jörn 'Joe' Menninger | Founder and Editor in Chief | Startuprad.io [00:20:03]:

I see. I see. So very interesting construction there. You you you kind of hinted already at it. So there are other emergency room softwares out there, but my understanding is your USP right now that is working is basically that you tell the hospitals and the insurance companies, we are not only here to limit your liability to get better treatment for the patients. We are also here to help you maximize revenue on this, like bill all the stuff you are actually doing. We may tell the audience out there that there has been a dying of hospitals here in Germany due to insufficient revenue. A lot of insolvencies, including a hospital here not far from me, They keep operating, but the funding of hospitals is right now pretty hot topic in Germany, especially like the smaller ones, in in the smaller places where you would need to try for quite some some time until you get to bitter bigger, better funded hospital.

Elias Hofmann | Co-Founder dianovi [00:21:09]:

Yeah. Yeah. That's definitely correct. And, that's exactly why we're why we're doing this to support from medical and economic perspective because, of course, every hospital would want to improve their medical performance and their treatments for the patient. But at some point, they are limited because of their financial resources. And as you said, they if they have an incentive to buy your solution also from an economic perspective, then then it gets a no brainer. You you increase quality and you increase revenue. Why wouldn't you do it? So, yeah, that's that's exactly what we're targeting at.

Jörn 'Joe' Menninger | Founder and Editor in Chief | Startuprad.io [00:21:46]:

In terms of the, operation system, so the billing system of the hospital, I've heard it can be quite a bit complicated and arcane. Is that true? And how did you get, like, through all all the stuff there?

Elias Hofmann | Co-Founder dianovi [00:22:02]:

Yeah. That that's, that's a huge thing. And it's it's really it's really specific and also kind of strange. And you can talk to to many, many people that work inside this area for quite some time, and they you will still find parts where not everybody knows what's happening, actually. So it's really complicated, and it also took us quite a while to understand how this basically works. We did a lot of talking with different people. So as already said in the beginning, it helps a lot if you talk to different stakeholders, meaning hospitals, meaning insurance companies, meaning the reimbursement companies, meaning people that consult these companies and hospitals. So to get different viewpoints on this, to to understand these reimbursement processes.

Elias Hofmann | Co-Founder dianovi [00:22:52]:

And, yeah, that's that's basically how we did it. You can, of course, also, look look out for webinars and stuff like this. We still do it because there's also a lot of changes going on, and politics tries to change, quite some things also. So it's always important to to stay up to date on this topic as well.

Jörn 'Joe' Menninger | Founder and Editor in Chief | Startuprad.io [00:23:13]:

Where we may also add for our audience that we currently in an election cycle, less than a month from today, there will be new elections. There will be, as it looks right now, a new government. There will be new policies, which may or may not hit you in 2025, but 2627 for sure because there'll be some some areas where they need to fix the health care system. Are you actually kind of actively looking at the policies the different parties have?

Elias Hofmann | Co-Founder dianovi [00:23:47]:

Yeah. I mean, definitely also from a from a private perspective, I do. But, yeah. Then also when it comes to the to the company, of course, it's it's interesting, but it's also of course, they have the ideas of how to do the health care system or maybe how to restructure it. But in the end, we will have to see what really happens, and it will always take such a long time. So we don't really try to estimate what will happen and already adapt. We will do what we're doing right now and focus on where we're strong at, and then we'll see what changes. We definitely have our eyes on this so we don't get over overwhelmed by it or something.

Elias Hofmann | Co-Founder dianovi [00:24:31]:

But, it will and I'm pretty sure about this. It will take quite some time till changes will will be implemented. But, yeah, we're we're cautious because it's it's not too neglected.

Jörn 'Joe' Menninger | Founder and Editor in Chief | Startuprad.io [00:24:44]:

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Jörn 'Joe' Menninger | Founder and Editor in Chief | Startuprad.io [00:25:18]:

And then when we come back, we'll talk about the outlook, funding growth, and talent perspective. Welcome back to our interview with Elias from the INOVI. We are here in an interview supported by Hessen Trade and Invest, and, we are in last third of our interview here. I'm talking now a little bit outlook with Elias, the cofounder of Dianovi. Always, there there is a question on venture capital when we are at this stage. Are you currently raising or planning to raise funding? And what's your your primary focus for the investment?

Elias Hofmann | Co-Founder dianovi [00:26:08]:

So right now, we just closed a convertible loan, with couple of investors. So, that's that's what we've done recently, but we're definitely, looking to to raise soon again, as we have this growth, and we we need to, yeah, get this funded somehow. So we we're always open to to have these conversations, build up relationships, and then in a couple of months, raise the next round.

Jörn 'Joe' Menninger | Founder and Editor in Chief | Startuprad.io [00:26:36]:

Mhmm. You're talking about a couple of month. What are the expectations for the ANOVY in the next twelve to eighteen months?

Elias Hofmann | Co-Founder dianovi [00:26:46]:

Yep. Yep. So, basically, as we said, we we're entering the market right now, from a commercial perspective. So establish ourselves in the emergency room. The emergency room won't be the end of the road for us. That's for sure. But I think for the next twelve months, it's it's fair to say that we wanna ensure successful utilization then also of the software and then, see if if our thesis hold ground. And then, as I said, we or the the emergency room won't be the the end of the road for us.

Elias Hofmann | Co-Founder dianovi [00:27:23]:

So we will ship more features and, look to also expand maybe to the outpatient sector.

Jörn 'Joe' Menninger | Founder and Editor in Chief | Startuprad.io [00:27:31]:

Mhmm. Are you actively hiring or, you you're planning to hire? I I mean, you just closed the convertible note. You did some pipe tracing. Congratulations. By the way, can you give us a rough idea of how much you raised?

Elias Hofmann | Co-Founder dianovi [00:27:45]:

Yeah. I can't I can't name the exact number because it's also not, not, like, all over yet. But, we will be, below the the 500,000, somewhere there. And, yes, with this money, we we are actively hiring right now, and this will also, not change probably for the next couple of months as we need to get the personal resources for Watch Out Password, scale the software, and and scale the the company. So, yeah, for the next month, you can expect us to hire a couple of more people, especially, from a technical part, the software developers. We're growing the team now there, especially in this area. Yeah.

Jörn 'Joe' Menninger | Founder and Editor in Chief | Startuprad.io [00:28:31]:

For everybody who'd like to learn more, we'll also link the career website of you guys down here in the show notes. So you already did some, startup buzz buzzword bingo. We checked the scaling. How do you plan to scale and and kind of adapt? We just talked about the upcoming election, the changes of policies. How how how do you keep track of that, and how you're looking to manage all of that?

Elias Hofmann | Co-Founder dianovi [00:28:58]:

Yeah. So for for now, and, maybe the important thing for us is is the technological perspective as well. There's a lot of happening there as well. You can read the new AI news basically every day or two twice a day. And, so we we will still try to continuously improve our models, utilize the newest advancement, and, see that we can utilize also the data that are generated then through our software. And then as you mentioned, also the, yeah, the more policies that come and the the regulatory field, which is super important in health care. Also there, we will, stay stay ahead of these changes there. And then, yeah, of course, the the customers, put them in the center.

Elias Hofmann | Co-Founder dianovi [00:29:47]:

They are the most important ones for us. See how the hospitals and, their processes change because there will be changes also again due to the government and then see how we can best support physicians working there under these circumstances. Mhmm.

Jörn 'Joe' Menninger | Founder and Editor in Chief | Startuprad.io [00:30:05]:

I see. So, it it you already hinted at incorporating AI into your tool. I hope you've seen the the the episode we had on the AI act here. I have two final questions. So the first final question is, what is your long term vision for the startup and what impact do you hope to make on the industry?

Elias Hofmann | Co-Founder dianovi [00:30:26]:

Yep. So, yeah, as I as I said, the the end of the journey isn't there with the emergency room. We will explore further areas. So long term vision really means that we provide this decision support not only for physicians in the emergency room, but then also for physicians in the outpatient area and also, in other parts of the hospital. So the the software basically provides a comprehensive solution that, yeah, transforms the complex health care data into concrete, actionable insights, and that's something you don't only need in the in the emergency room, but everywhere in health care. So the the focus is on, yeah, really gaining a deep understanding of patient care and then pave the way for personalized medicine because because that's what we are actually doing. And, that's then basically also the impact. So, of course, we wanna see less mistakes made and then also better access to health care.

Elias Hofmann | Co-Founder dianovi [00:31:32]:

As you mentioned already, hospitals are shutting down, especially on the more rural side. And, we wanna still have patients having a great access to health care, which also comes with with, digital solutions, we we guess, at least.

Jörn 'Joe' Menninger | Founder and Editor in Chief | Startuprad.io [00:31:49]:

Mhmm. Mhmm. I see. By the way, buzzword check for actionable insights. And and the the final final question because this is, from Hasn't Tried and Invest sponsored. You have now the unique opportunity to, like, address the decisions make decision maker in The States and ask for improvement, give some praise and something you always want to address to them.

Elias Hofmann | Co-Founder dianovi [00:32:21]:

Yeah. So if I would have, one wish, as well, then this would definitely, go to the, yeah, regulatory side because I I understand and everybody understands that it's an important topic, especially when you operate with sensible data and everything. But sometimes, it's it's really annoying how long processes take, and it's especially for start ups that the the advantage is that they can operate quite fast. And then you have these super long regulatory cycles and processes that, yeah, kind of slow you down. So this is this is not optimal. And, I know it's hard, but maybe the there could be a bit of an improvement, which then would also come from a more political side. But we also have to definitely thank them a lot. It hasn't tried to invest.

Elias Hofmann | Co-Founder dianovi [00:33:16]:

We we got a great network, here in in Hessen. We always have great support. When it comes to any topics, we can ask for contacts. Might be from a regulatory point, might be from a financing point, might be from the incorporation. We got a lot of help there as well. So, there's definitely a strong network and strong support for startups here in in Hessen.

Jörn 'Joe' Menninger | Founder and Editor in Chief | Startuprad.io [00:33:40]:

Great. I also want to slide in at the very end. I was actually sitting in the audience when at the, federal government Digit Heiglipfer, late last year, you won a founding award for startups, for, handed out here by the federal government. Congratulations to that. And I think that that that's a really nice closing message here. Right?

Elias Hofmann | Co-Founder dianovi [00:34:03]:

Thanks a lot. Yeah. We're really proud of of winning this. And, yeah, as you mentioned, this is not not a bad title to receive, definitely.

Jörn 'Joe' Menninger | Founder and Editor in Chief | Startuprad.io [00:34:13]:

Great. Elias, thank you very much. Hope to have you back in a few years talking about your successes there.

Elias Hofmann | Co-Founder dianovi [00:34:20]:

I hope so too. Thanks for having me, Joe.

Jörn 'Joe' Menninger | Founder and Editor in Chief | Startuprad.io [00:34:22]:

It was my pleasure. Goodbye.

Elias Hofmann | Co-Founder dianovi [00:34:24]:

Bye bye.

Jörn 'Joe' Menninger | Founder and Editor in Chief | Startuprad.io [00:34:30]:

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