A Phoenix-based company that developed a workplace well-being platform powered by artificial intelligence has changed its name and launched new software.
Plannly has rebranded to Plannly Health and unveiled its patent-pending advanced risk detection software — known as ARDAI — at Collision 2023, a tech conference held in Toronto in June. Plannly Health co-founder and chief operating officer Alisha Harris was a keynote speaker at the event.
ARDAI leverages AI and machine learning to enhance provider care and address human errors in the health care industry caused by workload, stress, burnout and life events.
The software identifies indicators of chronic stress, burnout and life events among health care workers and provides personalized benefit recommendations and preventative strategies to foster well-being and mitigate medical errors.
“We would love to be acknowledged as a solution that can really help hospitals, doctors, nurses, frontline workers — the heartbeat of health care — and to be able to empower them in a way to where we can improve their well-being and health outcomes,” Earl Harris, co-founder and CEO of Plannly Health, said. “As a result, we can see better patient outcomes. We can see high-touch when it comes to care. We can see fewer people leaving the industry and more people feeling satisfaction with the work that they're doing. And our technology can actually help to do that.”
The ARDAI platform integrates within a company’s existing system to suggest benefits available to workers, such as mental health support through an Employee Assistance Program.
Plannly opens new round of seed funding
Plannly Health was named a 'Startup to Watch in 2023' by AZ Inno. A year prior, the company completed the Tulsa Techstars Accelerator Program and obtained a pre-seed round of $1.2 million, making it the only company to raise funding before the program ended.
Plannly Health is in the process of recruiting a chief nursing officer and recently opened a seed round of funding that has already garnered commitments from investors, Harris said.
Plannly Health hopes to partner with local hospitals for clinical studies, he said.
“That will be extremely valuable. The immediate benefits that we can offer to hospitals in Arizona is increased benefit utilization, improved well-being for their healthcare workers and also improvements in retention,” Harris said. “But we would love to be able to get more data around how we can actually identify the risk of human error.”
Earl and Alisha Harris in 2020 began working on the concept of Plannly, a workplace well-being platform powered by artificial intelligence that allows employees freedom to choose personalized wellness options designed for their needs. The platform leverages machine learning to catch life changes, like relocation, pregnancy, childbirth, death or divorce and then recommend benefits within the marketplace.
Plannly Health's platform still detects such major events among workers, but now has a new feature to recommend a company's existing benefits, Harris said.
While narrowing its focus to the health care industry, Plannly Health examined the correlation of life events and stressors, and how it affects workers' well-being. The burnout rate for health care workers is more than 60% for nurses and 40% for doctors, according to data gathered by Plannly Health.
“Our doctors and nurses are frontline workers and we all saw how overworked and stressed out they were during a pandemic. Everybody can acknowledge that we all saw that problem,” Harris said. “That's why we switched gears ... our focus is to support our health care heroes to boost their well-being and help when it comes to health care delivery.”
