The Innovators & Investors Podcast · Nov 3, 2026 · 43m · 35m saved
With Eli Ben-Joseph, Co-Founder and CEO of Regard
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Eli Ben-Joseph, co-founder and CEO of Regard, told The Innovators & Investors Podcast that in a typical 10-to-15-minute visit a doctor sees only a small slice of the patient's record, mostly the latest lab results and the last note. Electronic health records were built to store data, not to help doctors use it. Regard reads the whole record so the doctor does not have to.
"On average, doctors only see about 3% of the data that they have access to." — Eli Ben-Joseph
Eli took the medical school entrance exam and then chose graduate study in management and computer science instead. Regard has run its diagnosis engines in hospitals since early 2021, has raised about $80 million, and is preparing a Series C.
The full interview is covered here so you can skip it. 43 minutes of audio, 8 minutes of reading.
Here are the 7 insights that matter.
Key Takeaways
Doctors see about 3% of the patient data available to them in a typical visit
Regard keeps diagnosis rules-based so its output can be audited and stays on the right side of the FDA
Regard standardizes messy hospital data before any AI model sees it
Selling to health systems takes 9 to 12 months, and the whole C-suite weighs in
A Cedars-Sinai accelerator got Regard its first hospital; healthcare is "a club," Eli says
Healthcare, long a decade or two behind, is now one of the fastest adopters of AI
1. Doctors See 3% of the Data
Eli traced Regard to his graduate studies, where he combined management and computer science after a pre-med track. He took the MCAT but did not go to medical school, partly because of an uncle's advice about what the job demands.
"Being a doctor, it's like being a musician... it's like you can't imagine not being a violinist." — Eli Ben-Joseph
Talking to doctor friends about burnout, Eli and his co-founders kept hearing the same complaint: too much paperwork and too little time with patients. Electronic health records store data well but do little to help a doctor use it, so most of what is in a patient's file goes unread.
Regard's pitch is that doctors can use all of the patient data they already have
"At the essence of it, that's what Regard does is we allow health systems, we allow doctors to leverage 100% of the data that they have access to." — Eli Ben-Joseph
Eli said AI is finally capable enough to make use of healthcare data that has been sitting "untapped."
