Last month, the ACFP co-presented the inaugural Family Medicine Innovation Forum (FMIF) with the Alberta Medical Association – Accelerating Change Transformation Team. The event showcased so many compelling innovations seeking to improve and transform patient care in family medicine. Today, we’re pleased to feature the top judge’s choice award winner: Carmi, the AI clinical assistant, created by CARM&A Health.
Innovators:
Long-time friends, physician co-founders Drs. Marjan Abbasi and Sheny Khera lead CARM&A Health with a team skilled in AI, product design, and regulatory compliance.
Innovation Pitch:
CARM&A Health is redefining complex care with Carmi, our AI clinical assistant that integrates assessments, analytics, and decision support—reducing burden, improving outcomes, and scaling across clinics, care homes, and primary care.
Problem Being Addressed:
Older adults with complex needs are falling through the cracks, contributing to avoidable ER visits, hospitalizations, and poor outcomes. Nearly one in three experience gaps during care transitions. Families struggle to navigate fragmented systems, and providers are burdened by documentation, time constraints, and limited tools for team-based care. This leads to missed issues, poor continuity, and delayed interventions. Carmi addresses this inefficiency by streamlining assessments, care planning, and communication using AI–enabling proactive, coordinated care. By supporting providers and connecting teams, Carmi aligns with health system goals of integration, aging in place, and person-centered care—enhancing capacity and collaboration across the continuum.
How It Works:
Carmi is a cloud-based AI clinical assistant that helps health care teams manage complex care more efficiently and collaboratively. It replaces disconnected tools and paper-based assessments with a unified platform for collecting patient information, surfacing clinical insights, and coordinating team-based care. Providers use Carmi to create personalized assessments, automate documentation, and access real-time, evidence-based recommendations and resources. Built by family physicians, Carmi enhances decision-making, reduces administrative burden, and improves continuity across teams. It makes proactive, person-centered care possible—especially for older adults and individuals with multiple chronic conditions.
What Kind of Support Are You Looking For:
We are seeking financial support to enhance Carmi’s AI agent capabilities. These features will allow clinicians to interact with structured data conversationally, surface clinical tips with evidence links, and improve patient engagement through voice-based input. This next phase is critical for improving care delivery, reducing clinician burden, and expanding adoption.
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Wonderful! Congratulations! You both have worked so hard at this— now lets see it fly!