We Built What Should Have Existed 10 Years Ago
Medical education technology has been selling the same disconnected tools for two decades. We started over from first principles — one knowledge graph, one platform, one career.
The Crisis in Healthcare Technology
Modern healthcare IT has created more problems than it solved.
Physicians spend more time on screens than with patients
EHR systems designed for billing, not healing
Siloed platforms that don't communicate
AI that tries to replace clinicians rather than support them
AI that handles administrative burden invisibly
Technology that enhances clinical intuition
A unified platform that learns and adapts
Physicians restored to their true calling: healing
EHR Documentation Burden
5.8 hours1 per 8 scheduled patient hours spent in EHR
National Comparison of Ambulatory Physician EHR Use (2024)Documentation Impedes Care
77%2 of healthcare professionals say documentation impedes patient care
AMIA 25x5 Task Force (2024) Executive SummaryStop Bolting Rockets onto Horses
Legacy healthcare systems are trapped in the past, bolting AI features onto outdated architectures. It's like strapping a rocket to a horse — impressive engineering, but fundamentally the wrong approach.
The Underlying Issue
Current AI adds speed to broken workflows. You're still context-switching between EMRs, transcription tools, research platforms, and study apps — even the latest AI can't see across these disconnected systems.
The Evolution Imperative
True transformation requires a new foundation. Just as the automobile didn't improve the horse, next-generation healthcare AI demands an entirely new architecture — one unified intelligence layer.
Legacy vs Next-Generation Healthcare Technology
Three Philosophical Shifts
Ignite is built on fundamental beliefs about what healthcare technology should be.
Current systems extract value from physicians through endless documentation. We build technology that regenerates their capacity to heal by removing cognitive burden.
AI should never attempt to replace the physician. Our technology enhances human clinical judgment, providing context and insights while keeping the human at the center.
Healthcare technology incentives must align with patient outcomes and physician wellbeing — not with creating administrative complexity that generates revenue.
"The best technology disappears. It doesn't demand attention — it quietly handles complexity so humans can focus on what matters most. In healthcare, that means letting physicians be physicians again."
Research Foundations
Our architecture is informed by the latest advances in medical AI — from foundational models to knowledge graph reasoning designed specifically for healthcare complexity.
COMET — Microsoft/Epic Foundation Model
Largest event-level medical foundation model — proving that structured clinical event sequences can power next-generation healthcare AI.
COMET: Generative Medical Event Models (Epic & Microsoft, 2025)Long-Sequence Medical AI
Linear-time sequence modeling enabling scalable processing of complex medical histories.
Ontology-Grounded RAG
Knowledge graphs + retrieval-augmented generation — structured medical reasoning that goes beyond simple search.
OG-RAG: Ontology-Grounded Medical Advice (Microsoft)
Knowledge Graph Architecture for Clinical AI
Why Family Medicine First?
Family Medicine is the broadest specialty in medicine — the perfect proving ground for a platform that needs to understand all of clinical medicine.
1/33
of all healthcare visits are to primary care physicians
$134
saved downstream for every $1 invested in primary care
40K5
projected primary care physician shortage by 2036
83%6
growth in independent primary care practices, 2018–2023
Family Medicine is our beachhead — not our ceiling. Every feature we build for FM generalizes across all ABMS specialties. Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine content is already in development, with OB/GYN and more to follow.
Dr. Bhaven Murji
Ignite's philosophy emerged from real frontline experience. Dr. Murji trained at St. George's University of London, served on COVID frontlines in the UK, practiced as a locum physician in rural Wales, and completed residency in the US — experiencing firsthand how healthcare technology fails physicians across different systems.
As Chief Resident and through his work in EMR optimization, he saw brilliant colleagues crushed by digital paperwork. The solution wasn't another patch — it was a complete paradigm shift toward clinically applicable medical intelligence.
3 Continents
Clinical Experience
Chief Resident
Leadership
6 Publications
427+ Citations
Founded 2025
Ignite Health
Notable Publications
View all publicationsSARS-CoV-2 vaccination modelling for safe surgery to save lives
British Journal of Surgery (2021) · 138 citations
Timing of surgery following SARS-CoV-2 infection
Anaesthesia (2021) · 102 citations
SARS-CoV-2 infection and venous thromboembolism after surgery
Anaesthesia (2022) · 68 citations
Join the Mission
We're assembling a team of physicians, engineers, and advisors who believe healthcare technology can be better.
Looking for a technical co-founder who shares this philosophy and wants to build knowledge graph-powered clinical AI from the ground up.
Help shape the platform by providing clinical insight and ensuring our tools address real workflows and pain points.
Residency programs and health systems looking to provide residents with intelligent board prep and clinical decision support tools.