I built Aether because I lived through how broken Healthcare systems are, across the world. When my mother was sick with cancer (which went undiagnosed right until the day before she passed), I noticed how medical professionals really worked in silos. Neurologists only dealt with reports that mattered to them, haemotologists with those that were related to blood only, and similarly others. Not once did someone decide to look at her entire longitudinal health, piecing together, what was happening with her. I did that on my own, charting her reports on excel, trying to find patterns/coorelations and anomalies. I managed to find a few conditions (not related with her cancer). Doctors in the US, India, Switzerland, Germany, Portugal - all only saw what mattered to them, and not what mattered to the patient. Eventually, her cancer was detected because one smart professional decided to dive into her blood work from the very first blood draw, 3 months later, and found the cancer there. Had there been a longitudinal view, maybe her cancer would have been detected earlier, and treated faster, instead of letting it spread. Maybe I would have had more time with her.

Aether is my ode to her. Aether is my attempt to bring back the patient and her health, back to focus. With Aether, I hope to get to a stage, where nothing gets missed when a medical professional examines a patient.