MiiHealth AI to Collaborate with one of the leading Health Systems in the United States to advance DAINA, its AI Agent for Streamlining Patient Intake

​Phoenix, Ariz., MiiHealth AI, an emerging leader in agentic AI for healthcare, has announced it has entered into a know-how agreement with Mayo Clinic. This collaboration aims to revolutionize patient intake, streamline provider workflows, and enhance care quality.

“DAINA marks a seminal moment in the evolution of digital medicine, demonstrating how artificial intelligence can be harnessed to restore the inherent passion and purpose that defines exceptional healthcare practice,” said Kelvin Summoogum. “By combining world-class clinical insight with cutting-edge AI, and in working with Mayo Clinic experts to ensure clinical rigor and relevance. We’re building a solution that drives clinical excellence, while preserving the attention and empathy that patients expect in care.”
 
Administrative burden and provider burnout poses a significant crisis for health systems, impacting both patients and providers. By automating routine tasks and facilitating timely patient interactions with MiiHealth AI’s agents, health systems can improve operational efficiency while supporting overburdened staff and allowing care teams to work at the top of their license, maintaining a high standard of patient care.
 
Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego states, “Phoenix is proud to be home to groundbreaking collaborations that are shaping the future of healthcare. This collaboration exemplifies the innovation happening in our City where cutting-edge technology and world-class medicine come together to improve lives. By advancing tools like DAINA, we are creating a more compassionate and accessible patient experience while also easing unnecessary burdens on providers. This is the kind of forward-thinking solution that keeps Phoenix at the forefront of global healthcare innovation.
 
The project will be lead by MiiHealth AI Chairman and CEO, Hon Prof. Kelvin Summoogum, and Vice-Chair for cardiology at Mayo Clinic, Reza Arsanjani, M.D.
 
DAINA (Dynamic AI Intake and Navigation Assistant) is a fully autonomous, multilingual AI agent that modernizes and humanizes the patient intake process through empathetic, natural-language conversations via tablets in the exam room. Unlike AI scribing technologies, DAINA independently guides patients through clinical intake without the provider in the room, engaging individuals in their native language with culturally sensitive dialogue. It collects structured medical history, symptoms, medication adherence, and flags critical issues, generating concise, specialty-specific summaries for providers ahead of each visit. DAINA handles intake logistics, so Mayo Clinic staff can focus on providing the personal connection and reassurance patients value most. This approach streamlines workflows, reduces administrative burden, and delivers comprehensive pre-visit data in a relaxed, user-friendly way, empowering providers to focus on higher-order clinical care and meaningful human interaction, ensuring patients fell heard, supported, and understood throughout the visit.

 

This collaboration presents a strategic opportunity to:

  • Support overburdened clinical staff by offloading time-consuming, repetitive documentation tasks, enabling them to focus on patient interaction and empathetic care.
  • Improve staff utilization by enabling teams to focus on higher-value, revenue-generating care that directly impact profitability.
  • Validate scalable, patient-facing AI that preserves empathy while enhancing workflow speed, precision and staff efficiency.

MiiHealth AI was founded by a multidisciplinary team of clinicians, technologists, and healthcare operators with a mission to build AI tools with providers, for providers that enhance patient-centered clinical excellence while making healthcare more human, intuitive, and equitable.

Mayo Clinic has a financial interest in the technology referenced in this press release. Mayo Clinic will use any revenue it receives to support its not-for-profit mission in patient care, education, and research. 

For more information, visit www.miihealth.ai or contact hello@miihealth.ai.

​Media Contact:
Athena Sanchez, Sr. Public Information Officer
City of Phoenix Community and Economic Development Dept.
Call/text: 602-621-0507
Athena.Sanchez@phoenix.gov
 
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