Empathic AI health agents for family-centered pediatric care
The opportunity
$363B Global Market | $200B Serviceable Market | $36B Initial Focus Market
In today’s healthcare ecosystem - providers, payors, and employers - families caring for children with chronic conditions are the invisible workforce of pediatric health. Yet they remain unsupported in fragmented systems of care.
TAM ($363B): Global families managing at least one pediatric chronic condition
SAM ($200B): Families caring for children with diabetes, obesity, growth disorders, cancer, autism, severe asthma, MS, or lupus
Initial Focus ($36B): Families most in need of support for childhood obesity, diabetes, growth disorders, and cancer
Because every child’s outcome starts with the family
Economic impact
25M+ U.S. children live with at least one pediatric chronic condition
Average annual cost per child:
Type 1 Diabetes: $10K–$25K+
Childhood Obesity/T2 Diabetes: $2K–$4K
$300B lost annually from treatment non-adherence
$282B in productivity loss tied to mental-health absenteeism
The top 5% of spenders drive nearly 50% of total healthcare costs; the top 1% exceed 20%
Pediatric chronic care happens at home, led primarily by mothers
Sources: UCLA Health, Crossen et al., Pediatric Diabetes, 2020, Diabetes Care, 2018, Pediatric Diabetes 2019, PMC, 2024 Columbia/Yale/NBER, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, National Alliance for Caregiving
Our solution
The Adhera AI Health Agentic Platform extends family support into the home and provides ongoing, empathic, emotionally intelligent support for families managing pediatric chronic conditions
Built on our proprietary whole-family data foundation, our AI health agents provide personalized, empathic support that addresses the interconnected needs of the child, the caregiver, and the care team.
Current AI health agents
Family caregiver coping agent
Provides empathic support for parental stress, emotional wellbeing, and burnout reduction.Caregiver wraparound services agent
Connects families to community, behavioral, and social-support resources—critical for underserved and high-disparity populations.Family insights agent
Surfaces engagement, emotional, and behavioral patterns to help families and care teams identify opportunities for additional support.Clinician liaison agent
Bridges ongoing family insights with provider workflows, enhancing visibility between visits and reducing care fragmentation.Navigator agent
Guides families through care coordination, benefits, resources, and everyday support needs with empathic, step-by-step guidance.
Our AI health agents support personal and family needs across chronic, behavioral, developmental, and social-determinant categories.
Reimbursable & scalable
The platform integrates seamlessly with value-based care, care-management, telehealth, and reimbursement frameworks across providers, payors, and employers—enabling scalable, whole-family support designed to help reduce total cost of care.
Successful Clinical Studies & Real World Data
| Conditions | Partners | Key Outcomes |
|---|---|---|
| Pediatric Growth Hormone Disorders |
Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet (SALUD) Merck KGaA |
↑ 75% adherence ↓ stress ↑ motivation |
| Pediatric Type 1 Diabetes |
Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet (SALUD) Novo Nordisk |
↓ caregiver anxiety ↑ child self-management |
| Childhood Obesity |
Institut Català de la Salut (ICS) Government of Spain |
↑ family engagement ↑ healthy habits ↓ weight |
| Overcoming Stigma in Latino Pediatric Care |
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) National Institutes of Health (NIH) |
A digital solution helps close care gaps through personalized, stigma-free, culturally responsive support. |
Scientific Recognition and Publications
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