The First AI Health Agentic Platform for Family-Centered Pediatric Chronic Care Management
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
Our Solution
The Adhera AI Health Agentic Platform extends clinical care into the home - providing continuous, emotionally intelligent support to families managing chronic conditions.
Powered by Small Language Models (SLMs) trained on proprietary whole-family datasets, the platform enables emotionally intelligent, precision-guided interventions across pediatric conditions.
Current AI Health Agents
Family Caregiver Coping Agent - supports parental stress and emotional wellbeing
Caregiver Wraparound Services Agent - connects families to community and behavioral resources
Family Insights Agent - identifies adherence risks and behavioral trends
Clinician Liaison Agent - bridges family insights with provider workflows
Navigator Agent - guides families through care coordination and benefits
Pipeline: 40+ additional Health Agents in development across chronic and behavioral health categories.
Reimbursable & Scalable: Integrates into value-based care and reimbursement frameworks across providers, payors, and employers.
Successful Clinical Studies & Real World Data
Growth Hormone Disorders
Chronic Condition
Partners
Key Outcomes
↑ 75 % adherence;↓ stress; ↑ motivation
Chronic Condition
Type 1 Diabetes
Partners
Key Outcomes
↓ caregiver anxiety;↑ child self-management
Chronic Condition
Childhood Obesity
Partners
Merck KGaA
Novo Nordisk
↑ family engagement; ↑healthy habits; ↓ weight
Key Outcomes
Overcoming Stigma in Latino Pediatric Care
Chronic Condition
Partners
A digital solution helps close care gaps through personalized, stigma-free, and culturally responsive support
Key Outcomes
Scientific Recognition and Publications
JMIR Pediatrics & Parenting
Study showed increased positive affect; reductions in stress, anxiety, depression; improved self‑efficacy and well‑being.
JMIR Pediatrics & Parenting
Study found high usability, 91% of parents moved from severe depression to normal depression, 75% of children in suboptimal adherence group moved to optimal adherence group. Parents reported improvements in parent‑child relationship.
ENDO 2025
Research explores how severe hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia - measured through continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) - impact caregiver mental health, child academic outcomes, and overall family functioning.
ENDO 2025
The study reveals how cultural disconnects, stigma, and limited access to mental health services create barriers to care—and how a digital health solution, co-designed with families, can offer meaningful support.
ENDO 2025
Adhera Health presented new research exploring the emotional health of caregivers raising children with growth hormone deficiency (GHD). The poster highlights real-world data on how caregiver well-being is linked to outcomes in pediatric chronic care - and how digital support can make a meaningful difference.
AMIA Informatics Summit
AI Models for Chronic Disease Care
Research highlights how AI-driven predictive tools often favor younger and male patients while demonstrating inconsistent performance for older individuals. The study analyzed data from over 25,000 individuals with chronic diseases and found that age- and sex-related biases persist, raising concerns about fairness in AI-powered healthcare.
Our Team
Proven leaders in digital health, AI/ML, and behavioral science
15+ years building and scaling global health-tech ventures
PhDs in AI/ML, health informatics, data science, and psychology
Backed by advisors in public health, mental health, and digital health
Executed pharma and public-system implementations with Novo Nordisk, Merck, AbbVie, NIH, EU, and others
Meet the Team
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Ricardo C. Berrios
CEO & CO FOUNDER
Experienced healthcare leader who led the International Division of STANLEY Healthcare (a division of Stanley Black & Decker, NYSE: SWK) to 90% year-over-year growth and two successful venture exits. Holds two patents pending in Health Recommender Systems.
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Luis Fernandez Luque, PhD
CHIEF SCIENTIFIC OFFICER & CO FOUNDER
15 years of experience in health informatics and digital health across Europe, Asia, and North America. Former researcher at Harvard, CDC, and WHO, with over 80 peer-reviewed publications and 3,000+ citations.
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Juan Miguel Munoz Penas, PhD
HEAD OF FINANCE AND OPERATIONS
Industrial Engineer with a PhD in commercialization of service innovation (Marie Curie Fellow, University of Southern Denmark). Experienced in business process optimization, quality management, and operations across Europe—driving productivity and organizational excellence.
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Santiago Hors-Fraile, PhD
HEAD OF PRODUCT
Expert in digital therapeutics and behavior change design, integrating AI-driven personalization with scientific evidence. Leads the development of Adhera’s Health Recommender System and product quality processes, including ISO 13485 and ISO 27001 certification.
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Shannon McGinley
HEAD OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT & MARKETING
Marketing leader with a track record of scaling small to mid-sized companies through acquisition and driving brand growth at STANLEY Healthcare. Focused on mission-driven marketing in health, AI, and behavior change - where storytelling and impact align.
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Ana Rocío Conde, PhD
DIGITAL HEALTH/UX RESEARCHER
UX researcher specializing in patient- and caregiver-centered design for chronic conditions such as type 1 diabetes and obesity. Expert in qualitative and quantitative methods that generate actionable insights to guide product and clinical innovation.
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Sara Belón
PROJECT MANAGER
Over 8 years of experience in managing national and European research projects in collaboration with pharmaceutical companies. Specialist in financial control and administrative management of projects.
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Alberto Rincón
LEAD AI ENGINEER
Specialist in consulting, web development, and artificial intelligence models in production (MLOps). Head of the backend team.
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Alba Xifra-Porxas, PhD
DIGITAL HEALTH RESEARCHER
PhD in Biomedical Engineering. Experience in AI projects applied to brain imaging, physiological signals, and clinical data in academic, hospital, and industrial settings.
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Ioannis Bilionis
AI/DATA SCIENTIST
Data scientist and PhD student with experience in analysis and modelling in the technology and healthcare sectors. Participation in projects evaluating clinical interventions and analysing digital health performance data.
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Oscar Rodríguez, MD
CLINICAL RESEARCHER
Doctor with experience in digital health and mHealth research. University professor of anatomy and physiology. PhD candidate in Health Sciences with a focus on epidemiology.
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Paula Salinas
UX/UI DESIGNER
Graphic designer with experience in user-centred design and digital interface development in healthcare projects. Passionate UX/UI Designer skilled in user research, wireframing, prototyping, A/B Testing.
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Antonio Rodríguez, PhD
DATA SCIENTIST/DIGITAL HEALTH RESEARCH
Telecommunications Engineer with a Master's Degree in Biomedical Engineering, specialising in hardware design, data analysis, image and signal processing, computational modelling, and the synergy of these fields in biomedical engineering.
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We’re building the future of family-centered pediatric chronic care - powered by AI Health Agents and validated through clinical and real-world evidence.
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