As part of the HBS Summer Fellows Program, the Social Enterprise Accelerator is offered to students in the summer between their first and second year, supporting student founders in the development of their social impact startup. During the summer of 2025, ten student founders benefitted from social entrepreneurship workshops, peer-led founder circle sessions, as well as the insights and feedback from their cohort.
Tell us about your venture.
I’m working with a friend from college, a physician in training, to build MediSimplify: an AI copilot for patient-provider communication.
Healthcare providers spend over10% of their workday writing to patients, which is an unpaid task associated with burnout and turnover. To tackle this, we’re creating an AI copilot for healthcare providers that drafts medically accurate, contextually aware, and patient-friendly handouts and message replies.
Our goal is to save providers time on writing so that they can reallocate that time to more billable activities, while also helping their patients better understand their health information. We aim to make patient communication more efficient, effective, and personalized.
What is the focus of your work this summer?
This summer, I focused on exploring which specific value propositions resonate most with healthcare providers, determining the types of healthcare providers that see the most value in MediSimplify, and further building out our software to support more users and clinics. This has involved a lot of dialogue with those in the medical field. Simultaneously, we’ve been upgrading our infrastructure to become a reliable platform that physicians can trust for patient communications. Building in the healthtech space, it is incredibly important to build something that is trustworthy to providers and fits into their existing workflows, so we’ve appreciated our partners’ input and continued engagement!
What have you learned this summer?
One of the key lessons that I learned this summer is the importance of knowing my “why.” Entrepreneurship is full of ups and downs, but staying grounded in purpose has kept me going.
My “why” for building MediSimplify is rooted in my experience as a patient, as well as the provider perspective I see through my co-founder. When I first moved to the U.S. from Japan, I had to learn the complex medical terminology that my parents and I heard at the doctor’s office – all while still learning English. I always wondered why there weren't more patient-friendly and easy-to-understand communications. Through my co-founder, however, I see that providers are often strapped for time and resources, even if they want to provide more robust communication. I am incredibly excited to be building MediSimplify to bridge this gap.
How has the SE Accelerator supported your work and learning?
The SE Accelerator has been essential in giving me a place to meet and engage with impact-oriented students and alumni. Through the accelerator, I have had a group of fellow student founders that I got to catch up with every week. Sharing our wins and challenges during our Founder Circles has been incredibly inspiring, despite us working in different fields and geographies. In addition, I’ve really appreciated the opportunity to meet with social enterprise initiative alumni over the summer and hearing why they decided to pursue the careers that they have.
What’s next?
We are looking to pilot MediSimplify with more primary care clinics that are looking to streamline patient communication and deliver stronger patient education. We're also looking for additional team members who are excited about our mission and want to help us bring MediSimplify to more patients and providers. If you or anyone you know is interested in learning more, feel free to share our website and my LinkedIn!
Website: https://www.medisimplify-ai.com/
