Northeastern’s student health care startup is redefining the health care system

Two Northeastern students, dissatisfied with the overwork of health care workers they saw all around them, turned to technology to fix the problem.

Naomi Rajput, a fourth-year behavioral psychologist majoring in Spanish and American Sign Language, and Evan Smith, a Northeastern student who is currently on academic leave, founded the company AI healthcare.

Edenformerly known as CareWallet, is an AI-powered software that aims to connect healthcare patients with providers and simplify administrative tasks in healthcare. Eden is self-programminginsurance checks and patient screening, which can greatly reduce the administrative burden on health workers as well as help patients have an easy scheduling experience.

“We are focused on automating the medical process,” Rajput said. “We are looking at many different levels of automation, patient scheduling, patient intake, real-time insurance verification, billing to help make healthcare more accessible. [and] go.”

Rajput says Eden’s mission includes a focus on management tiredness in addition to helping patients have an easier time accessing the medical system. Eden’s main goal is to free up the time that scheduling and billing tasks take and hand over to patients.

“In the right situation, [the front desk] has poor patient interaction, [they are not] answering 10 billion calls while trying to diagnose patients. Appropriately [they] they can focus on one thing, assessing the patient in front of them,” Rajput said, adding that he hopes Eden allows for more automation, including referrals and to arrange.

In 2024, the Northeast welcomed Rajput into the arena Northeast Women Empowering Innovator Awards for his project to reduce stress among health care managers. Rajput, who worked at a digital health startup before Eden, says he feels focused on the medical side of the company as well as an important role as a co-founder.

Smith, co-founder of Rajput, said he agreed to do it targeted reforms to the US health care system – especially in the entry and administration processes in health care facilities.

“Simply put, Eden is the best solution [for healthcare],” said Smith. “There is an opportunity to create jobs worth $950 billion.”

Smith was drawn to the business startup side the first year he participated in the business program in Silicon Valley. The program focused on how technology is built and influences innovation nationally and globally.

In 2020, while studying in the Bay Area, Smith launched his first startup: A face mask and personal protective equipment (PPE) distribution company, Fair Air. Fair Air was it fast seller of KN95 masks during the COVID-19 pandemic.

For the fall cycle of 2024, Eden has just introduced its first co-op position, where third-year data science and mathematics major Tamhid Washy works as a technology product engineer.

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Both Smith and Rajput believe that Eden has the potential to be the future of the health care system.

“In the foreseeable future, Eden is everywhere in all doctors’ offices, whether it’s primary care [or] special care, [Eden] it’s everywhere,” said Rajput. “Eden is the future.”