About Plainvue

Physician-founded.

Grounded in evidence.

Plainvue was built by a surgeon who spent thirty years reading other people’s lab reports for a living, and who also happened to build one of the largest health information platforms on the internet. Both of those things had to be true for this product to exist.
Why we exist

The numbers arrive. The meaning does not.

Every year, hundreds of millions of lab reports land in patient portals with a value, a range, and a flag. The patient is left Googling their red numbers. The physician is left with a queue of messages. And the follow-up, when it happens, is often a scattershot of tests ordered one at a time, at a cost nobody can predict. The knowledge to do better exists. It has just never been written down in a form software could use.

Plainvue writes it down. Our engine encodes how lab tests depend on one another, our Clarity AI applies physician judgment to decide what matters and how much, and every value is explained in plain language for patients and clinical depth for physicians. Patents pending.

Three Principles

What we believe.

  • Physician-written, not machine-guessed.

    Every description, threshold, and rule in Plainvue was written or approved by a physician and tied to published guidelines. The AI applies that knowledge. It doesn’t invent it.

  • Calm about small things, serious about serious things.

    Most flagged values are minor. Some are not. A system that treats them the same either frightens people or lulls them. Plainvue sorts every finding by how a physician would actually act on it.

  • Fewer tests, ordered on purpose.

    The right follow-up is the smallest set of tests that answers the question, on one draw, with the coding attached. Not a cascade.

Built for everyone who hands a doctor or a patient a lab report.

Plainvue serves two audiences with one engine. The physician view carries the interpretation, the ranked differential, the next labs, and the ICD-10 coding. The patient view carries the plain-language explanation and what happens next. A partner can deliver either, or both, from the same clinical logic, so the doctor and the patient never see two different answers. Plainvue isn’t a consumer app or a hospital system. It’s the interpretation and follow-up layer that sits behind whatever already delivers lab work, through an API and white-label modules, so the partner keeps the brand, the relationship, and the data. That makes the list of organizations we serve a long one.

Laboratory information systems.

The most natural home for Plainvue. An LIS already assembles every report a lab sends to a physician, which is exactly where the physician view belongs: an interpretation, a tier, a ranked differential, and coded follow-up attached to every report, with no change to the workflow inside the lab. No patient relationship required. The patient view is there for any LIS client that later adds patient delivery.

Laboratories, large and small.

National reference labs, regional and hospital labs, and direct-to-consumer testing companies. A lab that delivers understanding along with the numbers stands apart from one that delivers numbers alone, and purpose-built workup panels give it a product for the secondary workup that screening panels were never designed for.

Health systems and hospitals.

From a single community hospital to a multi-state system. Every abnormal value in the portal becomes a plain-language explanation for the patient and a tiered, coded follow-up for the physician, which means fewer portal messages, fewer missed follow-ups, and fewer unnecessary orders.

Physician practices and physician-facing platforms.

Primary care, specialty groups, telehealth, concierge and longevity practices, and the EHR and practice-management platforms that serve them. Plainvue puts the differential, the next labs, and the coding in front of the physician at the moment of review, on every lab test, not just the ones inside their own specialty.

Patient-facing healthcare companies.

Portals, consumer health and wellness apps, wearable and biomarker platforms, pharmacies and retail clinics with lab services, and employer health programs. Any company that shows a person a lab value owes them an explanation. Plainvue provides one, written by a physician, at a tenth-grade reading level, with a clear answer to what happens next.

Payers and value-based care organizations.

Health plans, ACOs, and risk-bearing physician groups get follow-up that is rationed by guideline, coded at the point of order, and consistent from patient to patient. The difference between a cascade of tests and the right test.

Canada and international partners.

Plainvue is built for regulated markets outside the US, starting with Canada. It runs as a private, self-hosted system deployed inside the partner’s own country, so patient data never leaves the jurisdiction and data-residency rules are met by design. Every interpretation is deterministic, cited, and logged, giving Canadian labs, health systems, and LIS vendors the audit trail that PIPEDA and provincial statutes like Ontario’s PHIPA require. The same architecture meets the requirements of other national health systems, and we work with each partner to satisfy their jurisdiction’s rules before launch.

If an organization delivers lab tests to a patient or a physician, Plainvue makes those tests understood and acted on.
Our Team

Built by people who have done this before.

Our founder and leadership team are deeply experienced in both clinical medicine and healthcare technology, and have been for decades. We’ve practiced medicine at the highest volume in the world, built and sold healthcare internet companies, founded a hospital, published hundreds of peer-reviewed papers, taught surgeons and finance students, and built the digital systems large organizations run on. We’ve watched healthcare evolve from inside the operating room, and we helped build online health from the first year the commercial internet existed. Plainvue is what happens when those two vantage points sit at the same table.