Recorded at HLTH Europe in Amsterdam, this Day 24 podcast episode features a conversation with Declan Kelly, a former emergency physician turned software engineer and health tech entrepreneur from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Declan is the founder and CEO of Eolas Medical, a company providing site-specific, AI-powered knowledge management tools for clinicians at the point of care.

Declan shares his journey from clinical practice to software development, driven by the recurring challenge clinicians face: accessing trusted, accurate, and institution-specific medical knowledge in real time during patient care. What began as a side project turned into a rapidly adopted platform, now used by over 500 hospitals and physician practices.

Originally a text- and video-based knowledge management platform, Eolas evolved with the emergence of large language models (LLMs) . Today, it offers agentic document extraction, combining generative AI, predictive analytics, and computer vision.

Unique feature: visual grounding allows clinicians to see exactly where an AI-generated answer came from within a guideline using bounding boxes - boosting trust and transparency.

Eolas Medical is developing an API that integrates with ambient scribe tools and EHRs, enabling real-time retrieval of internal and external guidelines during patient documentation.

The platform supports use cases ranging from emergency care to oncology and pediatrics, with a special emphasis on speed, accuracy, and adherence to local clinical guidelines.

Eolas is now focused on scaling in the U.S., emphasizing a bottom-up, department-first distribution strategy. The company has strong ties to the Catalyst innovation hub in Belfast and is building bridges with innovation ecosystems like Nashville.

Declan sees the next wave of innovation after ambient documentation tools as AI-ready knowledge bases. He distinguishes Eolas from others by focusing on internal, institution-specific protocols, rather than general medical research.

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