RAD Medical LLC
The experienced clinician in the room.
My name is Alex Butler. I am a pediatric hospitalist and I work with early-stage health tech teams as their experienced clinician: the person who can tell you whether what you're building will hold up with real patients and providers.
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The problem I solve
A lot of clinical software works in the demo, but struggles in the clinic or the hospital.
In my experience, this is rarely because the team is doing something wrong. It comes down to dozens of small decisions that are made before launch and after, that fall on people who have never carried a pager or slept in a call room. My passion lies in helping teams take their ideas into practice, so we can be confident it is tried and tested before deployment.
What I bring
I still see patients
So when I tell you how a clinician will react to your product, I'm not reaching back ten years for it. It's what I was doing last week.
I've shipped product too
At River Records and Alcott, with fractional roles now at Tennr and Concordare Trials. I know what it costs to ship, so I won't hand you clinical feedback you can't actually build.
I know the systems
A master's in clinical informatics means I can get into the data, the workflow, and the EHR details with your team, not just the medicine.
Who this is for
Seed to Series B, with a clinical surface and no clinician on the team.
- Founders building something that touches real clinical decisions, who'd rather hear what a doctor thinks now than after launch.
- Investors who want a clinician's read on a company before the money goes out.
- Teams that need clinical credibility for a raise, a launch, or a regulator, but aren't ready to hire a full-time CMO.
How I think
I write about where clinical judgment meets what gets built.
A few questions keep pulling at me: when a human really needs to be in the loop, and when "human in the loop" is just there for the lawyers. Who's accountable when a system does exactly what it was built to do and the patient is still worse off. What happens to patients as AI works its way into the visit.
Building something clinical?
It's a lot cheaper to find the clinical problems before launch than after. Let's talk.