# MiiHealth AI closes $2.8M seed round for autonomous patient intake

> MiiHealth AI has closed a $2.8 million seed round led by Russell Glass, founder of Arteria Capital and the former CEO of Headspace. The startup's product, an assistant called DAINA, autonomously phones patients before appointments, conducts a clinical intake in the patient's preferred language, and generates notes ready to drop into an electronic health record. The pitch is aimed at one of healthcare's most stubborn drains: paperwork. MiiHealth claims DAINA gives back more than two hours per provider each day and saves over eight minutes per cardiology encounter in a Mayo Clinic deployment, numbers that, if they hold up, translate directly into more time with patients or shorter waits. It is a small round, but it sits at an interesting frontier. Voice AI that talks to real patients about their health carries obvious risks around accuracy and trust, and intake is a comparatively safe place to start, gathering information rather than giving diagnoses. The funding will expand the engineering team, add specialty protocols, and push deeper EHR integrations, the unglamorous plumbing that decides whether tools like this actually get used.

_Section: [AI Funding Tracker](https://www.wortins.com/funding) · Source: AZBio · Published Sunday, August 16, 2026_

## Wortins' read

MiiHealth AI has closed a $2.8 million seed round led by Russell Glass, founder of Arteria Capital and the former CEO of Headspace. The startup's product, an assistant called DAINA, autonomously phones patients before appointments, conducts a clinical intake in the patient's preferred language, and generates notes ready to drop into an electronic health record. The pitch is aimed at one of healthcare's most stubborn drains: paperwork. MiiHealth claims DAINA gives back more than two hours per provider each day and saves over eight minutes per cardiology encounter in a Mayo Clinic deployment, numbers that, if they hold up, translate directly into more time with patients or shorter waits. It is a small round, but it sits at an interesting frontier. Voice AI that talks to real patients about their health carries obvious risks around accuracy and trust, and intake is a comparatively safe place to start, gathering information rather than giving diagnoses. The funding will expand the engineering team, add specialty protocols, and push deeper EHR integrations, the unglamorous plumbing that decides whether tools like this actually get used.

## Source

[Read the full story at AZBio](https://www.azbio.org/miihealth-ai-closes-2-8m-seed-round-to-reinvent-patient-intake-and-give-providers-back-two-hours-a-day/)

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