# MiiHealth AI secures $2.8M seed funding to expand AI patient intake automation for healthcare providers

> MiiHealth AI closed a $2.8 million seed round on August 5, led by Russell Glass, the former CEO of Headspace, alongside a group of physician angels and healthcare operators. The startup is building DAINA, an agentic AI assistant aimed squarely at one of medicine's most tedious bottlenecks, patient intake. DAINA calls patients in their preferred language, captures a structured clinical history using specialty-specific protocols, and writes notes directly into the electronic health record. The pitch is capacity without headcount, since by handling the intake conversation and documentation, the company says it gives providers back more than two hours a day. It is a small round, but a telling one. Some of the most durable near-term AI wins in healthcare are unglamorous workflow automations like this rather than diagnosis, and investors backing operators over hype suggests a bet on tools clinicians will actually adopt. Whether DAINA holds up across specialties and EHR systems is the thing to watch.

_Section: [AI Funding Tracker](https://www.wortins.com/funding) · Source: AZBio · Published Tuesday, August 25, 2026_

## Wortins' read

MiiHealth AI closed a $2.8 million seed round on August 5, led by Russell Glass, the former CEO of Headspace, alongside a group of physician angels and healthcare operators. The startup is building DAINA, an agentic AI assistant aimed squarely at one of medicine's most tedious bottlenecks, patient intake. DAINA calls patients in their preferred language, captures a structured clinical history using specialty-specific protocols, and writes notes directly into the electronic health record. The pitch is capacity without headcount, since by handling the intake conversation and documentation, the company says it gives providers back more than two hours a day. It is a small round, but a telling one. Some of the most durable near-term AI wins in healthcare are unglamorous workflow automations like this rather than diagnosis, and investors backing operators over hype suggests a bet on tools clinicians will actually adopt. Whether DAINA holds up across specialties and EHR systems is the thing to watch.

## 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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