Thea
Our mission

We're giving healthcare back its most human moment

Zenthea exists for one reason: so that when a clinician sits with a patient, nothing comes between them. Not a screen, not a form, not the system. The technology should disappear. The care should not.

The problem

Clinical software was built for billing, not for care

For two decades, clinical software turned clinicians into data-entry clerks. The result is burnout, late-night charting, and patients who feel unseen. AI can take that weight off, but only if something keeps it safe. That is the harness.

What we believe
“If we make the administrative layer invisible, clinicians get their attention back, and patients get their clinician back. That's not a feature. It's the whole point.”
The founding belief behind Zenthea
How we build

Four principles guide every decision

01

The clinician commits, always

The model suggests and the harness constrains, but a clinician reviews and commits every clinical action. AI is a capable co-worker, never the decision-maker.

02

Model-agnostic by design

Models keep changing. The harness and orchestrator do not depend on any one of them, so the clinical work stays stable while the model underneath can change.

03

Compliant by design

HIPAA compliance isn't bolted on. Deny-by-default access and append-only audit are part of the architecture, which is ONC certification-ready with data modelled on USCDI.

04

Voice-first, beside the clinician

Thea works the way care happens: spoken, in the room, on the move. A digital co-worker that is quiet, warm, and gets out of the way.

The team

The people building Zenthea

Decades of building and scaling companies, pointed at a problem we've each watched up close. Nobody ships clinical software from the sidelines here.

Brett Stevenson
Brett
Stevenson
Co-founder & CEO

Zenthea started at home; watching my wife lose her evenings to EMR documentation instead of our family, and I'm putting 25 years of building and scaling companies behind fixing it.

Øystein Barhaughøgda
Øystein
Barhaughøgda
Co-founder & CTO

25 years executive experience with business and product development.

Asaf Mashiach
Asaf
Mashiach
Co-founder and CMO

Over a decade of sales, marketing, and business development leadership, from startup growth to enterprise strategy.

See the harness at work

Zenthea is built and live, with a patient app and a multi-tenant platform. Talk to the team about what the harness can do.

Talk to the team