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ClinicalSim

About ClinicalSim

The communication intelligence platform for healthcare.

ClinicalSim gives clinicians and staff spoken practice with AI patients and measures each simulation against the standard your institution already holds.

Our mission

Our mission is to improve patient care through better clinical communication and make an extraordinarily hard job a little less hard.

Why we exist

Lauren Rissman, wearing a surgical mask with her eyes closed, holds her newborn daughter against her chest in the NICU. The baby is wrapped in a hospital blanket and has a feeding tube.
Lauren meeting Juniper for the first time.

I have been the physician at the bedside, the patient in the bed and an advocating mom in the NICU.

When I was bleeding to death after my daughter's pre-term delivery, the OB called my mother and told her, "We're doing all we can, but she's really sick." My mother is not in medicine. She hung up with more questions than answers, and she still didn't know I was dying. My husband, without medical training, advocated for hours before anyone listened to him, and his persistence is the reason I am alive today. None of that was a failure of knowledge or technical skill. It was language, which is the one thing we offer in nearly every encounter and the one thing we almost never practice. That is what ClinicalSim is for and why it matters: real conversations, out loud, with feedback specific enough to change what you say the next time you walk into a room.

My husband, the advocate who wasn't heard, is now the CEO of ClinicalSim. Our consulting and co-founding medical team consists of dedicated clinicians who are also program directors and educators. None of us are building this from the outside.

Lauren Rissman, MD

Chief Medical Officer

Board-certified in pediatrics, pediatric critical care medicine and hospice and palliative care medicine.

What ClinicalSim is

Participants practice in their browser, with nothing to install. Cases cover clinical conversations, patient service standards, and debriefing. Explore our use cases page.

Each case uses a published clinical framework or the institution's own policy, service standard, script, or rubric. Participants see what they did well and what to practice next, with their own words under every score.

Programs can review individual reports for agreed coaching, see cohort patterns for curriculum planning, and export reports under access rules set before launch.

ClinicalSim extends standardized patient programs with repeatable practice between live encounters. It doesn't replace live assessment or human judgment.

Every case uses a synthetic patient written from clinical literature rather than a patient record. The product still handles learner recordings, transcripts, account data, and institutional data, which require protection.

How we handle data

Start with one team and one standard

Tell us who would practice, what standard you already use, and how the results should be reported. We'll show you what one pilot cycle could look like.