The patient adherence layer

Patients can't follow a plan they never understood.

MAKAI Health turns patient health data — discharge notes, lab results, medication lists — into hand-drawn explainer whiteboard videos. So your care teams stop re-explaining, and your patients actually finish the plan.

Built with clinicians, for the metrics your board tracks
HIPAA Compliant SOC 2 Type II in progress BAA standard
New explainer videoAI · whiteboard
Patient scenario
Explain a new statin to a 64-year-old discharged after an MI — why it matters, when to take it, side effects to expect, and the red flags
📄 discharge-summary.pdf
Voice
🎙️ Warm — Maya
Format
📱 9:16
Style preset
✏️ Clinical Whiteboard
Est. generation time: 2–3 minutes · clinician review before release
statin clogged open 0:47
Your medication

Your new heart pill — and why it matters

30+ languages
⚡ Ready in minutes
Works with your EHR Epic Oracle Health MEDITECH athenahealth FHIR R4 HL7 v2 HIPAA Compliant
Outcomes that matter to your board

Adherence is the number under every other number.

Readmissions, Star Ratings, no-show rates, refill gaps — they all trace back to one thing: whether the patient understood and followed the plan. MAKAI moves that lever.

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Lift medication adherence (PDC).

A patient who sees why a drug matters fills the next refill. Visual, language-matched education has one of the strongest evidence bases for proportion-of-days-covered — and you can deploy it tomorrow without hiring an FTE.

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Cut no-shows and missed follow-ups.

Patients skip appointments they don't think they need. A 90-second video that explains what the follow-up is for turns a forgettable line on a packet into a reason to show up.

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Defend your quality measures.

Medication adherence triple-weights in Medicare Advantage Star Ratings. Standardized, on-demand patient education is a direct, auditable input to the measures your contracts depend on.

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Reduce avoidable readmissions.

Most CMS-penalized readmissions trace to something the patient was told but didn't understand. Discharge education they can rewatch — and share with the daughter who flew in — closes that gap.

The real failure mode
The plan was perfect. The patient just never followed it — because no one made it make sense.

A discharge summary is six pages of jargon. A medication list is eleven names a patient has never said out loud. A care plan assumes a reading level and a language the patient may not share.

So the patient nods, signs, and goes home — and the refill goes unfilled, the follow-up is missed, the symptom is ignored until it becomes an ED visit.

This isn't a clinical failure. It's a communication failure, and it's the most expensive one in healthcare. You can't out-staff it — there will never be enough discharge navigators, in enough languages, at enough literacy levels.

MAKAI Health generates the explanation that should have been there in the first place — on demand, in the patient's language, in the format they'll actually watch.

You take care of the care. We take care of the conversation that has to happen around it — so the plan you wrote is the plan the patient actually lives.

How it works

Three steps. Minutes, not months.

From a record in your EHR to a video in your patient's hand — without adding a single workflow for your clinicians.

01

Connect to your data.

We integrate with Epic, Oracle Health, MEDITECH, athenahealth and any HL7 / FHIR-compliant system. Implementation runs in weeks, not quarters. PHI never leaves your perimeter.

02

AI draws the explainer.

In under five minutes, MAKAI produces a narrated whiteboard animation — diagnosis, medication, mechanism, red flags, follow-up — at the right health-literacy level, in 30+ languages. A clinician reviews before release.

03

Deliver where patients are.

SMS, email, patient portal, MyChart, or a printed QR on the discharge packet. The video meets patients on the channel they already use — and they can rewatch and share it.

A use case in depth

From a heart-failure discharge summary to a video patients finish.

Heart failure is the most readmission-penalized diagnosis in the country — and nearly every avoidable readmission traces to a self-care step the patient was told but never absorbed. Here's the same discharge, rebuilt as a video.

1 The input — real clinical data
DISCHARGE SUMMARYDE-IDENTIFIED
Patient71 F
Discharge DxAcute decompensated heart failure, HFrEF (LVEF 32%)
Stay4 days · discharged home
Active medications
Furosemide 40 mg — PO daily
Carvedilol 6.25 mg — PO BID
Lisinopril 10 mg — PO daily
Spironolactone 25 mg — PO daily
Self-care instructions
Weigh daily, same time. Report gain >3 lb/day or >5 lb/week.
Sodium <2 g/day · fluids <1.5 L/day.
Follow-up
Cardiology — 7 days  ·  Primary care — 14 days
Source: Epic · FHIR R4✓ Parsed in 0:00:09
2 The output — a 3:32 whiteboard video
182 Up 3+ lb overnight? Call your care team — right away. Same scale, same time, daily.
CHAPTER 3 / 5 · NOW PLAYING
English ▾

“A 3-pound jump overnight means fluid is building up — that's your signal to call.”

1:24 / 3:32
0:00
CH 1
What heart failure means
0:38
CH 2
Your 4 daily medications
1:24
CH 3
Daily weights — your warning sign
2:10
CH 4
Salt, fluids & meals
2:46
CH 5
When to call, when to go
92%

Finished the whole video

Compared with roughly 1 in 3 patients who get through a printed discharge packet.

2.7×

More likely to weigh in daily

Self-reported daily weight logging at week 2, versus a paper-only control group.

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Projected 30-day HF readmissions

Modeled against the discharge cohort of a 600-bed system using its own case mix.

Figures are illustrative early-pilot and modeled estimates — real impact tracks each system's baseline and case mix. We build the model on your data before you commit.

Also commonly generated
New statin after a heart attack
CARDIAC · 1:32
Insulin pen, step by step
DIABETES · 2:05
Using your COPD inhaler
RESPIRATORY · 1:48
Starting a blood thinner safely
ANTICOAGULATION · 2:20
Where teams deploy it

One layer. Every adherence touchpoint.

Each deployment delivers measurable ROI. Start with medication and discharge education — expand as the numbers move.

01 / Medication education

The "why" behind every prescription

Turn a new prescription into a short video that explains what it does, how to take it, and what to expect — the difference between a filled refill and a silent gap.

02 / Discharge education

A plan patients can rewatch

Replace six pages of paperwork with a 90-second video patients keep, rewatch, and share with caregivers — reducing readmissions and missed follow-ups.

03 / Lab & results explanation

Results without the panic call

Turn complex lab and imaging reports into simple explanations — reducing confusion, anxious portal messages, and after-hours call volume.

04 / Chronic care & check-ins

Adherence that lasts past discharge

Send recurring explainer updates for diabetes, hypertension, CHF and more — keeping patients engaged with a plan long after the visit ends.

Built for healthcare procurement

Answered before legal asks.

Every requirement your security, IT, and compliance teams will raise — addressed before the conversation begins.

Compliance

HIPAA compliant. SOC 2 Type II in progress. BAA standard. Detailed audit logs on every video generated.

Deployment

Cloud, private cloud, or on-premise. PHI processing can be confined entirely to your environment.

Integration

Native connectors for Epic, Oracle Health, MEDITECH and athenahealth, plus standard FHIR R4 and HL7 v2.

Clinician oversight

Every video is reviewable, editable, and approvable by a credentialed clinician before it reaches a patient.

Security

End-to-end encryption, role-based access control, and full audit trails on every action.

Pricing

Per-patient or per-bed annual licensing with volume tiers for IDNs and large systems. Pilot pricing for first deployments.

Who we work with

For every team measured on adherence.

If a patient following the plan is part of how your team is judged, MAKAI is built for you.

Acute Care Hospitals

Reduce readmissions, lift discharge understanding, and improve HCAHPS through clearer patient communication.

Health Systems & IDNs

Standardize patient education across every facility with consistent, scalable explanations for every patient.

Health Plans & ACOs

Protect medication-adherence Star measures and close care gaps at the member level, in any language.

Specialty Pharmacy

Improve persistence on complex, high-cost therapies with onboarding videos patients finish and revisit.

Skilled Nursing & Post-Acute

Simplify high-acuity transitions, support care continuity, and keep families informed and aligned.

Outpatient & Ambulatory

Increase follow-up adherence and reduce post-visit confusion with clear, sharable take-home explainers.

★ And the teams building what's next

Digital Health Startups

RPM, virtual care, digital therapeutics, care navigation — your product lives or dies on engagement and adherence. Embed MAKAI as your patient-education layer and ship explainer videos without standing up a content team.

Remote monitoring Virtual care Digital therapeutics API-embeddable
FAQ

Everything before you start.

MAKAI connects to your EHR or accepts a de-identified document. It reads the patient's clinical data, generates a narrated hand-drawn whiteboard video tailored to their diagnosis, medications and literacy level, and routes it for clinician review before delivery to the patient by SMS, portal, or QR code.

Patients follow plans they understand and remember. A short, visual, language-matched explainer that a patient can rewatch and share consistently outperforms printed handouts on comprehension and recall — the upstream drivers of refill behavior, follow-up attendance, and self-management.

Yes. MAKAI is HIPAA compliant, supports secure deployment in cloud, private cloud, or on-premise, and can confine PHI processing entirely to your environment. A BAA is standard, with full audit logging on every generation.

Every video is reviewable, editable, and approvable by a credentialed clinician before it reaches a patient. You set the approval workflow — from per-video sign-off to template-level pre-approval for common scenarios.

Implementation is measured in weeks, not quarters. Many teams begin with a document-upload pilot in days, then move to a native EHR integration once the value is proven.

MAKAI generates narrated videos in 30+ languages at multiple health-literacy levels, so the same plan reaches the patient, the spouse, and the family member who speaks a different language at home.

See it on your own data

Send us one de-identified discharge summary.

Within 24 hours we'll return the finished whiteboard video, an adherence-impact model based on your case mix, and a deployment plan for your first unit. No commitment required.