ThetaRho RISA

What does RISA do, according to its page?

The RISA page describes four functions. Retrieve answers questions from vitals, labs, medications, notes, imaging and documents drawn from the EHR, CommonWell, TEFCA and health information exchanges, reading PDFs, CCDAs and scans. Investigate searches literature, guidelines and drug databases with citations. Synthesize produces pre-visit and since-last-visit summaries, timelines and care gaps. Act drafts notes, referral summaries, prior-authorization justifications and billing recommendations, with physician approval required.

The page says every claim is marked grounded (traced to the chart) or ungrounded (needs validation), and lists editions for cardiology, oncology, primary care, gynecology, pulmonology and gastroenterology.

What is the CIS appliance?

The homepage says CIS "runs local AI models and apps on one appliance inside your network". CIS-1 is for one to three providers, CIS-2 for a department and CIS-3 for a health system or research network. The vendor says PHI never leaves the network and air-gapped operation is possible, and that AI runs on the appliance's GPUs with fixed costs and no per-token billing. A demo is booked through Calendly.

Which EHRs, and what security status?

The vendor names no EHR on its homepage, About page or RISA page, only CommonWell, TEFCA and connected exchanges, and it does not name FHIR. CB Insights calls the product FHIR-native. HIPAA and SOC 2 status is unconfirmed. Neither FDA nor CE status is stated.

Who is ThetaRho?

Search profiles from CB Insights and Nasdaq Private Market place ThetaRho.ai in San Jose, California, founded in 2023, with Kannan Govindarajan as CEO and founder and Ramani Narayan on the board. PitchBook lists a $750K early-stage deal and ten employees. A CB Insights item mentions an athenahealth Marketplace partnership that the vendor's site does not confirm. The homepage carries three unnamed physician testimonials.

The verdict

Whether RISA is still sold on its own, or only inside a CIS appliance, is not stated on the homepage. The buyer the pages describe is a team that wants chart questions answered by models running on its own network.