Clinical data
Complete-record intelligence
We link and analyze waveforms, monitor data, laboratory results, health records, and clinical text to measure the problem and find actionable signal.
Afferent Health
afferent - /ˈafərənt/ - adj. conducting signals toward a central structure.
Afferent Health is an independent scientific and clinical R&D intelligence firm.We enable health systems, federal partners, and technology teams to transform complex clinical data into deployable decision-support capabilities by integrating advanced ML/AI development with the specialized expertise and personnel required for execution.
Team
D. K. Adrian Williams, MSc
MD-PhD Candidate
Computational Neuroscientist
Multimodal Clinical AI & Signal Processing
Founder & Principal
Joseph Scarpa, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Fellowship-Trained Liver Transplant Anesthesiologist
Computational Biologist & Multi-omics Scientist
NIA-Funded Principal Investigator
Medical Specialist
Ruben Coen-Cagli, PhD
Associate Professor of Systems & Computational Biology, Neuroscience, & Ophthalmology
Physicist & Computational Neuroscientist
NIH/NEI-Funded Principal Investigator
Scientific/AI Specialist
Capabilities
From complex clinical data to evidence, validation, and usable decision support.
Afferent provides the clinical and scientific workstream needed to define the problem, build the solution, and prove it works in practice.
Clinical AI
Physiological models and decision support
We build models from raw physiological signals and the clinical record, then translate them into monitoring, prediction, and decision-support tools.
Validation and delivery
Evidence that holds up in practice
We test performance, safety, bias, and reliability across patients and sites. For prime-led federal teams, we define the clinical workflow, validation plan, acceptance measures, and specialist support needed to deliver.
Partners
Clinical and scientific solutioning inside an experienced federal delivery team.
Afferent leads clinical problem formulation, evidence, modeling, validation, acceptance metrics, and the specialized subject-matter expertise required for each work package. Prime partners lead account and capture management, proposal production, pricing, contracts, IT architecture, secure integration, application delivery, sustainment, and transition. Task-specific clinicians and scientists are engaged under appropriate agreements and confidentiality flow-downs.
New York, NY