CEO at Miraka
Nolan Abeyta
Princeton '24, ex-competitive rower, eliminating cardiac readmissions at Miraka.
Questions & Answers
What inspired you to start your business?
I grew up around doctors and hospital administrators. As young as 10 years old, I was sitting around the dinner table listening to tirades about reactive care, so I learned early what frustrates doctors and what frustrates hospitals. Years later, in college, a close family member of mine had a heart attack, and I saw the direct implication of these rants. The total lack preventative care infrastructure was astounding. It was no longer an abstract problem. It was my uncle being unable to get the care or support he needed to recover. I'm building Miraka because I believe preventative care for cardiac patients should be frictionless and continuous, and that with advances in AI, we already have the tech to make that a reality.
What sets you apart from others in your industry?
Unlike virtual rehab or RPM, we deliver a broad spectrum of services that make us better at producing cost-savings for referring hospitals. Not only do we have a 3x impact on readmission rate over competitors, but we can also move the needle on other cost drivers like length of stay, discharge to skilled nursing facilities, and all these other metrics that hospitals care about. That drives patient referrals. Once we have patient distribution, our continuous risk models use real-time data to instantly route patients to other cost-optimal services, internal or external to Miraka. This allows us to eliminate the time between patient symptom and treatment (to produce better outcomes and catch emergencies early), but as the company grows, it also gives us a path to own that patient's entire care ecosystem outside the hospital.
