Every patient deserves the
right diagnosis.
I built a tool to put expert clinical reasoning in every exam room — and I need your help to get it there. Your support at this early stage makes everything that follows possible.
Why I built this
A problem I've watched happen for 20 years
As a Black woman in medicine and public health, I've seen firsthand how knowledge gaps, bias, and structural inequities shape who gets diagnosed — and who doesn't. After working with hundreds of students and patients over two decades, I kept watching the same preventable failures unfold.
Low-income patients. Black patients. Women. People with complex conditions. All significantly more likely to experience diagnostic delay — and all the harm that follows. I decided to do something about it.
"Clinical reasoning takes years to develop — but patients deserve accurate, timely diagnosis right now. AI makes it possible to put expert reasoning in every exam room, today."
— Dr. Sharon Thompson, MD, MPH, FACOG
Real cases. Real failures.
These aren't statistics. These are patients I've seen.
Endometriosis left undiagnosed after 5 years of documented pelvic pain complaints.
Psychosis dismissed as "hormones out of whack" — a framing no male patient would have received.
Lichen simplex treated with a topical cream repeatedly for 3 years — the underlying condition never investigated.
Low-income patients, Black patients, women, and those with complex diseases face the highest rates of delayed and missed diagnosis.
The problem
Diagnostic error is the #1 patient safety threat in America
Delayed diagnoses cost lives and dollars
A single delayed diagnosis can cost one patient between $86,000 and $517,000 in avoidable medical expenses — on top of the physical harm.
Disparities are built into the system
Clinician bias — often unconscious — shapes which symptoms "count" and which patients get thorough workups. The current system has no structural check on this.
Clinical reasoning takes years to build
Expert diagnostic thinking develops over decades. But the patients in front of every resident, NP, and PA today can't wait for that expertise to accumulate.
Americans experience death or serious disability from diagnostic error or delay every year
That's not a rounding error. It's the size of a major American city — lost or permanently harmed annually, from a problem that is largely preventable with better clinical decision support.
Our solution
Access Diagnosis: expert reasoning
in every exam room
A clinician enters a symptom or clinical scenario in plain language. Access Diagnosis returns a complete 9-part diagnostic framework — instantly — drawing on AI to surface the same structured reasoning an expert physician would apply. Every use is also a learning opportunity that builds clinical judgment over time.
Structured history
Targeted questions to gather the right information fast
Focused exam
Specific physical exam components relevant to the presentation
Labs & imaging
Recommended workup ordered by diagnostic priority
Differential diagnosis
Structured Dx list ranked by clinical likelihood
Patient counseling
Key talking points for the clinical encounter
Evidence-based references
Peer-reviewed citations supporting the framework
Clinical guidelines
Linked ACOG, WHO, and specialty society guidance
Treatment options
Evidence-based management by diagnosis
Patient education
Curated resources to share directly with patients
Why your support matters now
We're at the moment where early supporters make all the difference
The MVP is built and working. Access Diagnosis is live. This isn't a concept — it's a functional product with real users that needs resources to grow.
Friends-and-family support signals confidence. Institutional funders and grant committees look at whether the people who know you best have invested. Your support is evidence the mission is real.
Every dollar goes further at this stage. $500 now funds a month of platform operations. The same $500 at a later stage is a rounding error in a larger budget.
You become part of the founding story. The clinicians and patients helped by Access Diagnosis will exist, in part, because of what you did here.
Roadmap
Reach 250 beta users, launch 1–2 institutional pilots, refine AI output and UI/UX
500 active users, pilot data published, present at 3–5 conferences, launch paid subscriptions
Institutional contracts, grant funding, expanded specialty coverage, national reach
How to help financially
Choose the level of impact
that's right for you
All In Together Now is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Donations are tax-deductible. Every dollar goes directly to building the product, reaching clinicians, and launching pilots.
Friend
$240
Sponsors one full year of Access Diagnosis for a nurse practitioner or physician assistant who can't afford the subscription. A direct gift to a frontline clinician and their patients.
Donate $240Supporter
$500
Covers one month of platform operations — the cloud hosting and AI model costs that keep Access Diagnosis running for every user. The lights stay on because of you.
Donate $500Champion
$1,500
Sponsors our presence at a health or health-tech conference — where clinicians, educators, and institutional partners first learn about Access Diagnosis. Visibility creates adoption.
Donate $1,500Innovator
$5,000+
Funds clinical validation — the physician review and data analysis that makes Access Diagnosis credible to hospitals and health systems. This is what opens institutional doors.
Donate $5,000+Give any amount
Every contribution counts. Give what feels right to you.
Sponsor something specific
Prefer to fund a concrete line item? Here's what your dollars cover directly.
Other Ways to Make a Difference
Money is just one way to help. We're at a stage where every connection and conversation matters as much as capital. Any one of these actions has real impact — and costs nothing.
Make an introduction
Know a clinical program director, clinic administrator, or health-tech investor? One warm introduction opens doors that months of cold outreach can't.
Send introduction emailShare the story
A personal post on LinkedIn, Instagram, or even a text to the right person carries more weight than any ad we could run. Tell them why this matters to you.
Share on LinkedInWrite a testimonial
If you work in healthcare, education, business, or tech — a brief statement in your own words carries real credibility for grants and institutional outreach.
Submit a testimonialBe a beta user
Try the platform and give honest feedback. Refer clinician colleagues. Early testimonials from students and clinicians carry real weight with investors and collaborators.
Try Access DiagnosisContribute your skills
Work in law, accounting, marketing, design, tech, or HR? A few hours of your expertise goes a very long way for a bootstrapped startup at this stage.
Offer your skillsBe a sounding board
15 minutes of your knowledge and lived experience is valuable market research. Your perspective — especially if you've navigated the healthcare system — genuinely matters.
Schedule a conversationAbout
All In Together Now
Sharon Thompson, MD, MPH, FACOG
— Founder & CEO
Dr. Thompson is a board-certified OB-GYN and public health physician with 20 years of clinical practice and medical education in Phoenix, Arizona. She holds a BA from Vassar College, an MPH from UC Berkeley, and an MD from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, with residency training at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's and Massachusetts General Hospitals.
She is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Arizona School of Medicine. With no technical background, she independently designed the architecture, user interface, and MVP for Access Diagnosis — driven entirely by what she has witnessed for two decades at the intersection of medicine, inequity, and missed opportunity.
All In Together Now exists to co-create a world where everyone who interacts with the healthcare system has equal access to optimal health outcomes.Other projects include: