Research at ChatDok

Building the Evidence and Infrastructure for Continuous Care

At ChatDok, research is not separate from healthcare delivery. From conversational AI and remote monitoring to multicenter clinical trials and emerging digital-twin technology, our goal is to translate advanced AI into continuous, personalized, and clinically responsible healthcare.

Research Spans 4 Connected Areas
AI InfrastructureSafety & ReliabilityClinical ValidationNext-Generation Care
ChatDok ResearchActive Clinical Cohorts
EU / DE
ChatDok Clinical AI Research
Multicenter RCT Portfolio
Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial

Evaluating an AI-assisted digital chronic care platform combining remote monitoring, patient engagement, and physician oversight in heart failure and coronary artery disease.

Translational Science

From AI Models to Real-World Care

Research designed for translation

Healthcare AI cannot be evaluated by model performance alone. It must work with patients, clinicians, clinical workflows, healthcare data, interoperability requirements, and real-world constraints.

Artificial Intelligence

Multimodal AI, conversational AI, predictive analytics, medical reasoning, remote monitoring, and specialized clinical AI components for continuous cardiovascular care.

Safety

Guardrails, validation pipelines, hallucination control, monitoring, and human oversight.

Clinical Science

Clinical validation, prospective evaluation, randomized controlled trials, and evidence generation.

Healthcare Infrastructure

EHR integration, longitudinal patient data, interoperability, privacy, and scalable digital care workflows.

Translational Innovation

New approaches such as personalized modeling and digital twins that can support the next generation of clinical decision-making.

AI Infrastructure

Cura: The AI Infrastructure Behind ChatDok

Cura is ChatDok's AI infrastructure for healthcare. Rather than relying on a single general-purpose model, the architecture combines specialized AI components designed for different clinical and operational tasks. The current Cura 2.1 architecture uses a 2.7T+ parameter constellation framework together with specialized support models and deterministic safeguards. The objective is not simply to build a larger model. It is to build an AI system that can operate responsibly within healthcare workflows.

Medical conversation
Multimodal patient interaction
Clinical information processing
Image understanding
Risk and trend analysis
Patient personalization
Care coordination
Safety and verification
Cura 2.1 AI Infrastructure Architecture
Safety & Reliability

AI Safety Is a Clinical Requirement

Intelligent systems must also know their limits

Generative AI introduces significant opportunities in healthcare — and significant risks. ChatDok's research therefore places safety and reliability at the center of the platform architecture.

Responsible AI Constraints

Define what the system can and cannot do within a healthcare context.

Medical Verification

Support AI outputs with structured validation and medically grounded information.

Hallucination Control

Develop methods to reduce unsupported or misleading medical outputs.

Deterministic Guardrails

Use controlled logic and predefined constraints around sensitive clinical workflows.

Validation Pipelines

Continuously evaluate AI behavior across relevant healthcare scenarios.

Human Oversight

Keep appropriate clinical decisions within the responsibility of qualified healthcare professionals.

ChatDok Safety & Governance Architecture
Case Study & Publications

Research Into Safer Medical AI

From principles to measurable reliability

Our work on medical AI safety includes research into robust hallucination control for generative AI. We investigate how healthcare AI systems can better distinguish between:

What is knownWhat is uncertainWhat requires verification

This is particularly important when AI is used in patient-facing or clinically relevant environments.

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Implementing Robust Hallucination Control for Medical LLMs: A ChatDok Case Study

Peer-reviewed technical methodology for deterministic medical verification and strict hallucination mitigation pipelines in clinical LLMs.

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Evidence Generation

Clinical Validation: Evidence in Real Patients

From promising technology to clinical evidence

Healthcare AI ultimately needs evidence in real patients and real clinical environments. ChatDok is therefore building an evidence base through clinical research and validation programs across its platform.

Real-World Clinical Environments

Testing technology within actual healthcare workflows rather than isolated technical demonstrations.

Prospective Evaluation

Measuring how AI-supported care performs over time.

Randomized Controlled Research

Evaluating clinical interventions against predefined outcomes where appropriate.

Patient & Clinician Experience

Understanding usability, engagement, workflow impact, and adoption alongside clinical measures.

Health & Economic Outcomes

Where appropriate, evaluating outcomes such as utilization, adherence, follow-up workload, and healthcare resource use.

Flagship Clinical Research

ChatDok-Heart: Clinical Validation of AI-Native Cardiovascular Care

ChatDok-Heart is our flagship clinical research program evaluating physician-led, AI-assisted continuous cardiovascular care for patients with heart failure and coronary artery disease. A multicenter, randomized, controlled trial is evaluating ChatDok-Heart plus usual care versus usual care alone in patients with heart failure and coronary artery disease.

The study evaluates patient-centered cardiovascular outcomes, including KCCQ-12 Overall Summary Score in heart failure and SAQ-7 Summary Score in coronary artery disease, alongside blood-pressure control, LDL-C control, medication adherence, patient self-management, healthcare utilization, and earlier clinician review of clinically relevant deterioration.

ChatDok-Heart Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial
Continuous Cardiovascular Care

Beyond the Appointment: Researching Continuous Care

Traditional chronic disease management often relies on periodic clinical encounters. Our research explores what becomes possible when patients can remain digitally connected to their care journey between those encounters.

Patient engagement
Remote monitoring
Conversational AI
Longitudinal data
Predictive analytics
Physician oversight
Multimodal Predictive Analytics (7–30 Day Risk Horizon)

Combining longitudinal patient data, symptoms, vital signs, adherence patterns, and other relevant signals to identify patients at risk of cardiovascular deterioration within a 7–30 day horizon and support earlier clinical review.

The research question is simple:

Can physician-led, AI-assisted continuous care help clinicians and patients identify meaningful changes earlier and support proactive intervention?

Clinical evidence is essential to answering it.

In Research & Development

Digital Twins: The Next Frontier of Personalized Clinical Modeling

ChatDok is exploring a personalized cardiac digital twin designed to model individual cardiovascular dynamics and support clinical decision-making.

The research combines:
Mechanistic modeling
Physics-informed approaches
Machine learning
Multimodal patient data
Comorbidity modeling
Personalized simulation

The long-term vision is to create computational models capable of representing an individual's cardiovascular state and exploring how that state may respond to different interventions.

Intervention planningTreatment optimizationRisk modelingPersonalized care

This technology remains in research and development and is distinct from the currently deployed ChatDok products.

Personalized Cardiac Digital Twin Simulation
Translational Pipeline

From Research to Deployment: Building Technology That Can Leave the Lab

Our research programs are designed with translation in mind. The pathway is:

01
Discover

Develop new AI methods, clinical models, and healthcare technologies.

02
Validate

Test performance, safety, usability, and clinical relevance.

03
Integrate

Connect validated technology with real healthcare workflows and infrastructure.

04
Evaluate

Measure clinical, operational, patient, and economic outcomes.

05
Deploy

Bring validated capabilities into healthcare environments.

06
Learn

Use real-world evidence to continuously improve the system.

Research → Validation → Deployment → Evidence → Continuous Improvement

One Ecosystem. Multiple Applications.

Research Across the ChatDok Platform

One research ecosystem. Multiple applications.

ChatDok App
Real-world patient engagement

Our patient-facing AI provides a large-scale environment for studying conversational healthcare, patient engagement, multimodal interaction, and responsible medical AI.

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ChatDok-Navigator
Longitudinal care coordination

Research and clinical implementation focus on how AI can support patients and care teams between hospital discharge and recovery across multiple therapeutic pathways.

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ChatDok-Heart
Physician-led, AI-assisted cardiovascular care

Our flagship clinical research program investigates continuous cardiovascular monitoring, patient engagement, multimodal predictive analytics, and proactive physician oversight for heart failure and coronary artery disease.

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Cura
AI infrastructure

The underlying architecture brings together specialized models, multimodal capabilities, safety mechanisms, and clinical AI components.

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Collaborative Innovation

Research With Real-World Partners

Innovation works better when developed with healthcare

These partnerships enable us to move beyond laboratory benchmarks and evaluate AI in the environments where healthcare actually happens. Our current programs include multi-site clinical research and real-world implementation initiatives.

University hospitals
Clinical researchers
Physicians
Healthcare providers
Insurers
Technology partners
Academic institutions
Industry organizations
Scientific & Clinical Rigor

Our Research Principles

Clinically useful. Scientifically rigorous. Responsible by design.

01
Evidence over hype

Technology should be evaluated by measurable outcomes, not technological novelty alone.

02
Safety before autonomy

AI should operate within appropriate boundaries and clinical oversight.

03
Human-centered design

Patients and clinicians remain central to the healthcare experience.

04
Interoperability by default

Healthcare AI must work with existing healthcare infrastructure.

05
Translation matters

Research has greater impact when it can move from the laboratory into clinical practice.

Research at ChatDok

Building the intelligence for continuous care

We believe the next generation of healthcare will be defined by physicians working with AI to extend continuous support across the entire care journey. Our research focuses on building the evidence, infrastructure, and safety systems needed to make AI-assisted continuous care clinically useful and responsible.

Safer AIBetter evidenceMore continuous care