
Ben Ballintyn, Ph.D.
Co-founder · Engineering
Ben builds the software. He has spent four years shipping AI to production in healthcare. At Prompt Health, an EMR platform for physical therapy, chiropractic, pediatric and speech clinics, he was the first senior AI hire and is now a Staff AI Engineer there. His systems write more than 100,000 clinical summaries a day for over 400 clinicians, and he is building AI voice agents and document pipelines that keep patient data safe.
Before that, at Booz Allen Hamilton, he led improvements to the CDC's national COVID-19 and influenza transmission-estimation (Rt) pipeline and built a health-fraud detection system for the FDA. He holds a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Brandeis University, where he modeled neural circuits and decision-making, and a B.A. in biology from the University of Pennsylvania.
