Ex-Facebook engineer is tackling clinician burnout at Freed after seeing wife's challenges

For Erez Druk, who spent almost four years working at Facebook , building health-care startup Freed has been a labor of love, quite literally. Druk's wife, Dr. Gabi Meckler, works at a community clinic in northern California, where she cares for children and adults, and delivers babies at a local hospital. When not with patients, Meckler is inundated with paperwork, constantly updating medical records and related documents. "I got sucked into the world of clinicians," Druk said in an interview. "One day, it was like, 'Hey Gabi, what should we just build for you?' And she said, 'Do my notes for me.'" Druk worked as a software engineer at Facebook from 2013 until launching his prior startup, UrbanLeap, in 2017. He shuttered UrbanLeap, which focused on software for public procurement, in 2022, and started Freed the following year, along with Andrey Bannikov, who had spent the prior decade at Facebook. Freed offers an AI scribe that automates the clinical notetaking process in real tim ... Read full article.