Dr. Arpan Parikh, Kin Health, on Building the Patient-Side AI Scribe That Healthcare Has Been Missing

In this episode of The Pulse, I sat down with Dr. Arpan Parikh, co-founder and CEO of Kin Health, a mobile app that records doctor visits and turns them into plain-language summaries with clear next steps. Arpan has a unique connection to the show: he sat in this very chair as an MBA student in Wharton's Healthcare Management program and served as a co-host of The Pulse. Since then, he's built his career at the intersection of psychiatry and healthcare operations, holding leadership roles including Chief Medical Officer of SOL Mental Health and National Director of Behavioral Health at CareMore. Arpan co-founded Kin with his brother Amit Parikh and CTO Kyle Alwyn, and the company launched this past May with a $9 million seed round led by Maveron.

In our conversation, Arpan and I explored:

• His path from clinical psychiatry to healthcare operations and entrepreneurship

• How three co-founders, including his brother, came together through the Wharton network

• Why Kin is free for patients and what that means for the business model

• How Kin's tech stack stays model-agnostic and what the company's internal AI infrastructure looks like

• Why provider-side scribes don't solve the patient-side problem

• What Kin's distribution through physician practices and health plans means for its competitive moat