Pereste Health

AI and code · in progress
by Parker
created Mar 2026 · updated Oct 3, 2026

A venture bringing AI to healthcare, focused on health literacy and helping patients understand their own care.

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Log

  • Jun 2026Designed a guardrail against AI-generated medical advice and started training a safety model for it. Started the Android app and an app for clinician oversight.
  • May 2026Started the website and the iOS app.
  • Apr 18, 2026First code: a patient literacy system grounded in a medical knowledge base.
  • Mar 2026Founded Pereste Health.

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Linked from

  • Circumstance-sensitive triage — How one sentence about a rural patient's life shifts emergency advice in small chat models.
  • Education, not advice — An edit inside a small chat model that makes it explain medicine but stop giving personal advice, without touching its emergency answer.
  • Proofs for the edit — Eleven theorems, checked in Lean, that say exactly what the education-not-advice edit guarantees, and why that was not enough.
  • CV — Ongoing work, presentations, publications, and positions.