Winning venture offers a bold AI-powered solution to the administrative overload plaguing healthcare systems
Crystal City, VA – In a high-energy finale to the 2025 AMSA National Convention, the American Medical Student Association launched a new tradition: the first-ever AMSA Innovation Fest, a national pitch competition spotlighting medical students leading transformational change in healthcare. From a powerful lineup of student-led ventures tackling urgent problems—health literacy, diagnostic access, research equity, and more—Eden, a smart automation platform founded by Naomi Rajput, a pre-medical student at Northeastern University, was named the inaugural winner.
Eden streamlines the healthcare system’s most burdensome back-office workflows—automating scheduling, insurance verification, billing, and medical record management. The platform has already demonstrated a 50% reduction in call volume and a fivefold gain in check-in efficiency. With integration across more than 1,000 insurers, Eden aims to reduce clinician burnout, improve patient experience, and restore time for what matters most: care.
“I built Eden because I saw firsthand how administrative chaos erodes both care quality and clinician wellbeing,” said Naomi Rajput, founder of Eden. “We’re proving that technology—when designed thoughtfully—can restore the human side of healthcare. Winning this competition gives us more than recognition; it gives us momentum to keep building.”
“People are multifaceted – so are physicians and entrepreneurship flows as easily from us as learning the Krebs cycle.”
What the Next Generation of Physicians Is Solving: Themes from Innovation Fest 2025
The inaugural finalists revealed clear patterns in what future doctors are building—and what they’re determined to fix. Five major themes emerged:
Breaking Barriers to Access
- decodehealth (Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine): A multilingual AI chatbot and medical library supporting chronic illness management in underserved populations.
- TurmerikAI Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania): An AI-based tool to expand equity in clinical trial recruitment and participation.
Rebuilding Administrative Infrastructure
- Eden (Northeastern) – Winner: Automates key operational workflows across health systems, cutting friction, errors, and staff fatigue.
Advancing Equitable Diagnostics
- Wireless ECG pad (Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine): A wire-free, AI-powered ECG that improves cardiac care in low-resource environments.
- EzMTX Assay (University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson): A portable diagnostic supporting safe delivery of high-dose methotrexate in pediatric oncology, especially where labs are limited.
Confronting Cognitive Health Gaps
- Mobile Memory (Yale School of Medicine): An AI/ML screening tool for Alzheimer’s detection using natural language processing in a 30-second interaction.
Humanizing Technology
Across all ventures, students embedded equity, empathy, and usability into their designs—meeting patients where they are, across languages, abilities, and life stages.
“For 75 years, AMSA has been a force for health equity, universal care, and bold reform,” said Jennifer Salehi, Executive Director of AMSA. “With Innovation Fest, we’re expanding that legacy—making space for invention as well as advocacy. Today’s medical students are designing the future of healthcare. It’s our job to support and amplify their ideas, especially those that harness digital tools to dismantle structural barriers to care.”
About AMSA and Innovation Fest
The American Medical Student Association (AMSA) is the nation’s oldest and largest independent association of physicians-in-training. Since 1950, AMSA has championed social justice in medicine and empowered students to lead systemic change in healthcare.
AMSA’s Innovation Fest debuted in 2024 as a new platform within AMSA’s 75th anniversary celebration—elevating student-led ventures that reflect the organization’s deep commitment to equity, imagination, and real-world impact. The program supports students not just as future physicians, but as present-day problem solvers.
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