Quick Summary
Around 300 million people live with a rare disease. Many wait 7 to 10 years for a diagnosis. The problem is not a lack of care. It is fragmented data. Aether standardizes any report into a connected health graph so trends and risks surface across time.
The hidden crisis of the undiagnosed
For many families the search for a diagnosis is long and lonely. Patients see ten or more doctors and take many tests. Results live in PDFs and patient portals that do not talk to each other. No one gets a full view. By the time a correct diagnosis arrives, the condition may have progressed and the emotional cost is high.
Why the system misses the patterns
Rare diseases often start with common symptoms. Fatigue. Pain. Headaches. Slightly abnormal labs. Each visit is a snapshot. A lab here, an MRI there, a prescription later. The data is unstructured and split across systems. Years pass before a pattern becomes clear. Even advanced hospitals struggle when the record is scattered.
Connected data changes everything
Aether ingests any medical data and standardizes it into formats that computers can analyze, such as FHIR and ABHA schemas. With structure in place, Aether builds a health graph that links values, reports, and symptoms across time. What looked random starts to show a path. A cluster of unusual results over several years can point to a systemic issue and guide next steps.
- Unifies sources across labs, imaging, and prescriptions
- Normalizes data so values are comparable across time
- Connects the dots with a timeline and trends view
- Supports referrals with secure sharing and context
Conditions where early signals matter
Early pattern recognition helps in conditions such as Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, POTS, Lupus, and Celiac disease. A gradual drift in specific markers, recurring symptoms, or cross report correlations can justify targeted testing or a specialist referral before years are lost.
From confusion to clarity
Aether does not replace doctors. It helps them see what is easy to miss in fragmented data. Each new report updates the health graph. Trends are detected. Outliers are highlighted. Potential risk patterns are flagged for review. Your health story becomes one connected line instead of a stack of files.
A personal mission
In 2017 I was typing my mother's medical results into Excel, line by line, to look for patterns that might help. That work became the seed for Aether. No family should have to build its own diagnostic system. The clues are already in the data. They only need to be connected.
The decade to diagnosis can end
Rare is not rare for the people living with it. With connected medical data and careful analysis we can give patients and doctors the context they need. The goal is a faster, kinder, and more informed journey to diagnosis.