Fourier Health vs Regard (2026)
Both turn patient records into something a clinician can use, at different points. Fourier Health automates intake: it ingests more than 25 file types, including faxes, scans, handwritten notes, HL7 messages and records from health information exchanges, classifies every page, matches records to patients, and produces structured, cited data and specialty summaries. Regard works inside the EHR when a chart opens, recommending diagnoses the chart supports but the notes do not yet carry and drafting the note around them. Choose Fourier to tame inbound records; choose Regard to work the chart at the point of documentation.
- Inbound faxes, scans and referral packets are piling up.
- Every page should be classified and matched to the right patient.
- Summaries should be specialty specific and cite their sources.
- The record is already in the EHR, and the need is at documentation.
- Diagnoses the chart supports should be proposed before the note is signed.
- A draft note should be written inside the EHR.
This comparison is published by AI Health Index, an independent research platform that compares healthcare AI vendors objectively. Fourier Health and Regard are each graded against the same capability taxonomy, from each vendor's own public materials and the regulatory record, under the AI Health Index verification standard. No vendor pays for placement, and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded
Plain facts
| Fact | Fourier Health | Regard |
|---|---|---|
| Primary category | Clinical Summarization & Chart Review | Clinical Summarization & Chart Review |
| Founded | 2023 | 2017 |
| Headquarters | Miami, Florida, United States | Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Website | fourierhealth.com | regard.com |
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Product updates
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Regard
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Product / capability
Sentara Health deployed a case management solution developed jointly with Regard, extending Regard's platform from physicians to hospital case managers.
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Clinical evidence
Regard published real-world outcome data from its deployment at Monument Health, demonstrating significant improvements in diagnostic capture.
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Each vendor in one paragraph
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Fourier Health automates medical record intake and turns inbound records into structured, cited clinical data and specialty summaries. Fourier Intake ingests more than 25 file types (faxes, PDFs, scans, handwritten notes, HL7 v2 messages, FHIR bundles and CCDs pulled from health information exchanges), classifies every page, matches records to the right patient and extracts diagnoses, medications and labs.
Source: AI Health Index, September 2026
Regard reads the whole electronic health record when a clinician opens a chart, recommends diagnoses the chart supports but the notes do not yet carry, and drafts the note around them inside the EHR. The company's premise is that physicians see about 3 percent of the data in a chart.
Source: AI Health Index, September 2026
Questions buyers ask
How do Fourier Health and Regard work with the EHR?
For Fourier Health, the company says it embeds in Epic, Cerner, Athena, Meditech and others and feeds structured data directly into the EHR, and ingests HL7 v2 messages, FHIR bundles and CCDs pulled from health information exchanges; output is returned as FHIR JSON through its API.
With Regard, the technology page names native support for Epic and Cerner, plus generic FHIR servers, and shows chart loads over Epic FHIR R4 triggered when a clinician opens the chart; the app embeds in the EHR through SMART on FHIR, and the company announced an integration with Microsoft Dragon Copilot in 2025. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 30, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
How are Fourier Health and Regard priced and sold?
The company sells Fourier Intake, Fourier Insights and Fourier Infrastructure (API and datasets), and its case studies express value as savings, payback (3.5 months at one academic system) and return on investment.
For Regard, the company frames value as return per user (4x at Sentara), offers a free HCC gap analysis to size the revenue opportunity before contract, and states go-lives of six to ten weeks with a dedicated team. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 30, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
How do Fourier Health and Regard handle patient data?
With Fourier Health, the privacy policy states a general retention of up to seven years and says health data is stored and processed on HIPAA-compliant services. Clinician reviewers outside the customer read records during QA.
In Regard's case, the privacy policy (updated June 2026) covers website comments, cookies and embedded media only and says nothing about patient data. Nothing states how long chart data is retained, whether customer data trains or tunes any model, or what reaches OpenAI when the GPT-4 based features (Max, note drafting) run. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 30, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
Which settings and specialties do Fourier Health and Regard cover?
For Fourier Health, the company builds specialty schemas (cardiology among them) and reports work in academic health systems, community oncology, fertility screening and cardiovascular value-based care, for health systems, specialty networks and AI research partners.
With Regard, the product began with hospitalists and leads with inpatient measures (CC and MCC capture, DRG movement). The company says 250+ conditions are detected across specialties and announced expansion to new specialties toward all admitted patients in March 2026, and HCC Capture and Screening reach ambulatory populations. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 30, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
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Both records were reviewed on this site in September 2026. Neither publishes a price.
Ask Fourier how often a page is matched to the wrong patient, and ask Regard how often clinicians reject its suggestions.