Glass Health vs Vera Health (2026)
Both return a cited clinical answer at the point of care, and they differ in scope and in what they have proven. Glass Health generates a ranked differential with suggested workups, drafts the assessment and plan, and scribes the visit. It ranked among the top systems in ARISE NOHARM, a physician validated safety benchmark run out of Harvard and Stanford. Vera Health does one thing: retrieval first evidence search across a corpus given as more than 60 million papers, guidelines and care pathways, free to verified clinicians. It publishes the full text of its business associate agreement. Choose Glass for reasoning and documentation in one product. Choose Vera for a focused search with its contract terms in the open.
- A ranked differential with workups and a drafted assessment and plan from one case description.
- A placement in an external safety benchmark, where Vera Health's figures are its own.
- Ambient scribing in the same product, and a developer API for other builders.
- The full text of its business associate agreement, readable before any sales conversation.
- Evidence graded before the answer is written, under a named clinical council of sixteen physicians.
- Free use for verified clinicians, with ACEP clinical policies inside the product.
This comparison is published by AI Health Index, an independent research platform that compares healthcare AI vendors objectively. Glass Health and Vera Health 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 | Glass Health | Vera Health |
|---|---|---|
| Primary category | Clinical Decision Support | Clinical Reference & Evidence |
| Founded | 2021 | Not recorded |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California | San Francisco, California |
| Website | glass.health | verahealth.ai |
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Each vendor in one paragraph
Written to be quoted whole. Each paragraph opens the AI Health Index profile of the vendor: what the product is, who buys it and what it does.
Glass Health is a clinical intelligence platform whose reasoning engine is the product. It generates ranked differential diagnoses with suggested workups from a case description, drafts problem-oriented assessments and plans, answers clinical questions, and performs ambient scribing across clinic notes, H&Ps, progress notes, discharge summaries and patient handouts.
Source: AI Health Index, September 2026
Clinical evidence search engine for licensed clinicians, operated by Veracity-Health Inc., a Delaware corporation with a San Francisco address, and free to verified clinicians and trainees with unlimited searches. The product is built retrieval first, which the company describes as the reverse of assistants that generate first.
Source: AI Health Index, September 2026
Questions buyers ask
How do Glass Health and Vera Health work with the EHR?
For Glass Health, the language has been assisted workflows rather than integration, the capability is gated to the top paid tier, and the company's own comparison material tells teams to confirm the current implementation path directly.
With Vera Health, the company's home page, FAQ, privacy policy and business associate agreement name no record system, marketplace listing, FHIR or HL7 conformance, or public API, and make no integration claim. The product is delivered on the web and as mobile apps and is used alongside the record rather than inside it; the privacy policy mentions third party integrations only in general terms. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 29, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
How are Glass Health and Vera Health priced and sold?
In Glass Health's case, a clinician can evaluate and adopt the product without procurement, at a price the vendor publishes rather than quotes.
The FAQ states that Vera is free for licensed clinicians and trainees, with unlimited searches and ongoing updates at no charge, on signing up with professional credentials. A clinician can see the full cost of the product they will use, and start, without speaking to anyone. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 29, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
How do Glass Health and Vera Health handle patient data?
With Glass Health, the exposure is wide and getting wider.
In Vera Health's case, the privacy policy (last updated 15 July 2026) states that personal data is not used to train the company's AI systems, and commits to data minimization with encryption, access controls and anonymization or pseudonymization for data used in training. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 29, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
Which settings and specialties do Glass Health and Vera Health cover?
For Glass Health, the company's published site map carries separate sections for clinicians, practices, developers and patients, the last including a how to use it for patients page and guides on organizing medical records, understanding laboratory results, connecting records to a health application and organizing wearable data. A patient facing line is a different product with different obligations.
With Vera Health, the corpus is given as more than 60 million papers, guidelines and care pathways, with calculators, differential diagnosis and treatment plan views, and the home page's example questions span endocrinology, family medicine, oncology and emergency medicine. From the AI Health Index, drawn from each vendor's own published materials and the regulatory record, verified September 29, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
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Both records were reviewed on this site in September 2026. Neither names the model behind its answers. Glass handles recorded patient encounters and publishes no security certification. Vera Health's privacy policy says it may share insights drawn from aggregated, deidentified use data with business partners.
Ask Glass for a SOC 2 report and its retention terms for encounter audio, and ask Vera Health how a product free to every clinician is funded.