Regard vs Zus Health (2026)
Both give clinicians a fuller picture of the patient, from different sources. Regard reads the record already in the EHR, recommends diagnoses the chart supports but the notes do not yet carry, and drafts the note. Zus Health assembles a longitudinal record from outside: its Aggregated Profile queries CommonWell and Carequality for medical history, adds pharmacy fills, admission and discharge feeds and lab results, and matches them to one person, for care teams, analysts and developers. Choose Regard to work your own chart; choose Zus to bring in what happened elsewhere.
- The record you need is already in your EHR.
- Diagnoses the chart supports should be proposed before the note is signed.
- A draft note should be written inside the EHR.
- You need medical history, pharmacy fills, admissions and labs from outside.
- Records should be matched to one person across sources.
- Developers and analysts should be able to use the same data.
This comparison is published by AI Health Index, an independent research platform that compares healthcare AI vendors objectively. Regard and Zus 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 | Regard | Zus Health |
|---|---|---|
| Primary category | Clinical Summarization & Chart Review | Healthcare Administrative Automation |
| Founded | 2017 | 2020 |
| Headquarters | Los Angeles, California, United States | Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
| Website | regard.com | zushealth.com |
Side by Side
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Product updates
The latest logged changes from each vendor, newest first, each linked to its source.
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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Zus Health
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Security / compliance
Zus added a managed role, Builder Data Integration, for App Clients that get access tokens on behalf of users, such as EHR integrations or Zus apps embedded in a customer's interface, through the proxy token endpoint.
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Security / compliance
Zus refreshed the code sets behind its automatic tagging of specially regulated records against current VSAC value sets.
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Each vendor in one paragraph
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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
Zus Health assembles a longitudinal patient record from national data networks and delivers it to care teams, analysts and developers. The Zus Aggregated Profile queries CommonWell and Carequality for medical history, adds pharmacy fill data, admission and discharge feeds and lab results, matches records to one person through a proprietary universal patient index, deduplicates and normalizes everything to FHIR, and shares a customer's contributed data back to the networks.
Source: AI Health Index, September 2026
Questions buyers ask
How do Regard and Zus Health work with the EHR?
For 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.
With Zus Health, the Zus Aggregated Profile is available inside athenahealth, Elation Health, Canvas Medical and Healthie, each with its own integration page and clinical guide entry, and through a standalone app, embeddable components, REST and GraphQL APIs, webhooks and analytics data marts. 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 Regard and Zus Health priced and sold?
In Regard's case, 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.
For Zus Health, the product is sold through contact, with a public sandbox for developers, and the documentation describes data subscription packages that patients are enrolled in and one-time queries; the release note for the Generated Patient Summary says it is free for existing customers. The pricing unit is not stated, and it could be per enrolled patient, per query, per data package or a platform fee. 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 Regard and Zus Health cover?
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.
In Zus Health's case, the platform serves care teams through its app and embedded views, population health analysts through data marts, and developers through APIs and webhooks, for new-patient intake without an intake form, visit preparation, medication adherence alerts, admission and discharge detection and population health. 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.
What evidence is published for Regard and Zus Health?
For Regard, the outcomes reported are financial and throughput, not whether patients were diagnosed correctly.
With Zus Health, the denominators are patients reviewed and suggestions made, but neither count is given, the three pilots are pooled with no period, and coder acceptance measures agreement with coders, not whether the codes survive a risk adjustment audit. 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.
Related comparisons
Other published head to head assessments involving these vendors or their closest peers. The full set for this category is on the Clinical Summarization & Chart Review page.
Both records were reviewed on this site in September 2026. Neither publishes a price.
Ask Zus how it resolves records that may belong to different people, and ask Regard how often clinicians reject its suggestions.