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Call bell burden
Up to half of all call bells are for non-clinical needs — creating constant cognitive load and alarm fatigue across nursing teams.
Journal of Clinical Nursing
Call bell · Room 412
NORA · Room 412 · Prepared
Patient request · language unknown
"My pain is 7/10, started 30 min ago." — translated from Spanish
The nurse arrives already prepared.
NORA is a nurse-facing clinical communication platform that prepares clinicians before every patient interaction — in any language, grounded in evidence, and validated at Harvard.
Pilot program open — 2026
Australian Winners — Harvard University Health Systems Innovation Lab Global Hackathon
01 — The problem
A documented crisis
A documented crisis
hiding in plain sight.
Healthcare environments face a measurable "call bell burden" — driving nursing time loss, alarm fatigue, and avoidable patient safety risk.
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Lost per shift
Nurses lose hours every shift to communication inefficiencies and repeat trips for simple, predictable patient requests.
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Higher adverse risk
Patients with limited English proficiency face dramatically elevated risk of adverse events due to communication breakdowns.
Joint Commission Resources
02 — The solution
Anticipate. Translate.
Anticipate. Translate.
Arrive ready.
A nurse-facing platform that understands what a patient needs before the first step into the room — translating, summarising, and surfacing what's clinically relevant, in any language.
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Listen
Patient communicates in their preferred language, with full clinical context preserved.
2
Understand
Evidence-based reasoning classifies the request and surfaces what's clinically relevant.
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Prepare
The nurse arrives with the right supplies, the right context, and the right plan — first time.
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Assistant
Nurse arrives prepared.
One visit. Any language.
03 — The team
Built by clinicians,
Built by clinicians,
engineers, and operators.
A multidisciplinary team rethinking how clinical communication works in high-pressure environments.
Dr. Mohamad Assoum
Founder & CEO
Global health leader with experience across WHO, CIFF, and Merck KGaA. Background in health systems design and strengthening, with a focus on scaling impactful solutions across complex care environments.
Ava Frohna
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer
Master of Cybersecurity student at the University of Sydney, focused on secure system design and healthcare data infrastructure. Experience building scalable, high-reliability systems with a focus on safety and performance.
Ted Dennis
Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer
Strategy consultant turned healthtech builder. Ted leads NORA's commercial expansion, with a background spanning top-tier consulting and complex institutional clients across Australia and beyond.
04 — What's next
Pilot NORA
Pilot NORA
in your facility.
We're partnering with visionary health facilities for our 2026 pilot program. If that's you — we'd love to talk.
Phase 1 development in progress.