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Canada's Patient-Controlled Health Record Platform

Sanari

You know your whole story.
Sanari makes sure your doctors do too.

Sanari is the patient-controlled record that brings your full health history together. You own it, you understand it with an AI assistant, and you decide who it is shared with.

Built by a patient who lived it. For every patient who is living it now.

Built by a disabled Canadian woman who spent twenty years navigating an overwhelmed system - and almost lost her life to the gaps between doctors. Sanari exists because it had to.

Sanari is Canada's patient-controlled health record platform. You control your records. You decide who sees them. Our AI reads the medical language so you don't have to - and generates a complete Sanari brief your doctor can actually use.

Built to PIPEDA principles - Patient-Controlled
Clinical Advisors: Dr. Bradley Strauss MD PhD FRCP(C), Chief, Schulich Heart Program, Sunnybrook · Dr. Gili Rosen MD CCFP, University of Toronto
Privacy Advisor: Jeff Curtis DBA MBA MSc CDPSE CISSP CGEIT CRISC CISM, former Chief Privacy Officer, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Encrypted and Protected · Patient-Controlled
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Liat Shalom
RRMS · Crohn's · COPD · Multiple Active Specialties
AI Brief
Neurological & MS Management
Tysabri 300mg IV - every 6 weeks
Medications
Trazodone 50 MG
Respiratory & Smoking Cessation (COPD)
Inspiolto Respimat - 2 puffs daily
Flovent 125mg - 2 puffs daily
Omnaris (ciclesonide) 50mg - 1 spray each nostril daily
Vitamins & Supplements
Vitamin D3 5,000 IU · Magnesium Gluconoporate 1500mg
Fish Oil (Nutratec RP EPA)
NAC 600mg · Oil of Oregano · Lion's Mane
Active Therapies
Red Light Therapy - 30 min daily (MS pain)
Chiropractic - weekly
Physiotherapy - weekly
Acupuncture - biweekly
0M
Ontario residents with fragmented health records
$0M+
Projected ARR by Year 3
0
Revenue streams: patient, clinic, pharmacy, wellness
0+
Concurrent medications in founder's profile - zero systems capture them all
See Sanari

Your health story, in your hands.

Watch how Sanari brings your complete health picture together - and puts you in control.

Why Sanari Exists

The system is overwhelmed.
You don't have to be.

Ontario physicians are doing their best in a system stretched beyond its limits. Eleven minutes per appointment. Charts reviewed at the last moment. Specialists who see hundreds of patients a week. In that system, the patient who arrives without their complete picture is the patient who gets missed.

Sanari changes that - not by fixing the system, but by giving you the power to actively participate in your own care. You are the only person who has been at every appointment. Sanari gives you the tools to use that.

The Problem

Your doctors are making decisions
without the complete picture.

"My gastroenterologist prescribed Humira. My neurologist had ruled out MS - or so everyone assumed. Nobody confirmed it. Nobody had the full picture. On March 5, 2021, I went into total body paralysis."

- Liat Shalom, Founder & CEO · RRMS & Crohn's Disease · St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto

Ontario patients with complex conditions see an average of six health information custodians - none of whom have access to the same information at the same time. Medications are prescribed without knowledge of what other providers have prescribed. Supplements that interact with pharmaceuticals are never documented. Holistic care is invisible to the medical record. The patient becomes the de facto information carrier. And when the patient cannot carry that information accurately, the consequences can be catastrophic.

$18,163
Liat's personal cost in premiums and out-of-pocket care before her diagnosis
$100K–$200K+
Estimated Ontario government cost of one preventable hospitalisation
6
Average number of health information custodians for a complex chronic illness patient
0
The number who had the complete picture
01
Assumed specialist communication
Prescribing decisions made on clearances that were never formally confirmed between providers.
02
The invisible supplement layer
Naturopathic treatments and supplements with known drug interactions never appear in any clinical record.
03
Diagnosis anchoring in acute care
ER physicians locked into prior diagnoses - unable to see past a history that was never correct.
04
Wasted clinical time
Providers spend the first half of every appointment on a fishing expedition for information that should already be in front of them.
What Sanari Does

Everything that makes up your health story.
Finally in one place.

Your whole health vault
Your complete clinical record: prescriptions, supplements, diagnoses, specialists, holistic care, traditional healing, and wearable data. Encrypted and patient-controlled. Everything that makes up your health story, finally in one place.
Upload your results
Lab results, imaging reports, specialist letters, discharge summaries, and pharmacy records. Documents you already legally own, now organised in your encrypted vault and ready to share.
Your results in plain language
Sanari reads your lab results, MRI reports, and specialist letters and explains them in language you can actually understand. No more Googling medical terms at midnight.
Western and holistic medicine together
The first record that holds your prescriptions and your naturopath, your lab results and your acupuncture treatments, your hospital records and your traditional healing practices - with equal standing.
Nutrition and pattern intelligence
Log your diet, food triggers, and therapeutic protocols. Sanari notices patterns over time - between what you eat, how you feel, and how your conditions behave - and surfaces them for you and your providers.
Your AI clinical brief
A two-minute summary formatted for any health information custodian. No app required for your provider. No workflow change. Just the complete picture, before every appointment.

"Your records are yours. Your data is yours. Your care is yours to direct."

OCAP Principles · Indigenous Health

Built for every patient.
Including those the system has failed most.

You own your record, control who sees it, access it anytime, and keep it in your possession. For First Nations patients, Sanari follows OCAP (Ownership, Control, Access, Possession), the First Nations data sovereignty principles, for any handling of First Nations health data.

Our Founding Story
Liat Shalom

Built by the patient
who survived the gap.

Built by a patient who lived it. For every patient who is living it now.

I am Liat Shalom. I am a disabled Ontario woman. I am an immigrant. I am a patient. And I built Sanari because the system I navigated for twenty years - getting sicker, falling through the gaps, holding documents I could not fully understand - needed something it did not have. A tool that gave the patient the power to bring the complete picture into every room.

Sanari was not born from a market analysis. It was born from a hospital hallway at St. Michael's, where Liat waited 17 hours, in progressive paralysis, while the clinical team anchored to a diagnosis that had never been correct.

Liat spent 18 months being treated for Post-Concussion Syndrome while MS progressed undetected. By February 2021, she was simultaneously under the care of a neuro-ophthalmologist and a neurophysiologist for active neurological symptoms - records that never reached her gastroenterologist. He prescribed Humira for her Crohn's disease. The drug triggered a catastrophic MS relapse.

Sanari is the platform that should have existed. The technology that would have made three specialists' records visible to a fourth - before the prescription was written. Today Liat manages 20+ medications across six specialist domains. No single provider sees all of it. Sanari changes that.

- Liat Shalom, Founder & CEO

Three sentences. Every room.
1

I am a disabled immigrant woman who spent twenty years getting sicker in an overwhelmed system where no single doctor ever had the complete picture.

2

On March 5, 2021, I experienced total body paralysis because of a miscommunication between specialists that should never have happened.

3

I built Sanari so it never happens to anyone else.

Total Documented Out-of-Pocket Expenses
$3,583.51
Excluding treatments, Tysabri infusions, insurance premiums,
and insurance-covered items.
Neurological Physiotherapy
$1,350.00
Standard Physiotherapy
$449.00
Mental Health & Counselling
$798.20
Massage & Spa
$452.31
Traditional Chinese Medicine
$484.00
Medical/Legal Reports
$50.00
Insurance Premiums (2019, 2021, 2023)
$14,580.00
Total Confirmed Patient Cost (2019-2023)
$18,163.51
Humira (Uninsured, Canada)
$18,000-$22,000/yr
Ontario Govt Hospitalization Est.
$150,000-$250,000+
St. Michael's - per Inpatient Day
$1,500-$2,000+/day

Patient (uninsured): $3,583.51 out-of-pocket seeking relief. Up to $22,000/year for a biologic making her worse.

Ontario government: $150,000-$250,000+ for a preventable hospitalization. $10,800-$13,200/year in ODB drug coverage. $1,500-$2,000/day for every inpatient day at St. Michael's.

Patient (insured): $4,860/yr insurance premium + $3,583.51 out-of-pocket = $8,443.51+ annually just to manage a misdiagnosed condition.

Patient (uninsured): Add $18,000-$22,000/yr for Humira alone. Total annual burden: $26,000-$30,000+.

This is not the cost of illness.

This is the cost of a system with no shared record.

Sanari fixes this.

Patient out-of-pocket figure excludes medications, Tysabri infusions, and insurance-covered items. Government cost reflects Ontario Ministry of Health per diem rates and ODB drug plan spending. All figures sourced from CADTH, TELUS Health, and Ontario Ministry of Health published rates.
September 3, 2019 - The Beginning
Severe, unexplained dizziness. No apparent cause. No prior warning. The dizziness leads directly to a fall down a flight of stairs. In retrospect, the dizziness was not from the fall - it preceded it. The neurological process had already begun.
September 2019 - Aftermath
Cognitive fog, balance dysfunction, fatigue, and neurological distress follow the fall. Placed under the care of a concussion specialist. Misdiagnosed: Post-Concussion Syndrome. The dizziness that caused the fall goes unexplained and unexplored.
9/2019 - Concussion Clinic
Initial concussion intake and assessment at The Concussion Clinic. MS progressing beneath the concussion diagnosis - entirely undetected.
Oct 30, 2019
$2,500 - 10 sessions at $250
Adult neurological physiotherapy at The Concussion Clinic. Approximately 10 sessions total - each reinforcing a diagnosis that was never correct.
Nov 6, 2019 - St. Michael's Head Injury Clinic
Formal cognitive-communication assessments by a speech-language pathologist. Findings: severe word retrieval difficulty, auditory processing deficits, attention and memory impairment, and cognitive fatigue so significant that test-based tasks could not be completed. Workplace assessment confirmed inability to carry out spoken or written instructions or manage a team at standard workday pace. Every symptom attributed to Post-Concussion Syndrome. Every symptom consistent with undiagnosed MS. No connection made.
Jan 7, 2020
Appointment at Toronto Rehab's Comprehensive Integrated Pain Program. Another specialist. Another partial record. No shared information.
Jan 28, 2020
Follow-up at the hospital head injury clinic. Post-Concussion Syndrome narrative entrenched. MS still undetected.
Jan 30 & Feb 12, 2020
$550 - 2 sessions @ $225
Extended physiotherapy at a private sports clinic. Treatment continues for the wrong condition.
May 13, 2020
$500/mo
Psychological services at The Mindfulness Clinic. Mental health impacts of undiagnosed MS compounding.
Apr 16, 2020
$550
Medical/legal report prepared by an independent assessor - documenting a condition that had never been correctly identified.
May 28, 2020
$500/mo
Physiotherapy at AcuPhysio. Over 14 months of treatment - every provider working from their own partial record, none seeing the full picture.
Jun 3, 2021
$4,000 net stivens · ongoing
Online psychotherapy with a registered psychotherapist. Mental health support begins - still under the PCS diagnosis.
Feb 20, 2021
First appearance of severe neurological symptoms: headache, blurred vision, slurred speech, left-sided numbness. A medication costing the average uninsured Canadian up to $22,000 per year - prescribed without confirmed MS clearance - was actively accelerating the disease it was contraindicated for.
Patient Cost - Uninsured Canadian
Humira (adalimumab) - annual
$18,000-$22,000
~$1,500-$1,833/month · Source: TELUS Health, CADTH
Remicade (infliximab) - annual alternative
~$19,100
$987/100mg vial · Source: CADTH list price
Both TNF inhibitors. Both contraindicated in undiagnosed MS. Both wrongly considered before the full picture was known.
Ontario Government Cost - OHIP & ODB
Humira via ODB (biosimilar mandate 2023)
$10,800-$13,200/yr
Biosimilar cost; ODB largest drug plan in Canada
St. Michael's inpatient - per day
$1,500-$2,000+
Ontario Ministry of Health per diem rate
Est. govt cost - hospitalization + PLEX + rehab
$150,000-$250,000+
Entirely preventable with a unified patient record
Mar 5, 2021 - 6:00 AM
Total body paralysis. Emergency ambulance evacuation to St. Michael's Hospital. Upon arrival, placed in a hallway - not a room - where she waited 17 hours in worsening neurological symptoms and progressive paralysis. The clinical team anchored to her prior concussion history throughout. No one had the full picture. After 17 hours in a hospital hallway, an MRI was finally ordered. Multifocal MS lesions confirmed. RRMS diagnosed. Liat was moved from the hallway to Neurology, placed under the care of the neurology team. The right physician. The right department. Seventeen hours too late.
Mar 6 - Mar 28, 2021 - 3 weeks inpatient
Est. Ontario govt cost: $22,000-$52,000+ · $1,500-$2,000/day at St. Michael's
Three weeks inpatient at St. Michael's under the neurology team. Plasmapheresis (PLEX) completed to prevent permanent paralysis. Discharged home to continue steroid treatment - but within days a second MS flare forced emergency readmission to St. Michael's for several additional inpatient days. Two hospitalisations from one wrong prescription written without a shared record.
April - May 2021 - 1 month
Est. Ontario govt cost: $44,000+ · Bridgepoint inpatient neurological rehab
Transferred to Bridgepoint Hospital for inpatient neurological rehabilitation. Nearly one month of intensive inpatient neurological rehabilitation - relearning to move her own body. Physiotherapy, occupational therapy, neurological rehabilitation. A significant cost to the Ontario health system. Entirely preventable with a unified patient record.
April 2021
Commenced Natalizumab (Tysabri) Infusions every 6 weeks. The correct treatment - for the correct diagnosis - finally begun.
2021 - Insurance Premium
$4,940.00 · AIG Benefits · OAC Level 3 Coverage
First confirmed annual premium - paid while still misdiagnosed with Post-Concussion Syndrome. $4,860 for coverage protecting against conditions nobody had correctly identified yet.
2021 - Insurance Premium
$4,940.00 · AIG Benefits · OAC Level 3 Coverage
Second confirmed annual premium - the year of the MS crisis, total paralysis, plasmapheresis, and Bridgepoint rehabilitation. The insurance covered the treatment. It covered nothing that would have prevented it. No insurance product covers a gap in specialist communication.
Nov 30, 2022 - Insurance Premium
$4,940.00 · Total confirmed premiums 2019-2022: $14,580
Third confirmed annual premium. Combined with $3,583.51 in out-of-pocket care costs: $18,163.51 in total documented patient costs - before medications, before Tysabri infusions, before the incalculable cost of two years of lost health.
The Team

Built by people who know
the problem.

A founder who lived it. An engineer who can build it. A cardiologist who can validate it. Sanari is assembling the team to make it real - for every Canadian patient navigating a system that wasn't built to hold the complete picture.

Liat Shalom
Liat Shalom
FOUNDER & CEO
PATIENT ADVOCATE
Patient advocate and founder. Liat's RRMS diagnosis - following 18 months of misdiagnosis across six siloed specialists - is the founding story of Sanari. She built the platform she needed on March 4, 2021. The day before everything changed.
FounderPatient AdvocateOntarioEnglish & Hebrew
Yohai Ararat
Yohai Ararat
CO-FOUNDER & CTO
WEB & MOBILE
14+ years full-stack experience. Angular, Ionic, Node.js, JavaScript, PHP. Building the platform that gives every Ontario patient the complete picture.
AngularIonicNode.jsJavaScriptPHPEnglish & Hebrew
Dr. Bradley Strauss MD PhD FRCP(C)
Dr. Bradley Strauss MD PhD FRCP(C)
CLINICAL ADVISOR
CARDIOLOGY · SUNNYBROOK
Chief of the Schulich Heart Program & Head of the Division of Cardiology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. Reichmann Chair in Cardiovascular Research. Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto. Founder, Medventions Innovation Program.
CardiologySunnybrookClinical AdvisorUniversity of Toronto
Dr. Gili Rosen MD CCFP
Dr. Gili Rosen MD CCFP
CLINICAL ADVISOR
PRIMARY CARE · CIHR NAMED PRINCIPAL APPLICANT
Family physician at Wilson Medical Group, Toronto. Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. CIHR Named Principal Applicant - bringing primary care clinical expertise and research funding leadership to Sanari's advisory team.
Primary CareCCFPWilson Medical GroupUniversity of TorontoCIHRConfirmed
Jeff Curtis DBA MBA MSc CDPSE CISSP CGEIT CRISC CISM
Jeff Curtis DBA MBA MSc CDPSE CISSP CGEIT CRISC CISM
PRIVACY & COMPLIANCE ADVISOR
SUNNYBROOK HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE
Chief Privacy & Compliance Officer, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. One of Canada's most credentialed health privacy professionals - bringing cybersecurity leadership and enterprise risk governance to Sanari's privacy framework.
CISSPCDPSECGEITCRISCCISMSunnybrookConfirmed
Dr. Richard E. Gilbert MBBS PhD FRCPC FCHS
Dr. Richard E. Gilbert MBBS PhD FRCPC FCHS
CLINICAL ADVISOR
ENDOCRINOLOGY
Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto. Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. Bringing expertise in endocrinology and metabolic health to Sanari's clinical validation and patient outcomes research.
EndocrinologyFRCPCFCHSUniversity of TorontoConfirmed
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the complete picture?

Whether you're an investor, a grant committee, a healthcare provider, or a potential clinical partner - we'd love to hear from you.

Email
Liat@sanarihealth.com
Location
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Website
sanarihealth.com
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