A new social media platform exclusively for doctors launched this week. The free platform, called Roon, was founded by Vikram Bhaskaran and Arun Ranganathan, two former Pinterest leaders who serve as CEO and chief technology officer, respectively, as well as neurosurgeon Dr. Rohan Ramakrishna, who serves as the startup’s president.
The platform is designed to address a growing gap in the physician community — its lack of a suitable space online to connect, debate and share clinical knowledge, Dr. Ramakrishna said.
While AI tools like Anothropic’s Claude or OpenAI’s ChatGPT can do a good job of summarizing published literature, they miss the “collective wisdom” of physicians, including their unique judgement and case-based experience, he explained.