The doctor decides. Always.
Vesalius prepares, listens and drafts. You review, correct and sign. We build assistants, not replacements.
We give doctors their consultations back.
Vesalius is a healthcare AI company from Ghent, Belgium. We build one assistant that handles everything around the consultation: intake, triage, notes, letters and follow-up. The time in the room belongs to you and your patient.
- Ghent, 2024
- Founded in Belgium
- Hip & knee surgeons
- Built and tested with
- 50+ languages
- For the patient intake
Why we started
It began in a consultation room in Ghent. A hip and knee surgeon was losing the first minutes of every visit to the same questions: where does it hurt, since when, which medication?
So we let patients tell their story beforehand, at home and in their own language. It worked. And doctors immediately asked: can it also write the note? The referral letter? The follow-up?
That’s how one intake tool grew into Vesalius.
Why we’re called Vesalius
In 1514, a boy named Andries van Wesel was born in Brussels. The world would come to know him as Andreas Vesalius, the founder of modern human anatomy.
For more than a thousand years, medicine had repeated what old books said about the human body, even where the books were wrong. Vesalius did something radical for his time: he looked for himself. Where his peers lectured from a distance, he worked with his own hands and urged his students to do the same. His De humani corporis fabrica (1543) changed medicine because it was built on direct observation.
We took his name because we believe in the same thing, five centuries later: good medicine starts with paying attention to the patient in front of you.
Everything we build is meant to clear the way for that attention.
He was born in Brussels and studied in Leuven. Our story started in Ghent. We like the idea of carrying a Belgian name back into medicine.
- 1514Born in Brussels
- 1543De humani corporis fabrica
- 2024Vesalius Health, Ghent
What we believe
The consultation is a conversation, not a data-entry session.
If you’re looking at a screen instead of your patient, the software has failed, not you.
No patient should be misunderstood because of the language they speak.
Patients can complete their intake in more than 50 languages.
Trust is earned in the details.
Plain answers about where your data goes, who can see it, and what our AI does and doesn’t do. If you can’t find an answer, ask us. A person will reply.
Built with doctors, not just for them.
Vesalius was shaped from day one by the clinicians who use it. Surgeons and their assistants tested the first version before it ever saw a real patient, and doctors across specialties keep telling us what to fix next.
The quality of my consultations has improved spectacularly.
Dr. Michael BoedtsENT specialist, specialised in otologyMust have.
Dr. Pieter BynOrthopaedic surgeon, specialised in knee and hipI use Vesalius often and I am satisfied overall. I would certainly recommend it to a colleague.
Dr. Ricky RasschaertNeurosurgeonHow we handle what you trust us with
Patient conversations are the most sensitive data there is. Here is what we do with them, in plain language.
- We work for you.Under GDPR, Vesalius processes health data on behalf of the hospitals and doctors who use it.
- Your data is protected.Encryption, strict access controls and regular security assessments.
- There’s a person accountable.Our Data Protection Officer is reachable at dpo@vesalius.health.
Our story so far
The beginning
A first prototype of AI-assisted anamnesis, built with hip and knee surgeons in Ghent.
July 2024
Vesalius Health is founded in Ghent.
September 2024
Vesalius launches for doctors.
March 2025
At Medical Update in the Mountains, we show how Vesalius automates clinical workflows with AI agents.
Today
Eight modules, one assistant: from the first patient message to the last follow-up.
The people behind Vesalius
We’re a small team of engineers and clinicians in Ghent. Small enough that you’ll talk to the people who build the product.
Vesalius grew out of the engineering team at Endare, a Ghent software studio founded in 2012.
Sander Goossens
Co-founder
Hans Peerlinck
Co-founder
Dr. Philippe Van Overschelde
Co-founder
Orthopaedic surgeon, hip & knee
Quinten Schietecatte
Customer Success
Axel Jonckheere
Navaron Bracke
Ruben Redant
Want to build this with us?
We’re always happy to hear from engineers, designers and clinicians who care about better care.
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Made in Ghent
Ghent is a city of doctors, engineers and stubborn optimists: a university hospital, a top research university and a startup scene that likes to build useful things. Our office is on the Ottergemsesteenweg-Zuid, a short ride from the hospitals our users work in.
Being Belgian means building for a healthcare system we know from the inside, in the languages our patients actually speak.
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