Scope library

The anonymized laryngoscopy research pool — one case, three disciplines learning from it

PRD F12 · Phase 3

Provider-tier concept, fully synthetic — stylized illustrations, invented cases, no real footage or patients. The founding-meeting insight that makes this possible: a laryngoscopy never shows a face — 'you just see their vocal cords' — so with consent + metadata stripping, cases can pool into a shared teaching library.

Unilateral vocal fold paralysis · VF-0142

synthetic teaching case

Left fold immobile in paramedian position; incomplete closure; breathy phonation.

🤖 AI pre-read (future feature — mock)

Asymmetric fold motion
Glottal gap on phonation
Compensatory supraglottic squeeze

Assistive flags for the reviewing clinician — never a diagnosis. (The meeting's vision: “you upload your laryngoscopy video and it goes: that's these things.”)

Speech therapist sees

Explains the breathiness no exercise was fixing — therapy targets compensation.

Laryngologist sees

Work-up for cause; candidacy for medialization procedures.

Voice coach sees

The case from the founding meeting — 'patient X has a paralyzed vocal cord; this is what that looks like.'

↑ The third-iteration vision: one case, three disciplines learning each other's language — “there's no crossover between these three… they all work in their own little bubble.”

How a real scope video would get here

Patient uploads via their provider (PHI tier — BAA'd storage, audit-logged access)
Explicit research consent, separate from care consent
De-identification: metadata stripped, identifiers removed — faces are never in frame to begin with
One-way, logged import into the research pool; deletion honored end-to-end

Open compliance question for Barry: proper de-identification standard + whether pooled research use needs IRB-style review. Designed in now, built in Phase 3.