Kabilah: Simplifying Patient Handoff for Nurses
Kabilah, Inc. · Productivity
Kabilah, now branded Aren, is an AI nursing handoff app for inpatient nurses. It turns each patient into a digital report sheet, flags gaps in verbal handoffs, and exports notes to the EHR.
About Kabilah: Simplifying Patient Handoff for Nurses
What Is Kabilah
Kabilah is a nursing workflow tool for hospital nurses. It's patient handoff software built around the messiest ten minutes of a shift, change of report. Instead of a scribbled paper sheet, each patient on your assignment becomes a digital report sheet with an AI layer that summarizes what changed, spots what's missing, and hands the summary to the next nurse.
The company started in 2024 out of Y Combinator's Winter 2024 batch, founded by Sarah Raza and Umar Nadeem. The first product was a free iOS app called Kabilah for Nurses. In 2026 the company rebranded the platform as Aren and moved to aren.com, and kabilah.com now forwards there. The app store listing still carries the Kabilah name, so both names point at the same tool.
What it actually does is narrower than "AI for nursing" suggests. Kabilah organizes the information you already collect, checks your handoff for critical gaps, and pushes the result toward the chart. It doesn't decide care, and it doesn't replace the EHR.
Three limits matter before you sign up. The individual app carries no EHR connection, so anything you log there is still typing you'll repeat later. EHR integration, single sign-on, and the analytics console come with a health system deployment, which is quoted per contract. And the standalone app is iOS only.
Getting Started
- Download Kabilah for Nurses from the App Store on an iPhone running iOS 17 or later, or book a demo through aren.com if you're evaluating it for a hospital unit.
- Create an account with your email. In a hospital deployment, you sign in through your organization's single sign-on instead.
- Build your assignment. Add each patient once, then fill in the details you care about: diagnosis, lines and drains, meds due, isolation status, code status.
- Work the shift. Log updates as things change, and let the task list reorder itself around what's urgent.
- Run the handoff check at change of report. Kabilah lists the items it thinks you left out, you correct them, then share the report sheet with the incoming nurse or export it to an EHR note or flowsheet.
Product Information
A quick look at Kabilah: Simplifying Patient Handoff for Nurses's pricing, supported platforms, and performance.
Best for
The users, tasks, and scenarios where this tool fits best.
Users
- Inpatient bedside nurses on med-surg, telemetry, and step-down floors
- Charge nurses and nurse managers
- Nursing informatics and IT teams
Tasks
- Running change-of-shift report
- Rebuilding your patient list at the start of a shift
- Tracking pending work
- Getting the same details into the chart
Scenarios
- A twelve-hour shift with six patients and no aide
- Floating to a unit you don't know
- Transitions beyond the unit, such as ED to floor or discharge
- Piloting on one unit before a system rollout
Key features
Patient Advocates as Digital Report Sheets
Each patient gets a card that holds only what's relevant: hospital course, pertinent history, lines, meds, and the tasks tied to that person. You choose which components show, so a med-surg patient doesn't carry ICU-level detail you'll never read. Optional auto-fill from the EHR pulls the history in for you.
Verbal Handoff Gap Checks
During report, Kabilah compares what you say against the report sheet and flags critical items you skipped, plus details that contradict the record. That's the closest thing here to a safety net, and it's the feature the company built the product around.
Guided Task Management
Tasks get generated with context and ordered by urgency, the way a nurse would triage them rather than the order they were entered. You can add, complete, and reprioritize as the shift moves, and the list carries forward to your handoff.
Charting and Flowsheet Export
Report sheets export into note types and flowsheets inside the EHR, so the same content serves both handoff and documentation. This is the feature that answers the obvious objection: why type everything twice.
Epic and MEDITECH Integration
The platform connects to Epic and MEDITECH over FHIR to exchange patient information securely. Setup is done with your organization's IT team, and it's what turns the app from a smart notebook into something that talks to the chart.
Governance and Analytics
Aren is HIPAA and SOC 2 Type II compliant, encrypts patient data in transit and at rest in US cloud infrastructure, and supports SSO with role-based access. A separate console reports adoption, handoff performance, and unit-level KPIs.
Pros and cons
Pros
- The handoff check catches omissions while you can still fix them, which is more useful than another place to type notes.
- One living report sheet replaces the paper sheet you rewrite twice a day.
- Export to notes and flowsheets removes the double entry that eats the back half of a shift.
- The compliance stack (HIPAA, SOC 2 Type II, SSO, encryption, US hosting) is what hospital security teams ask for before a pilot.
- The iPhone app is free and you can start on your own, without waiting for IT.
Cons
- Pricing is quoted per health system, so an individual nurse can't buy EHR integration, SSO, or the analytics console at any published price.
- The connected features depend on FHIR interfaces your hospital has to build, and a stalled interface project leaves you with manual entry.
- It's a workflow layer, not the chart of record. Everything still has to land in the EHR, and reconciliation is on you.
- The standalone app is iOS only, and the name change means some screens, emails, and support links still say Kabilah.
Frequently asked questions
Kabilah handles patient handoff for inpatient nurses. You track your assignment in digital report sheets during the shift, then run a check at change of report that flags missing critical information before you hand off.
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