Pascual believes clinical AI should help people reach the right care through tools integrated into healthcare delivery.
Cristian Pascual is the co-founder and CEO of Mediktor, a symptom-assessment and care-navigation company he founded with physician Oscar García-Esquirol in 2011. He leads a multidisciplinary team building digital guidance for the first step into healthcare.
Starting With the First Care Decision
He and García-Esquirol founded Mediktor around the difficulty of deciding where to seek care when symptoms appear. The company combines medical, technical, language, and regulatory expertise to support a symptom-assessment service used by insurers and healthcare providers.
In a September 2026 StartUp Health interview, he described the navigation problem plainly: “Nobody trains you on what services are available. Nobody tells you how to decide where to go, and people just guess, or Google, or ChatGPT.” Mediktor’s purpose is to turn that uncertain first step into a recommendation connected to available care.
Keeping Conversation Connected to Clinical Design
In the same interview, he argued for a professional healthcare tool integrated into care delivery. He described a language-model layer that can make a conversation more natural while preserving the underlying clinical architecture. Customers can choose whether to use that layer, and some prefer guided buttons.
He also discussed interest from governments and a goal of reaching a first government-wide agreement. He presented safety, validation, regulatory compliance, and personal relationships as important to that expansion. The agreement was a stated goal in the interview, not an announced completed contract.