Could AI Bot Keep Patients from Going to the Doctor? Brenda Barron - SnapMunk
go to original July 26, 2017

Your.MD - Your Personal Health Assistant (Your.MD)

Show of hands: How many of you have checked your symptoms online before? For those of you who have, how confident were you in the potential diagnoses you found? And was it enough to keep you from visiting a physician?

These are all questions London-based Your.MD, a booming AI health information service, wants to put to rest.

Mario Alemi, Chief Data Office of Your.MD, told Access AI that “turning to Google is the worst possible place to try and diagnose yourself. The information is not regulated and may not be correct. The advice could be harmful both physically and potentially mentally.”

This is why Your.MD was founded. Although they’ve been steadily raising money since 2013 (the latest round of $10 million in venture funding came from Orkla Ventures in June 2017), the app was launched at the end of 2015. Since then, Your.MD has been downloaded by 2.1 million people on iOS and Android; a number which does not include the people who use this service through messaging services like Skype, Messenger, and Slack.

“This investment [from Orkla] is going to support the next phase of development of our vision: providing the best health information everyone needs, for free,” said Matteo Berlucchi, the CEO of Your.MD.

While that seems like the ideal outcome, we can’t help but wonder how exactly Your.MD will be any different than the likes of WebMD or the plethora of health apps already available.

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