Your.MD
Your.MD is a digital healthtech company that utilises Artificial Intelligence to provide users with personalised health information via a chatbot.[1]
It was founded in Oslo, Norway in 2013 and now has headquarters in London, UK. \In June 2017, Your.MD raised $10 million in funding from its series A round[2], bringing total funding to $19 million. Its current investors include: Smedvig Capital AS, Orkla Group and a number of angel investors.[3]
Overview
The company says its mission is to ”provide everyone with access to the health information they need – wherever, whenever, for free”[4]. Users can check their symptoms via the company AI chatbot, view health information provided by the UK’s NHS Choices and find next-step recommendations via its OneStop Health™ platform.[5]
The service is available to download as an application or add as a contact on a variety of different platforms, including[6]:
Performance
In April 2017 Your.MD was awarded the Unesco/Netexplo Award 2017 for “innovations that can improve society”.[7] The app has received the ePrivacy seal, meaning that it fully complies with the European laws on privacy.[8]
It entered into a partnership with BMJ Best Practice in May 2018 to validate the medical data used by its AI algorithms.[9]
In October 2017, Your.MD contributed to the UK Government report “Growing the Artificial Intelligence industry in the UK”, and was featured for its presence in the personal health sector.[10]
It has been compared to Babylon's GP at Hand app[11] and Ada Health. In October 2017 when the three apps were tested with symptoms from asthma, shingles, alcohol-related liver disease, and urinary tract infection it failed to diagnose shingles or UTI. At that stage the symptom checker was in a beta stage, and has since been upgraded.[12]
References
- ^ "AI in the real world" (PDF). Retrieved 17 November 2017.
- ^ "Your.MD raises $10M". Retrieved 17 November 2017.
- ^ "Your.MD Scores $5M For Its AI-Driven Health Assistant". Retrieved 17 November 2017.
- ^ "About Your.MD". Retrieved 17 November 2017.
- ^ "AI healthcare start-up Your.MD closes $10m in funding". Retrieved 17 November 2017.
- ^ "Feeling Sick? Consult Your AI Chatbot". Retrieved 17 November 2017.
- ^ "Your.MD Netexplo winner". Retrieved 17 November 2017.
- ^ "eprivacy awarded seals". Retrieved 17 November 2017.
- ^ "BMJ Best Practice and Your.MD Enter Strategic Partnership for AI Medical Validation". BMJ. 27 May 2018. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
- ^ "Growing the AI industry in the UK". Retrieved 17 November 2017.
- ^ "What's Up Doc? This AI Might Know Better Than Your Physician". Bloomberg. 27 June 2018. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
- ^ "Can you really trust the medical apps on your phone?". Wired. 1 October 2017. Retrieved 22 September 2018.