Your.MD
Your.MD is a digital healthtech company that uses artificial intelligence to provide users with personalised health information via a chatbot.[1]
Health technology | |
Industry | Healthcare |
Genre | Artificial intelligence |
Founded | 2013 in Oslo, Norway |
Headquarters | , |
Products | Healthcare for free |
Website | www.your.md |
It was founded in Oslo, Norway in 2013 and now has headquarters in London, England. 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]
In August 2019 Reckitt Benckiser announced that they were making a strategic investment in and partnership with the company.[4]
Mission
The company says its mission is to ”provide everyone with access to the health information they need – wherever, whenever, for free”.[5] 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.[6]
The service is available to download as an application or add as a contact on a variety of different platforms, including:[7]
Performance
In April 2017 Your.MD was awarded the Unesco/Netexplo Award 2017 for “innovations that can improve society”.[8] The app has received the ePrivacy seal, meaning that it fully complies with the European laws on privacy.[9]
It entered into a partnership with BMJ Best Practice in May 2018 to validate the medical data used by its AI algorithms.[10]
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.[11]
It has been compared to Babylon's GP at Hand app[12] 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.[13]
In June 2020 it was awarded the CogX People's Choice COVID-19 Innovation for Society.[14] It is one of the apps which is used to collect data to help model the evolving threat of Covid-19 across the UK in the OASIS project, [15] working with researchers from Imperial College London.[16]
See also
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.
- "RB announces strategic investment in Your.MD to help unlock self-care". RB. 2 August 2019. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
- "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.
- "Awards 2020 Winners". Cogx. 8 June 2020. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
- "NHS collecting third party app data to map Covid-19 threat". Tech New Statesman. 18 May 2020. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
- "Global self-care technology platform Your.MD teams up with Imperial College London researchers to map COVID-19 symptoms". Your MD. 23 July 2020. Retrieved 18 August 2020.