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Your.MD raises $10M to grow AI-driven health information service and marketplace
- freyfogle 9y agoHere's a similar service which uses a combination of AI and actual licensed doctors: https://abi.ai https://abi.ai
- SirLJ 9y agoThis one looks very cheap at few $ a month, how reliable is it? Do you have a personal experience?
- freyfogle 9y agoWell I'm biased as I'm an angel investor in the business. It is like any price - it is cheap if you use it heavily, expensive if you don't.
- SirLJ 9y agoOK, how about some independent user reviews or something? Do you know a place where the service is being discussed? Couldn't find anything on the web with a quick search by the company name...
- freyfogle 9y agoWell they just launched a week ago. I have used it and it works. Happy to put you in touch with the founder if you like, or you could go ahead and risk €9
- SirLJ 9y agoThanks, I'll wait, it is not about the money, but about the quality of service, a wrong advice in this space could have a catastrophic results... One last question, how many doctors are involved and do you have their bios online somewhere?
- freyfogle 9y agothese questions are better directed at the team, not me. I am just an investor. Bear in mind, you are getting health advice, not a medical diagnosis, that would be impossible via a chat service.
- SirLJ 9y agoThanks for your answers... personally I'll stick to HealthTap for now and we'll see how this is going to unfold...
- dragosmocrii 9y ago.md is a top level TLD belonging to Republic of Moldova. The more you know..
- soared 9y agoIt seems like random countries/companies are benefiting just by chance from these new TLDs. Sure .md is fine for Moldova to own, but it happens to be perfect for medical tech and will be hugely profitable in the near future.
- dna_polymerase 9y agoOh god no. People are already grinding their doctors gears thanks to webmd. Those apps won't help. I needs a professional to look at things. In the end this chat bot/ decision tree mashup will just make things worse.
- mistermann 9y agoNot everyone is fortunate to have a good doctor, and some doctors (mine, for example) could learn something very valuable if they'd take a few minutes to listen when their patients have done a lot of research on their own.
- daveguy 9y agoThe problem is 1 out of 1000 patients will actually do research. The other 999 will google their symptoms, read whatever pops up in positions 1-5 and think it is research.
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- mistermann 9y agoAgreed, but it's a bit frustrating when a doctor actively ignores someone who obviously has some valuable knowledge the doctor could benefit from. If they are incapable of that, I question how they are capable of competently diagnosing illnesses, which is a far more complicated task. Granted, I'm writing from Canada, and while having free health care is lovely, what's usually overlooked is that it is very often second or third rate care, if you can even get it (free doesn't help much when there are multi-year waiting lists).
- daveguy 9y agoAre there really multi-year waiting lists to see a doctor in Canada? Specialists and new gp appts or all regular visits? Usually it's 2-6 mo for new patients (specialist or popular gp) here in the US. I didn't think Canada was much worse than that.
- nopinsight 9y agoIt appears that the app uses some sort of pattern matching a la classic Siri. I wonder how well it could respond to a relatively more complex query such as "My 3 year old is sick with a temperature of 100 degrees she cant keep anything down including liquids. What should I do?" In the case that it can parse such questions, the big issue is whether it knows what it doesn't know when giving recommendations.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoFor a realistic example, drop the interpunction, capitalization, and throw a dozen typos in there. Most regular people today seem to be unable to write a straight sentence without making more errors than they wrote words.
- danpalmer 9y agoHow does this compare to NHS Direct in the UK? I'd have thought talking to a chatbot that knows about services I could buy would be less good for my overall healthcare than talking to a nurse or other trained medical professional who can recommend me government provided health services. I'd be concerned using this, that it would direct me to paid competitors to services that would otherwise be free on the NHS (or equivalent in your country, if you're outside the US). I can see this becoming a great advertising platform for massages, and "alternative" medical procedures like accupuncture or homeopathy, as these are very often bought privately (since they often aren't covered by nationalised health services as they are not always recognised as medecine).
- ealexhudson 9y agoEven if it compared well with NHS Direct, Doctors' opinions of that service are very low - I've seen consultants joke regularly about "diagnosis by telephone" on ward rounds frequently. Although Doctors are expensive resources, they are very heavily utilized, and are very good at what they do. That feels like a very hard problem to make any genuine headway on.
- danpalmer 9y agoI agree that this is not a simple problem, but I'm concerned that a platform for selling private medical services has the wrong incentives, particularly in a country with nationalised healthcare.
- gedrap 9y agoExcuse my ignorance but how is it better than googling the symptoms and eventually getting to cancer for pretty much any symptom? That's a serious question, though. It's not suddenly you will be able to cure yourself and save trip to doctor's office.
- gonmf 9y agoMaybe they calculate the likelihood of each health condition, using machine learning. Most people on the internet would check the first two articles, read and focus entirely on their ambiguous descriptions, and make up their mind.
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