Company:Your.MD
| Type | Health technology |
|---|---|
| Industry | Healthcare |
| Genre | Artificial intelligence |
| Founded | 2013 in Oslo, Norway |
| Headquarters | , |
| Website | www.livehealthily.com |
Your.MD also known as Healthily, is a digital healthtech company that uses artificial intelligence to provide users with personalised health information via a chatbot.[1]
It was founded in Oslo, Norway in 2013 by Henrik Pettersen 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] and in October 2020 it was reported that they had invested €25 million to roll out its “health hubs” concept.[citation needed]
The company reported a 350% increase in the number of users, from 6m users from January to August 2019 to 26 m the same period in 2020, largely attributed to the Your.MD Covid-19 Symptom Mapper. The self-care app was launched in India in September 2020.[5]
Performance
In April 2017, Your.MD was awarded the Unesco/Netexplo Award 2017 for “innovations that can improve society”.[6] The app received the ePrivacy seal, meaning that it fully complies with the European laws on privacy.[7]
It entered into a partnership with BMJ Best Practice in May 2018 to validate the medical data used by its AI algorithms.[8]
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.[9]
It has been compared to Babylon's GP at Hand app[10] 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.[11]
In June 2020, it was awarded the CogX People's Choice COVID-19 Innovation for Society.[12] 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,[13] working with researchers from Imperial College London.[14]
See also
- Ada Health
- Babylon Health
- WebMD
References
- ↑ "AI in the real world". https://www.eiuperspectives.economist.com/sites/default/files/Artificial_intelligence_in_the_real_world_1.pdf.
- ↑ "Your.MD raises $10M". https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/27/your-md-raises-10m/.
- ↑ "Your.MD Scores $5M For Its AI-Driven Health Assistant". https://techcrunch.com/2015/07/01/your-md/.
- ↑ "RB announces strategic investment in Your.MD to help unlock self-care". RB. 2 August 2019. https://www.rb.com/media/news/2019/august/rb-announces-strategic-investment-in-your-md-to-help-unlock-self-care/.
- ↑ "Healthtech startup Your.MD raises €25m from FTSE 100 company". Sifted. 5 October 2020. https://sifted.eu/articles/healthtech-your-md-raises-25m/.
- ↑ "Your.MD Netexplo winner". https://www.netexplo.org/en/intelligence/innovation/your-md#video-anchor.
- ↑ "eprivacy awarded seals". https://www.eprivacy.eu/en/customers/awarded-seals/company/yourmd-ltd.
- ↑ "BMJ Best Practice and Your.MD Enter Strategic Partnership for AI Medical Validation". BMJ. 27 May 2018. https://www.bmj.com/company/newsroom/bmj-best-practice-and-your-md-enter-strategic-partnership-for-ai-medical-validation/.
- ↑ "Growing the AI industry in the UK". https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/growing-the-artificial-intelligence-industry-in-the-uk.
- ↑ "What's Up Doc? This AI Might Know Better Than Your Physician". Bloomberg. 27 June 2018. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-27/what-s-up-doc-this-ai-might-know-better-than-your-physician.
- ↑ "Can you really trust the medical apps on your phone?". Wired. 1 October 2017. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/health-apps-test-ada-yourmd-babylon-accuracy.
- ↑ "Awards 2020 Winners". Cogx. 8 June 2020. https://cogx.co/cogx-awards/awards-2020-winners/.
- ↑ "NHS collecting third party app data to map Covid-19 threat". Tech New Statesman. 18 May 2020. https://tech.newstatesman.com/coronavirus/nhs-third-party-app-data-covid-19-threat.
- ↑ "Global self-care technology platform Your.MD teams up with Imperial College London researchers to map COVID-19 symptoms". Your MD. 23 July 2020. https://www.your.md/blog/global-self-care-technology-platform-your-md-teams-up-with-imperial-college.
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