Your.MD

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]

Healthily / Your.MD
TypeHealth technology
IndustryHealthcare
GenreArtificial intelligence
Founded2013 in Oslo, Norway
Headquarters
London
,
United Kingdom
ProductsHealthcare for free
Websitewww.livehealthily.com

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.

The company reported a 350% increase in the number of users, from 6m users from January to August 2019 to 26m 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 has 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

References
  1. "AI in the real world" (PDF). Retrieved 17 November 2017.
  2. "Your.MD raises $10M". Retrieved 17 November 2017.
  3. "Your.MD Scores $5M For Its AI-Driven Health Assistant". Retrieved 17 November 2017.
  4. "RB announces strategic investment in Your.MD to help unlock self-care". RB. 2 August 2019. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
  5. "Healthtech startup Your.MD raises €25m from FTSE 100 company". Sifted. 5 October 2020. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
  6. "Your.MD Netexplo winner". Retrieved 17 November 2017.
  7. "eprivacy awarded seals". Retrieved 17 November 2017.
  8. "BMJ Best Practice and Your.MD Enter Strategic Partnership for AI Medical Validation". BMJ. 27 May 2018. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
  9. "Growing the AI industry in the UK". Retrieved 17 November 2017.
  10. "What's Up Doc? This AI Might Know Better Than Your Physician". Bloomberg. 27 June 2018. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
  11. "Can you really trust the medical apps on your phone?". Wired. 1 October 2017. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
  12. "Awards 2020 Winners". Cogx. 8 June 2020. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
  13. "NHS collecting third party app data to map Covid-19 threat". Tech New Statesman. 18 May 2020. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
  14. "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.
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