This week, MindMeld is thrilled to announce our partnership with the technology company Sense.ly and the launch of an innovative virtual assistant specialized in personal medical care and powered by artificial intelligence.
This solution does not come one minute too soon. In the U.S. alone, $3.8 trillion was spent on healthcare in 2014. Half of that unsustainable total is due to patients requiring repeated hospitalizations for the same unmanaged chronic conditions. Physicians agree that consistent medical monitoring and consultation would dramatically reduce costs. Unfortunately, the healthcare industry does not have enough resources to monitor patient health 24 hours per day.
Enter Sense.ly. This friendly, smartphone-based virtual nurse possesses a deep body of medical knowledge and the know-how to parse spoken natural language requests like a human. Sense.ly expertly answers a wide range of medical questions, and fields other queries to a flesh-and-blood doctor or specialist as necessary.
“Just a few years ago, building the application envisioned by Sense.ly was simply not possible,” said Tim Tuttle, MindMeld’s founder and CEO. “With the recent advances in AI and machine learning, a new generation of tools is emerging which can interpret and answer many spoken requests which formerly could only be answered by skilled medical practitioners.
