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February 5, 2025
Getting Better All the Time: February 2025 Updates
Our latest release to iOS brings enhanced conversations with Arora, longitudinal medical memory, and more exciting new features!
January 30, 2025
Tracy's Story: AI-empowered self-advocacy
Tracy, a 43-year-old medical exam technician from Arkansas, empowers herself through AI-driven health tools like MDandMe’s Arora to manage her chronic illnesses and advocate for better care. By tracking her labs and symptoms with AI, she identifies patterns doctors might miss, improving her healthcare journey.
January 20, 2025
ReproductiveRights.Gov Archive
The site, launched in 2022 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as part of a public awareness campaign, contained information on access to abortion and reproductive health care and a Know-Your-Rights patient fact sheet.
January 17, 2025
Making AI illustrations that don’t look AI-generated
6-step guide from a Harvard-commissioned portrait artist. Step 1. Specify a medium and style and describe it in at least 3 ways. Step 2. Specify the audience. Step 3. Tell it to be more human. Step 4. Remind it what not to put. Step 5. Repeat until satisfied. Step 6. Touch up with AI spot editing.
January 6, 2025
Dermatology AI that can reason like a doctor
Human clinicians have traditionally had a definitive edge over traditional computer vision programs because humans can combine information from images and text. Here, we demonstrate the capability of large language model technology, in particular GPT4o, to convincingly use clinical context to enhance dermatological image interpretation in ways analogous to the semantic reasoning of a real dermatologist.
December 20, 2024
Finding AI Companionship - Angelina’s Story
In 2022, Angelina suffered a severe accident while riding a dirt bike. Her next few years were filled with complications, doctor’s visits, and confusing diagnoses; from one specialist to another, she felt lost and alone, unable to connect the results of her medical struggles and understand the full picture. MDandMe’s Arora became her “best friend” by helping her better understand her many conditions and relieve some medical anxieties.
October 17, 2024
iOS App Walkthrough
MDandMe is like your doctor best friend—an AI companion that will guide you through all points of your healthcare journey. And now, it’s available on the Apple App Store for iOS mobile devices! Unlike Google or ChatGPT, MDandMe provides information tailored to you by remembering your medical history from prior conversations and conducting thorough medical interviews to better assess your symptoms.
September 18, 2024
Maria’s Story
Maria is a single mother of three children, who has not had health insurance for the last 15 years. Although she works hard, cleaning houses every day on Galveston Island, Texas, seeing a doctor is a luxury that must be weighed with making ends meet.
June 3, 2024
In the Know and Not Alone
We believe that to support the patient, digital health solutions need to follow the patient no matter what provider they use and offer value no matter the complexity of the patient's problem.
February 8, 2024
Introducing MDandMe
Our direct-to-consumer product, MDandMe, offers the world’s first conversational AI symptom checker to help patients make more informed decisions about where and when to seek care.
November 8, 2023
Can AI help close the medical care gap?
A lot of people have been talking about unmet needs and healthcare worker shortages. We propose that generative AI will act as an extension of human clinicians to finally bring bring software-driven productivity enhancement to clinical workflows.
June 28, 2023
AuxHealth Raises $2M Pre-Seed
AuxHealth is pioneering methods of safely harnessing large language models (LLMs) to directly interact with patients and support clinicians. Prior to introducing MDandMe, we interviewed patients on behalf of doctors to pre-write medical notes.