Your.MD app trawls NHS data and uses artificial intelligence to learn about you
Your.MD is a new health app developed by UK-based startup that wants to change the way we self-diagnose online.&nbsp;The app service uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to tailor its recommendations by using&nbsp;data licensed from the National Health Service to provide possible causes for your symptoms and steps to remedy your illness.
YOUR.MD Your.MD wants to use artificial intelligence to learn about you and accurately diagnose your illness

Your.MD is a UK-based startup that desperately wants to change the way we self-diagnose online. The new health service uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to tailor its recommendations. It hopes to avoid the hypochondria-triggering recommendations often unearthed by a simply Google search for symptoms. Your.MD uses data licensed from the National Health Service to provide possible causes for your symptoms and steps to remedy your illness. The artificial intelligence, or AI, baked into the app asks a number of follow-up questions – like a real doctor – to try and narrow down your results.

You need to train an AI system to ask the same questions a doctor would ask and back the results up with reliable and clinically assured medical information Matteo Berlucchi, CEO

The more information you give Your.MD and the more often you use the service – the better the diagnosis, its creators claim. However – it remains to be seen whether Britons feel comfortable revealing their symptoms to an app. CEO Matteo Berlucchi claims Your.MD provides "accurate, understandable and fast health information that is relevant." Your.MD hopes to gain popularity by proving faster than waiting days for an appointment with your GP and providing answers that are more accurate than a Google search. Despite being powered by NHS data, the UK startup quickly become a direct competitor with the taxpayer-funded NHS 111, the free non-emergency manned by healthcare professionals.

YOUR.MD The UK-based service wants to be quicker than the NHS and more accurate than Google searches

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