Ada Health
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Ada is a health company based in Berlin that operates Ada, an end-user self-assessment Web application.[1]
About
Ada started out as a platform as a service for doctors. It was adapted in 2016 to focus on the bits patients could understand.[2] The app takes reported symptoms, matches them with symptoms of patients of similar age and gender, and reports the statistical likelihood that the patient has a certain condition.[citation needed]
It was founded by Claire Novorol, a British pediatrician,[failed verification] Martin Hirsch and Daniel Nathrath.[3] As of 2018, the Ada consumer product, the Web application was available in English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Swahili, Romanian, and French.[4][5] As of September 2020, the Ada app has been downloaded 10 million times and completed 20 million symptom assessments. It is free of charge and has the highest consumer rank among similar apps.[4] Thanks to funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Fondation Botnar, in November 2019, Ada launched its app in both Swahili and Romanian.[6][7]
In 2022 it was integrated into Scout by Sutter Health.[8]
Media coverage
Ada has been compared to WebMD, Babylon's GP at Hand app, and Your.MD. In October 2017, when three apps were tested with symptoms from asthma, shingles, alcohol-related liver disease, and urinary tract infection, Ada performed very well; it asked about the most important symptoms and provided the best diagnoses. It produced diagrams showing which of the symptoms for each disease were present and the strength of the link, and a diagram of the percentage of people likely to have that diagnosis.[9]
In September 2020, Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development issued a report identifying Ada as of the AI solutions that have the "potential to address existing health inequalities and provide medical expertise to clinicians, health workers, and patients alike - all with the aim of improving the quality, access, and cost of healthcare delivery."[10]
Ada & Rare diseases
A 2019 retrospective study evaluated Ada DX in rare disease diagnosis. Ada's top suggestion matched the confirmed diagnosis in 89% of cases (83 of 93 cases). In more than 56% of cases, Ada provided correct disease suggestions earlier than the time of clinical diagnosis. More than 33% of patients could have been identified as having a rare disease in the first documented clinical visit.[11]
Reception
In 2020, the World Economic Forum awarded Ada and other 99 candidates as its "Technology Pioneers."[12] Since its global launch in 2016, Ada has won several awards, such as App Promotion Summit's Fastest Growing App, Proddys Award for best Health and Fitness Product, CogX: Good Health and Well-being Award, German Brand Award, and German Innovation Award.[13]
References
- ^ "Health enterprise AI". Ada.
- ^ "Ada Health cofounder on AI: Focus on solving problems, not technology". Venture Beat. 19 December 2019.
- ^ Gilbert, Stephen; Fenech, Matthew; Upadhyay, Shubhanan; Wicks, Paul; Novorol, Claire (2021). "Quality of condition suggestions and urgency advice provided by the Ada symptom assessment app evaluated with vignettes optimised for Australia". Australian Journal of Primary Health. 27 (5): 377–381. doi:10.1071/py21032. ISSN 1448-7527. PMID 34706813. S2CID 240072002.
- ^ a b "Meet Ada, the multilingual 'doctor' in your pocket created by former Houston student". houstonchronicle. 14 September 2018.
- ^ "Ada health app launches in Spanish and Portuguese -". Pharmaphorum. 24 August 2018.
- ^ "World's first AI health guidance app in Swahili". /ada.com.
- ^ "Tanzania's digital doctor learns to speak Swahili". FT. 16 May 2020.
- ^ "Ada integrates mental health services into digital health platform". beckershospitalreview.com/. Beckers Hospital Review. 31 October 2022. Retrieved 7 November 2022.
- ^ "Can you really trust the medical apps on your phone?". Wired. 1 October 2017. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
- ^ https://broadbandcommission.org/Documents/working-groups/AIinHealth_Report.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ Ronicke, Simon; Hirsch, Martin C.; Türk, Ewelina; Larionov, Katharina; Tientcheu, Daphne; Wagner, Annette D. (2019). "Can a decision support system accelerate rare disease diagnosis? Evaluating the potential impact of Ada DX in a retrospective study". Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases. 14 (1): 69. doi:10.1186/s13023-019-1040-6. PMC 6427854. PMID 30898118.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ^ "Technology Pioneers 2020".
- ^ "About us".