Dr Neo

The Prevalence of chronic diseases in Nigeria.

Health care does not use all the possibilities to

prevent morbidity and excessive costs of medical
care.

• Total population: 169,000,000

• Total deaths: 2,083,000

• Chronic diseases are estimated to account for 25% of total deaths

70% die globally from chronic diseases.

The risk factors for chronic diseases include an unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, tobacco use.

These causes are expressed through the intermediate risk factors of raised blood pressure, raised glucose levels, abnormal blood lipids, overweight, and obesity. The major modifiable risk factors, in conjunction with the non-modifiable risk factors of age and heredity, explain the majority of new events of heart disease, stroke, chronic respiratory diseases, and some important cancers. 

Dr. Neo is a human-centered AI-powered clinical digital assistant that provides predictive analytics, risk assessment, drug recommendations, and a knowledge base for chronic diseases.

 It will help doctors make clinical decisions and recommendations thus providing personalized health care to everyone, especially the underserved.

It will also have a front door mobile app that will help "nudge" patients or users in the right direction based on their predictions.

Dr. Neo helps doctors and caregivers in,

• Automatic risk stratification of the entire population
• Prediction of disease development and mortality forecasting
• Extraction of medical information from unstructured medical records
• Identification of suspected diseases (symptom checker)
• Individual recommendations to physicians and patients based on clinical guidelines
• Answer any clinical questions from its well-curated and vast knowledge base.
• Drug recommendation

It will be a hybrid of a voice app and mobile app that can be used on mobile devices, smart speakers, smart devices, and screens.

This will help doctors or caregivers in providing accurate, personalized health care to seniors(T.A) as they are the most vulnerable to chronic diseases.

Dr. Neo uses machine learning to learn the patient's data and its knowledge base. Natural language processing, automatic speech recognition, and Speech to text tech are used to build the conversational AI component of the solution, and behavioral science for its "nudge" contents served to customers on their mobile app.

Users of the assistant will be 

• Physicians - Clinical decision support
• Managers - Management decision support
• Research Organizations - they get the opportunity to create anonymized
  datasets and conduct research and development in the field of artificial intelligence for healthcare, incl. custom machine learning and data analysis services
• Patients - Mobile application to access medical data and manage your health, receive "nudge" contents.

The target population I am working with to improve their health is the Seniors(50 and above). They are vulnerable, have a low immune system, have low income or no income, lack physical exercise, most stay alone.

A lot can't even visit hospitals because of mobility, cost of transportation, cost of consultation, lack of silliness to visit because of wait times, lack of access to good health care.

Dr. Neo will

• See the future morbidity and mortality of patients based on real clinical practice data. The ability to pre-select the most problematic areas and work ahead of the curve.
• See the demand for medicines and
  health products and reduce inefficient spending on unnecessary purchases or supply disruptions if there is a lack of medicines/devices.
• See an accurate forecast of possible
  deterioration in the patient's health in the near future and take the targeted measure.
• See the prognosis of a possible
  diagnostic finding and prescribe the one that is most likely to give a result.
• Pay attention to the patient in need of
  additional examination and/or treatment to prevent the manifestation of the disease and consequent death.
• reduce the cost of health care
• It will expand the coverage of health care and increase expertise

It is necessary to implement a risk-based approach and predictive analytics
based on AI technologies to prevent diseases and reduce inefficient costs with its domino effect reducing the overall cost of preventive disease, getting better-personalized care(mobile app), and long and happy life.

We work with Medical consultants, Researchers, and seniors to give inputs that help in designing the software.

We are always having constant conversations with doctors, especially in semi-urban areas, getting insights into the challenges in the provision of efficient health care services.

We also visit nursing homes, try to understand their difficulties and challenges in receiving quality health care. e.g From our survey, 80% would prefer to speak to mobile phones to retrieve any form of their data, 90% would love to get "nudge" contents to help them live a healthier and longer life.

All ideas and insights are incorporated into the design of the software.

Becoming part of the SOLVE community would

help us crush year two
How SOLVE would help
• Guidance and support for product development and
enterprise building
• Partnerships to trial our products and use our data
• Network to establish founding team
• Publicity to reach customers and potential investors
• Access to potential grant funding for AI/ML capabilities.

It is really hard to get this idea going because of funds, and getting partners to provide health data.

It will be affordable, accessible to underserved, inexperienced caregivers can use it to provide quality care, cover up the shortage of doctors, and it is powered by AI.

Dr. Neo will help leapfrog the above problems in developing countries like Nigeria.

The impact goal for next year is 

1. Achieve universal health coverage, including
   financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services, and access to safe, effective, quality,  and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all.
2. Reduce mortality from non-communicable diseases and promote mental health.

In the next five years

1. Reduce mortality from non-communicable diseases and promote mental health.
2. Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to
   climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries.
3. Help combat climate change and its impacts through the accumulated reduction in the use of papers in hospitals, and the reductions in the use of transportation due to fewer visits to the hospital.

Overall in line with the UN SDGs 3.4 and 3.8,13.1, we would achieve universal health coverage, reduce mortality from non-communicable diseases, promote mental health, and help achieve climate goals.

• Mortality rate attributed to cardiovascular
  disease, cancer, diabetes, or chronic respiratory disease.
• Coverage of essential health services (defined
  as the average coverage of essential services based on tracer interventions that include reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health, infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases, and service capacity and access, among the general and the most disadvantaged population)
• The proportion of the population with access to
  our products.

The ultimate goal is to contribute to developing a more prosperous equitable and sustainable world.

AI-powered digital assistants will help predict patient conditions or events in turn will help achieve personalized health care leading to the longevity of life and global access to health.

• Deep Learning and Machine models to help assistants learn disease and clinical events.
• Automatic Speech Recognition, NLP/NLU, and Speech To Text technologies are used to power the conversational components.
• Similarity algorithms and behavioral science to "nudge" and personalize content to patients.
• Computer vision and Voice Biometrics to power Authentication of users.

My approach will to D&I is to always 

1. Find gender balance representation and create a culture of inclusion in the organization.
2. Organize STEM programs to help improve the lives of Black citizens across the country

Caregivers would be charged on a per-event query basis.

They will be able to predict patient and hospital events.

The product will be a WEB APP, Desktop App, Mobile App, or Smart devices like Alexa, Smart screens.

It will assist doctors in analyzing patient data.

I have not started making revenue.