What Is an AI Health Assistant? Features & Benefits

An AI health assistant is a digital tool that makes use of artificial intelligence to assist with managing health information and finding patterns within it. While it can help with recording and making everyday health decisions it should not be used as a replacement for a healthcare professional.

An AI health assistant is a digital health tool that uses artificial intelligence to assist with understanding and managing different aspects of your everyday health. This means you do not need to spend time organising information from multiple apps or go through every piece of health information. Instead, the AI health assistant will collate relevant information and present it in a way that is easier to understand.

Depending on what type of AI Health Assistant you have some might focus more on wellness whilst others might collate information from health records, wearables, questionnaires and more.

For example, an AI Health Assistant may help you to understand patterns in your activity, sleep, mood or health measurements. It will generally aim to make your health information more understandable.

Generally speaking an AI health assistant will operate as follows:

Collecting Information

The AI health assistant will start by collecting information about your health. The type of information will depend on the platform but can include manually entered, wellness, wearable, health information and more.

Our platform collates information from your wearables, health apps, EHR/EMR, laboratory, diagnostic imaging, pharmacy, healthcare professionals and other healthcare organisations.

Organising Information

Raw health information can be difficult to understand. An AI health assistant will take the information available and organise it for you.

This can be helpful if you want to understand patterns over time.

Finding Patterns

The AI will analyse the information and look for patterns or changes in your information. For example, a wellness platform may help you see changes in your activity, mood, sleep or other measured information.

Our wellness tracker will collate your heart rate, sleep, activity and mood. We use AI to give you alerts based on patterns.

Providing Understandable Insights

Rather than giving you raw data an AI health assistant can summarise your information.

This is one of the great things about health tech. It helps you understand what information you have and ask questions to a healthcare professional.

Depending on the product you have an AI health assistant could help you with:

Health & Wellness Tracking

Track activity, sleep, mood, heart rate and other health information.

Personalised Wellness Insights

The AI will analyse your personal information and provide general wellness based on patterns in your information. This can help make digital health tools more relevant.

Understanding Health Information

Some AI health tools will simplify complex information. Our lab report tool will collate your lab information into an easy to understand summary.

Making everyday health more relevant to professionals

A good AI health assistant will not attempt to replace a healthcare professional but will help you to be more organised before seeing a professional. For example, HealNova has tools to help you find specialists and book appoin

The main benefit of an AI health assistant is making your health information easier to understand and organise.

Other benefits could include:

• Ease of Access – Health information is made more accessible.
• Pattern Recognition – By tracking information you can easily see small changes over time.
• Personalised – Insights are based on your personal information.
• Preparation – Being more organised helps you to ask the right questions during healthcare appointments.
• Longer Time Period – Having a longer time period can help you understand changes over a few weeks or months.

These tools (such as our digital health platform) are designed to make sure your health information is linked, using the AI to gain intelligence and connect with different areas of healthcare.

A health app will often just be for recording information or providing pre-set information. An AI health assistant can provide a new level by analysing information and providing more personalised responses. For example, a basic health tracker may just provide a list of measurements. An AI health assistant could help make this information more organised, identify patterns and provide an easy to understand summary.

However this does not mean that an AI health assistant will be any more accurate. This will depend on the information provided, how the system is put together and how the information is analysed.

When looking at an AI health assistant you should consider:

1. Purpose– Does it help with wellness, tracking, education, coordination of care or something else?
2. Useful Data– What information can the platform analyse?
3. Easy To Understand– Is the health information presented in an easy to understand way?
4. Privacy– How is your personal and health information being recorded, analysed, stored and shared?
5. Human Oversight– Does the platform clearly state when you need to seek professional medical advice?

We provides information about its platform capabilities and health-data approach through its health and wellness features. We also have official information on our privacy to let you know how we handle your health information and what controls you have.

An AI health assistant should not be seen as a doctor.

Information provided by an AI can be incomplete or incorrect. Whilst an AI health assistant can help you to organise information and identify something to speak to a professional about it does not define a medical condition.

We clearly state that the AI insights are just for information purposes and we do not provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

If you have ongoing, severe or worrying symptoms you should seek advice from an appropriately qualified healthcare professional. In an emergency always contact the correct emergency medical services.

As digital health continues to develop AI health assistants will likely become more connected. They will be able to collect information from your apps, wearables, healthcare professionals, labs and more.

Whilst it is important that the AI can provide an answer it will be more important that it provides useful information, keeps your sensitive information safe, provides clear information on any limitations and helps you make more informed decisions on when to seek professional help.

We have a wide range of tools to help connect with healthcare professionals, public health, insurance, diagnostics, fitness, digital health apps, wearables and more.

An AI health assistant can be a useful tool when using digital health as it can help you organise information, identify patterns and provide personalised wellness insights. 

However it should not be used as a replacement for medical professionals.

The best option is to use an AI health assistant to help give you information and organise your information but ensure you still involve qualified healthcare professionals where medical decisions are needed.

You can view the official app here on Google Play.