The 10 Most Innovative Companies Bringing AI to Healthcare The 10 Most Innovative Companies Bringing AI to He | Page 26

Healthymize
AI-based Voice Monitoring for Voice
Affecting Diseases
Shady Hassan
MD & CEO
A
I is not here to replace the
human contact between
patients and caregivers, but it
can give patients tools to maintain and
improve their health, rather with the
assistance of AI, numerous tools and
devices can help caregivers gain
access to new information. It allows
the use of information to focus on the
right health measures on the right
people at the right time. The future of
healthcare lies in embracing
technology to keep patients healthy at
home, exactly where a company
called Healthymize is positioned.
Healthymize provides personalized,
artificial intelligence (AI) based,
voice monitoring that turns smart
devices into remote patient
monitoring devices for voice-affecting
diseases such as Chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease
( COPD ), heart failure, and
pneumonia.
“Healthymize will become the
worldwide leader in the monitoring
24
voice-affecting diseases, starting with
COPD, and then for other diseases as
well, including asthma, mental health
and more. Using voice biomarkers for
monitoring and diagnosing diseases
is a hot area today,” believes Shady
Hassan, the MD and CEO of the
company. “The setting is perfect, as
voice interaction becomes the norm
with smart devices like phones,
tablets and home virtual assistants; it
is easy to get voice samples from the
users. The world is moving forward
fast and voice monitoring for health
and detection of early disease
development signs will become a
standard procedure.”
Notable Awards of Healthymize
It is the winner of the Henry Ford
Health System’s “Increasing Patient
and Caregiver Engagement to Reduce
Readmission” Challenge. It is the
winner of the 2017 mHealth Startup
Competition and the Israeli Ministry
of Health’s 2017 Leading Healthcare
Initiative Contest.
A Leadership with a Vision
Its diverse team is composed of
experienced individuals who work
passionately to improve the lives of
chronic patients. The Healthymize
team is highly experienced in
business, medicine, and engineering.
The CEO, Shady Hassan, has
experience working as physician in
internal medicine, and medical
software implementation. He met the
CTO (Chief Technology Officer),
Daniel Aronovich, an expert in signal
processing and machine learning
algorithms, in an entrepreneurship
program at the Technion Institute of
Technology. They founded
Healthymize and Rafi Gidron, a
leading entrepreneur and investor in
the Israeli high tech scene, joined as
the pre-seed investor, COB
(Chairman of Board) and
Co-founder. The team met Maura
Rosenfeld, its CBDO (Chief
Business Development Officer) with
years of experience in healthcare
business development, and start up
DECEMBER 2018