44. ADA 2020
400 million people around the world don’t have access
to basic healthcare, and even in more developed health
care systems, increased resource strain along with the
growing complexity of medicine can often lead to
incomplete information gathering, misdiagnosis and little
consultation time left to spend with patients. In the US
alone, over 12M patients are misdiagnosed each year,
with half of those errors leading to serious harm. And in
the EU, 23% of citizens claim to have been directly
affected by a medical error, with 18% experiencing a
serious medical error in a hospital and 11% being
prescribed the wrong medication. Additionally, each year
healthcare systems around the world lose billions of
dollars due to misdiagnosis and unnecessary procedures.
In the field of vertigo diseases, misdiagnoses and wrong
treatments cost approximately 1B EUR per year in
Germany, and in the US, a recent report by the Institute
of Medicine disclosed that the U.S. health system wastes
more than $750 billion a year -- or 30 percent of medical
expenses -- in unnecessary, inefficient services. To
address these problems, Ada has developed a bespoke
probabilistic reasoning engine that supports diagnosis
decision making for even the most complex cases in a
robust and efficient way, and facilitates a more
comprehensive digital record of important health
information and history – medication, allergies and more
– for users to share with their doctors or other healthcare
professionals