Your.MD personal health assistant now accessible from Slack and Telegram

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Your.MD, the Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered personal health assistant, is extending its reach by making the service available to users on two popular messaging platforms, Slack and Telegram. The idea, according to the company, is to make it easier for users to access digitalized healthcare assistance with tools they already use.

“Messengers will become the new platforms where smartphone users can access their favorite services; the integration of our personal health assistant with both Slack and Telegram represents a huge milestone in making tailored and accurate healthcare available to all,” Matteo Berlucchi, Your.MD’s chief executive, said in a statement.

Your.MD claims it has built the largest medical Map of Conditions ever created, all underpinned by clinically assured medical guidance from the UK’s National Health Service with users spending more than 350,000 hours using Your.MD to identify over 1.4 million conditions. Since launching in November 2015, it has become the number one health app in over 40 countries including India, the Philippines and Nigeria.

As part of the plan for further expansion, the company invested in Doctoori.net to reach the Arabic speaking world in the Middle East.

According to CrunchBase, Your.MD has raised a total of $7.3 million, including its most recent (seed) round in July 2015 when it managed to secure $5 million from Smedvig Capital and existing angel investors.