By the end of the project, Kahun have successfully completed all the identified tasks, deliverables and milestones. V2 of the Kahun application, both frontend and backend, including UI/UX, data input methodology, improved model and solving algorithm, and expanded medical knowledge graph, is implemented in the current Kahun mobile application.
The mobile app launched by Kahun in early 2021 was initially offered for free. More than 5,000 medical professional users have used of the product. Running a total of over 50,000 consultation sessions.
Kahun’s knowledge graph is in commercial use via its partnership with the New England Journal of Medicine for medical education worldwide.
As mentioned, Kahun has pivoted its main focus and, based on its core technology, developed a chatbot that improves and streamlines patient intake. State of the art solutions designed for patient use are mostly “symptom checkers” designed to replace a google search and guess a diagnosis based on a short patient intake. Such technologies rely on a mix of patient-record Big Data or expert systems. Kahun is leveraging its knowledge graph, as developed in the project along with the inference engine to offer the first clinical intake chatbot, designed for use by providers. i.e its goal is not to guess a diagnosis, but help the provider by providing a gold standard intake, saving interview and documentation time and improving the overall level of care.
A recent study Kahun performed (pre-publication) has tested Kahun’s intake vs the leading symptom checkers in the market from companies such as Babylon Helath, K and Ada. Kahun came out much better in its ability to uncover pertinent findings in the tested cases with less irrelevant questions.
As noted above, Kahun is in early stages of commercializing this product with several telemedicine partners (see image 1 attached)
The company believes that its explainable AI platform, puts it in a strong starting point to offer its solution to telemedicine players first and later on to other brick and mortar health players. The company intends to focus on offering providers the following values: increased efficiency, reduced variability, and improved overall level of care. Social benefits: 1st class care for billions in developing countries, improve diagnosis and patient care despite reduced expert staff, prevent misdiagnosis, reducing providers burnout and support/guidance to medical students and young physicians.
Kahun’s social benefit was expanded, with its pivot and the introduction of the self-service assessment chatbot. Kahun is now offering the ability to improve quality of care to billions of people in developing countries.
