"Akido Labs, a Los Angeles-based health care technology company that runs clinics and street medicine teams in California, plans to start using its AI model on homeless and housing insecure patients in the Bay Area next month. The program generates questions for outreach workers to ask patients and then suggests diagnoses, medical tests and even medication, which a human doctor then signs off on remotely."
"At the same time, homeless Californians are in much poorer health and are dying earlier than the general population. "There are individuals who haven't seen doctors for years. There are individuals who haven't seen a dentist ever," said Steve Good, president and CEO of Five Keys, which is partnering with Akido to launch the AI technology in its San Francisco homeless shelters. "There just aren't enough resources to go in there and find out the needs these individuals have.""
Akido Labs will deploy its Scope AI model to serve homeless and housing-insecure patients in the Bay Area, generating outreach questions and suggesting diagnoses, tests, and medications with remote physician sign-off. The model seeks to save clinicians time and enable care for more people amid a shortage of doctors visiting encampments and shelters. Homeless Californians experience poorer health and earlier mortality compared with the general population. The technology could increase access for marginalized communities but raises concerns about data privacy, algorithmic bias, and measurable patient outcomes.
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