REVOLUTIONISING HEALTHCARE

How DoctorAI pivoted using AI

Athe technology industry, with various businesses globally implementing it in their operations. However, one area where AI has shown significant impact is in the healthcare industry, it is revolutionising healthcare, and Dr

Kevin Muragijimana, CEO

and Founder of DoctorAI Ltd. is at the forefront of this movement in Africa.

Dr Muragijimana's love for IT started in high school, where he learned how to use Adobe Photoshop and Adobe AfterEffects, editing photos and videos. Despite his passion for IT, he did not want it to overshadow his childhood dream of becoming a doctor. He has found the solution to marrying his two passions through DoctorAI and in his studies. Dr Muragijimana is studying for a Master of Science in Health Informatics at the University of Rwanda and doing online courses in Health Informatics at John Hopkins University.

As a practising medical doctor who qualified in Rwanda and worked in France and Denmark, Dr Muragijimana has first-hand experience with the challenges facing doctors in making accurate diagnoses and decisions. He created DoctorAI to provide doctors with a second brain to support their decision-making “We created DoctorAi from pain, a pain that we had as medical doctors after realising how people see us as gods who don’t make mistakes, seeing how Doctors are getting jailed for human mistakes and many who are leaving the career. We thought to ourselves that it's time to accept that with this system errors will keep happening, that Doctors are humans, and the systems they work in are not infallible. As a society, we must decide whether we wish to punish and blame those who dedicate their lives to helping others or to ensure that we create an open and supportive environment where both patients and doctors feel safe.” DoctorAI was born from the idea of interconnecting the two: support Doctors and provide them with a second brain to support their decisions in order to save more lives and prevent mortality from medical errors.

DoctorAI's main competitive advantages are the device, accuracy, speed, client, model coverage, and free features. It can be used by doctors, hospitals, or other healthcare institutions, and its AI models are for radiological and laboratory images. Doctors have reported that AI supports them in decision-making and reduces unnecessary referrals, making medical acts more accurate and efficient.

One of the biggest challenges that DoctorAI faced when integrating AI into its business processes was adoption and regulations. To overcome these problems, they had to prove the efficiency of their models and how they are more accurate than the most experienced and knowledgeable doctors.

AI reduces the manpower needed to deliver DoctorAI's services, allowing them to focus more on improving the quality of their services. Dr Muragijimana's business advice to others considering implementing AI into their operations is to focus on the quality of their products and models because, with AI, people may only trust you once. Release the product when it is at its most efficient.

AI's main role in the future of the healthcare industry is to reduce medical errors and morbidity & mortality associated with those errors. DoctorAI is well prepared to stay ahead by producing new AI models that meet the system's requirements and aid in saving more lives.

WE CREATED DOCTORAI FROM PAIN, A PAIN THAT WE HAD AS MEDICAL DOCTORS AFTER REALISING HOW PEOPLE SEE US AS GODS WHO DON’T MAKE MISTAKES

Adopting AI has aided DoctorAI to make improved business decisions that have yielded a return on investments. Their AI models have reduced the manpower needed to deliver their services. Upon inception, they were a small team that could not afford to pay salaries. They focused on creating AI models that could generate revenue to hire new employees.

In balancing the benefits of AI with potential privacy and security concerns, DoctorAI takes steps to ensure that its AI systems are ethical and unbiased. They have a research team in charge of keeping their AI models aligned with the needs of the health system. They also have an official in charge of legal affairs who keeps their inventions ethical and in line with privacy and confidentiality rights. The company also ensures that its employees are trained and equipped to work effectively with AI, with training playing a significant role in its overall AI strategy. Their employees, especially those in the tech team, are trained by their CTO, who is also the lead developer.

Dr Muragijimana's work with DoctorAI is a testament to the transformative power of AI in the healthcare industry. By providing doctors with a second brain, Dr Muragijimana and his team are improving the accuracy and efficiency of diagnoses and decisions, ultimately saving more lives and preventing medical errors. African businesses should take note of this impact entrepreneur's success story and consider incorporating AI into their operations to reap similar benefits.