The organisation behind one of the most advanced AI symptom checkers in the world, Healthily, has become the latest organisation to become a PRSB partner.

With a mission to help a billion people take control of their health through self-care, Healthily was founded seven years ago in Norway. It now boasts a global network of employees working on weaving medical knowledge into everyday life. Both their award-winning app and Smart Symptom Checker have been designed with doctors and vetted by a board of world-renowned medical experts.

“The initial idea was to create a way of searching for health information,” explained Jonathon Carr-Brown, Chief Operating Officer at Healthily. “This then morphed quickly into the creation of the first Augmented Intelligence Smart Symptom Checker. We then added a self-care app and a health information website.”

“We are currently joining all these assets up into one coherent journey from the website to the app. Our objective is to deliver a personalised health information search experience using our AI on the web, which then leads the user to manage their health on the Healthily app. This summer, our Smart Symptom Checker will be available as an API for businesses to integrate our Artificial Intelligence (AI) into their organisation. This will help them create innovative new services by leveraging our existing technology without the expense.”

Prior to today’s announcement, PRSB reviewed the Healthily Quality Management System, which the self-care app developer created in 2020. Carr-Brown hopes that joining the Standards Partnership Scheme will further drive the quality agenda Healthily aims to champion in both the private and public sectors.

“PRSB carries out great work in the critical field of standards. Their previous work with us was very professional and really helped us mature the quality and risk processes within Healthily.”

“Our philosophy is built around delivering quality and accuracy. For Healthily, joining PRSB’s partnership scheme is part of our “trust” driving license. We know that for consumers to trust us, we need to demonstrate that we are taking quality and security seriously. Being a PRSB partner is part of that messaging.”

PRSB CEO, Lorraine Foley, commented: “It’s great to welcome Healthily to PRSB’s scheme, which we hope will help them achieve their aspirational objectives. PRSB has often talked publicly about the technology behind person-centred self-managed care, and we are looking forward to working with Healthily to help them implement the standards which best support the app they have developed.”