From Patient to FemTech Founder: ...

From Patient to FemTech Founder: How Ovum AI Is Redefining Women’s Health Care

Femtech At Work by Maaike Steinebach

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What happens when a young doctor, failed by the very system she works in, decides to rebuild women's healthcare from the ground up using AI?

Today, we're chatting with Dr. Ariella Heffernan-Marks, founder of Ovum AI, about how her battle with debilitating vestibular migraines exposed the deep biases and data gaps in women's healthcare and sparked a radically different solution. Ariella reveals how Ovum AI works as an AI health partner for women, integrating medical reports, wearables, symptoms, and reproductive health into a longitudinal 'health brain' designed around women's physiology. You'll hear how she moved from medical school to building and funding a FemTech startup, why generic tools like ChatGPT can't safely serve women's health needs, and how a human-first, privacy-obsessed approach to AI is reshaping doctor visits, workplace we ... 

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