β¨ AI as Your Health Ally: Beyond the Doctor's Office πββοΈ
by Adeel Ahmad | at Minnebar 19 | 11:25 β 12:05 in Zeke Landres | View Schedule
Many of you may remember my previous MinneBar talk "Side Projects for Fun and Profit." Today, I'm sharing a different journey β one that began with a routine checkup revealing concerning biomarkers and led to an unexpected exploration of how AI can transform health management.
Between brief doctor visits every few months, I found myself turning to AI for guidance β asking detailed questions about diet modifications, medication interactions, and lifestyle adjustments. By capturing food images, tracking metrics, and providing health context, I received increasingly personalized guidance that produced measurable improvements in just three months.
This experience highlighted a critical gap in our healthcare system: the lack of intelligent day-to-day guidance between medical appointments. Drawing on my engineering background, I've been developing a solution that combines medical records, wearable data, and AI to provide continuous, personalized health support β turning scattered numbers into actionable insights.
What's particularly promising is how this approach could democratize healthcare for widespread conditions like diabetes, hypertension, and high cholesterol. By making personalized guidance accessible regardless of location or socioeconomic status, we can help address health inequities that disproportionately affect underserved communities.
Join me to explore:
- How AI can decode complex health information and make it personally relevant
- Practical techniques for using AI as a health companion (with live demonstrations)
- The technical challenges of creating memory-aware AI that builds context over time
- Privacy-first approaches to handling sensitive health data
I'll share honest insights from both perspectives β as someone who used AI to improve health outcomes and as an engineer crafting solutions to help others navigate similar paths.
Adeel Ahmad
Founder/Principal at Lab 1908, a startup studio in St. Paul.
Investor/advisor at a bunch of startups around Twin Cities and San Francisco.
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- Liz Tupper
- David Simmer
- Gary Leatherman
- Sam Grumdahl
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- Atul H. Patel
- Jeanne Erickson Cooley
- Senthil Kumaran
- Sarah Olson
- Eric M. Larson
- Adeel Ahmad
- Steve W
- Eve Poeschl
- Bryce Howitson
- Lou Abramowski
- Candela Larson
- Tori Peraza
- Gary Elfert
- Robert Phillips
- Chloe Larson
- Brian Hackerson
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- Justin Piehowski
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- Diana Flotten
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- Megan Tegeder
- Adam Leistico
- John Norman
- Jeff Weiner
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- Sonya Hogie
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