There is a critical shortage of doctors and healthcare providers worldwide, as they take 7-9 years to train and demand high salaries and want to live in choice locations, while the rest of the world goes without doctors or having access to affordable quality healthcare, even in first world countries. MedCity News suggests the average patient load for a primary care provider should be around 1,000 patients. Many providers would laugh at this; the reality is closer to 2,500. The American Association for Physician Leadership says it's even higher, at 3,000.

ORBAI is developing Artificial Intelligence that can be a force multiplier for every medical specialty, and allow doctors to extend their ability to reliably maintain much higher patient loads using AI to augment their efforts and do the screening and home care for their patients without having them come into the office or hospital.

Dr Ada, Medical AI, is an Artificial Intelligence developed by ORBAI, as a 3D interactive character on mobile who can chat with a patient to diagnose and suggest treatment and/or send a report to their doctor. Dr Ada is fully capable of interviewing the patient in 7 languages, recording their symptoms and vitals with Bluetooth sensors, combining these with visual and medical scans and making accurate diagnoses, and suggesting long-term, multimodal, treatment regimens. For now just being able to screen the patient, track their progression, and keep the doctor updated on their condition allows the human Doctor to focus on prescribing the treatments, read the summaries generated by Dr Ada, and be able to better prioritize their time with the more critical patients.

Dr Ada can be even more helpful in the parts of the world that don't have enough doctors to cover the population, like Central and South America, Africa, Southeast Asia, and others, especially in rural areas. In the Reaching the last 90% report ORBAI is compiling with an NGO worker and clinical psychologist in Honduras, we show that most people in Central American countries don't have basic access to medical care, or cannot afford it, but can buy most pharmaceuticals without prescriptions from local food markets and traveling vendors. A medical AI that could make a diagnosis and suggest what treatments would work would be orders of magnitude better than the alternatives they have now. The additional cost of scaling Dr Ada to developing areas can easily be amortized by the profits from her use in the developed world, and the ability to gather (obfuscated and secure) medical data from around the world would give us a much larger picture of the progression, spread, and long term treatment of many illnesses.

ORBAI is a California-based startup developing artificial general intelligence to power smart devices and intelligent online professional services. On Sept 30, ORBAI launched a $5M equity crowd-funding round on www.StartEngine.com. The funds raised from this campaign will fuel the development of the core AGI technology. The company will develop the Medical AI, Dr Ada, and a Legal AI, Justine Falcon based on that core.