You Can Now Download an Artificial Intelligence Doctor

If you've ever traversed the morasses of WebMD to try and figure out if that pain in your arm might signify a more serious medical condition, then you know just how hard it can be to pinpoint the most likely diagnosis (and its level of urgency) amid a sea of information. Digital health firm HealthTap wants to overcome that dilemma with its newest mobile app, Dr. A.I., which launched on Tuesday. The platform digitizes health care triage, HealthTap founder and CEO Ron Gutman tells Fortune, which is the process of assessing the level of medical risk facing a patient and the first step in the treatment pathway. Click here to subscribe to Brainstorm Health Daily, our brand new newsletter about health innovations. Gutman says that the problem with using conventional search engines to look up medical symptoms is that it's ineffective since they produce purely semantic results.