Ada Health cofounder on AI: Focus on solving problems, not technology

Ada Health's combination of artificial intelligence and human doctors has made it a rising star in the emerging medical chatbot space. But the road to AI-augmented health care has been long and winding. "Eight years ago, when we started this company, nobody was talking about AI," said Dr. Claire Novorol, cofounder and chief medical officer at Berlin-based Ada. "We did not describe what we were doing as AI, even though it is a form of AI. We talked about medical reasoning. And so we were really building a system, an enormous medical knowledge base, and our reasoning engine that could support doctors in their decision-making."