Ai Kenya podcast EP01 Part 1:Building an AI powered digital assistant for health workers in Tanzania

Our first episode features Ally Salim Jnr and Megan Allen, two co-founders who are working on Dr. Elsa, an artificial intelligence-powered digital assistant for healthcare workers in Tanzania.

In the first part of this episode, we get to know Ally Salim Jnr and Megan Allen and how they started working on their health worker assistant solution that utilizes AI to assist in the diagnosis of diseases. We talk about what Dr. Elsa is more in-depth, how Inspired ideas view artificial intelligence and how health workers interact with Dr. Elsa. We also get to touch on what artificial intelligence techniques powers Dr. Elsa, the different ways AI is being used in the medical sector, why they decided to apply neural networks in the diagnosis and their encounters with regulation and policy.

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Watch Part Two of this episode to hear more on the scientific paper written by Ally and the challenges faced in building and testing Dr. Elsa with users.

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