We're a team of four with medical and engineering backgrounds, and we built MedAsk to help in that moment of uncertainty. Here's what it does:
- Symptom Guidance: Different from general LLMs, which overconfidently give you diagnoses with minimal information, it guides you through your symptoms using a structured approach.
- Intelligent Triage: Based on the conversation, it suggests potential next steps, from self-care to seeing a GP or seeking urgent care. Its triage accuracy is 12% better than o3*.
- Appointment Prep: MedAsk generates a clear, structured summary of your symptoms, timeline, and concerns. You can bring this to your appointment for a more focused, productive conversation. In a small pilot, 80% of users reported it improved the quality of their visit.
We're using a combination of LLMs fine-tuned on synthetic medical data plus RAG for clinical grounding. The goal is to make high-quality healthcare guidance accessible and help both patients and doctors get more out of their time together.
The assessment takes ~3 minutes. No login or personal info required. Would be grateful for the HN community's feedback. Try it here: https://app.medask.tech/
Disclaimer: MedAsk is a tool for preparation and guidance. It is not a diagnostic tool and does not replace professional medical advice.
klemenvod•6mo ago
We’ve developed both an OSCE-style diagnostic benchmark and a medical triage classification task. The 12% improvement over o3 comes from our triage benchmark, which evaluates models on clinical vignettes across emergency, non-emergency, and self-care classifications.