Podcast
Tuesday, Jun 28, 2022 | 12:00 AM ET
Solutions S1 Ep 6: How Lark is Addressing the Chronic Disease Pandemic - featuring Julia Hu of Lark Health
Healthcare is changing with platforms like Lark. In this episode, Julia Hu, Lark Health’s co-founder and CEO, talks about how providing digital care can democratize access to preventative care before their conditions become scale-up in acuity. Julia Hu explains how conversational artificial intelligence used in virtual care platforms can help people who struggle with or are at a high risk of a chronic condition through their own electronic devices.
Lark has developed clinical equivalents to all the disease states it covers through years of research and development invested in conversational artificial intelligence and machine learning. This way, they have engaged with 2 million patients and helped them through its platform, where they can text message and get automated virtual preventative primary care.
Tune in to this episode to listen about how Lark can be the first line of defense for underserved populations and people with chronic conditions!
About Julia Hu:
Julia Hu is an American entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of Lark. Founded on the personal experience of having grown up with an undiagnosed chronic condition, Julia is passionate about bringing compassionate care to those struggling with or at risk of chronic disease. Hu was named one of the “Top 10 Women in Tech” by Forbes and was a winner of Inc. Magazine’s “30 under 30”. Prior to founding Lark in 2011, Julia ran a global startup incubator, the Clean Tech Open, built a sustainable construction startup and was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Stanford’s StartX incubator. She is on the board of the Council for Diabetes Prevention and a Singularity University faculty member. Hu received her Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees at Stanford University and half of an MBA from MIT Sloan before founding Lark. Julia loves to stay fit with hip hop.
Things You’ll Learn:
- Lark Health helps, through conversational AI, anyone struggling with a chronic condition, or at high risk of chronic disease, live a happier and healthier life.
- Lark Health has been clinically effective in managing pre-diabetes in areas with shortages of healthcare professionals.
- If not for the Lark Virtual Diabetes Prevention Program, only 5% of that population in those areas would have had access to in-person care services.
- Conversational AI and remote patient monitoring can provide care delivery in chronic preventative and behavioral health areas.
- It took Lark seven years to train their AI with a million and a half patients before they started getting clinical equivalents to live nurses for the disease states the platform covers.
- In a post-COVID world, Lark provides an excellent opportunity to turn healthcare into a system that services each patient individually to their needs.
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