World’s first AI engine extracting health data from sound (SoNUS).
Listen to the human body
We build artificial intelligence that allows high-level screening for cardiovascular, respiratory, neurological and gastrointestinal issues using only sound collected by a standard microphone.
Using SoNUS (Sound-based Natural Understanding System), simply holding a standard microphone, such as the one in your smartphone, against your chest allows for early detection and monitoring of health problems which normally require custom medical devices or hospital visits.
Every day our bodies are generating data that can save lives, reduce healthcare and consumer costs, predict future events, and help combat and prevent diseases. Despite the tremendous value of this data, no one is listening. We listen. By initially deploying in the insurance industry, we enable insurers to prevent downstream costs, and their clients to safeguard their lives.
We created SoNUS, the Sound-based Natural Understanding System: an end-to-end proprietary multi-model AI that can process sound collected by standard microphones to enable high-level health screening.
SoNUS can screen for cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal and neurological health signs, and even complex pathologies such as murmurs, atrial fibrillation or heart failure, all using a standard microphone like the one in your smartphone.
Sonus’ capabilites are being expanded through clinical studies in Asia, the US and the UK.
Sound-based Natural Understanding System
Immensely valuable data, consistently lost
Frequent comprehensive or concierge health screening has so far not been feasible in any scalable or cost-effective way. Physical visits to centralised healthcare facilities as well as custom machines are needed to do even the most basic version of overall health screening such as the kind insurers will undertake in pre-policy physical check-ups.
And while our body is constantly outputting data as to its status, that data is currently continuously lost. While most would never want to play a video game that doesn’t show us the health bar or status effects of the player character, we are nevertheless all apparently happy to go through real life completely blind.
Audio-based healthcare flips that on its head. By simply holding your smartphone to your chest once a week, SoNUS can save insurers, payers and individuals tens of thousands in hospitalisation costs through early detection and prevention of common cardiovascular, respiratory, neurological and gastrointestinal diseases.
Increasing access, saving lives
SoNUS democratises access to comprehensive health screening by using existing infrastructure, namely smartphones, and a non-invasive, extremely low-cost method, namely audio. Not knowing what is going on with our bodies is costly: the world loses roughly 17 million souls each year to preventable diseases.
Importantly, due to the ubiquity of microphones, SoNUS can reach everyone. Including those that currently have no or little access to healthcare. In developing SoNUS, for example, we are partnered with the AM Foundation to increase access to healthcare in areas of rural India where most currently have no such access.
Where previously only the ultra-rich were able to do regular comprehensive health screening, SoNUS technology puts this power in the hands of the masses.