By Riley Kaminer
A couple of years ago, On/Go became a household name, providing the gold standard in Covid self-testing, plus an array of suggested treatment options. On/Go was one of the first and most popular rapid Covid tests, which was awarded $100M + by the U.S. government to roll out.
But On/Go’s parent company, Miami-based Intrivo, is far from resting on its laurels. Much to the contrary, it is leveraging the success of this product to develop other offerings to improve our healthcare outcomes.
“We have built a platform for test-to-treat solutions,” Intrivo co-founder and co-CEO Ron Gutman told Refresh Miami. During the height of the pandemic, Intrivo was able to predict waves and direct diagnostic tests to the right places at the right time.
More recently, Intrivo has been expanding its platform beyond Covid, integrating a consumer-facing solution for colds and another for sustainable weight loss and control. The company has also developed an enterprise offering: fully integrated digital health infrastructure.
“Healthcare has become a conveyor belt,” asserted Gutman. “Healthcare is very transactional,” with doctors spending mere minutes with each patient.
That’s where artificial intelligence comes in.
“I’ve been doing AI for many years – since before it was fashionable,” said Gutman, who built an AI symptom checker in 2016.
“Now, I’m particularly excited about AI,” he continued. “AI is always there, and AI can be compassionate.” Gutman and team are working on a way to codify the sense of humor and friendliness patients expect from a top doctor.
Gutman noted that, in some cases, AI can enhance a human doctor’s performance. “When it comes to imaging, a team powered by AI can be much stronger than humans detecting cancer.”
The goal is to create a sort of health and wellbeing concierge to guide users along their healthcare journey. For instance, many patients are confused about how to find the right physician or how to deal with side effects from their medication. “Googling can lead patients to become easily confused,” Gutman said. He drew a parallel between traditional search methods and generic AI tools, which can provide less-than-helpful results, and a highly personalized AI system such as what Intrivo is building.
“From 2016 to today, we’ve seen some amazing progress in AI,” said Gutman. He expressed excitement about how AI can enable technical teams to focus more on the foundational aspects of what they are trying to build “without wasting time building the infrastructure.”
While Gutman declined to share any data about Intrivo’s growth, he did note that the team is still as big as it was during the company’s early Covid days.
Having been in South Florida since late 2018, and Miami specifically for the last four years, Gutman remains bullish on our local tech scene.
“Miami knows how to put together a healthy combination of life and work,” he said. “There are a lot of ambitious people coming here to innovate, but we still need to bring more talent, particularly on the engineering, design, and product side.”
“Apple puts ‘Designed in California’ on all those products. Well, I want to put ‘Designed in Sunny Florida.’”
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