Fueled by her experience working with children suffering from pneumonia, Elina Naydenova created Feebris, a company that offers AI-powered health monitoring solutions. 

Elina knew she had to find a way to help after seeing first hand that pneumonia – and so many other diseases – while treatable, often turn deadly when there’s no little-to-no access to medical care. 

With Feebris, home-health workers and community workers can use an app and kit of medical devices to give patients an AI-powered, clinically-reliable exam in just 5-10 minutes.

The devices give immediate feedback – even with no internet access – to the home-health or community-health worker. Care providers use that information to guide next steps, whether that’s a follow up in a few weeks, heading to the emergency room, or another option in between. 

The Feebris system captures all the patient data, and can be shared with providers when the home-health or community-health worker gets to an area with internet. By utilizing non-clinical workers in the community, and empowering them with clinically-reliable equipment, it takes the burden off of providers, who are able to be informed about all of their patients while spending time with those at highest-risk.

Feebris started in the UK in 2018, and expanded to the US in 2022.

Check out the full interview to hear more of this great interview with Elina. 

You can also listen to the interview here:

Apple podcast link: 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/speaking-of/id1549592446  

I Heart podcast link:

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-speaking-of-76708275/#  

Spotify podcast link:

https://open.spotify.com/show/1g2LUGr0SzxbBmSHB3FHyL?si=PNO79sBOReGXQJu_CrsJEg

Learn more about Feebris: https://www.feebris.com 

Connect with Elina: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elinanaydenova/

Topical time codes:

00:56- More similarities than differences worldwide

4:05 – Creating Feebris 

6:40 – AI- reducing the burden of data on the patient

9:25 – Trust from the medical community

11:22 – Results of their work

13:04 – Future potential for self-monitoring

15:22 – Technological advancements and limitations 

18:32 – Focus on prevention 

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