An app designed to help people remember and summarise information from medical appointments using artificial intelligence (AI) has launched.
Created by Oxford-based company Aide Health, the Mirror app records appointments and gives a summary afterwards that the patient can refer back to and share with carers and family.
Creator Ian Wharton said the platform was a "really modern application of AI to solve a challenge that is this hidden risk in every healthcare consultation that we have".
He said he came up with the idea to help his dad, who has early-stage Alzheimer's, to ensure he did not miss information from doctors appointments.
"It was the vast majority of information that was given to him that he just couldn't recall, and my biggest fear was not being by his bedside when he was told something important," he said.
