Beth

When Mom sees the doctor, you can't always be in the room. BastCare asks first, records the visit, and turns it into plain words. Tap any point to see what was actually said. Free to download on iPhone 💞 apps.apple.com/app/id6789669…

Happy National Family Caregivers Month. We rebuilt bast.ai and launched our evidence library: 43 studies on what caregivers do for the people we love, and on AI that shows its work. We kept the studies that cut against us. bast.ai/evidence

November is National Family Caregivers Month. If you drive Mom or Dad to the doctor, you are the second patient in that room. BastCare writes down what the doctor said in plain words, so you can look at your person, not your notes. Free on iPhone: apps.apple.com/app/bastcare

Zoom filtered out my sister's leaf blower, so I pitched windows that cancel leaf blowers. She said, "That's scope creep." Fair. Then I thought: AI windows would need lineage and provenance, so you know the tree outside is real. 🍂 If someone invents the noise cancelling ones, can you please let me know and maybe give me some panes for free 🥰

My mom said, "I don't want to take this many pills." Her visit summaries never had her voice. So I built BastCare around the patient's concerns. Thanks @RegulatingAI and Sanjay Puri for having me on FlashCast. apps.apple.com/app/bastcare

Today is International Day of Care and Support. There are two patients in every exam room. The caregiver is the second one. BastCare writes down what the doctor said in plain words, so you can look at your person, not your notes. Free on iPhone: apps.apple.com/app/bastcare

Your mom reads Korean best. Her doctor speaks English. BastCare records the visit and gives her a plain-words summary in her language, and the whole family can follow along. Free on iPhone: apps.apple.com/app/bastcare

Kansas paid for a pilot to help 121 people who qualify for a nursing home stay home. Home sensors flagged changes so caregivers could check in. Nursing home days fell 54%. Depression scores fell 45%. The numbers are preliminary and there was no control group. Still worth watching. zemplee.com/en-us/nursing-ho…

You don't build ontologies. You excavate the ones that were always there, hiding in your assumptions.

Picture being in handcuffs for something you didn't do. The first thing you'd want is a record of what really happened. AI works the same way. When a system shows its work, that record protects the people using it, and not only the people who built it. That's how we build at Bast AI 💞

AI without an ontology is a toddler with a thesaurus.

My friend sent me this with "I rest my case" 😂 A lot of AI gets sold the same way: trust us, it's there. At Bast AI we show our work. Every answer traces back to its source, so you can check it yourself 💞

Caregivers: before Mom's next doctor visit, write down your top 3 questions. Ask them first. Then ask if you can record the answers. BastCare turns the recording into plain words you can read again later, or share with your brother who couldn't make it. Free on iPhone.

Tonight in Aurora I'm on a panel about private innovation for public health, hosted by the Colorado School of Public Health and CU Denver Business School. My point: you don't need the most data. You need the right data, with the work shown. 5:30 PM MT. buff.ly/bWaatZy

In a Nature Medicine study, AI models alone got it right about 95% of the time. People using those same models: under 35%. Adding a human didn't make it safer. Showing the work might. I wrote about why (and recorded it in my own voice): bastai.substack.com/p/the-hu…