Why Hims & Hers turned to the autonomous vehicle industry to find an AI-savvy CTO

The HISS & HERS, the Telehealth and Wellness company, hired the veteran of the autonomous vehicle industry as the next General Technology Officer. Huns and co-founder and CEO, according to Andrew Dudum, the action was intentionally.

On Thursday and Hers, the former President of the CTO, the former President and Selge Driving Car Company will be CroIE COTO, he said. Elshenawy left the cruise after GM before this year Close the autonomous vehicle program.

The AVS may seem to be a probability of jumping, but the Dudum told Techcrunch that he appealed to the autonomous driving sector to find a CTO that accelerates the AI-based product agenda.

“I looked at the leaders in the autonomous driving, you are openly talking about technology and information and the AI ​​in an extremely highly sensitive environment,” Dudum said in an interview.

ELSHENAWY, which holds more than 10 patents in AI, Robotics and Autonomous Vehicles, “TechCrunch,” TechCrunch said, “he said.

“Self-driving cars are using AI to make real-time decisions in complex, high share and very adjustable environments, here is everything to gain trust here,” he said. “In the same conditions, it operates in health work. You are engaged in human life, limited resources and stress systems.

HISS & HERS The leaving San Francisco is a fundamental company Public in 2021 Through a combination with a special purpose company. Founded in 2017, HISS & hers are first welcomed by selling men’s health, erectile dysfunction medications and hair loss. The next year, this woman expanded to health and added “hers” in the name of the company. Direct consumer consumer connecting customers with licensed health professionals, recently added psychiatric health and weight loss treatment.

The company’s ambitions were recruited. At the beginning of this week, the company said that the former Amazon executive judge Nader Kabbani would be next Chief of Operations.

Dudum sees AI as technology to help the company and then serves more people. According to Dudum, it is treated between 10,000 and 15,000 patients in HISS & HERS. Anonymous information of millions of patients – clinical visits, statistics such as medicines, and these drugs were collected in the mass database. This information is already used to create AI models to be employed to diagnose and treat patients.

Two years ago a model of the database to create a company MedmatchA means of helping doctors recommend mental health treatments. Dudum, all AI-based means are still in the loop, especially with a doctor or other health professionals.

“There is a very harsh and structured approach when it comes to clinical decisions within the medical industry, he said that the company has to provide information about the AI ​​products and help providers more efficient and accurate.

Dudum also shows doctors and health workers how the company came to the results when making recommendations. “Show work and in the context behind the curtains, how many driving and how weighing the consequences of the context, really, in many ways, it is really valuable as true,” he said.